By Gus Saltonstall
New York City saw a significant uptick in votes for President Donald Trump in 2024, when compared to his 2020 election bid, but did that trend hold true on the Upper West Side?
The Upper West Side still voted overwhelmingly Democratic, as the majority of election districts in the neighborhood, which are generally made up of a couple of blocks, posted percentages in the high 80s and low 90s for Vice President Kamala Harris, data from the City University of New York Center for Urban Research shows.
Despite that, it is also true that the majority of UWS election districts saw a small uptick in support for Trump in this election, according to the data.
The voting totals in New York City are not yet certified by the Board of Elections, but the City University of New York Center for Urban Research, along with publications such as THE CITY, are able to present localized voting totals by accurately combining votes from early voting, absentee ballots, and Election Day votes.
The Numbers
Throughout the entire city, Harris defeated Trump 68 percent to 30 percent, which is 16 points less than President Joe Biden’s victory over Trump in 2020. In the five boroughs, Trump added around 94,000 more votes than four years ago, whereas Harris lost roughly 573,000 voters from Biden’s total, Gothamist reported.
The majority of Upper West Side election districts saw an uptick in Trump’s favor between 0.1 and 3 percent, when compared to 2020, according to the findings from the New York Center for Urban Research.
Where the UWS Trump Swing Was Greatest
There were some areas in the neighborhood that stood out in their swing toward Trump in 2024.
Seven election districts east of Amsterdam between West 100 and 110th streets saw increases between 4 and 11 percent for Trump.
Election District 15 in Assembly District 69, which includes West 108th and 109th streets between Amsterdam and Columbus, saw an 11 percent jump for Trump in 2024, compared to 2020. To put those numbers in context, though, Harris still received 81.3 percent of the vote this election, but Biden posted 92.3 percent support in the same area in 2020, data shows.
The Lincoln Square-area also saw a noticeable uptick in Trump votes this election.
Five election districts between West 59th and 70th streets, on West End Avenue and toward the Hudson River, saw jumps in Trump’s direction between 3.8 and 6.7 percentage points, data shows.
Election District 47 in Assembly District 67, from West 59th to 65th streets, to the west of Freedom Place, saw residents increase their vote total for Trump from 16.3 percent in 2020, to 23 percent in 2024, data shows.
East of West End Avenue from West 61st to 63rd streets also got redder in 2024, seeing a 9.9 percent increase toward Trump in 2024. Election District 50, which includes parts of West 63rd through 65th streets, from West End Avenue to Broadway, saw a 4.4 percent increase in votes for Donald Trump, data shows.
Another standout was West 72nd to 73rd streets, between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West, which saw a 5.7 percent increase in Trump voters for 2024, according to the data.
There were a handful of Upper West Side election districts that saw a higher percentage of Harris voters than Biden voters, including areas west of Broadway between West 104th and 108th streets; Amsterdam to Central Park West, between West 89th and 90th streets; and West 76th to 78th streets, west of Broadway, data shows.
You can check out the full voter breakdown, including your own Upper West Side election district, with the interactive map from the City University of of New York Center for Urban Research — HERE.
To use the interactive map, zoom in on your block, and then click the election district that it sits within, the voting numbers from the 2020 and 2024 elections will then appear.
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So basically in 400 years Manhattan will turn Red ?
I wouldn’t be surprised if our next Mayor is Republican.
Predicting it now: our *current* mayor comes out as a Republican and openly begs Trump to pardon him for his corruption charges.
As a D, I hope the next mayor will either be a centrist D or R. I don’t vote for my party every time.
All depends on who they nominate. Curtis Sliwa. Was a joke, Joe Leota was not. R’s will be emboldened by these results especially in the outer boros.
Manhattan had Republican elected officials in the 21st century.
It looks like my area, Morningside Heights, went 94 percent for Harris. If Trump plots revenge, I guess he will concentrate on Columbia University rather than the many other institutions in the area such as the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Manhattan School of Music, Union Theological Seminary, etc. My guess is that the membership of these institutions were every bit as anti-Trump as Columbia, but none receive nearly as much government funding.
Why should taxpayers subsidize Columbia and other universities? Professors make $250k+ per annum, subsidized housing (2bdr for $2k), free education for their kids, pension, and work 10-15 hours per week 12 weeks a year. The rest of the time they supposedly do research. Some do, some do not.
Don’t bite the hand that feeds you. Columbia is one of the largest employers in New York City, it is one of the largest research engines bringing hundreds of millions of dollars in reserch per year, not including spin offs. Columbia hands out about 500 million per year in financial aid and tuition discounts. The Medical Center gives out hundreds of millions per year in free medical care and screenings. Columbia also contributes millions per year in Manhattanville and Harlem businesses.
Most off campus Columbia students absolutely refuse to live south of 100th street. Especially the undergraduate students.
It’s not that they “refuse” to live south of 100 Street. It’s that the further south you go the higher the rents.
There are plenty of cheap apartments south of 100th street that are comparable to the ones in the 100s, when Columbia students get told about them, they say that they do not want them.
Because it is far from campus and most of the storefronts are vacant.
This was always the case even before covid.
Oh boy! As I predicted, the UWS continues to vote for Kamala in overwhelming numbers so it’s curious the WSR comments are full of Newsmax-level Republicans.
Oh boy…sounds like it’s time to research if the WSR comments reflect public opinion (coulda, woulda, shoulda, etc.) and write a piece on it.
You know that sentiment is why she lost right?
Not everyone that disagrees with you is a newsmax level republican. That mindset cost you votes in the outer boroughs.
Of course not. Nonetheless the label still applies. I’m not running for office thankfully.
Interestingly, if my geography is correct, a number of the areas that flipped to Trump are NYCHA. Because Trump loves low income minority people so much…
It’s possible that people living in NYCHA housing appreciate having a strong police force to protect them from the bad elements in their buildings.
It’s also possible that they also don’t appreciate the hordes of mentally ill people who can be threatening.
Maybe they are particularly impacted by high grocery prices and want to see prices come down.
Maybe some of those NYCHA people have experiences that you are I haven’t had.
Those are mainly local issues. As much as Trump brainwashed people into thinking otherwise, 99% of Dems don’t want to “defund the police.” And the federal government has nothing to do with it. I support more active policing, and do so in my votes for mayor and city council. This is 6th grade civics. It is amazing how Trump has made everyone forget what they knew 15 years ago.
That attitude cost Democrats the election. Non-wealthy people view Republicans as far more understanding and empathic to their concerns than Democrats.
It’s not NYCHA. Its Dominican strong hold, Latin X swing.
Why does this article contain the wording, “President Donald Trump”? Our President now is Joseph Biden.
Too bad Joe doesn’t realize that.
A small move towards sanity, but so much further to go!
https://www.city-journal.org/article/americas-cities-want-to-be-great-again?utm_source=virtuous&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cjdaily
I would be interested in knowing how many people voted for Harris on the Working Family line and how many people, like me, wrote in Jill Stein. I had no idea how easy it is to do a write in vote. If were in a swing state I would have voted for Harris, but I wanted to express my desire for peace and prosperity for all. Neither of the candidates seemed ready to go in that direction.
This was illuminating. I didn’t know we have the hyper-local interactive voting map. Very interesting, and potentially informative as to what people believed they were voting for (or against, or not at all, for where the overall number of voters was strikingly less than in the previous election).