2008 New York Democratic presidential primary

2008 New York Democratic presidential primary
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Candidate Hillary Clinton Barack Obama
Home state New York Illinois
Delegate count 139 93
Popular vote 1,068,496 751,019
Percentage 57.37% 40.32%
Primary results by county
Clinton:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%
Obama:      50–60%
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The 2008 New York Democratic presidential primary took place on February 5, 2008, also known as Super Tuesday. Polls indicated that New York Senator Hillary Clinton was leading rival Senator Barack Obama by double digits in the weeks before the contest,[1] and she ended up winning with roughly 57% of the vote.

Polls

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Main article: Statewide opinion polling for the 2008 Super Tuesday Democratic Party presidential primaries § New York

Polls throughout the campaign indicated that Hillary Clinton, a Senator from New York, was clearly favored to win the New York primary. She won every poll conducted in the state by double digits except one, and got more than 40% in every poll conducted, even with various challengers. After the number of candidates dropped significantly in late January, Clinton won 50% or more in every poll but one.

Vote discrepancies

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New York is announced as part of the roll call of the states during the third day of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. New Mexico had yielded to Illinois, which in turn yielded to New York so that Senator Hillary Clinton could make a motion promoting party unity.

After the votes were initially counted on election night, certain districts near New York City were found to be missing their vote tallies for Obama.[2] The New York Times conducted a review of the unofficial results from the primary. They found that, among New York City's 6,106 election districts participating, 80 districts did not record a single vote for Obama, including heavily black districts like Harlem, as well as districts next to others where Obama had very favorable results. City election officials reviewed the vote tallies and found several inaccuracies. For example, in Harlem where Clinton led Obama 141 to 0, the recounted vote was counted as 261 to 136, Clinton.[3] In Brooklyn the primary night vote was 118 to 0, Clinton, whereas the recounted vote went 118 to 116, Clinton.[3]

Democratic leaders blamed the discrepancies on "human error" due to weary election officials on primary day. According to ABC News, however, other candidates such as John Edwards did not have this problem; it seemed to be almost exclusive to Obama.[4]

The counting errors only occurred in the election night tallies, which are always unofficial. Following normal procedures, the votes were re-tallied before being officially certified.[5] The final, official results left Clinton with 139 pledged delegates to the 2008 Democratic National Convention and Obama with 93.[6]

Results

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See also: Results of the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries
Key: Withdrew
prior to contest
New York Democratic presidential primary, 2008[6]
Candidate Votes Percentage National delegates[7]
Hillary Clinton 1,068,496 57.37% 139
Barack Obama 751,019 40.32% 93
John Edwards 21,924 1.18% 0
Dennis Kucinich 8,458 0.45% 0
Bill Richardson 8,227 0.44% 0
Joe Biden 4,321 0.23% 0
Totals 1,862,445 100.00% 232

Results by county

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County Clinton %% Edwards %% Obama %% Other Totals TED TO% MV MV%
Albany 23,625 59.48% 669 1.68% 14,815 37.30% 608 39,717 85,226 46.60% 8,810 22.18%
Allegany 1,422 62.75% 77 3.40% 720 0.317741 47 2,266 6,398 35.42% 702 30.98%
Bronx 90,977 61.21% 897 0.006035 56,142 0.377715 620 148,636 460,721 32.26% 34,835 23.44%
Broome 10,496 62.25% 340 0.020166 5,740 0.340451 284 16,860 41,098 41.02% 4,756 28.21%
Cattaraugus 3,485 68.72% 131 0.025833 1,358 0.267797 97 5,071 16,094 31.51% 2,127 41.94%
Cayuga 4,525 70.67% 111 0.017336 1,635 0.255349 132 6,403 15,464 41.41% 2,890 45.14%
Chautauqua 6,597 66.51% 285 0.028733 2,847 0.287025 190 9,919 28,070 35.34% 3,750 37.81%
Chemung 4,122 66.57% 147 0.02374 1,828 0.29522 95 6,192 15,934 38.86% 2,294 37.05%
Chenango 1,705 62.78% 65 0.023932 891 0.328056 55 2,716 7,513 36.15% 814 29.97%
Clinton 3,347 68.19% 100 0.020375 1,388 0.282804 73 4,908 16,402 29.92% 1,959 39.91%
Columbia 2,889 52.47% 91 0.016527 2,431 0.441518 95 5,506 11,763 46.81% 458 8.32%
Cortland 2,344 66.69% 65 0.018492 1,058 0.300996 48 3,515 8,684 40.48% 1,286 36.59%
Delaware 1,716 60.06% 80 0.028001 1,014 0.354918 47 2,857 7,412 38.55% 702 24.57%
Dutchess 10,834 50.88% 292 0.013712 9,848 0.462456 321 21,295 49,120 43.35% 986 4.63%
Erie 64,586 59.89% 2,159 0.020022 39,366 0.365061 1,723 107,834 277,704 38.83% 25,220 23.39%
Essex 1,307 56.48% 48 0.020743 924 0.399309 35 2,314 6,080 38.06% 383 16.55%
Franklin 2,331 70.17% 64 0.019266 891 0.268212 36 3,322 9,642 34.45% 1,440 43.35%
Fulton 1,889 72.99% 68 0.026275 579 0.223725 52 2,588 7,383 35.05% 1,310 50.62%
Genesee 2,107 71.45% 54 0.018311 740 0.250933 48 2,949 8,919 33.06% 1,367 46.35%
Greene 1,444 59.28% 57 0.023399 888 0.364532 47 2,436 6,744 36.12% 556 22.82%
Hamilton 221 58.16% 16 0.042105 131 0.344737 12 380 936 40.60% 90 23.68%
Herkimer 2,512 69.53% 104 0.028785 917 0.253806 80 3,613 10,378 34.81% 1,595 44.15%
Jefferson 3,828 74.11% 99 0.019167 1,172 0.226912 66 5,165 15,751 32.79% 2,656 51.42%
Kings 137,309 49.41% 2,436 0.008766 136,084 0.489719 2,053 277,882 847,058 32.81% 1,225 0.44%
Lewis 852 70.12% 23 0.01893 325 0.26749 15 1,215 4,387 27.70% 527 43.37%
Livingston 2,444 61.08% 75 0.018745 1,412 0.352912 70 4,001 10,343 38.68% 1,032 25.79%
Madison 2,659 64.43% 73 0.017688 1,331 0.32251 64 4,127 10,626 38.84% 1,328 32.18%
Monroe 34,779 52.73% 794 0.012037 29,514 0.447439 875 65,962 154,711 42.64% 5,265 7.98%
Montgomery 2,522 73.06% 81 0.023465 775 0.224508 74 3,452 9,861 35.01% 1,747 50.61%
Nassau 69,721 62.45% 1,237 0.01108 38,691 0.346572 1,990 111,639 310,968 35.90% 31,030 27.79%
New York 155,662 53.67% 2,478 0.008543 130,217 0.448931 1,703 290,060 643,683 45.06% 25,445 8.77%
Niagara 13,530 67.16% 406 0.020153 5,863 0.291026 347 20,146 53,842 37.42% 7,667 38.06%
Oneida 10,039 65.92% 312 0.020487 4,436 0.291286 442 15,229 42,742 35.63% 5,603 36.79%
Onondaga 23,910 61.62% 448 0.011545 13,930 0.358974 517 38,805 90,559 42.85% 9,980 25.72%
Ontario 4,786 64.31% 100 0.013437 2,469 0.331766 87 7,442 18,192 40.91% 2,317 31.13%
Orange 13,505 56.95% 358 0.015097 9,501 0.400666 349 23,713 64,094 37.00% 4,004 16.89%
Orleans 1,236 70.99% 45 0.025847 427 0.245261 33 1,741 5,772 30.16% 809 46.47%
Oswego 4,344 72.53% 109 0.0182 1,464 0.244448 72 5,989 17,670 33.89% 2,880 48.09%
Otsego 2,418 56.87% 94 0.022107 1,651 0.388288 89 4,252 10,057 42.28% 767 18.04%
Putnam 3,758 55.96% 132 0.019657 2,723 0.40551 102 6,715 16,079 41.76% 1,035 15.41%
Queens 125,165 60.00% 1,558 0.007468 80,525 0.386007 1,362 208,610 612,007 34.09% 44,640 21.40%
Rensselaer 6,081 62.21% 148 0.015141 3,395 0.347315 151 9,775 25,398 38.49% 2,686 27.48%
Richmond 18,828 61.17% 671 0.021801 10,930 0.355124 349 30,778 109,720 28.05% 7,898 25.66%
Rockland 17,908 57.51% 566 0.018177 12,167 0.390744 497 31,138 74,828 41.61% 5,741 18.44%
Saratoga 8,434 61.63% 194 0.014176 4,859 0.35506 198 13,685 33,697 40.61% 3,575 26.12%
Schenectady 8,177 63.89% 220 0.01719 4,185 0.327004 216 12,798 32,738 39.09% 3,992 31.19%
Schoharie 1,157 64.75% 51 0.028539 543 0.303861 36 1,787 4,834 36.97% 614 34.36%
Schuyler 761 61.12% 31 0.0249 432 0.346988 21 1,245 3,263 38.16% 329 26.43%
Seneca 1,843 71.74% 45 0.017517 651 0.253406 30 2,569 6,348 40.47% 1,192 46.40%
St. Lawrence 5,327 72.89% 118 0.016147 1,754 0.240011 109 7,308 21,520 33.96% 3,573 48.89%
Steuben 3,172 65.46% 107 0.02208 1,482 0.305819 85 4,846 14,576 33.25% 1,690 34.87%
Suffolk 55,561 62.09% 1,125 0.012571 31,564 0.35271 1,240 89,490 257,813 34.71% 23,997 26.82%
Sullivan 3,109 59.79% 101 0.019423 1,901 0.365577 89 5,200 17,155 30.31% 1,208 23.23%
Tioga 2,079 63.02% 82 0.024856 1,067 0.323431 71 3,299 8,318 39.66% 1,012 30.68%
Tompkins 5,004 39.51% 194 0.015317 7,283 0.575004 185 12,666 21,708 58.35% (2,279) -17.99%
Ulster 8,044 49.92% 259 0.016074 7,525 0.467014 285 16,113 35,448 45.46% 519 3.22%
Warren 2,374 63.32% 72 0.019205 1,239 0.330488 64 3,749 9,465 39.61% 1,135 30.27%
Washington 1,964 64.12% 56 0.018283 994 0.324518 49 3,063 8,387 36.52% 970 31.67%
Wayne 2,973 67.08% 79 0.017825 1,327 0.299413 53 4,432 13,012 34.06% 1,646 37.14%
Westchester 56,531 52.40% 953 0.008833 48,221 0.446967 2,180 107,885 223,309 48.31% 8,310 7.70%
Wyoming 1,189 69.70% 50 0.029308 439 0.257327 28 1,706 6,159 27.70% 750 43.96%
Yates 1,032 69.97% 24 0.016271 400 0.271186 19 1,475 3,159 46.69% 632 42.85%
TOTALS 1,068,496 57.37% 21,924 0.011772 751,019 0.403243 21,010 1,862,449 4,966,942 37.50% 317,477 17.05%

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "New York Democratic Primary". Real Clear Politics. Retrieved February 4, 2008.
  2. ^ "Obama Robbed in NY". New York Post. February 16, 2008. Retrieved February 15, 2008.
  3. ^ a b Roberts, Sam (February 16, 2008). "Unofficial Tallies in City Understated Obama Vote". The New York Times. Retrieved February 18, 2008.
  4. ^ "Count All the Votes!". ABC News. Retrieved February 15, 2008.
  5. ^ "NYC Recount Underway For Democratic Primary". cbs2chicago.com. CBS. February 19, 2008. Archived from the original on August 21, 2008. Retrieved January 15, 2009.
  6. ^ a b New York State Elections Results
  7. ^ New York Times Election Guide 2008


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