- Lead
- 15,952
- Total
- 62,437
- vs nation
- R+24.1
New York 120th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 13,404
- Total
- 62,679
- vs nation
- R+25.8
- Lead
- 12,902
- Total
- 55,294
- vs nation
- R+25.4
- Lead
- 2,573
- Total
- 51,047
- vs nation
- D+1.2
- Lead
- 15
- Total
- 56,452
- vs nation
- R+7.3
- Lead
- 3,992
- Total
- 58,943
- vs nation
- R+4.3
- Lead
- 1,554
- Total
- 55,171
- vs nation
- R+3.3
- Lead
- 3,139
- Total
- 51,783
- vs nation
- R+2.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+25.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 133,9872024 5-year
- Population density
- 105 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1,276 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $69,8102024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 90.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+31.6 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+54.5 in 1956MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 121, NY · twin score 94.1
presidential history
Party record book
New York 120th 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
65.8%
28,778 votes · D+31.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 51.3%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
77.3%
35,569 votes · R+54.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 72.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
28,778votes
65.8% of the vote · D+31.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 27,639 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
37,358votes
59.6% of the vote · R+21.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 36,610 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
+9.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+31.6 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +1.2 pts
Republican
Alf Landon1936
+59.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+35.6 · U.S. D+24.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Wendell Willkie, 1940 · +40.7 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.
AD-120 covers the rural Southern Tier, where a 25.5-point Republican presidential margin in 2024 makes it one of the sharpest conservative anchors in an otherwise Democratic-leaning state legislature.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 31.6 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 54.5 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 25.5 points.
A population of 133,987, a 90% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $69,810 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 121 and Assembly District 118.
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 120th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/36120/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.