- Lead
- 77,473
- Total
- 137,641
- vs nation
- D+57.8
New York 28th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 91,499
- Total
- 141,176
- vs nation
- D+60.4
- Lead
- 84,835
- Total
- 134,506
- vs nation
- D+61.0
- Lead
- 62,505
- Total
- 124,681
- vs nation
- D+46.3
- Lead
- 75,244
- Total
- 137,090
- vs nation
- D+47.6
- Lead
- 60,936
- Total
- 135,075
- vs nation
- D+47.6
- Lead
- 56,142
- Total
- 119,476
- vs nation
- D+46.5
- Lead
- 49,796
- Total
- 102,721
- vs nation
- D+40.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+56.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 319,6132024 5-year
- Population density
- 74,329 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 4.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $162,6342024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 70.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 8.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+64.8 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+52.0 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 47, NY · twin score 95.2
presidential history
Party record book
New York 28th 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
81.9%
115,584 votes · D+64.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 79.4%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
71.1%
92,579 votes · R+52.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · 64.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
115,584votes
81.9% of the vote · D+64.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 106,734 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
101,089votes
52.8% of the vote · R+17.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 100,987 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
+61.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+63.1 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +60.4 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+27.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+33.9 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · +25.8 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.
In 2024 it voted Democratic by D+55.8, against D+54.9 in 2008. No racial group formed a majority of its residents in the 2024 ACS 5-year, with White residents at 48.3%.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 64.8 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 52.0 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 8.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 56.3 points.
A population of 319,613, a 71% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $162,634 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 47 and State Senate District 16.
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 28th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/36028/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.