>Since the population (especially the voting population) of the city is <0.5 of the state population[…] I did a quick and dirty check on Google for "new york s

>Since the population (especially the voting population) of the city is <0.5 of the state population[…] I did a quick and dirty check on Google for "new york state population" [0] and " "new york city population" [1] and the percentage I get is 43%. [0] https://imgur.com/a/2zkmdjm https://imgur.com/a/2zkmdjm [1] https://imgur.com/a/904hwM2 https://imgur.com/a/904hwM2 EDIT: As did a few others, I read "<0.5" as "<0.5%".