- Lead
- 21,263
- Total
- 81,147
- vs nation
- R+24.7
New York 8th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 14,056
- Total
- 81,636
- vs nation
- R+21.7
- Lead
- 17,168
- Total
- 72,227
- vs nation
- R+25.9
- Lead
- 8,723
- Total
- 61,823
- vs nation
- R+18.0
- Lead
- 8,149
- Total
- 68,545
- vs nation
- R+19.2
- Lead
- 11,027
- Total
- 67,197
- vs nation
- R+14.0
- Lead
- 3,409
- Total
- 58,901
- vs nation
- R+6.3
- Lead
- 23
- Total
- 51,224
- vs nation
- R+8.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+26.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 134,8342024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,200 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 61.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $148,3542024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 80.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 9.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Republican margin
- R+66.2 in 1956MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 9, NY · twin score 98.1
presidential history
Party record book
New York 8th 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%
15,532 votes · R+7.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Gore, 2000 · 44.8%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
83.1%
20,763 votes · R+66.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 80.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
33,298votes
40.8% of the vote · R+17.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 29,861 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
47,354votes
58.0% of the vote · R+17.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · 43,349 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
−6.3pts D vs U.S.
Place R+5.8 · U.S. D+0.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bill Clinton, 1996 · −8.6 pts
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1948
+59.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+55.3 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alf Landon, 1936 · +59.2 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.
Assembly District 8 posted a 26.2-point Republican presidential margin in 2024, making it an outlier in a state where Democrats dominate most legislative districts. Its voting pattern reflects a predominantly rural or exurban constituency well outside the state's major metro centers.
Across the recorded series it reached a Republican high of 66.2 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 9.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 26.2 points.
A population of 134,834, a 80% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $148,354 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 9 and Assembly District 7.
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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