For the past several decades, The Bronx was considered to be one of the ‘bluest’ counties in the US with an overwhelming majority of the electorate as registered Democrats and consistently and overwhelmingly voting for the Democratic candidate in presidential elections.
In 2008, almost 89% of Bronx voters voted for Obama with almost 92% voting for him for his re-election in 2012 solidly locking in The Bronx as one of the most Democratic counties in the country.
In 2016 when Trump was first elected, the trend continued to be roughly the same with 88% voting for Hillary Clinton and only 10% for Trump but in 2020, the total percent of voters for the Democratic ticket dropped by 5 percentage points swinging over to Trump who managed to get 15.9% of voters.
But last Tuesday, The Bronx took a dramatic shift to the right with a whopping 27% of the electorate voting for Trump and representing by far the largest increase in New York City from the previous presidential cycle with a 35% jump from 2016 with Kamala Harris only receiving 73% of the vote.