- Lead
- 51,463
- Total
- 186,822
- vs nation
- R+26.1
New York 8th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 35,223
- Total
- 188,992
- vs nation
- R+23.1
- Lead
- 42,101
- Total
- 166,215
- vs nation
- R+27.4
- Lead
- 26,647
- Total
- 142,737
- vs nation
- R+22.5
- Lead
- 27,029
- Total
- 158,327
- vs nation
- R+24.3
- Lead
- 32,196
- Total
- 155,696
- vs nation
- R+18.2
- Lead
- 12,899
- Total
- 138,024
- vs nation
- R+9.9
- Lead
- 6,080
- Total
- 123,065
- vs nation
- R+13.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+27.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 325,3052024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,164 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 103 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $143,0752024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 79.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 12.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Republican margin
- R+71.8 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 2, NY · twin score 94.6
presidential history
Party record book
New York 8th 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
44.3%
44,530 votes · R+11.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Gore, 2000 · 43.0%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
84.9%
9,031 votes · R+71.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 83.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
75,643votes
40.0% of the vote · R+18.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 65,023 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
110,866votes
58.7% of the vote · R+18.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 110,777 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
−9.9pts D vs U.S.
Place R+9.3 · U.S. D+0.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bill Clinton, 1996 · −13.5 pts
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1948
+67.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+63.2 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · +67.2 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.
Covering a largely rural swath of the Southern Tier and Finger Lakes region, this district delivered a 27.5-point Republican presidential margin in 2024, making it a consistent outlier in an otherwise Democratic-leaning state.
Across the recorded series it reached a Republican high of 71.8 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 8.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 27.5 points.
A population of 325,305, a 79% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $143,075 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 13.
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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New York 8th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/36008/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.