- Lead
- 26,968
- Total
- 33,368
- vs nation
- D+82.3
New York 55th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 33,794
- Total
- 37,683
- vs nation
- D+85.2
- Lead
- 34,038
- Total
- 36,277
- vs nation
- D+91.7
- Lead
- 32,118
- Total
- 33,815
- vs nation
- D+91.1
- Lead
- 31,992
- Total
- 33,761
- vs nation
- D+87.5
- Lead
- 27,077
- Total
- 29,067
- vs nation
- D+95.6
- Lead
- 26,446
- Total
- 28,237
- vs nation
- D+93.4
- Lead
- 22,844
- Total
- 24,684
- vs nation
- D+84.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+80.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 129,4952024 5-year
- Population density
- 51,798 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 2.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $47,6922024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 4.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 67.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 20.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+95.0 in 2012MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 60, NY · twin score 99.6
presidential history
Party record book
New York 55th 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 Obama2008
97.2%
32,830 votes · D+94.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 97.2%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
17.5%
1,655 votes · D+51.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · 13.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
37,243votes
96.4% of the vote · D+92.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 35,624 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
2,662votes
8.1% of the vote · D+83.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 2,551 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
+105.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+87.1 · U.S. R+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George McGovern, 1972 · +104.4 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
−48.2pts R vs U.S.
Place D+67.7 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · −58.1 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 55 covers a dense stretch of Queens where diverse immigrant communities have driven consistent double-digit Democratic margins in recent presidential cycles, making it one of the more reliably blue districts in the New York City delegation.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 95.0 points in 2012. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 8.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 80.8 points.
A population of 129,495, a 5% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $47,692 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 60 and Assembly District 42.
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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