- Lead
- 2,630
- Total
- 172,298
- vs nation
- R+0.1
New York 1st State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 8,718
- Total
- 174,523
- vs nation
- D+0.5
- Lead
- 5,611
- Total
- 151,840
- vs nation
- R+5.8
- Lead
- 9,233
- Total
- 132,201
- vs nation
- D+3.1
- Lead
- 13,491
- Total
- 147,039
- vs nation
- D+1.9
- Lead
- 5,462
- Total
- 141,123
- vs nation
- D+6.3
- Lead
- 18,672
- Total
- 128,577
- vs nation
- D+14.0
- Lead
- 21,011
- Total
- 113,757
- vs nation
- D+9.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+1.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 325,2962024 5-year
- Population density
- 760 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 428 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $123,6482024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 70.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 4.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 17.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+18.5 in 1996MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+53.5 in 1956MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 2, NY · twin score 95.7
presidential history
Party record book
New York 1st State Senate 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
57.2%
41,551 votes · D+14.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Gore, 2000 · 54.8%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
76.7%
35,999 votes · R+53.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 74.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
90,752votes
52.0% of the vote · D+5.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 79,600 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
82,034votes
47.0% of the vote · D+5.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · 75,560 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 Gore2000
+14.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+14.5 · U.S. D+0.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bill Clinton, 1996 · +9.9 pts
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1948
+46.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+42.4 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · +45.8 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.
The district recorded a Republican presidential margin of R+1.5 in 2024 and D+9.2 in 2008, switching sides at least once in between. Median household income was $130,686 in the 2024 ACS 5-year, among the higher figures for a state senate district.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 18.5 points in 1996 and a Republican high of 53.5 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 6.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 1.5 points.
A population of 325,296, a 71% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $123,648 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 2 and State Senate District 8.
The state-senate 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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