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In [[upstate New York]], Roosevelt's support was mostly concentrated in the cities. Roosevelt again carried the state capital of [[Albany, New York|Albany]], which since [[1928 United States presidential election in New York|1928]] had become a Democratic stronghold of a city. Nearby [[Schenectady County, New York|Schenectady]] and [[Montgomery County, New York|Montgomery]] counties went Democratic as well. 1936 also saw FDR flip [[Erie County, New York|Erie County]] into the Democratic column, home to the city of [[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]] in [[western New York]], which up to that point was a Republican county that had even held for [[Herbert Hoover]] in 1932. Finally flipping in 1936, Buffalo has largely remained a loyal Democratic bastion ever since. [[Monroe County, New York|Monroe County]], home to the city of [[Rochester, New York|Rochester]], also swung from voting for Hoover in 1932 to Roosevelt in 1936. Roosevelt's other wins in the state were pluralities in [[Rockland County, New York|Rockland County]] and [[Sullivan County, New York|Sullivan County]].
However, much of rural upstate New York remained one of the most loyally Republican regions in the nation throughout the FDR era, which many locals attributed to the fact that [[New Deal]] [[public works]] had barely affected these regions.<ref>Sheppard, Si; ''The buying of the presidency?: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the New Deal, and the election of 1936'' pp. 207, 216-217 {{ISBN|1440831068}}</ref> Going against the trend of the state and the nation, FDR lost [[Franklin County, New York|Franklin County]] to Landon in [[North Country (New York)|northern New York]], a county which FDR had won in 1932 and which was even won by [[Al Smith]] in 1928, leaving [[Clinton County, New York|Clinton County]] as the sole Democratic win in the
This was the last election in which Democrats won the boroughs of Queens until 1960 and Staten Island until 1964.
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