Trump Vote Significantly Increased In Upper Manhattan In 2020

UPPER MANHATTAN, NY — Washington Heights and Inwood saw some of the biggest jumps in New York City for the amount of people voting for President Donald Trump in 2020 compared to 2016.

The New York Times recently published "An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2020 Election," which currently has voting data from 1,922 of 3,143 U.S. counties in 42 states representing 64 percent of all votes cast in the 2016 and 2020 elections.

The voter trends from the 2016 to 2020 election are clear in Washington Heights and Inwood.

More residents voted for Trump the second time around.

You can check out the map for yourself here. Find the changes from 2016 to 2020 in Upper Manhattan by selecting the "Change from 2016" tab and then typing in an Upper Manhattan address or ZIP code.

From 165th Street up, most precincts had at least a 15 percent increase in the number of voters casting a ballot for the Republican party in 2020.

Additionally, several Upper Manhattan voter precincts had increases of over 20 percent in Trump votes.

A precinct that goes from around 181st to 188th Street in the area of Yeshiva University saw its number of Trump votes increase by 29 percent in 2020 compared to 2016. It was one of the biggest jumps in Manhattan.

Similarly, multiple precincts near Post Avenue in Inwood saw their number of Trump votes increase by 28 percent in 2020.

Only a handful of voting precincts below 120th Street in Manhattan had over a 20 percent increase in residents voting for Trump, but a clear change happens the more uptown you get.

Comparably, in Washington Heights and Inwood, at least 25 precincts have a Trump-voting jump of more than 20 percent.

While more people in Upper Manhattan voted for Trump in 2020 than they did in 2016, President Joe Biden still easily won every single precinct in the Heights and Inwood.

For example, the 181st to 188th Street precinct that saw the significant increase in Trump voters, still overall had 75 percent of voters picking Biden.

Also, there were a handful of Washington Heights and Inwood precincts that saw an increase in Democratic votes. However, none of these increases were above five percent.

Here's how the New York Times explained how it created the voting precinct boundaries.

"Where possible, we used official precinct boundaries provided by the states or counties, but in most cases these were not available and we generated boundaries ourselves, using L2 voter-file points to guess the precinct for each census block group; this results in generally accurate precinct boundaries, but can be rough in no- or very-low-population places like business parks or uninhabited rural land," creators of the interactive map wrote.

One explanation for Trump's disproportional gain in votes in Washington Heights and Inwood is his overall gains with the Latino vote in the 2020 election.

Washington Heights has a 69 percent Latino population, higher than any other neighborhood in Manhattan.

• Trump's gains among Latino voters shouldn't come as a surprise. Here's why.

Trump also saw major increases in 2020 votes among Latino communities in the South Bronx.