2016 New York Republican presidential primary

none June 2025 September 2023 2016 New York Republican presidential primary New York Flag of New York (1909–2020).svg presidential no 2012 United States presidential election in New York#Republican primary 2012 2020 New York Republican presidential primary 2020 2016 04 19 Donald Trump by Gage Skidmore 10 (cropped).jpg Donald Trump 283681 New York 89 554,522 59.21% John Kasich (24618295175) (cropped).jpg John Kasich 29ab87 Ohio 6 231,166 24.68% Ted Cruz by Gage Skidmore 10 (cropped).jpg Ted Cruz d4aa00 Texas 0 136,083 14.53% x275px County results x275px Congressional district results x275px Municipality results #283681 Donald Trump #9ea8e1 30–40%#7786d5 40–50%#5063c9 50–60%#3649af 60–70% #2a3988 70–80%#1e2961 80–90% #29ab87 John Kasich #9ee1ce 30–40%#77d5ba 40–50%#50c9a7 50–60% #a350c9 Tie #cc9ee1 30% x160px 95 pledged delegates to the 2016 Republican National Convention The 2016 New York Republican presidential primary was held on April 19 in the U.S. state of New York as one of the Republican Party's primaries ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Donald Trump won his home state with 59% of the vote and picked up 89 pledged delegates. He won over all age groups, income levels and political ideologies,https://www.cnn.com/election/primaries/polls/ny/Rep 2016 Election Center CNN 2016-06-29 with most voters saying they want a candidate who "can bring change" and "tells it like it is". Most voters supported Trump's proposed ban on Muslim immigration to the United States.https://www.cnn.com/election/primaries/polls/ny/Rep 2016 Election Center CNN 2016-06-29 The Democratic Party also held their own New York primary on the same day which was won by Hillary Clinton. Apart from that, no other primaries were scheduled for that day by either party. Background National campaign Despite an early victory by Ted Cruz in the Iowa caucuses, Donald Trump was seen as making steady progress towards the Republican nomination at the time. Trump was victorious in 7 of the contests on March 1, with Cruz seen as the only viable threat to Trump after victories in his home state of Texas and 2 other March 1 contests. Marco Rubio performed worse than anticipated on March 1, taking only Minnesota. On March 8, two primaries and a caucus were held in Hawaii, Michigan and Mississippi. Despite a poll from American Research Group that showed Kasich leading Trump in Michigan, Trump won all three contests.http://americanresearchgroup.com/pres2016/primary/rep/mirep.html Michigan Republican Presidential Primary americanresearchgroup.com 2016-06-23https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-wins-mississippi-michigan-primaries/2016/03/08/ecb576d6-e539-11e5-b0fd-073d5930a7b7_story.html Trump wins in Hawaii, Mississippi and Michigan Washington Post 2016-06-23 On March 15's primaries, Donald Trump took four of the five contests- Florida, Illinois, Missouri and North Carolina. Trump however was defeated in Ohio by John Kasich, losing all 66 of the state's delegates. Marco Rubio suspended his campaign after losing the Florida contest,https://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/rubio-suspends-presidential-campaign-220827 Rubio suspends presidential campaign POLITICO 15 March 2016 2016-06-23 leaving just Cruz and Kasich in the race to oppose Trump. On March 22, Trump won the Arizona contest and all of its 58 pledged delegates, while Cruz capitalized on Trump's comments critical of Mitt Romney's Mormon faithSchleifer Theodore Trump on Romney: 'Are you sure he's a Mormon?' http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/18/politics/donald-trump-mormon-mitt-romney-utah/ CNN 19 March 2016 5 August 2016 to take the state of Utah and its 40 delegates. The month of April brought several strong performances for Cruz. He capitalized on a weak ground game in the Donald Trump campaign to win the conventions in North Dakota and Colorado, despite criticism from Donald Trump.Trump escalates challenge, calls Colorado GOP vote "a crooked deal" https://www.denverpost.com/2016/04/11/trump-escalates-challenge-calls-colorado-gop-vote-a-crooked-deal/ The Denver Post 11 April 2016 5 August 2016 In addition, Ted Cruz won the valuable Wisconsin primary and with it 36 of the state's 42 delegates. Many considered the probability of a "contested" Republican National Convention as it was considered doubtful that Trump would receive the requisite 1,237 delegates.Conlin Michelle Gibson Ginger Trump opponents buoyed after front-runner's Wisconsin loss https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-idUSKCN0X311W 5 August 2016 Reuters New York campaign Being Donald Trump's home state, New York was expected to be one of his strongest states in the primary contests. While Trump himself said that he would be satisfied with only one half of the delegates, most prognosticators said that Trump would have to perform extremely strongly in the state in order to avoid a contested convention.Finnegan Michael The cold, hard math of GOP delegate fight makes a big New York win crucial for Donald Trump https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-live-updates-new-yo-the-cold-hard-math-of-gop-delegate-fight-makes-a-1461105387-htmlstory.html Los Angeles Times 20 April 2016 5 August 2016 Ted Cruz's attacks in a Fox Business Network primary debate in South Carolina, criticizing Donald Trump for holding what he referred to as "New York values"- meaning the liberal, left leaning values of New York City came under fire as Cruz was campaigning in New York as well.Diamond Jeremy Trump hits Cruz over 'New York values' on Long Island https://www.cnn.com/2016/04/06/politics/donald-trump-new-york-values-ted-cruz/ CNN 7 April 2016 5 August 2016 This, combined with Trump's strong performances in the Northeast, especially Massachusetts, meant that Trump was considered a favorite with Kasich as his main challenger. Opinion polling Statewide opinion polling for the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries List of polls New York Results Results of the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries Of the 62 counties in the state, Donald Trump won 61, with the one loss being his home county of New York County (Manhattan), where John Kasich won. Trump's strongest showings were in Richmond County (Staten Island), Nassau County, Queens, Suffolk County and Erie County.https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/new-york New York Primary Election Results The New York Times 2016-04-23 John Kasich won Manhattan with a plurality and placed a strong second in upstate college areas such as Cortland, Syracuse and the Capital District area centered around Albany. Ultimately, Trump was able to get the full slate of delegates in 22 out of 27 congressional districts, due to meeting or exceeding the 50% threshold in each.https://www.thegreenpapers.com/P16/NY-R#0419 New York Republican Delegation 2016 www.thegreenpapers.com 2016-04-23 Kasich won 2 delegates in the 12th district (Upper East Side Manhattan/Queens), and one each in the 10th (Jewish Manhattan/Brooklyn neighborhoods), 13th (Harlem), 20th (Albany), and 24th (Syracuse) districts. Ted Cruz won 14.5% of the vote but did not win any delegates. Results by county CountyCarson*%Cruz%Kasich%Trump%BVSTotalTurnoutMV%Albany 1501.04%2,39016.58%5,02634.87%6,79341.13%5514,41441.25%12.26%Allegany 1562.93%1,15921.74%1,17522.05%2,82753.04%135,33043.63%30.99%Bronx 1271.75%1,16416.00%1,14815.78%4,73065.00%1087,27719.57%49.00%Broome 2861.55%3,95321.45%5,13827.88%8,92348.42%13018,43045.32%20.54%Cattaraugus 1131.74%1,29819.97%1,41921.83%3,63655.93%356,50138.22%31.10%Cayuga 701.13%1,13618.38%1,94231.42%3,02448.92%96,18137.92%17.51%Chautauqua 1771.85%2,01621.08%2,29423.99%5,02752.57%499,56338.35%28.58%Chemung N/A1,82021.16%2,37227.58%4,20848.92%2018,60142.99%21.35%Chenango 871.64%1,13321.31%1,39426.22%2,65950.02%435,31643.33%23.80%Clinton N/A73915.77%1,38929.64%2,48753.06%724,68733.05%23.43%Columbia 631.32%74415.62%1,27126.68%2,66255.88%244,76440.46%29.20%Cortland N/A90022.66%1,27632.13%1,71043.06%853,97141.05%10.93%Delaware 911.85%84617.19%1,14223.21%2,83157.53%114,92142.63%34.32%Dutchess 2131.05%2,84013.94%4,40121.60%12,87263.18%4620,37240.07%41.58%Erie N/A7,96412.93%13,13621.33%39,58964.27%90761,59642.04%42.95%Essex 681.71%66416.72%1,27432.07%1,91848.29%483,97236.82%16.21%Franklin 622.27%43315.83%76327.90%1,46053.38%172,73532.34%25.48%Fulton 721.17%1,03616.85%1,55225.24%3,45656.20%346,15039.59%30.96%Genesee N/A1,03216.54%1,28220.54%3,81561.13%1126,24140.16%40.59%Greene N/A70516.39%83819.48%2,68962.52%694,30137.08%43.04%Hamilton N/A21018.77%32629.13%56550.49%181,11944.89%21.36%Herkimer 1071.47%1,04214.35%1,87725.85%4,19357.75%427,26141.32%31.90%Jefferson 1211.28%1,23513.10%2,86030.34%5,19055.07%199,42541.69%24.72%Kings (Brooklyn) 2551.01%4,87219.32%4,02415.96%15,92063.14%14425,21525.12%43.82%Lewis 712.29%47615.36%89828.99%1,64353.03%103,09836.49%24.05%Livingston 1161.62%1,32918.54%1,72424.05%3,95755.20%437,16943.60%31.15%Madison N/A1,35819.87%2,21432.39%3,10845.47%1556,83543.72%13.08%Monroe 6851.24%9,53717.23%16,87030.47%28,03450.63%23955,36543.98%20.16%Montgomery 421.12%79321.15%86523.07%2,03954.39%103,74939.85%31.32%Nassau N/A9,9029.54%22,72221.90%69,69267.17%1,437103,75332.35%45.27%New York (Manhattan) 2540.93%3,58613.08%12,18144.43%11,19640.84%19827,41532.30% -3.59%Niagara 2451.40%2,40613.78%3,32119.02%11,45065.56%4317,46541.26%46.54%Oneida 2521.23%3,33516.33%5,39826.44%11,33255.50%10220,41943.10%29.06%Onondaga 3070.91%6,07517.97%12,05535.67%15,15544.84%20733,79941.76%9.17%Ontario 1801.60%2,06118.37%3,38030.13%5,55849.55%3911,21843.02%19.42%Orange 2170.89%3,12012.75%4,37217.87%16,65968.07%10424,47235.94%50.21%Orleans 611.45%72016.65%79918.95%2,64362.69%114,21640.68%43.74%Oswego 1881.57%2,02616.88%3,28527.37%6,42353.52%8012,00238.57%26.15%Otsego 961.78%1,03519.20%1,51628.12%2,71950.43%265,39241.92%22.31%Putnam 610.70%98611.36%1,58718.28%6,02769.44%198,68040.96%51.15%Queens 3421.08%4,49514.20%5,60117.69%20,95166.18%26831,65727.36%48.49%Rensselaer 1001.10%1,57617.27%2,60028.48%4,75852.13%949,12838.70%23.64%Richmond (Staten Island) 1200.45%2,0967.90%2,69010.14%21,52181.09%11426,54134.76%70.95%Rockland 1040.70%2,36715.92%3,15821.24%9,21962.00%2114,86934.71%40.76%St. Lawrence1241.74%1,07415.04%2,03628.52%3,82553.58%807,13936.07%25.06%Saratoga 2400.97%4,40417.85%8,27233.52%11,67347.30%8824,67741.91%13.78%Schenectady N/A2,01020.93%2,94630.67%4,49646.81%1529,60441.32%16.14%Schoharie N/A64022.74%63822.66%1,49753.18%402,81539.99%30.44%Schuyler 422.21%40521.35%46124.30%97951.61%101,89740.85%27.31%Seneca 561.85%52117.21%85428.20%1,58552.34%123,02840.86%24.14%Steuben 2622.24%2,40120.50%2,75523.52%6,25253.37%4411,71442.09%29.85%Suffolk 7350.73%9,0999.01%18,69418.52%72,35971.67%77100,96434.15%53.15%Sullivan N/A53413.19%68716.98%2,74267.75%844,04733.08%50.78%Tioga 1262.09%1,42923.68%1,54625.62%2,92648.48%86,03544.66%22.87%Tompkins 1052.11%1,34226.96%1,69133.98%1,82136.59%184,97742.82%2.61%Ulster 1421.41%1,33213.19%2,19721.75%6,38863.24%4310,10236.63%41.49%Warren 1011.28%1,20615.28%2,77235.12%3,76147.64%547,89442.15%12.53%Washington 70.13%1,04819.15%1,83933.61%2,45844.92%1205,47237.60%11.31%Wayne N/A1,62719.99%2,01624.77%4,47254.94%1568,27138.12%30.17%Westchester 3760.83%5,24511.59%13,59930.06%25,88057.20%14745,24735.31%27.14%Wyoming N/A74917.40%72416.82%2,75263.94%794,30440.10%46.54%Yates 431.56%42515.44%88432.11%1,38850.42%132,75343.29%18.31%Total 8,018*0.86%136,08314.53%231,16624.69%554,52259.22%6,636936,52536.35%34.53% *Note: Blank, void, and scattering (BVS) votes include some votes for former candidate Ben Carson. Results by congressional district CDCarsonCruzKasichTrumpBVSTotalTO%MV%104,9729,30738,80242653,50734.94%55.12%203,8208,27335,90246148,45632.07%57.02%3174,31511,27131,64233947,58432.42%42.81%405,93612,70136,53091056,07733.58%42.49%5801,2151,3615,2341138,00324.69%48.39%61231,9472,3888,817013,27527.29%48.43%7737711,0732,11704,03420.43%25.88%8817738365,21706,90725.48%63.43%9671,4121,0343,49906,01223.64%34.71%10982,7204,5075,716013,04131.29%9.27%111552,6693,46225,61711432,01732.78%69.20%121292,1037,8367,712017,78033.80% −0.70%13826248001,40802,91417.87%20.86%141061,0651,2975,34807,81625.37%51.83%155328715669001,1868.94%33.98%162012,4916,14211,6515620,54132.80%26.82%172784,7559,10121,2069235,43235.35%34.16%184186,27310,13432,86913649,83037.83%45.63%195758,40011,99830,55030251,82538.20%35.80%203357,90314,61821,27621344,34541.34%15.01%2177210,28519,42432,60747663,56438.47%20.74%2286512,72118,51534,32254366,96643.00%23.60%231,11613,06116,08631,74240662,41141.27%25.09%243779,95017,96126,07350854,86940.22%14.78%256448,96715,95226,21123752,01143.80%19.72%26554,6987,85222,27052135,39640.45%40.73%2752511,38916,25947,15162675,95042.91%40.67%7,225135,522230,344552,1796,479931,74936.50%34.54% New York City results 2016 Republican PrimaryManhattanThe BronxBrooklynQueens Staten IslandTotalDonald Trump11,1964,73015,92020,95121,52174,31840.84%65.00%63.14%66.18%81.09%62.93%John Kasich12,1811,1484,0245,6012,69025,64444.43%15.78%15.96%17.69%10.14%21.71%Ted Cruz3,5861,1644,8724,4952,09616,21313.08%16.00%19.32%14.20%7.90%13.73%Ben Carson2541272553421201,0980.93%1.75%1.01%1.08%0.45%0.93%Blank, Void1981081442681148320.72%1.48%0.57%0.85%0.43%0.70%TOTAL27,4157,27725,21531,65726,541118,105TURNOUT32.30%19.57%25.12%27.36%34.76%28.49% See also 2016 New York Democratic presidential primary References 30em New York Republican primary 2016 Category:April 2016 in the United States