- Lead
- 27,189
- Total
- 142,441
- vs nation
- D+20.6
New York 52nd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 29,946
- Total
- 143,420
- vs nation
- D+16.4
- Lead
- 20,241
- Total
- 134,091
- vs nation
- D+13.0
- Lead
- 25,859
- Total
- 127,253
- vs nation
- D+16.5
- Lead
- 30,704
- Total
- 138,413
- vs nation
- D+14.9
- Lead
- 19,344
- Total
- 141,464
- vs nation
- D+16.1
- Lead
- 19,689
- Total
- 133,328
- vs nation
- D+14.2
- Lead
- 25,674
- Total
- 129,233
- vs nation
- D+11.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+19.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 318,8942024 5-year
- Population density
- 247 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1,290 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $67,8382024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 76.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 5.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+32.9 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+48.8 in 1956MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 19, MI · twin score 86.2
presidential history
Party record book
New York 52nd 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
66.4%
79,280 votes · D+32.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 60.2%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
74.4%
85,651 votes · R+48.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 71.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
85,085votes
59.3% of the vote · D+20.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 83,289 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
85,651votes
74.4% of the vote · R+48.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 82,729 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
+16.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+20.3 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +16.4 pts
Republican
Alf Landon1936
+42.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+17.7 · U.S. D+24.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1932 · +38.8 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.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | D | 57.4%72,639 | 42.6%53,873 | 126,512 |
| 2020 | D | 57.0%54,170 | 43.0%40,873 | 95,043 |
New York 52nd State Senate District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 32.9 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 48.8 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 19.1 points.
A population of 318,894, a 77% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $67,838 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 19 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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New York 52nd State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/36052/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.