- Lead
- 67,601
- Total
- 123,450
- vs nation
- D+56.2
New York 26th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 81,822
- Total
- 130,031
- vs nation
- D+58.5
- Lead
- 71,634
- Total
- 113,851
- vs nation
- D+60.8
- Lead
- 68,768
- Total
- 103,600
- vs nation
- D+62.5
- Lead
- 64,904
- Total
- 106,579
- vs nation
- D+53.6
- Lead
- 50,379
- Total
- 96,205
- vs nation
- D+54.8
- Lead
- 57,335
- Total
- 87,458
- vs nation
- D+65.0
- Lead
- 50,194
- Total
- 76,901
- vs nation
- D+56.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+54.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 322,0052024 5-year
- Population density
- 35,778 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $120,7962024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 49.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 6.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 24.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+66.4 in 2012MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+34.0 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 59, NY · twin score 97.7
presidential history
Party record book
New York 26th 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
82.4%
85,401 votes · D+66.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 81.0%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
59.9%
39,159 votes · R+34.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · 54.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
105,291votes
81.0% of the vote · D+62.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 96,746 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
61,576votes
43.8% of the vote · D+12.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 59,745 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
+65.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+65.6 · U.S. D+0.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +62.5 pts
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
+7.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+34.0 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · +7.8 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.
Its Democratic presidential margin was D+54.8 in 2024 and D+60.9 in 2008. No racial group formed a majority of its residents in the 2024 ACS 5-year, with White residents at 38.8%.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 66.4 points in 2012 and a Republican high of 34.0 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 8.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 54.8 points.
A population of 322,005, a 50% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $120,796 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 59 and State Senate District 7.
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 26th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/36026/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.