- Lead
- 15,680
- Total
- 46,274
- vs nation
- D+35.4
New York 37th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 22,903
- Total
- 48,457
- vs nation
- D+42.8
- Lead
- 21,583
- Total
- 40,123
- vs nation
- D+51.7
- Lead
- 20,624
- Total
- 34,579
- vs nation
- D+55.8
- Lead
- 19,065
- Total
- 37,170
- vs nation
- D+44.0
- Lead
- 15,742
- Total
- 35,145
- vs nation
- D+47.2
- Lead
- 17,312
- Total
- 32,465
- vs nation
- D+52.8
- Lead
- 15,534
- Total
- 30,249
- vs nation
- D+42.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+33.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 140,5152024 5-year
- Population density
- 24,652 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 5.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $91,1522024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 42.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 32.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+59.6 in 2012MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+41.4 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 36, NY · twin score 96.2
presidential history
Party record book
New York 37th 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
79.1%
27,346 votes · D+59.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 75.1%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
66.8%
5,344 votes · R+41.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 59.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
35,423votes
73.1% of the vote · D+47.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 31,449 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
26,807votes
59.3% of the vote · R+18.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 25,677 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
+55.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+59.6 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Gore, 2000 · +52.8 pts
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1944
+26.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+18.7 · U.S. D+7.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Wendell Willkie, 1940 · +19.3 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.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | D | 67.4%26,094 | 32.6%12,644 | 38,738 |
Anchored in Staten Island's southern reaches, AD-37 delivered a 33.9-point Republican margin in the 2024 presidential race, making it a consistent outlier in an otherwise heavily Democratic state legislature.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 59.6 points in 2012 and a Republican high of 41.4 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 13.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 33.9 points.
A population of 140,515, a 42% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $91,152 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 36 and Assembly District 28.
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 37th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/36037/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.