United States presidential election in New York, 2016 (New Johannson Scenario)



The 2016 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 8, 2016. All contemporary 50 states and the District of Columbia were part of the 2016 United States presidential election. New York voters chose 44 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President.

New York was won by Republican President Edward H. Johannson of Minnesota, who was running against Democratic Georgia Governor John C. Dickenson. Johannson's running mate was Vice President Neel Kashkari of California, while Dickenson's running mate was Attorney General Chris Koster of Missouri. Also running that year were Libertarian Party candidate R. Lee Wright of Texas, Green Party candidate Jill Stein of Massachusetts, and Constitution Party candidate Darrell Castle of Tennessee.

Johannson won New York State in an overwhelming landslide of 64.56 percent of the vote to Dickenson's 35.31 percent, a victory margin of 29.25 percentage points.

President Johannson enjoyed very high approval ratings, as by 2016, the United States was in the midst of the largest economic expansion since the post-war period. Johannson, who had successfully pursued his Contract with America agenda, was credited for aiding with this expansion. He also received praise for his effective management of two foreign policy crises in the weeks before the election-the Syrian anthrax attacks and the Persian Gulf Affair-bringing about a peaceful resolution to those conflicts. His opponent Governor Dickenson, on the other hand, was uncharismatic, made numerous gaffes, and proved unable to provide a clear policy alternative to the Johannson Administration. This had a particular effect upon the results in New York, where Johannson's advocacy for criminal justice reform, infrastructure investment, and tax reform was received with high praise.

Johannson swept every county in the state of New York, winning every upstate county as well as carrying all five boroughs of New York City and Long Island. All but five of New York State's 62 counties went Republican with more than sixty percent of the vote.

Johannson won heavily populated New York City as a whole with a commanding majority, prevailing in all five boroughs. He received over sixty percent of the vote in the boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island, and also won majorities in Manhattan and the Bronx, carrying both by double digits. 2016 was the first time since 1968 that a Republican presidential candidate won all five boroughs of New York City, and only the fourth time since the city's incorporation in 1898 that a Republican has done so. This was also the first time since 1988 that a Republican won New York City as a whole.

In upstate New York, Johannson also won decisive majorities in rural, suburban, and urban counties. Johannson won over sixty percent in Albany County, home to the state capital of Albany, as well as in Erie County, home to the city of Buffalo, Onondaga County, home to the city of Syracuse, and in Monroe County, home to the city of Rochester. He took suburban Rockland and Westchester Counties with more than sixty percent of the vote as well, and won over seventy percent in Nassau and Suffolk Counties, as well as in Tompkins County, home to the city of Ithaca.

Johannson is one of only three presidential candidates to sweep every county in New York State, the others being Warren G. Harding in 1920 and Nelson D. Rockefeller in 1968. That year, every county in the Northeast voted Republican, as did all but seventeen counties outside of the antebellum slave states and Oklahoma.