- Lead
- 15,590
- Total
- 33,003
- vs nation
- D+48.7
New York 87th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 29,918
- Total
- 40,365
- vs nation
- D+69.7
- Lead
- 30,711
- Total
- 36,492
- vs nation
- D+82.1
- Lead
- 29,859
- Total
- 34,124
- vs nation
- D+83.6
- Lead
- 28,960
- Total
- 34,806
- vs nation
- D+75.9
- Lead
- 22,842
- Total
- 30,773
- vs nation
- D+76.7
- Lead
- 22,506
- Total
- 27,958
- vs nation
- D+80.0
- Lead
- 21,274
- Total
- 26,330
- vs nation
- D+72.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+47.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 129,7822024 5-year
- Population density
- 48,067 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 2.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $47,9932024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 3.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 24.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 52.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+87.5 in 2012MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+20.1 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 80, NY · twin score 98.5
presidential history
Party record book
New York 87th 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
93.5%
31,904 votes · D+87.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 91.4%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
49.8%
7,216 votes · R+20.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 36.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
37,911votes
80.3% of the vote · D+60.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 36,664 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
17,508votes
35.1% of the vote · D+29.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 16,471 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
+83.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+87.5 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · +82.1 pts
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
−6.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+20.1 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · −11.8 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%22,855 | 22.1%6,498 | 29,353 |
AD-87 covers part of Staten Island, New York City's most Republican borough, where a working-class, outer-borough electorate has produced double-digit Republican presidential margins in recent cycles, diverging sharply from the rest of the five boroughs.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 87.5 points in 2012 and a Republican high of 20.1 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 26.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 47.2 points.
A population of 129,782, a 3% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $47,993 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 80 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 87th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/36087/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.