- Lead
- 68,974
- Total
- 112,645
- vs nation
- D+62.7
New York 27th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 89,968
- Total
- 122,334
- vs nation
- D+69.1
- Lead
- 88,898
- Total
- 117,322
- vs nation
- D+73.7
- Lead
- 71,139
- Total
- 105,270
- vs nation
- D+63.7
- Lead
- 83,150
- Total
- 116,966
- vs nation
- D+63.8
- Lead
- 72,066
- Total
- 112,671
- vs nation
- D+66.4
- Lead
- 64,104
- Total
- 100,638
- vs nation
- D+63.2
- Lead
- 56,218
- Total
- 86,913
- vs nation
- D+56.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+61.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 320,0632024 5-year
- Population density
- 80,016 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $109,8752024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 49.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 5.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 16.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+75.8 in 2016MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+31.5 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 59, NY · twin score 95.6
presidential history
Party record book
New York 27th 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
Joe Biden2020
86.2%
105,486 votes · D+73.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 85.8%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
59.5%
50,015 votes · R+31.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · 51.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
105,486votes
86.2% of the vote · D+73.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 100,687 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
54,617votes
39.7% of the vote · D+6.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 54,565 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
Hillary Clinton2016
+73.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+75.8 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +69.1 pts
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
+5.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+31.5 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · +2.7 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.
New York's 27th Senate District sits in a competitive band of the mid-Hudson Valley, where a D+61.2 presidential margin in 2024 reflects a region that has shifted measurably from its earlier double-digit Democratic lean.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 75.8 points in 2016 and a Republican high of 31.5 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 12.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 61.2 points.
A population of 320,063, a 50% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $109,875 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 32.
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 27th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/36027/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.