† Citizen voting-age population estimated for prior cycles; 2004 predates the ACS and is extrapolated. Source: ACS 5-year, table B05003.
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D+60R+60
10 counties by 2024 margin · County returns · MIT Election Lab
People and households
Who lives here
Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.
Race · ethnicity · ancestry
Communities and origins
GroupAlbany-Schenectady, NYNew YorkUnited States
Irish19.4%10.5%9.4%
Italian14.3%10.9%4.8%
German14.1%8.6%12.5%
English11.3%5.6%9.5%
Polish5.1%3.9%2.2%
French4.8%1.3%1.6%
American4.7%4.2%5.3%
Dutch1.5%——
Puerto Rican2.9%5.1%1.8%
Mexican0.8%2.5%11.3%
Dominican0.6%4.6%0.7%
Ecuadorian0.2%1.6%—
Cuban0.2%—0.7%
African American†4.1%8.0%9.9%
Guyanese0.5%0.7%—
Jamaican0.4%1.6%0.4%
African0.3%0.6%0.5%
Haitian0.2%0.9%0.3%
Asian Indian1.4%1.9%1.4%
Chinese0.7%3.6%1.3%
Filipino0.3%0.6%0.9%
Pakistani0.3%0.4%—
Korean0.3%0.6%0.4%
Hispanic or Latino counts residents of any race; the race groups count only their non-Hispanic residents, so the groups are mutually exclusive and sum to 100%. Expand a row to see ancestries reported within that group.
Age and life stage
Measure
Albany-Schenectady, NY
New York
United States
Median age
41.7
39.9
39.1
Age 18–24
10.0%
9.0%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
19.7%
18.0%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Albany-Schenectady, NY
New York
United States
Median household income
$84,770
$85,974
$84,427
Poverty rate
11.4%
14.0%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
38.9%
40.0%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Albany-Schenectady, NY
New York
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
9.4%
30.9%
22.3%
Spanish
3.1%
14.8%
13.6%
Other Indo-European
1.9%
4.0%
2.0%
Religious landscape
Measure
Albany-Schenectady, NY
New York
United States
Catholic
21.1%
30.8%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
5.2%
5.1%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
63.7%
48.7%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
5.2%
3.8%
5.2%
American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · presidential returns from MIT Election Lab through 2024 · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations.
Albany-Schenectady, NY
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
−1.9%
1896
−18.7%
1900
−16.9%
1904
−17.7%
1908
−15.4%
1912
−2.9%
1916
−11.4%
1920
−30.5%
1924
−26.7%
1928
−10.5%
1932
−2.3%
1936
−2.5%
1940
−5.9%
1944
−7.2%
1948
−10.0%
1952
−27.5%
1956
−38.0%
1960
−2.2%
1964
+42.5%
1968
−1.9%
1972
−26.9%
1976
−12.3%
1980
−3.4%
1984
−20.7%
1988
−1.0%
1992
+5.4%
1996
+17.3%
2000
+7.5%
2004
+3.5%
2008
+11.4%
2012
+12.6%
2016
+2.5%
2020
+9.4%
2024
+4.7%
DemocraticRepublican
34 presidential elections
Third column names the leading third-party or independent finisher. Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024). Swing · margin change from the prior cycle. vs U.S. · margin relative to the national result that year.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Other
Margin
Swing
vs U.S.
Total
D
52.0%Harris307,599
47.4%Trump280,064
0.2%Stein1,039 +10
D+4.7
R+4.7
D+6.1
591,309
All 13 candidates in 2024 · 11 minor / independent
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic52.0%307,599
Donald J TrumpRepublican47.4%280,064
OtherAll other candidates0.4%2,218
Jill SteinIndependent0.2%1,039
Chase OliverIndependent0.0%143
Claudia De La CruzIndependent0.0%123
Cornel WestIndependent0.0%66
Peter SonskiIndependent0.0%46
Chris GarrityIndependent0.0%5
Garry HubbardIndependent0.0%2
Shiva AyyaduraiIndependent0.0%2
Future Madam PotusIndependent0.0%1
Raymond AnthonyIndependent0.0%1
D
53.6%Biden322,225
44.2%Trump265,757
2.1%
D+9.4
D+6.9
D+4.9
600,698
D
47.8%Clinton255,252
45.3%Trump241,773
6.9%
D+2.5
R+10.0
D+0.4
533,910
D
55.2%Obama279,842
42.6%Romney216,171
2.2%
D+12.6
D+1.2
D+8.7
507,265
D
54.8%Obama300,308
43.4%McCain237,829
1.9%
D+11.4
D+7.9
D+4.1
548,290
D
50.7%Kerry274,338
47.2%Bush255,582
2.1%
D+3.5
R+4.1
D+5.9
541,315
D
51.0%Gore259,621
43.4%Bush221,170
5.6%
D+7.5
R+9.7
D+7.0
509,392
D
51.8%Clinton255,753
34.6%Dole170,546
13.6%
D+17.3
D+11.9
D+8.8
493,285
D
42.5%Clinton228,303
37.1%Bush199,314
20.4%
D+5.4
D+6.4
R+0.2
537,018
R
49.1%Dukakis241,935
50.1%Bush246,775
0.9%
R+1.0
D+19.7
D+6.7
493,045
R
39.5%Mondale196,419
60.2%Reagan299,623
0.4%
R+20.7
R+17.3
R+2.5
497,889
R
42.6%Carter203,962
46.1%Reagan220,338
11.3%
R+3.4
D+8.9
D+6.3
478,434
R
43.3%Carter207,085
55.6%Ford265,867
1.0%
R+12.3
D+14.6
R+14.4
477,968
R
36.4%McGovern178,322
63.3%Nixon310,087
0.2%
R+26.9
R+25.0
R+3.8
489,607
R
46.6%Humphrey208,739
48.5%Nixon217,108
4.9%
R+1.9
R+44.4
R+1.2
447,742
D
71.2%Johnson330,670
28.7%Goldwater133,209
0.1%
D+42.5
D+44.8
D+19.9
464,277
R
48.8%Kennedy238,340
51.1%Nixon249,238
0.1%
R+2.2
D+35.8
R+2.4
487,960
R
31.0%Stevenson150,797
69.0%Eisenhower335,528
0.0%
R+38.0
R+10.5
R+22.6
486,325
R
36.1%Stevenson178,286
63.7%Eisenhower314,038
0.2%
R+27.5
R+17.5
R+16.8
493,359
R
43.1%Truman187,383
53.2%Dewey230,908
3.7%
R+10.0
R+2.8
R+14.5
434,346
R
46.3%Roosevelt196,703
53.5%Dewey227,264
0.3%
R+7.2
R+1.3
R+14.7
425,070
R
46.9%Roosevelt208,503
52.9%Willkie234,861
0.2%
R+5.9
R+3.5
R+15.9
444,363
R
47.7%Roosevelt199,830
50.2%Landon210,169
2.1%
R+2.5
R+0.2
R+26.7
418,976
R
48.0%Roosevelt186,578
50.2%Hoover195,358
1.8%
R+2.3
D+8.3
R+20.0
388,814
R
43.9%Smith167,914
54.4%Hoover208,145
1.8%
R+10.5
D+16.2
D+7.0
382,775
R
32.8%Davis95,121
59.5%Coolidge172,661
7.7%
R+26.7
D+3.8
R+1.5
290,163
R
32.3%Cox89,600
62.7%Harding174,283
5.0%
R+30.5
R+19.1
R+4.3
277,772
R
42.8%Wilson72,853
54.2%Hughes92,232
2.9%
R+11.4
R+8.5
R+14.5
170,100
R
38.2%Wilson60,929
41.1%Taft65,563
20.8%
R+2.9
D+12.5
R+22.4
159,688
R
40.2%Bryan69,853
55.5%Taft96,606
4.3%
R+15.4
D+2.3
R+5.8
173,936
R
39.4%Parker68,048
57.1%Roosevelt98,576
3.5%
R+17.7
R+0.8
D+2.0
172,652
R
40.3%Bryan66,898
57.2%McKinley95,002
2.6%
R+16.9
D+1.8
R+9.4
166,139
R
39.3%Bryan61,949
58.0%McKinley91,371
2.6%
R+18.7
R+16.8
R+12.6
157,445
R
46.4%Cleveland70,232
48.3%Harrison73,084
5.4%
R+1.9
—
R+3.5
151,440
Congressional elections · 3 Senate races
U.S. Senate
Source · MIT Election Lab (MEDSL), Senate. CC-BY 4.0.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Total
2024
D
55.5%321,042
43.9%253,991
578,522
2022
D
51.7%238,663
47.7%220,132
461,475
2018
D
58.5%260,564
41.4%184,299
445,108
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026D+6.4
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+4.7
Registration and the presidential vote track closely here — within 1.7 points.
Domestic migration in Albany-Schenectady, NY in Albany-Schenectady, NY: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−2,908
2012
−2,270
2013
−2,124
2014
−3,746
2015
−3,516
2016
−4,321
2017
−597
2018
−2,415
2019
−4,106
2021
+6,940
2022
−2,754
2023
−801
2024
+997
2025
+2,707
Albany-Schenectady, NY sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 42.5 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 38.0 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 4.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 4.7 points.
A population of 1,195,206, a 78% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $84,770 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Syracuse-Auburn, NY and Rochester-Batavia-Seneca Falls, NY.
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How did Albany-Schenectady, NY, New York vote in 2024?
In 2024, Albany-Schenectady, NY, New York voted Democratic by 4.7 points (D+4.7), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 591,309 votes cast, 307,599 went Democratic and 280,064 went Republican.
When did Albany-Schenectady, NY, New York last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Albany-Schenectady, NY, New York voted Republican was 1988.
How many people live in Albany-Schenectady, NY, New York?
Albany-Schenectady, NY, New York has a population of 1,195,206 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Albany-Schenectady, NY, New York?
Median household income in Albany-Schenectady, NY, New York is $84,770 — above the national median of $80,734. The New York state median is $85,974.
What is the political history of Albany-Schenectady, NY, New York?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Albany-Schenectady, NY, New York from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 10 went Democratic and 24 went Republican.
