- Lead
- 12,647
- Total
- 68,492
- vs nation
- D+19.9
New York 13th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 40,280
- Total
- 77,981
- vs nation
- D+47.2
- Lead
- 48,133
- Total
- 69,824
- vs nation
- D+66.8
- Lead
- 44,891
- Total
- 61,180
- vs nation
- D+69.5
- Lead
- 43,543
- Total
- 64,644
- vs nation
- D+60.1
- Lead
- 37,562
- Total
- 60,203
- vs nation
- D+64.8
- Lead
- 38,629
- Total
- 56,393
- vs nation
- D+68.0
- Lead
- 34,619
- Total
- 51,908
- vs nation
- D+58.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+18.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 319,3362024 5-year
- Population density
- 65,171 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 4.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $75,1962024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 8.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 5.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 62.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+73.4 in 2012MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+20.7 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 35, NJ · twin score 96.3
presidential history
Party record book
New York 13th 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
Barack Obama2012
86.2%
52,751 votes · D+73.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 83.3%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
56.3%
6,229 votes · R+20.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 47.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
60,664votes
76.8% of the vote · D+53.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 58,851 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
31,351votes
47.0% of the vote · D+6.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 29,926 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
Barack Obama2012
+69.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+73.4 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Gore, 2000 · +68.0 pts
Republican
Thomas E. Dewey1944
+4.5pts R vs U.S.
Place D+3.0 · U.S. D+7.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Wendell Willkie, 1940 · −4.1 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
New York 13th State Senate District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 73.4 points in 2012 and a Republican high of 20.7 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 33.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 18.5 points.
A population of 319,336, a 8% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $75,196 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 35 and State Senate District 15.
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 13th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/36013/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.