- Lead
- 18,226
- Total
- 57,587
- vs nation
- D+33.1
New York 91st State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 24,152
- Total
- 58,344
- vs nation
- D+36.9
- Lead
- 19,918
- Total
- 52,430
- vs nation
- D+35.9
- Lead
- 14,398
- Total
- 48,103
- vs nation
- D+26.1
- Lead
- 16,561
- Total
- 51,241
- vs nation
- D+25.0
- Lead
- 11,084
- Total
- 48,745
- vs nation
- D+25.2
- Lead
- 11,907
- Total
- 46,094
- vs nation
- D+25.3
- Lead
- 10,939
- Total
- 43,096
- vs nation
- D+16.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+31.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 139,4692024 5-year
- Population density
- 6,144 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 22.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $114,0592024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 48.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 7.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 35.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+41.4 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+39.9 in 1956MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 95, NY · twin score 97.9
presidential history
Party record book
New York 91st 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
Joe Biden2020
70.1%
40,919 votes · D+41.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 66.9%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
69.9%
31,452 votes · R+39.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 64.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
40,919votes
70.1% of the vote · D+41.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 35,072 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
31,452votes
69.9% of the vote · R+39.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 30,363 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
Joe Biden2020
+36.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+41.4 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · +35.9 pts
Republican
Wendell Willkie1940
+32.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+23.0 · U.S. D+9.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · +32.1 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.
Assembly District 91 recorded a D+31.6 presidential margin in 2024, placing it among the most competitive legislative districts in the state and making it a consistent focus for both parties in down-ballot races.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 41.4 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 39.9 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 9.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 31.6 points.
A population of 139,469, a 48% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $114,059 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 95 and Assembly District 92.
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 91st State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/36091/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.