- Lead
- 7,187
- Total
- 29,708
- vs nation
- R+22.7
New York 47th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,646
- Total
- 32,343
- vs nation
- D+0.6
- Lead
- 2,197
- Total
- 26,654
- vs nation
- D+6.2
- Lead
- 2,810
- Total
- 23,852
- vs nation
- D+7.9
- Lead
- 468
- Total
- 26,037
- vs nation
- R+5.5
- Lead
- 2,739
- Total
- 25,459
- vs nation
- R+8.3
- Lead
- 2,773
- Total
- 19,792
- vs nation
- D+13.5
- Lead
- 2,647
- Total
- 17,151
- vs nation
- D+6.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+24.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 138,6892024 5-year
- Population density
- 55,476 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 2.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $68,1552024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 37.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 15.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+15.4 in 1996MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+75.7 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 49, NY · twin score 98.7
presidential history
Party record book
New York 47th 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
55.3%
13,187 votes · D+11.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bill Clinton, 1996 · 55.0%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
84.8%
24,467 votes · R+75.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · 82.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
16,831votes
52.0% of the vote · D+5.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 14,945 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
38,457votes
76.0% of the vote · R+51.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 37,322 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
+13.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+14.0 · U.S. D+0.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +7.9 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+60.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+67.0 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Charles E. Hughes, 1916 · +58.0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | D | 85.5%19,527 | 14.5%3,313 | 22,840 |
New York 47th State House District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 15.4 points in 1996 and a Republican high of 75.7 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 29.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 24.2 points.
A population of 138,689, a 37% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $68,155 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 49 and Assembly District 25.
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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