- Lead
- 15,796
- Total
- 45,333
- vs nation
- D+36.3
New York 59th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 23,578
- Total
- 47,892
- vs nation
- D+44.8
- Lead
- 21,656
- Total
- 44,373
- vs nation
- D+46.7
- Lead
- 21,153
- Total
- 40,606
- vs nation
- D+48.2
- Lead
- 18,965
- Total
- 42,551
- vs nation
- D+37.3
- Lead
- 13,221
- Total
- 39,329
- vs nation
- D+36.1
- Lead
- 17,819
- Total
- 33,697
- vs nation
- D+52.4
- Lead
- 15,675
- Total
- 29,199
- vs nation
- D+45.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+34.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 128,2992024 5-year
- Population density
- 12,830 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 10 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $91,5062024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 26.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 52.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 8.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+53.7 in 1996MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+54.2 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 29, NY · twin score 95.5
presidential history
Party record book
New York 59th 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
75.7%
30,751 votes · D+52.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bill Clinton, 1996 · 75.2%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
74.1%
22,625 votes · R+54.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · 66.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
35,580votes
74.3% of the vote · D+49.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 34,810 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
35,576votes
55.7% of the vote · R+11.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 34,565 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
+52.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+52.9 · U.S. D+0.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +48.2 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+29.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+35.8 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · +28.0 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.
New York 59th State House District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 53.7 points in 1996 and a Republican high of 54.2 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 14.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 34.8 points.
A population of 128,299, a 27% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $91,506 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 29 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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