- Lead
- 9,355
- Total
- 26,913
- vs nation
- D+36.2
New York 86th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 22,591
- Total
- 32,864
- vs nation
- D+64.3
- Lead
- 28,742
- Total
- 32,211
- vs nation
- D+87.1
- Lead
- 27,796
- Total
- 30,296
- vs nation
- D+87.9
- Lead
- 27,268
- Total
- 30,620
- vs nation
- D+81.8
- Lead
- 22,015
- Total
- 26,670
- vs nation
- D+85.0
- Lead
- 21,273
- Total
- 24,537
- vs nation
- D+86.2
- Lead
- 20,024
- Total
- 23,103
- vs nation
- D+78.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+34.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 137,2862024 5-year
- Population density
- 85,804 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1.6 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $38,3162024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 2.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 23.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 71.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+91.7 in 2012MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+2.7 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 78, NY · twin score 99.6
presidential history
Party record book
New York 86th 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
95.7%
28,985 votes · D+91.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 94.4%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
40.4%
4,186 votes · R+2.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 27.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
34,443votes
86.4% of the vote · D+73.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 33,318 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
10,166votes
25.7% of the vote · D+48.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 9,559 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
Barack Obama2012
+87.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+91.7 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · +87.1 pts
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
−23.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+2.7 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · −25.9 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Assembly District 86 covers a dense stretch of Brooklyn where presidential margins routinely exceed 30 points, reflecting a heavily urbanized, majority-minority electorate that has voted Democratic by wide margins across multiple election cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 91.7 points in 2012 and a Republican high of 2.7 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 34.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 34.8 points.
A population of 137,286, a 2% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $38,316 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 78 and Assembly District 77.
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 86th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/36086/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.