- Lead
- 103,920
- Total
- 145,308
- vs nation
- D+73.0
New York 47th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 115,025
- Total
- 147,522
- vs nation
- D+73.5
- Lead
- 109,167
- Total
- 140,186
- vs nation
- D+75.8
- Lead
- 88,239
- Total
- 125,361
- vs nation
- D+66.5
- Lead
- 102,853
- Total
- 139,608
- vs nation
- D+66.4
- Lead
- 89,768
- Total
- 133,902
- vs nation
- D+69.5
- Lead
- 79,560
- Total
- 119,287
- vs nation
- D+66.2
- Lead
- 69,644
- Total
- 103,017
- vs nation
- D+59.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+71.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 319,3292024 5-year
- Population density
- 84,034 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 3.8 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $142,7632024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 62.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 5.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 14.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+78.0 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+27.5 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 59, NY · twin score 95.9
presidential history
Party record book
New York 47th 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
88.5%
130,560 votes · D+78.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 87.1%
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
57.7%
54,398 votes · R+27.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · 49.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
130,560votes
88.5% of the vote · D+78.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 122,038 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
59,386votes
37.7% of the vote · D+11.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956 · 59,331 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
+75.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+77.9 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +73.5 pts
Republican
Warren G. Harding1920
+1.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+27.5 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · −2.4 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.
With a 2024 presidential margin exceeding 43 points, this district ranks among the most reliably Democratic state senate seats in New York, suggesting a densely populated urban core where competitive general elections are rare.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 78.0 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 27.5 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 6.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 71.5 points.
A population of 319,329, a 62% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $142,763 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 28.
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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