Politics & Elections in New York

Election results, representatives and voting trends.

Democratic presidential vote share
55.1%
2024 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Governor
Kathy Hochul (D)
National Governors Association
Democratic vote share, U.S. Senate elections
56.2%
2024 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab
U.S. House seats apportioned to New York
26
2020 · U.S. Census Bureau
Total votes cast for president
8,381,429
2024 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Democrats
48%

Election Results

Recent presidential results in New York.

Democratic presidential vote share
55.1%
2024 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Republican presidential vote share
42.7%
2024 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Electoral votes
28

Democratic presidential vote share

1976–2024
55.1%

MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).

Republican presidential vote share

1976–2024
42.7%

MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).

IndicatorNew YorkU.S.
2024 Democratic vote share2024, state canvass55.9%48.3%

Governor

Executive leadership of New York.

Governor
Kathy Hochul (D)
National Governors Association
In office since
2021
National Governors Association
Governors listed
52
1795–present · National Governors Association
Legislature
Democratic majority
Governors of New York
GovernorPartyIn office
Kathy HochulDemocratic2021–present
David A. PatersonDemocratic2008–2011
Eliot SpitzerDemocratic2007–2008
George E. PatakiRepublican1995–2007
Mario Matthew CuomoDemocratic1983–1995
Hugh Leo CareyDemocratic1975–1983
Malcolm WilsonRepublican1973–1975
Nelson Aldrich RockefellerRepublican1959–1973
William Averell HarrimanDemocratic1955–1959
Thomas Edmund DeweyRepublican1943–1955
Charles PolettiDemocratic1942–1943
Herbert Henry LehmanDemocratic1933–1942
Franklin Delano RooseveltDemocratic1929–1933
Nathan Lewis MillerRepublican1921–1923
Charles Seymour WhitmanRepublican1915–1919
Martin Henry GlynnDemocratic1913–1915
William SulzerDemocratic1913–1913
John Alden DixDemocratic1911–1913
Horace WhiteRepublican1910–1911
Charles Evans HughesRepublican1907–1910
Francis Wayland HigginsRepublican1905–1907
Benjamin Baker OdellRepublican1901–1905
Theodore RooseveltRepublican1899–1901
Frank Swett BlackRepublican1897–1899
Levi P. MortonRepublican1895–1896
Roswell Pettibone FlowerDemocratic1892–1895
David Bennett HillDemocratic1885–1892
Steven Grover ClevelandDemocratic1883–1885
Alonzo Barton CornellRepublican1880–1883
Lucius RobinsonDemocrat1877–1880
Samuel Jones TildenDemocratic1875–1877
John Adams DixRepublican1872–1874
John Thompson HoffmanDemocratic1869–1873
Reuben Eaton FentonUnion1865–1869
Edwin Denison MorganRepublican1859–1863
John Alsop KingRepublican1857–1859
Myron Holley ClarkRepublican1855–1857
Washington HuntDemocratic1851–1853
Hamilton FishWhig1849–1851
John YoungWhig1847–1849
Silas WrightDemocratic1845–1847
William C. BouckDemocratic1843–1845
William Henry SewardWhig1839–1843
William Learned MarcyJeffersonian Republican1833–1839
Enos Thompson ThroopJeffersonian-Republican1829–1833
Martin Van BurenJeffersonian-Republican1829–1829
Nathaniel PitcherDemocratic-Republican1828–1829
Joseph Christopher YatesJeffersonian Republican1823–1825
John TaylerDemocratic-Republican1817–1817
Daniel D. TompkinsJeffersonian-Republican1807–1817
Morgan LewisDemocratic-Republican1804–1807
John JayFederalist1795–1801

Source: National Governors Association, current and former governors.

U.S. Senators

New York's U.S. Senators.

Democratic vote share, U.S. Senate elections
56.2%
2024 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Republican vote share, U.S. Senate elections
38.7%
2024 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Senior senator
Chuck Schumer (D)
Junior senator
Kirsten Gillibrand (D)
Both seats
Democratic

Democratic vote share, U.S. Senate elections

1976–2024
56.2%

MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse). Regular-term races; special elections only when no regular race was held. Independents (e.g. caucusing with Democrats) are not counted as Democratic; years without a Democratic nominee are omitted.

Republican vote share, U.S. Senate elections

1976–2024
38.7%

MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).

U.S. House Representatives

New York's delegation in Congress.

U.S. House seats apportioned to New York
26
2020 · U.S. Census Bureau
House seats
26
Democrats
19
Republicans
7

U.S. House seats apportioned to New York

1910–2020
26▼ 40%

U.S. Census Bureau, decennial apportionment counts.

Party Distribution

Voter registration by party in New York.

Democrats
48%
Republicans
22%
No party / other
30%