- Lead
- 9,569
- Total
- 65,169
- vs nation
- D+16.2
New York 140th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 12,072
- Total
- 67,365
- vs nation
- D+13.5
- Lead
- 3,326
- Total
- 60,670
- vs nation
- D+3.4
- Lead
- 10,017
- Total
- 59,206
- vs nation
- D+13.1
- Lead
- 11,382
- Total
- 63,119
- vs nation
- D+10.8
- Lead
- 9,997
- Total
- 63,616
- vs nation
- D+18.2
- Lead
- 12,130
- Total
- 61,445
- vs nation
- D+19.2
- Lead
- 14,001
- Total
- 59,943
- vs nation
- D+14.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+14.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 130,5902024 5-year
- Population density
- 4,018 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 32.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $68,5552024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 80.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 6.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+47.9 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+35.3 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Assembly District 142, NY · twin score 95.5
presidential history
Party record book
New York 140th 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
73.9%
49,657 votes · D+47.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 58.1%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
62.8%
40,100 votes · R+25.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 61.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
49,657votes
73.9% of the vote · D+47.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 39,671 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
40,100votes
62.8% of the vote · R+25.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 35,220 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
+25.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+47.9 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Walter Mondale, 1984 · +22.5 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+20.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+2.5 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alf Landon, 1936 · +15.1 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.
With a population near 131,000, AD-140 reflects the competitive-yet-leaning Democratic character common to urbanized upstate New York corridors, where presidential margins have held consistently in the double digits.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 47.9 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 35.3 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 14.7 points.
A population of 130,590, a 80% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $68,555 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Assembly District 142 and Assembly District 143.
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 140th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/36140/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.