- Lead
- 24,350
- Total
- 48,619
- vs nation
- D+51.6
New York 36th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 33,011
- Total
- 51,989
- vs nation
- D+59.0
- Lead
- 30,982
- Total
- 44,821
- vs nation
- D+67.0
- Lead
- 28,846
- Total
- 39,083
- vs nation
- D+70.0
- Lead
- 28,064
- Total
- 41,062
- vs nation
- D+61.1
- Lead
- 24,278
- Total
- 38,333
- vs nation
- D+65.8
- Lead
- 24,858
- Total
- 36,201
- vs nation
- D+68.1
- Lead
- 22,271
- Total
- 33,747
- vs nation
- D+57.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+50.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 140,5772024 5-year
- Population density
- 43,930 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 3.2 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $95,1262024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 42.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 8.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 25.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+73.8 in 2012MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+18.3 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 37, NY · twin score 96.2
presidential history
Party record book
New York 36th 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
86.1%
33,649 votes · D+73.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 83.7%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
53.9%
3,824 votes · R+18.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 45.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
42,235votes
81.2% of the vote · D+63.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 38,689 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
19,080votes
45.8% of the vote · D+8.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 18,265 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
+70.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+73.8 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Gore, 2000 · +68.1 pts
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1944
+2.8pts R vs U.S.
Place D+4.7 · U.S. D+7.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Wendell Willkie, 1940 · −5.8 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%26,105 | 32.6%12,649 | 38,754 |
AD-36 recorded a nearly 50.1-point Democratic presidential margin in 2024, reflecting a dense, heavily urban electorate that has long anchored the left flank of New York's legislative map.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 73.8 points in 2012 and a Republican high of 18.3 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 13.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 50.1 points.
A population of 140,577, a 43% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $95,126 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 37 and Assembly District 51.
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 36th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/36036/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.