- Lead
- 2,404
- Total
- 49,515
- vs nation
- D+6.3
New York 26th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 11,854
- Total
- 55,378
- vs nation
- D+16.9
- Lead
- 11,048
- Total
- 47,708
- vs nation
- D+21.1
- Lead
- 12,201
- Total
- 40,265
- vs nation
- D+26.4
- Lead
- 8,347
- Total
- 45,094
- vs nation
- D+11.2
- Lead
- 4,501
- Total
- 43,912
- vs nation
- D+12.7
- Lead
- 8,822
- Total
- 38,601
- vs nation
- D+22.3
- Lead
- 8,026
- Total
- 35,334
- vs nation
- D+14.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+4.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 130,1782024 5-year
- Population density
- 12,398 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 10.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $107,0532024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 39.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 12.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+30.3 in 2012MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+67.5 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 25, NY · twin score 93.5
presidential history
Party record book
New York 26th 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
Barack Obama2012
64.7%
26,044 votes · D+30.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 60.4%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
82.2%
11,032 votes · R+67.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · 76.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
33,438votes
60.4% of the vote · D+21.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 29,994 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
55,357votes
76.0% of the vote · R+52.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 52,881 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
Barack Obama2012
+26.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+30.3 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Gore, 2000 · +22.3 pts
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1944
+57.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+49.8 · U.S. D+7.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Wendell Willkie, 1940 · +53.6 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.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | D | 67.4%24,174 | 32.6%11,714 | 35,888 |
Assembly District 26 sits in competitive Staten Island territory, where a D+4.9 presidential margin in 2024 reflects a genuine toss-up geography that neither party can take for granted.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 30.3 points in 2012 and a Republican high of 67.5 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 16.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 4.9 points.
A population of 130,178, a 40% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $107,053 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 25 and Assembly District 27.
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 26th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/36026/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.