- Lead
- 28,408
- Total
- 43,971
- vs nation
- D+66.1
New York 42nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 35,394
- Total
- 48,130
- vs nation
- D+69.1
- Lead
- 33,093
- Total
- 42,693
- vs nation
- D+75.4
- Lead
- 31,454
- Total
- 39,376
- vs nation
- D+76.0
- Lead
- 30,593
- Total
- 39,967
- vs nation
- D+69.3
- Lead
- 24,964
- Total
- 35,347
- vs nation
- D+73.1
- Lead
- 26,073
- Total
- 32,942
- vs nation
- D+78.6
- Lead
- 22,730
- Total
- 28,802
- vs nation
- D+70.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+64.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 127,7872024 5-year
- Population density
- 58,085 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 2.2 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $79,7102024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 19.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 52.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 15.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+79.9 in 2012MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+10.5 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 60, NY · twin score 99.0
presidential history
Party record book
New York 42nd 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
89.5%
35,244 votes · D+79.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Gore, 2000 · 88.1%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
49.3%
8,871 votes · R+10.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · 40.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
41,608votes
86.4% of the vote · D+73.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 39,940 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
13,980votes
30.1% of the vote · D+39.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 13,550 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
+78.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+79.1 · U.S. D+0.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +76.0 pts
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
−15.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+10.5 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · −20.4 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 42 recorded a 64.6-point Democratic presidential margin in 2024, placing it among the most one-sided state house districts in New York. Districts at this extreme typically anchor dense, majority-minority urban cores.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 79.9 points in 2012 and a Republican high of 10.5 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 8.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 64.6 points.
A population of 127,787, a 19% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $79,710 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 60 and Assembly District 43.
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 42nd State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/36042/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.