- Lead
- 5,971
- Total
- 67,146
- vs nation
- D+10.4
New York 96th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 14,255
- Total
- 68,517
- vs nation
- D+16.3
- Lead
- 9,560
- Total
- 62,832
- vs nation
- D+13.1
- Lead
- 9,191
- Total
- 58,019
- vs nation
- D+12.0
- Lead
- 9,329
- Total
- 61,523
- vs nation
- D+7.9
- Lead
- 5,162
- Total
- 60,797
- vs nation
- D+10.9
- Lead
- 14,897
- Total
- 57,611
- vs nation
- D+25.3
- Lead
- 14,979
- Total
- 52,903
- vs nation
- D+19.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+8.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 135,0242024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,178 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 62 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $122,5572024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 49.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 11.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 27.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+36.0 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+34.0 in 1956MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 13, NY · twin score 92.6
presidential history
Party record book
New York 96th 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
67.9%
23,348 votes · D+36.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Samuel J. Tilden, 1876 · 64.7%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
67.0%
14,260 votes · R+34.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 61.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
41,037votes
59.9% of the vote · D+20.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 35,186 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
29,336votes
56.3% of the vote · R+12.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 27,284 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
Alton B. Parker1904
+29.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+9.7 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Gore, 2000 · +25.3 pts
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1944
+22.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+14.8 · U.S. D+7.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Wendell Willkie, 1940 · +19.5 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 | R | 43.2%23,324 | 56.8%30,717 | 54,041 |
| 2020 | D | 57.3%29,010 | 42.7%21,639 | 50,649 |
The 2024 presidential margin was D+8.9, one of the narrower results among New York's state house districts, compared with D+15.2 in 2008. About 133,000 residents lived here, with White alone at 62.4% in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 36.0 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 34.0 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 11.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 8.9 points.
A population of 135,024, a 49% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $122,557 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 13 and Assembly District 22.
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 96th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/36096/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.