- Lead
- 29,392
- Total
- 45,475
- vs nation
- D+66.1
New York 68th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 39,300
- Total
- 50,798
- vs nation
- D+72.9
- Lead
- 40,201
- Total
- 48,299
- vs nation
- D+81.1
- Lead
- 33,192
- Total
- 42,868
- vs nation
- D+73.6
- Lead
- 38,406
- Total
- 47,979
- vs nation
- D+72.8
- Lead
- 34,089
- Total
- 45,585
- vs nation
- D+77.2
- Lead
- 29,942
- Total
- 40,387
- vs nation
- D+73.6
- Lead
- 26,144
- Total
- 34,906
- vs nation
- D+66.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+64.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 140,4292024 5-year
- Population density
- 50,153 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 2.8 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $49,7832024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 22.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 24.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 41.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+83.2 in 2016MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+14.5 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 71, NY · twin score 99.1
presidential history
Party record book
New York 68th 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
Hillary Clinton2016
90.1%
43,526 votes · D+83.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 89.7%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
51.5%
14,145 votes · R+14.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · 42.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
44,844votes
88.3% of the vote · D+77.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 43,526 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
15,444votes
31.7% of the vote · D+25.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 15,435 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
Hillary Clinton2016
+81.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+83.2 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John Kerry, 2004 · +77.2 pts
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
−11.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+14.5 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · −17.2 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 68 recorded a 64.6-point Democratic presidential margin in 2024, placing it among the most heavily one-sided state house districts in New York and reflecting the dense, urban concentration of its electorate.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 83.2 points in 2016 and a Republican high of 14.5 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 12.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 64.6 points.
A population of 140,429, a 22% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $49,783 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 71 and Assembly District 70.
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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