- Lead
- 9,200
- Total
- 60,886
- vs nation
- R+13.6
New York 17th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 11,310
- Total
- 68,024
- vs nation
- D+12.2
- Lead
- 11,676
- Total
- 57,106
- vs nation
- D+18.4
- Lead
- 12,327
- Total
- 51,351
- vs nation
- D+20.2
- Lead
- 7,981
- Total
- 55,377
- vs nation
- D+7.1
- Lead
- 1,015
- Total
- 53,257
- vs nation
- D+4.4
- Lead
- 11,013
- Total
- 42,758
- vs nation
- D+25.2
- Lead
- 10,014
- Total
- 37,115
- vs nation
- D+18.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+15.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 319,5502024 5-year
- Population density
- 51,540 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 6.2 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $68,2432024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 29.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 18.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+27.0 in 1996MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+70.4 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 16, NY · twin score 92.3
presidential history
Party record book
New York 17th 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
61.4%
31,516 votes · D+24.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bill Clinton, 1996 · 60.7%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
81.6%
45,233 votes · R+70.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · 78.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
39,325votes
57.8% of the vote · D+16.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 35,721 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
71,068votes
71.0% of the vote · R+41.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 68,982 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
+25.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+25.8 · U.S. D+0.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +20.2 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+53.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+59.6 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Charles E. Hughes, 1916 · +48.7 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.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | D | 85.5%44,991 | 14.5%7,633 | 52,624 |
New York 17th State Senate District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 27.0 points in 1996 and a Republican high of 70.4 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 31.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 15.1 points.
A population of 319,550, a 29% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $68,243 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 16 and State Senate District 11.
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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