+New York City (5 boroughs) presidential election results Year Democratic Republican 2024 68.10% 1,903,344 30.01% 838,838 2020 76.19% 2,321,759 22.70% 691,682 2016 79.95% 2,191,869 17.04% 467,254 2012 81.19% 1,995,241 17.78% 436,889 2008 79.29% 2,074,159 20.06% 524,787 2004 74.99% 1,828,015 24.10% 587,534 2000 77.90% 1,703,364 18.23% 398,726 1996 77.10% 1,512,248 17.31% 339,537 1992 68.72% 1,458,784 24.00% 509,423 1988 66.17% 1,340,795 32.84% 665,407 1984 60.96% 1,343,875 38.66% 852,317 1980 54.88% 1,052,178 37.51% 719,278 1976 66.37% 1,423,380 32.95% 706,663 1972 51.46% 1,342,996 48.27% 1,259,873 1968 60.56% 1,582,681 33.94% 886,959 1964 73.02% 2,183,646 26.81% 801,877 1960 62.62% 1,936,323 37.04% 1,145,205 1956 51.10% 1,617,701 48.90% 1,548,132 1952 54.54% 1,861,930 43.79% 1,495,493 1948 49.47% 1,596,545 34.34% 1,108,288 1944 61.64% 2,042,500 38.36% 1,271,287 1940 61.18% 1,966,083 38.82% 1,247,624 1936 75.40% 2,041,347 24.60% 665,951 1932 67.31% 1,455,176 27.02% 584,056 1928 62.06% 1,167,971 37.94% 714,144 1924 35.02% 489,199 44.83% 626,131 1920 27.34% 345,001 62.29% 785,947 1916 52.95% 353,235 47.05% 313,813 1912 49.76% 312,386 20.16% 126,582 1908 48.52% 284,190 51.48% 301,568 1904 53.05% 326,900 46.95% 289,345 1900 52.47% 309,524 47.53% 280,343

Since the creation of the City of Greater New York in 1898, New York City has been a stronghold of the Democratic Party. The city as a whole has only been carried by a Republican in three presidential elections that being William Howard Taft in 1908, Warren G. Harding in 1920, and President Calvin Coolidge in 1924. The boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx were only carried by a Republican in 1920 and 1924. Brooklyn was carried by a Republican just six times (1896 through 1908, 1920, and 1924), while Queens has been carried by a Republican on the presidential level once since 1960 (in 1972). Meanwhile, Staten Island remains strongly Republican having been carried by a Democrat four times since 1940 (in 1964, 1996, 2000, and 2012).

As of 2024, New York City is split between 14 of the state's 26 congressional districts, covering the 3rd through 16th congressional districts. All but one are held by Democrats, the only exception is the Staten Island-based 11th district. Due almost entirely to the Democrats' near-total dominance at the local level, the Democrats have held a majority of the state's congressional seats since 1965.

Historically, the most conservative district in the city is that based in Staten Island and southern Brooklyn; until 2013 called New York's 13th congressional district. The district has been a reliably red bastion in a deep blue city, sending a Republican to Congress in every election since 1980 except 2008 and 2018. With former city councilman Michael McMahon's 2008 election victory in the district, Democrats took all of the city's congressional seats for the first time in 76 years. The status would be short-lived as Republican Michael Grimm defeated McMahon 2 years later to retake the seat in the 2010 midterms. Renamed in 2013 as New York's 11th congressional district, the seat would flip once more when Democrat Max Rose unseated Republican incumbent Dan Donovan in the 2018 midterm election. However, Democratic gain in the district proved ephemeral yet again. In the 2020 election, Republican Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis has reclaimed the GOP's sole House seat in New York City, again defeating a freshman Democratic incumbent, by a margin of 53% to 47%.

Following the 2020 census, New York's 3rd district, which is primarily located in Nassau County, was redrawn to include portions of northeast Queens. In the subsequent 2022 election, George Santos defeated Robert Zimmerman to become the district's representative, joining Malliotakis as the only other Republican to represent any of the five boroughs in Congress. However, Santos was expelled and replaced by Democrat Tom Suozzi in February 2024.

Political influence The Flushing Remonstrance signed by colonists in 1657 is considered a precursor to the United States Constitution's provision on freedom of religion in the Bill of Rights. The signers protested the Dutch colonial authorities' persecution of Quakers in what is today the borough of Queens.

New York City politicians often exert influence outside the city in response to the city's diverse ethnic constituencies. For example, in 1984 the New York City Comptroller’s Office under the direction of then-Comptroller Harrison J. Goldin developed with Irish Nobel Peace laureate Seán MacBride the MacBride Principles, which call on companies operating in Northern Ireland to increase employment opportunities for members of underrepresented religious groups, ban the display of provocative sectarian emblems in the workplace, promote security for minority employees and abolish hiring criteria that discriminate based on religion or ethnicity. A 2006 report by the New York City Comptroller's Office found that 88 US and Canadian corporations operating in Northern Ireland had agreed to independent monitoring of their compliance with the MacBride Principles.

Four of the top five zip codes in the United States for political contributions are in Manhattan. The top zip code, 10021 on the Upper East Side, generated the most money for the 2004 presidential campaigns of both George W. Bush and John Kerry.

Operations In 2008, New York City and London announced the Innovation Exchange Programme, in which the two cities will share best practices in government innovation. The program involves not only the formal exchange of ideas but also the transfer of personnel between the cities. It will focus on transparency and accountability, efficiency, transport, policy, education and skills, and environmental policy.

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