- Lead
- 27,646
- Total
- 37,103
- vs nation
- D+76.0
New York 83rd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 37,449
- Total
- 43,067
- vs nation
- D+82.5
- Lead
- 36,945
- Total
- 40,220
- vs nation
- D+89.8
- Lead
- 35,658
- Total
- 37,857
- vs nation
- D+90.3
- Lead
- 35,213
- Total
- 38,106
- vs nation
- D+85.1
- Lead
- 28,750
- Total
- 32,889
- vs nation
- D+89.9
- Lead
- 27,444
- Total
- 30,584
- vs nation
- D+89.2
- Lead
- 25,770
- Total
- 28,688
- vs nation
- D+81.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+74.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 134,4212024 5-year
- Population density
- 36,330 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 3.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $65,4872024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 2.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 59.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 26.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+94.2 in 2012MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 55, NY · twin score 97.4
presidential history
Party record book
New York 83rd State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1916–2020 · 27 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2012
97.1%
36,742 votes · D+94.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 96.2%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
34.6%
3,853 votes · D+9.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 21.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
43,653votes
89.8% of the vote · D+79.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 42,231 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
9,406votes
20.2% of the vote · D+59.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 8,752 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 Smith1928
+90.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+73.3 · U.S. R+17.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +90.3 pts
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1944
−35.2pts R vs U.S.
Place D+42.7 · U.S. D+7.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · −36.1 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.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | D | 77.9%23,672 | 22.1%6,730 | 30,402 |
New York 83rd State House District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 94.2 points in 2012. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 12.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 74.5 points.
A population of 134,421, a 2% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $65,487 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 55 and Assembly District 60.
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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