- Lead
- 28,125
- Total
- 155,706
- vs nation
- R+16.6
New York 3rd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 13,700
- Total
- 156,356
- vs nation
- R+13.2
- Lead
- 22,698
- Total
- 138,338
- vs nation
- R+18.5
- Lead
- 7,446
- Total
- 118,888
- vs nation
- R+10.1
- Lead
- 5,193
- Total
- 131,944
- vs nation
- R+11.2
- Lead
- 11,590
- Total
- 127,253
- vs nation
- R+6.7
- Lead
- 1,938
- Total
- 114,422
- vs nation
- D+1.2
- Lead
- 6,854
- Total
- 100,248
- vs nation
- R+1.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+18.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 324,9682024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,799 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 181 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $114,4202024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 65.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 6.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 19.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+6.8 in 1996MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+62.1 in 1956MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 8, NY · twin score 92.7
presidential history
Party record book
New York 3rd 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
50.6%
32,751 votes · D+1.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Gore, 2000 · 48.4%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
81.0%
37,227 votes · R+62.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 79.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
70,317votes
45.0% of the vote · R+8.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 62,760 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
84,017votes
53.7% of the vote · R+8.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · 77,736 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
+1.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+1.7 · U.S. D+0.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bill Clinton, 1996 · −1.7 pts
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1948
+56.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+52.4 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · +55.6 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.
New York 3rd State Senate District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 6.8 points in 1996 and a Republican high of 62.1 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 9.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 18.1 points.
A population of 324,968, a 65% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $114,420 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 8 and State Senate District 1.
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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