- Lead
- 6,365
- Total
- 37,386
- vs nation
- D+18.5
New York 6th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 15,993
- Total
- 39,536
- vs nation
- D+36.0
- Lead
- 15,692
- Total
- 36,089
- vs nation
- D+41.4
- Lead
- 17,608
- Total
- 33,200
- vs nation
- D+49.2
- Lead
- 20,500
- Total
- 37,415
- vs nation
- D+47.5
- Lead
- 17,862
- Total
- 35,971
- vs nation
- D+52.1
- Lead
- 18,906
- Total
- 33,277
- vs nation
- D+56.3
- Lead
- 16,742
- Total
- 29,377
- vs nation
- D+48.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+17.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 133,7292024 5-year
- Population density
- 5,944 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 22.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $120,3832024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 16.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 13.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 63.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+81.7 in 1876MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+5.7 in 1956MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- 10th Essex District, MA · twin score 94.6
presidential history
Party record book
New York 6th 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
Samuel J. Tilden1876
90.8%
631 votes · D+81.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Grover Cleveland, 1884 · 90.2%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
52.8%
4,546 votes · R+5.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 50.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
28,874votes
77.2% of the vote · D+54.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 27,543 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
11,550votes
29.2% of the vote · D+40.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · 9,619 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
+83.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+63.4 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Grover Cleveland, 1892 · +71.8 pts
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1948
−2.5pts R vs U.S.
Place D+7.0 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · −2.6 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Assembly District 6 stretches through the mid-Hudson Valley, where a Democratic presidential margin of nearly 17 points reflects a suburban and small-city electorate that has shifted measurably toward the left over the past decade.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 81.7 points in 1876 and a Republican high of 5.7 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 23.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 17.0 points.
A population of 133,729, a 17% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $120,383 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of 10th Essex District and 16th Essex District.
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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New York 6th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/36006/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.