- Lead
- 18,137
- Total
- 69,851
- vs nation
- R+24.5
New York 5th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 11,402
- Total
- 70,300
- vs nation
- R+20.7
- Lead
- 14,888
- Total
- 62,070
- vs nation
- R+26.1
- Lead
- 7,587
- Total
- 53,016
- vs nation
- R+18.2
- Lead
- 7,083
- Total
- 58,756
- vs nation
- R+19.3
- Lead
- 9,661
- Total
- 57,078
- vs nation
- R+14.5
- Lead
- 3,087
- Total
- 50,563
- vs nation
- R+6.6
- Lead
- 111
- Total
- 43,953
- vs nation
- R+8.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+26.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 134,1172024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,295 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 40.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $123,8882024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 72.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 15.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Republican margin
- R+66.7 in 1956MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 7, NY · twin score 96.9
presidential history
Party record book
New York 5th 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
46.4%
13,326 votes · R+7.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Gore, 2000 · 44.6%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
83.3%
17,892 votes · R+66.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 81.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
29,015votes
41.3% of the vote · R+16.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 25,564 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
40,417votes
57.5% of the vote · R+16.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · 37,301 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
Al Gore2000
−6.6pts D vs U.S.
Place R+6.1 · U.S. D+0.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bill Clinton, 1996 · −8.8 pts
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1948
+61.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+57.0 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · +60.6 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.
New York 5th State House District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Republican high of 66.7 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 9.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 26.0 points.
A population of 134,117, a 72% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $123,888 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 7 and Assembly District 3.
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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