- Lead
- 32,891
- Total
- 48,324
- vs nation
- D+69.5
New York 71st State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 41,987
- Total
- 52,267
- vs nation
- D+75.9
- Lead
- 44,021
- Total
- 50,720
- vs nation
- D+84.7
- Lead
- 36,903
- Total
- 44,472
- vs nation
- D+79.1
- Lead
- 42,507
- Total
- 49,949
- vs nation
- D+77.8
- Lead
- 38,151
- Total
- 47,087
- vs nation
- D+83.5
- Lead
- 33,327
- Total
- 41,995
- vs nation
- D+78.8
- Lead
- 29,044
- Total
- 36,359
- vs nation
- D+71.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+68.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 132,1632024 5-year
- Population density
- 62,935 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 2.1 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $70,2412024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 22.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 26.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 42.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+86.8 in 2016MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 68, NY · twin score 99.1
presidential history
Party record book
New York 71st 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
92.2%
46,045 votes · D+85.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 91.8%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
42.9%
10,827 votes · D+0.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · 34.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
46,926votes
89.8% of the vote · D+80.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 46,568 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
11,824votes
24.8% of the vote · D+37.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 11,818 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
+86.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+68.3 · U.S. R+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · +84.7 pts
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
−26.4pts R vs U.S.
Place D+0.2 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · −26.7 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 71 sits in a mid-sized New York region where presidential margins have shifted roughly 12 points rightward since 2012, reflecting broader rural-suburban realignment patterns that have complicated Democratic statewide coalitions.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 86.8 points in 2016. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 12.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 68.1 points.
A population of 132,163, a 23% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $70,241 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 68 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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