- Lead
- 4,839
- Total
- 154,724
- vs nation
- D+4.6
New York 43rd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 13,651
- Total
- 156,950
- vs nation
- D+4.2
- Lead
- 2,423
- Total
- 140,138
- vs nation
- R+0.4
- Lead
- 17,821
- Total
- 133,619
- vs nation
- D+9.5
- Lead
- 15,858
- Total
- 145,874
- vs nation
- D+3.6
- Lead
- 4,610
- Total
- 144,398
- vs nation
- D+5.7
- Lead
- 10,631
- Total
- 136,985
- vs nation
- D+7.2
- Lead
- 22,157
- Total
- 134,661
- vs nation
- D+7.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+3.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 315,5712024 5-year
- Population density
- 252 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1,255 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $85,7862024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 77.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 6.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+41.6 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+39.8 in 1956MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 44, NY · twin score 92.0
presidential history
Party record book
New York 43rd 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
70.8%
98,574 votes · D+41.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 55.6%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
69.9%
105,820 votes · R+39.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 65.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
98,574votes
70.8% of the vote · D+41.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 83,498 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
105,820votes
69.9% of the vote · R+39.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 98,673 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
+19.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+41.6 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Smith, 1928 · +13.0 pts
Republican
Alf Landon1936
+30.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+6.3 · U.S. D+24.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · +25.7 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.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | D | 61.6%74,397 | 38.4%46,309 | 120,706 |
New York 43rd State Senate District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 41.6 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 39.8 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 3.1 points.
A population of 315,571, a 77% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $85,786 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 44 and State Senate District 46.
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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