- Lead
- 38,986
- Total
- 50,049
- vs nation
- D+79.4
New York 70th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 49,698
- Total
- 56,697
- vs nation
- D+83.2
- Lead
- 50,016
- Total
- 54,605
- vs nation
- D+89.5
- Lead
- 42,606
- Total
- 47,377
- vs nation
- D+86.1
- Lead
- 48,819
- Total
- 53,453
- vs nation
- D+84.1
- Lead
- 44,346
- Total
- 49,931
- vs nation
- D+91.3
- Lead
- 38,365
- Total
- 44,554
- vs nation
- D+85.9
- Lead
- 33,195
- Total
- 38,591
- vs nation
- D+78.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+77.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 140,3082024 5-year
- Population density
- 82,534 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $57,3602024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 17.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 42.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 29.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+91.6 in 2016MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 68, NY · twin score 98.0
presidential history
Party record book
New York 70th 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
95.3%
50,964 votes · D+91.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 94.4%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
30.0%
6,580 votes · D+24.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · 22.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
52,967votes
93.4% of the vote · D+87.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 51,551 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
7,176votes
15.6% of the vote · D+55.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 7,172 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
+99.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+81.1 · U.S. R+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George McGovern, 1972 · +99.0 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
−36.8pts R vs U.S.
Place D+56.3 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · −45.3 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 70, centered in the Bronx, recorded a 77.9-point Democratic presidential margin in 2024, reflecting a dense, majority-minority urban constituency where competitive general elections are rare and primary contests carry the most electoral weight.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 91.6 points in 2016. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 9.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 77.9 points.
A population of 140,308, a 17% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $57,360 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 68 and Assembly District 71.
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 70th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/36070/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.