Talk:United States presidential election, 2004, in New York

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[edit] Upstate Election Results

This article previously stated that President Bush managed to win Upstate New York. Upon reviewing the election results I discovered this to be incorrect.

Subtracting the five counties of New York City (Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens and Richmond) from the vote total leaves Senator Kerry with 2,486,265 votes to 2,375,033 for President Bush. Going further and subtracting Long Island (Nassau and Suffolk counties) as well as Rockland county and Westchester country leaves Senator Kerry with 1,553,246 votes to 1,551,971 votes for President Bush. A margin of 1,275 votes.

If you double check the results from my source you will find this to be the case. Remember that you need to include the vote totals from the Conservative Party for Bush and the Working Families Party for Kerry because of New York State's Electoral fusion laws.

Source: http://www.elections.state.ny.us/elections/2004/president04.pdf from The NYS Board of Elections, Election results

My source was uselectionatlas.org--Revas 20:42, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Hmm, maybe they (uselectionatlas.org) use a different methodology? The NYS Board of Elections only considers the five counties of NYC to be separate. I had to manually subtract out Long Island. Then I pulled out Rockland and Westchester counties to bring it into line with Wikipedia's definition of Upstate New York. If you looked at different combos of counties you could give a victory to either one of them -- it seemed best to go with the more accepted standard of Upstate. --Tchaika 14:45, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
You are right. I checked with uselectionatlas.org sources, and Kerry v. Bush with a slim margin in Upstate New York. I should learn maths. Thanks for correcting me. --Revas 16:50, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] townships

i want to find a breakdown of voting by ny townships (which are subsets of counties). where might i find such information? Kingturtle 15:30, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

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