- Lead
- 97,155
- Total
- 126,562
- vs nation
- D+78.2
New York 20th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 112,624
- Total
- 134,405
- vs nation
- D+79.3
- Lead
- 103,744
- Total
- 121,576
- vs nation
- D+83.2
- Lead
- 98,276
- Total
- 112,171
- vs nation
- D+83.8
- Lead
- 96,749
- Total
- 112,828
- vs nation
- D+78.5
- Lead
- 80,645
- Total
- 98,423
- vs nation
- D+84.4
- Lead
- 81,204
- Total
- 94,307
- vs nation
- D+85.6
- Lead
- 70,676
- Total
- 82,836
- vs nation
- D+76.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+76.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 318,8552024 5-year
- Population density
- 52,271 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 6.1 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $92,4652024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 32.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 43.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 11.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+87.6 in 2012MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 25, NY · twin score 99.1
presidential history
Party record book
New York 20th 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
93.3%
104,608 votes · D+87.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 92.6%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
34.6%
14,847 votes · D+13.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · 27.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
123,011votes
91.5% of the vote · D+83.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 118,518 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
23,378votes
19.5% of the vote · D+61.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 22,669 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
Walter Mondale1984
+86.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+68.7 · U.S. R+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Gore, 2000 · +85.6 pts
Republican
William H. Taft1912
−28.7pts R vs U.S.
Place D+48.2 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · −35.1 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 20th State Senate District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 87.6 points in 2012. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 7.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 76.8 points.
A population of 318,855, a 32% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $92,465 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 25 and State Senate District 28.
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 20th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/36020/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.