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Kennedy won New York with 52.53% of the vote to Nixon's 47.27%, a victory margin of 5.26%. New York weighed in for this election as 5% more Democratic than the national average. The presidential election of 1960 was a very [[Partisan (politics)|partisan]] election for New York, with 99.8% of the electorate voting for either the Democratic or the Republican Parties.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections|publisher=Uselectionatlas.org |access-date=2013-07-13}}</ref> In typical form for the time, the highly populated centers of [[New York City]], [[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]], and [[Albany, New York|Albany]], voted primarily [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]], while the suburban areas such as [[Nassau County, New York|Nassau]] and [[Westchester County, New York|Westchester]] and the rural [[List of counties in New York|counties]] in New York turned out for Nixon as the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] candidate.
Kennedy won the election in New York by a solid 5-point margin, representing a dramatic shift toward the Democratic Party in the state: just four years earlier, [[Dwight D. Eisenhower|Dwight Eisenhower]] had carried New York State for the Republicans with over 60% of the vote. The results of this election in New York are typical of the nationwide trend of the urbanization of the Democratic Party, and Kennedy's dominance in heavily populated New York City was a vital component to his victory in the state. Kennedy took 62.62% of the overall vote in New York City, to Nixon's 37.04%, and carried four out of five boroughs. Kennedy's victory in [[Queens]], in the midst of a virtual tie nationwide, marked a dramatic turning point for the heavily populated borough's political leanings. Prior to 1960, Queens had largely been a Republican borough,
Nixon for his part ran on a platform of continuing the "peace and prosperity" felt throughout the United States under [[Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower|President Eisenhower]], which gained him popularity in the developing regions of the [[Western United States|West]] and [[Pacific states|Pacific States]], while Kennedy attained his popularity in urban regions, in part, due to his [[Progressivism|progressive]] stand on international politics.<ref name="museum.tv">{{cite web |url=http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=kennedy-nixon |title=THE KENNEDY-NIXON PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES, 1960 – The Museum of Broadcast Communications |publisher=The Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC) |access-date=2013-07-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120511211530/http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=kennedy-nixon |archive-date=2012-05-11 |url-status=dead }}</ref> This included taking a stronger stance with the [[Soviet Union]], which was a very important issue to many city-dwellers, fearing annihilation during the height of the [[History of nuclear weapons|post-nuclear age]].
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