- Lead
- 29,427
- Total
- 95,039
- vs nation
- D+32.4
New York 34th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 54,637
- Total
- 107,244
- vs nation
- D+46.5
- Lead
- 54,195
- Total
- 96,256
- vs nation
- D+54.2
- Lead
- 52,388
- Total
- 87,907
- vs nation
- D+55.7
- Lead
- 48,843
- Total
- 93,380
- vs nation
- D+45.0
- Lead
- 32,035
- Total
- 88,929
- vs nation
- D+38.5
- Lead
- 36,825
- Total
- 77,834
- vs nation
- D+46.8
- Lead
- 35,490
- Total
- 72,413
- vs nation
- D+40.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+31.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 319,1082024 5-year
- Population density
- 17,156 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 18.6 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $65,5272024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 19.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 18.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 47.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+59.6 in 2012MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+56.0 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 33, NY · twin score 98.9
presidential history
Party record book
New York 34th 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
79.4%
69,837 votes · D+59.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 76.9%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
71.4%
42,452 votes · R+56.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 63.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
80,532votes
75.1% of the vote · D+50.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 80,515 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
106,923votes
62.9% of the vote · R+25.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 99,728 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
Barack Obama2012
+55.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+59.6 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · +54.2 pts
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
+29.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+56.0 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Charles E. Hughes, 1916 · +29.6 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.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | D | 74.2%62,680 | 25.8%21,833 | 84,513 |
New York 34th State Senate District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 59.6 points in 2012 and a Republican high of 56.0 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 20.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 31.0 points.
A population of 319,108, a 19% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $65,527 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 33 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 34th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/36034/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.