- Lead
- 20,348
- Total
- 73,188
- vs nation
- R+26.3
New York 9th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 13,690
- Total
- 74,142
- vs nation
- R+22.9
- Lead
- 16,039
- Total
- 65,188
- vs nation
- R+26.7
- Lead
- 10,181
- Total
- 56,115
- vs nation
- R+22.0
- Lead
- 10,367
- Total
- 62,242
- vs nation
- R+23.9
- Lead
- 12,374
- Total
- 61,346
- vs nation
- R+17.7
- Lead
- 4,859
- Total
- 54,321
- vs nation
- R+9.5
- Lead
- 2,300
- Total
- 48,520
- vs nation
- R+13.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+27.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 129,2142024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,702 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 34.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $152,0062024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 78.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 12.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Republican margin
- R+73.4 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 8, NY · twin score 98.1
presidential history
Party record book
New York 9th 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
44.0%
17,787 votes · R+11.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Gore, 2000 · 43.3%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
85.9%
3,610 votes · R+73.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 83.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
29,753votes
40.1% of the vote · R+18.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 25,723 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
44,225votes
77.9% of the vote · R+55.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 43,443 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
−9.5pts D vs U.S.
Place R+8.9 · U.S. D+0.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bill Clinton, 1996 · −13.3 pts
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1948
+68.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+63.9 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · +67.3 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 9 recorded a 27.8-point Republican presidential margin in 2024, placing it among the most reliably right-leaning state house seats in New York. Its political profile stands in sharp contrast to the Democrat-dominated chamber it sends members to.
Across the recorded series it reached a Republican high of 73.4 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 9.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 27.8 points.
A population of 129,214, a 79% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $152,006 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 8 and Assembly District 14.
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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