- Lead
- 20,355
- Total
- 187,534
- vs nation
- R+9.4
New York 2nd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,031
- Total
- 189,218
- vs nation
- R+5.5
- Lead
- 14,762
- Total
- 167,472
- vs nation
- R+10.9
- Lead
- 2,354
- Total
- 146,799
- vs nation
- R+2.3
- Lead
- 6,368
- Total
- 162,189
- vs nation
- R+3.3
- Lead
- 1,376
- Total
- 157,737
- vs nation
- D+1.6
- Lead
- 13,344
- Total
- 140,728
- vs nation
- D+9.0
- Lead
- 17,219
- Total
- 124,768
- vs nation
- D+5.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+10.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 320,4232024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,168 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 148 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $162,0402024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 74.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 12.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+13.8 in 1996MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+56.3 in 1956MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 1, NY · twin score 95.7
presidential history
Party record book
New York 2nd 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
54.3%
43,358 votes · D+8.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Gore, 2000 · 52.4%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
78.1%
42,075 votes · R+56.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 74.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
92,404votes
48.8% of the vote · R+1.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 83,331 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
94,435votes
49.9% of the vote · R+1.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · 87,813 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
+9.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+9.5 · U.S. D+0.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bill Clinton, 1996 · +5.3 pts
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1948
+48.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+43.6 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · +47.0 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.
Anchored in the rural and small-town communities of the North Country, this district delivered a 10.9-point Republican presidential margin in 2024, making it a consistent outlier in a state dominated by Democratic statewide performance.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 13.8 points in 1996 and a Republican high of 56.3 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 9.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 10.9 points.
A population of 320,423, a 75% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $162,040 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 1 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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