- Lead
- 35,311
- Total
- 155,484
- vs nation
- D+24.2
New York 37th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 51,596
- Total
- 156,518
- vs nation
- D+28.5
- Lead
- 42,024
- Total
- 142,480
- vs nation
- D+27.4
- Lead
- 27,204
- Total
- 131,829
- vs nation
- D+16.8
- Lead
- 32,410
- Total
- 140,092
- vs nation
- D+15.9
- Lead
- 17,755
- Total
- 134,741
- vs nation
- D+15.6
- Lead
- 21,096
- Total
- 126,909
- vs nation
- D+16.1
- Lead
- 19,791
- Total
- 118,322
- vs nation
- D+8.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+22.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 319,5982024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,796 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 114 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $145,2402024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 59.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 5.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 22.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+33.0 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+48.0 in 1956MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 40, NY · twin score 95.3
presidential history
Party record book
New York 37th 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
65.9%
103,157 votes · D+33.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 62.5%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
74.0%
97,643 votes · R+48.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 68.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
103,157votes
65.9% of the vote · D+33.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 89,082 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
97,643votes
74.0% of the vote · R+48.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 94,285 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
Joe Biden2020
+28.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+33.0 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · +27.4 pts
Republican
Wendell Willkie1940
+41.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+31.9 · U.S. D+9.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · +40.6 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 | 66.0%89,995 | 34.0%46,449 | 136,444 |
New York 37th State Senate District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 33.0 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 48.0 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 10.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 22.7 points.
A population of 319,598, a 60% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $145,240 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 40 and Middlesex and Norfolk District.
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 37th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/36037/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.