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1984 United States presidential election in New York

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Field	Value
election_name	1984 United States presidential election in New York
country	New York
flag_image	Flag of New York (1901-2020).svg
type	presidential
ongoing	no
previous_election	1980 United States presidential election in New York
previous_year	1980
next_election	1988 United States presidential election in New York
next_year	1988
election_date	November 6, 1984
image_size	x200px
image1	File:Ronald Reagan 1985 presidential portrait (4x5 cropped).jpg
nominee1	Ronald Reagan
party1	Republican Party (United States)
alliance1	Conservative
home_state1	California
running_mate1	George H. W. Bush
electoral_vote1	36
popular_vote1	3,664,763
percentage1	53.84%
image2	Walter Mondale 1977 vice presidential portrait (cropped3).jpg
nominee2	Walter Mondale
party2	Democratic Party (United States)
alliance2	Liberal
home_state2	Minnesota
running_mate2	Geraldine Ferraro
electoral_vote2	0
popular_vote2	3,119,609
percentage2	45.83%
map_image	400px
map_size	400px
map_caption	County results
title	President
before_election	Ronald Reagan
before_party	Republican Party (United States)
after_election	Ronald Reagan
after_party	Republican Party (United States)

Reagan Mondale Main article: 1984 United States presidential election

The 1984 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 6, 1984, as part of the 1984 United States presidential election. All 50 States and the District of Columbia participated in this election. Voters in New York chose 36 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who selected president and vice president.

New York was won by Ronald Reagan with 53.84% of the popular vote over Walter Mondale with 45.83%, a victory margin of 8.01%. This made New York about 10% more Democratic than the nation overall. This was the third election since the Civil War (the first two being 1952 and 1956), in which New York voted less Democratic than neighboring Pennsylvania.

The county results indicate a then-typical split between New York's rural upstate and the large suburban counties around New York City, on the one hand, and the urban centers of New York City, Buffalo, and Albany, on the other. While Mondale carried the four most heavily populated boroughs of New York City with nearly 63% of the vote, the strong Republican performance across most of the upstate as well as in the heavily populated suburban counties of Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester was able to secure the state's electoral votes for Reagan.

Campaign

Jesse Jackson's voters were 78% black, 14% white, 6% Hispanic, and 2% were members of other groups. 38% of Jackson voters listed Mondale as their second candidate in exit polls conducted by CBS News and ''The New York Times''' while 24% listed Hart and 29% selected none.

Results

1984 United States presidential election in New York	Party	Candidate	Votes	Percentage
Republican	Ronald Reagan	3,376,519	49.61%
Conservative	Ronald Reagan	288,244	4.23%
Total	Ronald Reagan (incumbent)	3,664,763	53.84%	36
Democratic	Walter Mondale	3,001,285	44.09%
Liberal	Walter Mondale	118,324	1.74%
Total	Walter Mondale	3,119,609	45.83%	0
Free Libertarian	David Bergland	11,949	0.18%	0
Communist Party	Gus Hall	4,226	0.06%	0
New Alliance	Dennis Serrette	3,200	0.05%	0
Workers World	Larry Holmes	2,226	0.03%	0
Write-in		837	0.01%	0
Totals	6,806,810	100.0%	36

New York City results

1984 US presidential election results in NYC by borough. — Results in New York City by borough

TOTAL	526,671	333,683	600,771	615,578	127,826	2,204,529	100.00%

By congressional district

Reagan won 22 of 34 congressional districts, including eight held by Democrats and one by a Conservative. Mondale won 12 districts, including one held by a Republican.

District	Reagan	Representative
66%	34%	William Carney
66%	34%	Thomas Downey
64%	36%	Robert J. Mrazek
64%	36%	Norman F. Lent
60%	40%	Ray McGrath
33%	67%	Joseph P. Addabbo
47%	53%	Gary Ackerman
47%	53%	James H. Scheuer
57%	43%	Geraldine Ferraro
	Thomas Manton
49%	51%	Chuck Schumer
21%	79%	Edolphus Towns
14%	86%	Major Owens
47%	53%	Stephen Solarz
66%	34%	Guy Molinari
40%	60%	Bill Green
16%	84%	Charles Rangel
25%	75%	Ted Weiss
19%	81%	Bob Garcia
52%	48%	Mario Biaggi
56%	44%	Richard Ottinger
	Joe DioGuardi
68%	32%	Hamilton Fish IV
62%	38%	Benjamin Gilman
53%	47%	Samuel S. Stratton
69%	31%	Gerry Solomon
63%	37%	Sherwood Boehlert
66%	34%	David O'Brien Martin
61%	39%	George C. Wortley
61%	39%	Matt McHugh
61%	39%	Frank Horton
63%	37%	Barber Conable
	Fred J. Eckert
62%	38%	Jack Kemp
55%	45%	John LaFalce
37%	63%	Henry J. Nowak
68%	32%	Stan Lundine

Results by county

County	Ronald Reagan
Republican/Conservative	Walter Mondale
Democratic/Liberal	Various candidates
Other parties	Margin	Total votes cast	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	Totals	3,664,763	53.84%	3,119,609	45.83%	22,438	0.33%	545,154	8.01%	6,806,810
	Albany		74,542		49.50%		75,447		50.10%		603		0.40%		-905		-0.60%		150,592
	Allegany		14,527		75.25%		4,720		24.45%		57		0.30%		9,807		50.80%		19,304
	Bronx		109,308		32.76%		223,112		66.86%		1,263		0.38%		-113,804		-34.10%		333,683
	Broome		58,109		60.47%		37,658		39.19%		322		0.34%		20,451		21.28%		96,089
	Cattaraugus		24,162		70.10%		10,194		29.58%		112		0.32%		13,968		40.52%		34,468
	Cayuga		21,451		63.50%		12,207		36.14%		121		0.36%		9,244		27.36%		33,779
	Chautauqua		39,597		63.13%		22,986		36.65%		141		0.22%		16,611		26.48%		62,724
	Chemung		24,909		62.83%		14,638		36.92%		100		0.25%		10,271		25.91%		39,647
	Chenango		14,254		69.03%		6,343		30.72%		51		0.25%		7,911		38.31%		20,648
	Clinton		19,549		64.22%		10,804		35.49%		90		0.30%		8,745		28.73%		30,443
	Columbia		18,814		67.46%		8,960		32.13%		117		0.42%		9,854		35.33%		27,891
	Cortland		13,691		67.70%		6,438		31.83%		95		0.47%		7,253		35.87%		20,224
	Delaware		14,002		70.61%		5,745		28.97%		83		0.42%		8,257		41.64%		19,830
	Dutchess		70,324		67.89%		32,867		31.73%		389		0.38%		37,457		36.16%		103,580
	Erie		222,882		48.28%		237,631		51.47%		1,158		0.25%		-14,749		-3.19%		461,671
	Essex		12,114		69.94%		5,119		29.56%		87		0.50%		6,995		40.38%		17,320
	Franklin		10,617		62.22%		6,400		37.51%		47		0.28%		4,217		24.71%		17,064
	Fulton		14,887		65.82%		7,644		33.80%		87		0.38%		7,243		32.02%		22,618
	Genesee		16,582		65.78%		8,549		33.91%		79		0.31%		8,033		31.87%		25,210
	Greene		14,150		70.50%		5,858		29.19%		62		0.31%		8,292		41.31%		20,070
	Hamilton		2,637		77.97%		737		21.79%		8		0.24%		1,900		56.18%		3,382
	Herkimer		18,827		64.35%		10,346		35.36%		85		0.29%		8,481		28.99%		29,258
	Jefferson		23,445		67.96%		10,960		31.77%		91		0.26%		12,485		36.19%		34,496
	Kings		230,064		38.29%		368,518		61.34%		2,189		0.36%		-138,454		-23.05%		600,771
	Lewis		7,069		71.69%		2,757		27.96%		34		0.34%		4,312		43.73%		9,860
	Livingston		16,389		68.60%		7,399		30.97%		104		0.44%		8,990		37.63%		23,892
	Madison		17,568		67.67%		8,291		31.93%		104		0.40%		9,277		35.74%		25,963
	Monroe		182,696		57.76%		132,109		41.77%		1,472		0.47%		50,587		15.99%		316,277
	Montgomery		14,398		61.22%		9,044		38.45%		78		0.33%		5,354		22.77%		23,520
	Nassau		392,017		61.83%		240,697		37.96%		1,349		0.21%		151,320		23.87%		634,063
	New York		144,281		27.39%		379,521		72.06%		2,869		0.54%		-235,240		-44.67%		526,671
	Niagara		51,289		55.23%		41,368		44.55%		201		0.22%		9,921		10.68%		92,858
	Oneida		65,377		60.38%		42,603		39.35%		289		0.27%		22,774		21.03%		108,269
	Onondaga		121,857		59.64%		81,777		40.03%		680		0.33%		40,080		19.61%		204,314
	Ontario		24,507		65.36%		12,844		34.26%		143		0.38%		11,663		31.10%		37,494
	Orange		69,413		67.78%		32,663		31.89%		337		0.33%		36,750		35.89%		102,413
	Orleans		10,543		70.17%		4,429		29.48%		52		0.35%		6,114		40.69%		15,024
	Oswego		31,481		68.39%		14,347		31.17%		206		0.45%		17,134		37.22%		46,034
	Otsego		16,777		63.28%		9,582		36.14%		152		0.57%		7,195		27.14%		26,511
	Putnam		25,707		72.87%		9,473		26.85%		97		0.27%		16,234		46.02%		35,277
	Queens		285,477		46.38%		328,379		53.34%		1,722		0.28%		-42,902		-6.96%		615,578
	Rensselaer		43,892		61.94%		26,755		37.76%		217		0.31%		17,137		24.18%		70,864
	Richmond		83,187		65.08%		44,345		34.69%		294		0.23%		38,842		30.39%		127,826
	Rockland		70,020		60.88%		44,687		38.85%		311		0.27%		25,333		22.03%		115,018
	St. Lawrence		26,062		61.83%		15,963		37.87%		124		0.29%		10,099		23.96%		42,149
	Saratoga		47,394		67.91%		22,166		31.76%		228		0.33%		25,228		36.15%		69,788
	Schenectady		42,808		58.09%		30,612		41.54%		277		0.38%		12,196		16.55%		73,697
	Schoharie		8,692		67.97%		3,996		31.25%		100		0.78%		4,696		36.72%		12,788
	Schuyler		5,207		67.98%		2,422		31.62%		31		0.40%		2,785		36.36%		7,660
	Seneca		9,420		65.84%		4,825		33.72%		62		0.43%		4,595		32.12%		14,307
	Steuben		28,848		73.19%		10,471		26.56%		98		0.25%		18,377		46.63%		39,417
	Suffolk		335,485		66.03%		171,295		33.72%		1,276		0.25%		164,190		32.31%		508,056
	Sullivan		18,037		63.09%		10,475		36.64%		78		0.27%		7,562		26.45%		28,590
	Tioga		14,856		71.36%		5,860		28.15%		101		0.49%		8,996		43.21%		20,817
	Tompkins		18,255		48.32%		19,357		51.24%		165		0.44%		-1,102		-2.92%		37,777
	Ulster		47,372		63.93%		26,445		35.69%		285		0.38%		20,927		28.24%		74,102
	Warren		17,616		74.75%		5,886		24.97%		66		0.28%		11,730		49.78%		23,568
	Washington		16,580		73.48%		5,909		26.19%		74		0.33%		10,671		47.29%		22,563
	Wayne		24,171		70.98%		9,700		28.49%		180		0.53%		14,471		42.49%		34,051
	Westchester		229,005		58.67%		160,225		41.05%		1,078		0.28%		68,780		17.62%		390,308
	Wyoming		11,199		71.69%		4,381		28.04%		42		0.27%		6,818		43.65%		15,622
	Yates		6,367		70.26%		2,670		29.46%		25		0.28%		3,697		40.80%		9,062

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

Monroe
Niagara

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

Tompkins

Analysis

Mondale carried Tompkins County, home of the college town of Ithaca. He was only the third Democrat to do so since the Civil War, after Woodrow Wilson in 1912 and Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. Reagan thus became the first-ever Republican to win the White House without carrying this county since the Republican Party's founding in 1854. Mondale managing to win Tompkins County even whilst losing the national popular vote by over 18% indicated the county's strong Democratic trend; it has given every subsequent Democratic nominee a double-digit margin, every Democrat from 2004 on over 60%, and every Democrat from 2008 on over 66% of its vote. This was among a handful of counties nationwide that flipped against Reagan.

, this remains the last time that New York has been carried by a Republican presidential nominee, as well as the last time that Schenectady County has done so. Broome and Niagara counties would not vote Republican again until 2016.

References

Notes

Works cited

References

"1984 Presidential General Election Results – New York". U.S. Election Atlas.
"Map Viewer".
Menendez, Albert J.; ''The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004'', pp. 261-265 {{ISBN. 0786422173
Sullivan, Robert David; [http://www.americamagazine.org/content/unconventional-wisdom/how-red-and-blue-map-evolved-over-past-century ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’]; ''America Magazine'' in ''The National Catholic Review''; June 29, 2016

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