New York was won by incumbent Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was running against former Democratic Governor of Illinois Adlai Stevenson.

Eisenhower won 4,340,340 votes, the most ever received by a Republican presidential candidate in the state's history.

New York weighed in for this election as eight percentage points more Republican than the national average.

[4] New York would not vote Republican again until Eisenhower’s running mate, Richard Nixon, won the state in his re-election bid in 1972.

To date, this is also the last presidential election in which New York voted more Republican than the nation as a whole, or more Republican than Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia, or Wyoming.