- Lead
- 17,396
- Total
- 40,801
- vs nation
- D+44.1
New York 72nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 32,491
- Total
- 47,429
- vs nation
- D+64.0
- Lead
- 39,339
- Total
- 46,939
- vs nation
- D+81.7
- Lead
- 32,511
- Total
- 41,705
- vs nation
- D+74.1
- Lead
- 37,609
- Total
- 46,684
- vs nation
- D+73.3
- Lead
- 33,424
- Total
- 44,295
- vs nation
- D+77.9
- Lead
- 29,355
- Total
- 39,154
- vs nation
- D+74.5
- Lead
- 25,604
- Total
- 33,856
- vs nation
- D+67.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+42.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 128,9352024 5-year
- Population density
- 80,584 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1.6 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $57,0872024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 14.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 10.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 73.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+83.8 in 2016MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+13.3 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 54, NY · twin score 95.3
presidential history
Party record book
New York 72nd 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
90.5%
42,494 votes · D+83.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 90.0%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
51.2%
13,407 votes · R+13.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · 41.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Hillary Clinton2016
42,494votes
90.5% of the vote · D+83.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 42,004 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
14,635votes
31.3% of the vote · D+26.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 14,615 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
+81.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+83.8 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John Kerry, 2004 · +77.9 pts
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
−12.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+13.3 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · −18.7 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.
With a 2024 presidential margin exceeding 42 points, this district anchors a densely populated urban core where Democratic candidates consistently outperform statewide averages by a wide gap.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 83.8 points in 2016 and a Republican high of 13.3 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 25.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 42.6 points.
A population of 128,935, a 15% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $57,087 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 54 and Assembly District 29.
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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