- Lead
- 8,710
- Total
- 65,337
- vs nation
- D+14.8
New York 1st State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 13,042
- Total
- 67,203
- vs nation
- D+15.0
- Lead
- 4,045
- Total
- 55,994
- vs nation
- D+5.1
- Lead
- 8,875
- Total
- 49,277
- vs nation
- D+14.2
- Lead
- 11,101
- Total
- 54,904
- vs nation
- D+12.9
- Lead
- 7,598
- Total
- 52,339
- vs nation
- D+17.0
- Lead
- 12,138
- Total
- 48,282
- vs nation
- D+24.6
- Lead
- 12,011
- Total
- 42,963
- vs nation
- D+19.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+13.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 128,4682024 5-year
- Population density
- 451 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 285 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $127,0222024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 69.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 22.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+28.0 in 1996MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+45.2 in 1956MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 12, NY · twin score 93.0
presidential history
Party record book
New York 1st State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2020 (partial returns from 1876) · 37 presidential cycles · 37 with a vote-share denominator · 33 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
62.9%
17,105 votes · D+25.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Grover Cleveland, 1884 · 62.2%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
72.6%
11,701 votes · R+45.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 70.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
39,943votes
59.4% of the vote · D+19.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 32,788 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
26,901votes
40.0% of the vote · D+19.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · 24,795 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
Alton B. Parker1904
+25.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+6.2 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Gore, 2000 · +24.6 pts
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1948
+38.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+34.1 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · +37.4 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
Anchored in upper Manhattan, this district has delivered double-digit Democratic presidential margins consistently over recent cycles, reflecting a dense, majority-minority electorate where turnout patterns shape statewide and local contest outcomes.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 28.0 points in 1996 and a Republican high of 45.2 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 6.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 13.3 points.
A population of 128,468, a 69% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $127,022 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 12 and Assembly District 10.
The state-house districts 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.
District research tools
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