The New York State Board of Elections has released the official vote from last month’s election, including the write-in vote for declared write-in presidential candidates. Jill Stein received 46,698 write-ins. This is the second largest number of votes ever recorded for a general election write-in presidential candidate in any state. The only candidate with a higher total was independent candidate Eugene McCarthy in California in 1976. He received 58,412.
The other declared write-in candidates who were on the ballot in at least one state received these totals: Claudia De la Cruz 6,327; Chase Oliver 5,338; Cornel West 4,152; Peter Sonski 1,544; Shiva Ayyadurai 134.
No one was on the ballot except for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. did not file for write-in status. However, there were 46,404 “void” votes cast, which is probably almost entirely the number of write-in votes for candidates who hadn’t filed for write-in status.
Jill Stein’s percentage of the vote is .57%.