- Lead
- 14,383
- Total
- 51,813
- vs nation
- R+26.3
New York 97th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 6,202
- Total
- 50,380
- vs nation
- R+16.8
- Lead
- 3,708
- Total
- 43,997
- vs nation
- D+6.3
- Lead
- 3,649
- Total
- 40,541
- vs nation
- D+5.1
- Lead
- 3,513
- Total
- 42,992
- vs nation
- D+0.9
- Lead
- 676
- Total
- 42,530
- vs nation
- D+4.0
- Lead
- 7,719
- Total
- 40,023
- vs nation
- D+18.8
- Lead
- 8,179
- Total
- 36,606
- vs nation
- D+13.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+27.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 136,3292024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,417 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 39.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $90,7402024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 65.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 11.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 15.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+29.7 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+40.1 in 1956MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 99, NY · twin score 88.4
presidential history
Party record book
New York 97th 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
64.8%
15,375 votes · D+29.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Samuel J. Tilden, 1876 · 60.2%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
70.1%
10,842 votes · R+40.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 65.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
23,151votes
53.8% of the vote · D+8.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Gore, 2000 · 23,148 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
28,102votes
55.8% of the vote · R+12.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 22,270 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
+20.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+0.9 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Gore, 2000 · +18.8 pts
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1944
+29.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+21.9 · U.S. D+7.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Wendell Willkie, 1940 · +26.0 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%23,550 | 56.8%31,013 | 54,563 |
| 2020 | D | 57.3%29,291 | 42.7%21,848 | 51,139 |
Assembly District 97 backed the 2024 Republican presidential candidate by nearly 21 points, a margin that stands out sharply against the Democratic lean of the broader New York metro region.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 29.7 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 40.1 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 15.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 27.8 points.
A population of 136,329, a 66% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $90,740 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 99 and Assembly District 23.
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 97th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/36097/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.