United States Democratic presidential primary in New York, 2008

The 2008 New York Democratic primary took place on February 5, 2008, also known as Super Tuesday. Polls indicated that New York Senator Hillary Clinton was leading rival Senator Barack Obama by double digits in the weeks before the contest,^[1] and she ended up winning with roughly 58% of the vote.

Polls

Main article: Statewide opinion polling for the Super Tuesday Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2008#New_York

Vote discrepancies

New York is announced as part of the roll call of the states during the third day of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. New Mexico had yielded to Illinois, which in turn yielded to New York so that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton could make a motion promoting party unity.

After the votes were initially counted on election night, certain districts near New York City were found to be missing their vote tallies for Obama.^[2] The New York Times conducted a review of the unofficial results from the primary. They found that, among New York City's 6,106 election districts participating, 80 districts did not record a single vote for Obama, including heavily black districts like Harlem, as well as districts next to others where Obama had very favorable results. City election officials reviewed the vote tallies and found several inaccuracies. For example, in Harlem where Clinton led Obama 141 to 0, the recounted vote was counted as 118 to 116, Clinton.^[3]

Democratic leaders blamed the discrepancies on "human error" due to weary election officials on primary day. According to ABC News, however, other candidates such as John Edwards did not have this problem; it seemed to be almost exclusive to Obama.^[4]

The counting errors only occurred in the election night tallies, which are always unofficial. Following normal procedures, the votes were re-tallied before being officially certified.^[5] The final, official results left Clinton with 139 pledged delegates to the 2008 Democratic National Convention and Obama with 93.^[6]

Results

See also: Results of the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries

Key:	Withdrew prior to contest

New York Democratic presidential primary, 2008[6]
Candidate	Votes	Percentage	National delegates[7]
Hillary Clinton	1,068,496	57.37%	139
Barack Obama	751,019	40.32%	93
John Edwards	21,924	1.18%	0
Dennis Kucinich	8,458	0.45%	0
Bill Richardson	8,227	0.44%	0
Joe Biden	4,321	0.23%	0
Totals	1,862,445	100.00%	232

See also

• Democratic Party (United States) presidential primaries, 2008
• New York Republican primary, 2008

References

1. ^ "New York Democratic Primary". Real Clear Politics. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/ny/new_york_democratic_primary-265.html. Retrieved 2008-02-04. 
2. ^ "Obama Robbed in NY". New York Post. 2008-02-16. http://www.nypost.com/seven/02162008/news/regionalnews/obama_robbed_in_ny_97932.htm. Retrieved 2008-02-15. 
3. ^ Roberts, Sam (2008-02-16). "Unofficial Tallies in City Understated Obama Vote". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/16/nyregion/16vote.html. Retrieved 2008-02-18. 
4. ^ "Count All the Votes!". ABC News. http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/02/count-all-the-v.html. Retrieved 2008-02-15. 
5. ^ "NYC Recount Underway For Democratic Primary". CBS. 2008-02-19. http://cbs2chicago.com/politics/hillary.clinton.barack.2.658233.html. Retrieved 2009-01-15. ^{[dead link]}
6. ^ ^{a b} New York State Elections Results
7. ^ New York Times Election Guide 2008