- Lead
- 17,638
- Total
- 73,733
- vs nation
- R+22.4
New York 17th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 9,511
- Total
- 75,634
- vs nation
- R+17.0
- Lead
- 13,009
- Total
- 66,689
- vs nation
- R+21.6
- Lead
- 10,909
- Total
- 58,251
- vs nation
- R+22.6
- Lead
- 11,713
- Total
- 64,929
- vs nation
- R+25.3
- Lead
- 13,079
- Total
- 63,635
- vs nation
- R+18.1
- Lead
- 3,628
- Total
- 58,645
- vs nation
- R+6.7
- Lead
- 2,716
- Total
- 54,141
- vs nation
- R+13.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+23.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 130,7742024 5-year
- Population density
- 7,146 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 18.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $147,1452024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 70.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 14.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Republican margin
- R+73.6 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 14, NY · twin score 97.0
presidential history
Party record book
New York 17th State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1900–2020 · 31 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
47.3%
29,555 votes · R+5.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Gore, 2000 · 45.0%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
85.7%
4,416 votes · R+73.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1900 · 82.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
32,576votes
43.1% of the vote · R+12.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 29,555 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
58,300votes
74.8% of the vote · R+49.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 51,955 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
−6.7pts D vs U.S.
Place R+6.2 · U.S. D+0.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bill Clinton, 1996 · −13.5 pts
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1948
+66.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+62.4 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · +65.2 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.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | D | 51.2%31,791 | 48.8%30,248 | 62,039 |
New York 17th State House District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Republican high of 73.6 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 11.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 23.9 points.
A population of 130,774, a 70% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $147,145 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 14 and Assembly District 20.
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 17th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/36017/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.