- Lead
- 24,177
- Total
- 52,217
- vs nation
- D+47.8
New York 109th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 28,087
- Total
- 54,724
- vs nation
- D+46.9
- Lead
- 24,196
- Total
- 51,590
- vs nation
- D+44.8
- Lead
- 26,857
- Total
- 51,033
- vs nation
- D+48.8
- Lead
- 28,238
- Total
- 54,958
- vs nation
- D+44.1
- Lead
- 25,155
- Total
- 54,050
- vs nation
- D+49.0
- Lead
- 25,413
- Total
- 52,677
- vs nation
- D+47.7
- Lead
- 27,475
- Total
- 53,204
- vs nation
- D+43.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+46.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 132,9682024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,085 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 123 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $70,8602024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 53.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 22.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 9.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+72.0 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 128, NY · twin score 92.2
presidential history
Party record book
New York 109th 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
86.0%
50,181 votes · D+72.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 75.0%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
48.4%
12,316 votes · D+0.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Charles E. Hughes, 1916 · 44.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
50,181votes
86.0% of the vote · D+72.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 41,050 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
21,836votes
43.1% of the vote · D+13.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 20,723 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
Al Smith1928
+54.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+37.0 · U.S. R+17.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Michael Dukakis, 1988 · +50.2 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
+3.1pts R vs U.S.
Place D+16.5 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Charles E. Hughes, 1916 · −6.7 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 | 67.7%36,652 | 32.3%17,521 | 54,173 |
Assembly District 109, anchored in the Bronx, recorded a 46.3-point Democratic presidential margin in 2024, placing it among the most decisively one-sided state house seats in New York and signaling an electorate with deep urban, majority-minority roots.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 72.0 points in 1964. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 46.3 points.
A population of 132,968, a 53% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $70,860 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 128 and State House District 24.
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 109th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/36109/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.