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New York weighed in for this election as more [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] than the national average by about 7%.
This election is notable in that while the highly populated regions of [[New York City]], [[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]], and [[Albany, New York|Albany]] turned out for Carter, and the sparsely populated upstate counties turned out for Reagan, the election in the state was tipped by the downstate suburban counties around NYC, which were won by Reagan. Most notably, Reagan won in the [[Long Island]] suburban counties of [[Nassau County, New York|Nassau]] and [[Suffolk County, New York|Suffolk]] by bigger vote number margins than in all of the counties that Carter won in the state except [[Manhattan]]. Carter actually picked up plurality wins in two counties in the state which he had lost in [[1976 United States presidential election in New York|1976]] to [[Gerald Ford]]: namely [[Monroe County, New York|Monroe County]], home to the city of [[Rochester, New York|Rochester]] (thereby making Reagan the first ever Republican to win the White House without carrying this county), and [[Niagara County, New York|Niagara County]]. Despite these two county gains by Carter, it wasn't enough for him to win the state, primarily due to a combination of Reagan's big winning
A major contributing factor to Reagan's victory over Carter was the relatively strong [[Third party (United States)|third party]] showing by [[Independent politician|independent]] candidate [[John B. Anderson]], a former [[Liberalism in the United States|liberal]] Republican congressman who garnered 7.54% of the vote in the State – nearly twice the 4% margin by which Carter had won New York in 1976. Running on the ballot line of New York's [[Liberal Party of New York|Liberal Party]], Anderson attracted the votes of many liberals and moderates who normally leaned Democratic but were dissatisfied with the policies of the Carter Administration and with [[Rockefeller Republican]]s who viewed Reagan as too far to the right, thus splitting the left-leaning vote in New York State.
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