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Most of the state overwhelmingly chose the challenger over the incumbent; however, the majority of the Hudson Valley was more varied after all the ballots were counted.
A breakdown of voter decisions in the Hudson Valley for the 2020 presidential election:
Dutchess
- Biden/Harris: 81,443 votes (53.9 percent)
- Trump/Pence: 66,872 votes (44.3 percent)
Orange
- Trump/Pence: 84,996 votes (49.4 percent)
- Biden/Harris: 84,684 votes (49.2 percent)
Putnam
- Trump/Pence: 29,283 votes (53.3 percent)
- Biden/Harris: 24,953 votes (45.4 percent)
Rockland
- Biden/Harris: 75,802 votes (50.4 percent)
- Trump/Pence: 73,186 votes (48.7 percent)
Sullivan
- Trump/Pence: 18,665 votes (53.9 percent)
- Biden/Harris: 15,489 votes (44.70 percent)
Ulster
- Biden/Harris: 57,970 votes (59.5 percent)
- Trump/Pence: 37,590 votes (38.6 percent)
Westchester
- Biden/Harris: 312,371 votes (67.6 percent)
- Trump/Pence: 144,713 votes (31.3 percent)
In total, Biden received 5,244,006 (60.9 percent) votes in New York to Trump’s 3,250,230 (37.7 percent) to claim the state’s 29 electoral votes.
Biden flipped four counties Trump won four years ago, and claimed victory in the majority of upstate New York's largest cities. No states went from red to blue during this election.
It took more than a month for the election results to become official, as a record number of mail-in and absentee ballots had to be counted due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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