The questions New York City voters have been asked since the 1894 vote that created Greater New York, and the places that were on that 1894 ballot, shown as charts. Every chart says in one line what it shows and what to take from it. Hover over or tap any bar or line to see its numbers.
Statewide questions (changes to the State Constitution, borrowing for bond acts, and every 20 years whether to hold a constitutional convention) and New York City questions (changes to the City Charter).
Each bar is ten years. Blue is the questions voters approved; orange is the ones they turned down.
Out of the questions on this list from those ten years, the percent that passed. The dashed line is the share across all years.
Each bar is one kind of question. The number is how many there have been; the blue part is the share approved.
The questions decided by the smallest margins across New York State. The bar is the share voting yes; the dashed line is 50%, the line between passing and failing.
Statewide questions where we have New York City's own count. Each dot is one question: how the city voted (across) against how the whole state voted (up). Dots in the shaded corners are where the city and the state came out on opposite sides.
Every City Charter question with a citywide count, by how strongly the city voted yes. The dashed line is 50%.
If voters checked yes down the line, every question on a ballot would pass and they would all get about the same share. The record since 1894 shows something else: voters pick and choose. These charts use the statewide questions, where every vote count is on file.
Each column is one election's ballot. Each square is one statewide question on it: blue passed, orange failed. A column with both colors is a ballot voters split.
Every ballot that carried two or more statewide questions, sorted by what voters did with it.
All statewide questions, grouped by the share voting yes. The dashed line is 50%.
Each bar is one year's ballot, counted in every New York City election district: the share of districts that approved every question on it, the share that approved some and turned down others, and the share that turned down every one. The number after the year is how many questions were on the ballot.
Each row is one of the 59 community districts and each column is one year's ballot. The cell says how many of that year's questions the district approved: dark blue for all of them, lighter blue for some, orange for none. Tap a cell for the district's vote on each question.
Pick a year. Each row is a community district; the dots are that year's questions by the share voting yes there, and the line runs from its lowest to its highest. Red dots are questions that failed there. Sorted from the strongest yes to the weakest.
Each question on this list, statewide and city, sorted into one policy area by what its title says it did. The blue part of each bar is the share approved; the number at the right is how many questions there were. Sorted from the area voters approved most to the area they approved least.
Each line is one ballot with two or more statewide questions. It runs from the lowest yes share on that ballot to the highest. A long line means voters treated the questions very differently. Orange lines cross 50%: some passed and some failed.
How New York City voted on the five City Charter questions on November 3, 2026, from the Board of Elections' count by election district.
The share voting yes on each question across the city. The dashed line is 50%.
Each group is one borough; each bar is one question, 1 to 5. Blue passed there, orange failed there.
Every election district in the city, by how many of the five questions got more yes than no votes there.
Each bar is the votes cast on a question as a share of the votes cast for Governor, the first contest on the ballot.
Each row is one community district. The line runs from its lowest yes share among the five questions to its highest; the dots are the five questions. Red dots are questions that failed there. Sorted from the strongest yes to the weakest.
New York, Kings, Queens and Richmond counties, and four Westchester places (the Town of Westchester, East Chester, Pelham and Mount Vernon), voted in 1894 on whether to join one city. Here is how those places have grown and how their economies compare. To put your own city together from them, use Build your own city.
Population at every census from 1900 to 2020, then the yearly estimates to 2025. The blue line is today's five boroughs. The orange line adds Nassau County (the half of 1894 Queens County that stayed out), Mount Vernon, and the parts of Eastchester and Pelham that stayed in Westchester.
One small chart per place, 1900 to 2025, each on its own scale so you can see its shape. The number is its 2025 estimate.
The value of everything a county produced in 2024, divided by the people who live there. Westchester is the whole county.
The share of people who want a job and are looking for one but do not have one, averaged over 2025. The dashed line is New York City as a whole.
The yearly unemployment rate since 1990 for each county on the 1894 ballot. The thick dashed line is New York City as a whole, back to 1976. The shaded strip is 2026 so far.
Sources: ballot measures and results, Ballot measures in New York City (Ballotpedia, the New York State Board of Elections and the NYC Board of Elections; 2026 results are the numbers so far from the Board of Elections). Population: U.S. Census and Census Bureau estimates; GDP: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis; unemployment: New York State Department of Labor and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Details and links for each are on Build your own city.