Editing Manhattan (section)

===Politics===
{{See also|Community boards of Manhattan}}

[[File:Farley PO jeh.JPG|thumb|[[James A. Farley Post Office]]]]
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The [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] holds most public offices. Registered [[Republican Party (United States)|Republicans]] are a minority in the borough, constituting 9.88% of the electorate {{as of|April 2016|lc=y}}. Registered Republicans are more than 20% of the electorate only in the neighborhoods of the [[Upper East Side]] and the [[Financial District, Manhattan|Financial District]] {{as of|2016|lc=y}}. Democrats accounted for 68.41% of those registered to vote, while 17.94% of voters were unaffiliated.<ref>Grogan, Jennifer. [https://web.archive.org/web/20081216045315/http://web.jrn.columbia.edu/studentwork/election/2004/uptown_grogan01.asp Election 2004—Rise in Registration Promises Record Turnout], [[Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism]]. Accessed April 25, 2007. "According to the board's statistics for the total number of registered voters as of the October 22 deadline, there were 1.1&nbsp;million registered voters in Manhattan, of which 727,071 were Democrats and 132,294 were Republicans, which is a 26.7 percent increase from the 2000 election, when there were 876,120 registered voters."</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=NYSVoter Enrollment by County, Party Affiliation and Status |date=April 2016 |url=http://www.elections.ny.gov/NYSBOE/enrollment/county/county_apr16.pdf |publisher=New York State Board of Elections |access-date=July 30, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160730140838/http://www.elections.ny.gov/NYSBOE/enrollment/county/county_apr16.pdf |archive-date=July 30, 2016 }}</ref>

Manhattan is heavily urbanized and thus powerfully [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] in federal elections. Over three-quarters of its vote has gone to Democratic presidential candidates in every election since 1988, and over 80% in every election since 2004. Manhattan has repeatedly held the record as the most Democratic out of all counties in New York at the federal level; this was the case in 2020 and 2024, for example. It voted solidly for Democrat [[Bill Clinton]] in both 1992 and 1996, and defied national trends by giving negligible votes to third-party candidate [[Ross Perot]]. Democrats continued to see large gains in Manhattan in the 21st Century, with [[Barack Obama]]'s 2008 performance and subsequently [[Hillary Clinton]]'s 2016 performance of over 86% being the best ever by Democratic presidential nominees; [[Joe Biden]] was not far behind in 2020. In 2024, [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[Donald Trump]] gained the best percentage of the vote (and the largest number of raw votes) for any Republican since 1988, even though Kamala Harris still managed 80% of the vote. This reflected similar rightward shifts across the state of New York and the nation as a whole in that election.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/ | title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/us/elections/2024-election-map-precinct-results.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xk4.VI7C.oXuhxhF7kYdB&smid=url-share | title=An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2024 Election | work=The New York Times | date=January 15, 2025 | last1=Datar | first1=Saurabh | last2=Marcus | first2=Ilana | last3=Murray | first3=Eli | last4=Singer | first4=Ethan | last5=Lemonides | first5=Alex | last6=Zhang | first6=Christine | last7=Smith | first7=Jonah }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/upshot/2020-election-map.html | title=An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2020 Election | work=The New York Times | date=February 2, 2021 | last1=Park | first1=Alice | last2=Smart | first2=Charlie | last3=Taylor | first3=Rumsey | last4=Watkins | first4=Miles }}</ref>

As of 2023, three Democrats represented Manhattan in the [[United States House of Representatives]].<ref name="govtrack.us 2018">{{cite web | title=New York Senators, Representatives, and Congressional District Maps | website=GovTrack.us | date=May 21, 2018 | url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/NY#representatives | access-date=December 29, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181230030025/https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/NY#representatives | archive-date=December 30, 2018 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Dan Goldman]] (first elected in 2022) represents [[New York's 10th congressional district]], which includes [[Lower Manhattan]], as well as a portion of [[Brooklyn]].
* [[Jerry Nadler]] (first elected in 1992) represents [[New York's 12th congressional district]], which includes the [[Upper West Side]], [[Upper East Side]], and [[Midtown Manhattan]].
* [[Adriano Espaillat]] (first elected in 2016) represents [[New York's 13th congressional district]], which includes the [[Upper Manhattan]], as well as part of the northwest [[Bronx]].