United States presidential election in New York, 2020

The 2020 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 3, 2020. All fifty states and the District of Columbia were part of the 2020 United States presidential election. New York voters choose twenty-nine electors to the Electoral College, which selected the President and Vice-President.

New York was won by incumbent Democratic President William C. Holland, who was running against Republican Senator John Dickenson of Mississippi. Holland ran with Vice-President Robert Holtzman of Illinois, and Dickenson ran with Governor Charles Beauregard of Louisiana.

Holland carried the state in a historic landslide, taking 73.08% of the vote to Dickenson's 26.63%, a victory margin of 46.45%. This marked only the second election in American history in which a Democratic presidential candidate won every county in the state of New York. Holland not only dominated traditionally Democratic cities like New York City, Albany, Buffalo, Ithaca, Syracuse, and Rochester, but also swept traditionally Republican counties in upstate New York and on Long Island. This marked the first time since 1964 that Allegany, Genessee, Livingston, Orleans, Tioga, Wayne, Wyoming, Putnam, and Steuben Counties voted Democratic and the first time since 1968 that Hamilton and Greene Counties did so. Unlike some analogous Northeastern and Midwestern counties where Holland won only very narrowly, such as Juniata in Pennsylvania and Ford in Illinois, he won these normally upstate counties by large margins, carrying Genessee, Livingston, Orleans, and Wayne, for example, by nearly twenty percentage points.

This result made Holland one of only four presidential candidates who have been able to sweep every county in New York State, the others being Warren G. Harding in 1920, Calvin Coolidge in 1924, and Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964.

New York weighed in for this election as 12.85% more Democratic than the national average.

Holland swept all five boroughs of New York City, the first presidential candidate in twenty years to do so. In the borough of the Bronx, Holland broke 90% of the vote, the first presidential candidate ever to do so. Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens voted over 80% Democratic. Even normally Republican Staten Island, which has voted Democratic only five times since 1924, gave more than 60% of its votes to Holland. Overall, Holland received about 88% of the vote in New York City, the highest total ever won by a presidential candidate. In the remainder of New York, Holland broke 60% in 33 counties and 70% in 4 counties (Tompkins, Albany, Ulster, and Westchester).