How women voted in New York

There weren’t a lot of surprises in the Empire State on Tuesday night; native son Donald Trump won the Republican primary, and carpetbagger Hillary Clinton won the Democratic primary, as expected.

Women and men overwhelmingly favored Trump in the Republican primary. Just 44 percent of Republican primary voters were women, compared to 56 percent who were men. The gender gap among Republican voters this primary season has mostly been narrower. Maybe there just aren’t as many Republican women in New York, or maybe more of them stayed home because they didn’t like their choices.

Trump won 63 percent of the male vote and 57 percent of the female vote. That’s a gap of 6 points. The second-place finisher, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, had a gender gap of 5 points, with women supporting him. Third-place finisher Ted Cruz also won more women than men, but just 15 percent of women and 14 percent of men voted for him. New York follows the pattern of most other states, where more men than women have voted for Trump but more women than men have voted for Kasich.

The Democrats had even wider gender gaps, both among candidates and voters in general. Fifty-nine percent of Democratic primary voters were women, and just 41 percent were men. That’s a gap of 18 points, compared to a 12-point gap for Republicans (though the Republican gap favored men).

Clinton won 63 percent of the women’s vote compared to Sanders’ 37 percent. Men split evenly among the candidates. This means that Clinton had a 13-point gender gap, compared to Trump’s 6-point gap.

There’s always a lot of talk about Republicans’ “women problem,” but Democrats, as I’ve written before, have their own “man problem.”

Ashe Schow is a commentary writer for the Washington Examiner.