Rochester-Batavia-Seneca Falls, NY · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
69.6%
291,265 votes · D+39.3
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 53.9%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
69.8%
284,453 votes · R+39.7
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 66.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
306,554votes
53.0% of the vote · D+8.4
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 294,824 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
297,085votes
64.3% of the vote · R+28.9
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 284,453 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
+16.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+39.3 · U.S. D+22.6
Runner-up · Jimmy Carter, 1980 · +9.8 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+32.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+15.0 · U.S. D+17.8
Runner-up · Alf Landon, 1936 · +31.0 pts
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
Rochester-Batavia-Seneca Falls, NY · how this place’s counties split between candidates in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain and there is no roll-up above it. Each cell counts how many of this place’s counties a candidate led — a count of records, not a vote total. Who led the place as a whole is not knowable from these returns, because county rows carry a leader and a lead but no per-candidate votes.
Presidential nominating contests in Rochester-Batavia-Seneca Falls, NY, by party and cycle.
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026D+4.8
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+5.8
Registration and the presidential vote track closely here — within 1.0 points.
Domestic migration in Rochester-Batavia-Seneca Falls, NY in Rochester-Batavia-Seneca Falls, NY: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−3,177
2012
−4,605
2013
−4,662
2014
−6,922
2015
−7,689
2016
−7,821
2017
−6,016
2018
−4,071
2019
−4,029
2021
−4,547
2022
−6,631
2023
−4,059
2024
+134
2025
−307
Rochester-Batavia-Seneca Falls, NY sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 39.3 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 41.7 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 2.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 5.8 points.
A population of 1,149,120, a 74% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $75,938 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Syracuse-Auburn, NY and Albany-Schenectady, NY.
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Political twins — combined metros
The combined metros whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
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How did Rochester-Batavia-Seneca Falls, NY, New York vote in 2024?
In 2024, Rochester-Batavia-Seneca Falls, NY, New York voted Democratic by 5.8 points (D+5.8), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 559,729 votes cast, 294,824 went Democratic and 262,262 went Republican.
When did Rochester-Batavia-Seneca Falls, NY, New York last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Rochester-Batavia-Seneca Falls, NY, New York voted Republican was 2004.
How many people live in Rochester-Batavia-Seneca Falls, NY, New York?
Rochester-Batavia-Seneca Falls, NY, New York has a population of 1,149,120 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Rochester-Batavia-Seneca Falls, NY, New York?
Median household income in Rochester-Batavia-Seneca Falls, NY, New York is $75,938 — below the national median of $80,734. The New York state median is $85,974.
What is the political history of Rochester-Batavia-Seneca Falls, NY, New York?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Rochester-Batavia-Seneca Falls, NY, New York from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 8 went Democratic and 26 went Republican.
