- Lead
- 37,490
- Total
- 58,951
- vs nation
- D+65.1
New York 44th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 43,757
- Total
- 61,699
- vs nation
- D+66.5
- Lead
- 39,840
- Total
- 54,755
- vs nation
- D+70.7
- Lead
- 37,961
- Total
- 50,075
- vs nation
- D+72.0
- Lead
- 36,633
- Total
- 50,974
- vs nation
- D+64.6
- Lead
- 29,536
- Total
- 45,358
- vs nation
- D+67.6
- Lead
- 31,520
- Total
- 42,257
- vs nation
- D+74.1
- Lead
- 27,507
- Total
- 37,181
- vs nation
- D+65.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+63.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 140,2412024 5-year
- Population density
- 42,497 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 3.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $128,6412024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 52.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 8.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 14.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+75.8 in 2012MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+18.2 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 52, NY · twin score 96.3
presidential history
Party record book
New York 44th 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
87.2%
43,661 votes · D+75.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 85.5%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
51.1%
13,413 votes · R+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · 44.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
52,469votes
85.0% of the vote · D+70.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 49,471 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
21,091votes
34.3% of the vote · D+31.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 20,467 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
+74.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+74.6 · U.S. D+0.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +72.0 pts
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
−8.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+18.2 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · −11.2 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.
Assembly District 44, centered in Brooklyn, delivers presidential margins exceeding 60 points, reflecting a dense, heavily Democratic electorate where general-election outcomes are rarely in doubt and primary contests carry outsized weight.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 75.8 points in 2012 and a Republican high of 18.2 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 7.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 63.6 points.
A population of 140,241, a 52% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $128,641 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 52 and Assembly District 14.
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 44th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/36044/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.