- Lead
- 47,162
- Total
- 84,955
- vs nation
- R+54.0
New York 22nd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 37,232
- Total
- 90,254
- vs nation
- R+45.7
- Lead
- 19,871
- Total
- 72,383
- vs nation
- R+29.5
- Lead
- 15,777
- Total
- 63,792
- vs nation
- R+28.6
- Lead
- 24,551
- Total
- 72,138
- vs nation
- R+41.3
- Lead
- 32,834
- Total
- 73,743
- vs nation
- R+42.1
- Lead
- 11,169
- Total
- 52,711
- vs nation
- R+21.7
- Lead
- 8,880
- Total
- 45,539
- vs nation
- R+28.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+55.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 319,6152024 5-year
- Population density
- 36,737 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 8.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $68,9512024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 67.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 9.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Republican margin
- R+85.4 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 30, NJ · twin score 62.8
presidential history
Party record book
New York 22nd 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
Bill Clinton1996
37.0%
16,831 votes · R+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 36.9%
Republican
William McKinley1896
89.9%
34,471 votes · R+82.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 89.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
26,675votes
26.9% of the vote · R+46.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 26,157 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
145,648votes
87.0% of the vote · R+74.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 141,355 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
−21.7pts D vs U.S.
Place R+21.2 · U.S. D+0.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bill Clinton, 1996 · −28.0 pts
Republican
Charles E. Hughes1916
+77.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+74.5 · U.S. D+3.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · +76.1 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.
In 2024 it voted Republican by R+55.0, against R+34.0 in 2008. No racial group formed a majority of its residents in the 2024 ACS 5-year, with White residents at 37.9%.
Across the recorded series it reached a Republican high of 85.4 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 14.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 55.5 points.
A population of 319,615, a 68% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $68,951 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 30 and State Senate District 24.
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 22nd State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/36022/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.