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New York presidential election 2024 results: Kamala Harris wins

Voters cast their ballots at the Park Slope Armory YCMA in New York on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024
Voters cast their ballots at the Park Slope Armory YCMA in New York on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024 Copyright  Yuki Iwamura/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved.
Copyright Yuki Iwamura/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved.
By Kamuran Samar
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The Democratic candidate has won the New York race and secured the state’s 28 Electoral College votes.

Vice President Kamala Harris won New York’s presidential contest on Tuesday, picking up the state’s 28 electoral votes.

The East Coast state has now voted for Democrats in every presidential contest since giving Republican President Ronald Reagan the nod in his landslide 1984 election.

Former President Donald Trump has consistently struggled to gain traction in his home state, losing New York in each of his three runs for the White House.

However, the margin of victory for the Democrats in New York was slimmer this time than in the previous two elections, when Donald Trump won the White House in 2016 and lost to Joe Biden in 2020.

New York’s electoral vote haul is the fourth richest, after California, Texas and Florida, but due to population shifts, it has one fewer vote than it did four years ago.

The Associated Press declared Harris the winner at 3:00 am CET.

New Yorkers approved an amendment that would expand the state constitution’s antidiscrimination language in a way that supporters say would protect the civil rights of people who are seeking or have had abortions.

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