- Lead
- 57,854
- Total
- 69,953
- vs nation
- D+84.2
New York 52nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 60,840
- Total
- 70,414
- vs nation
- D+81.9
- Lead
- 54,237
- Total
- 63,064
- vs nation
- D+83.9
- Lead
- 51,349
- Total
- 57,991
- vs nation
- D+84.7
- Lead
- 50,594
- Total
- 58,261
- vs nation
- D+79.6
- Lead
- 42,290
- Total
- 50,703
- vs nation
- D+85.9
- Lead
- 42,367
- Total
- 49,053
- vs nation
- D+85.9
- Lead
- 36,334
- Total
- 43,214
- vs nation
- D+76.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+82.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 140,3212024 5-year
- Population density
- 42,522 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 3.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $184,0282024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 63.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 8.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 11.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+88.5 in 2012MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 44, NY · twin score 96.3
presidential history
Party record book
New York 52nd 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
93.6%
54,277 votes · D+88.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 93.0%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
30.9%
6,893 votes · D+17.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · 25.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
65,315votes
92.8% of the vote · D+86.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 61,479 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
10,832votes
17.8% of the vote · D+64.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 10,503 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
Walter Mondale1984
+89.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+71.3 · U.S. R+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John Kerry, 2004 · +85.9 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
−26.0pts R vs U.S.
Place D+45.6 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · −34.5 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%19,757 | 14.5%3,352 | 23,109 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+82, New York's 52nd Assembly District sits at the extreme end of the partisan spectrum, reflecting the hyper-concentrated Democratic alignment typical of dense urban cores in New York City.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 88.5 points in 2012. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 82.7 points.
A population of 140,321, a 63% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $184,028 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 44 and Assembly District 67.
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 52nd State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/36052/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.