- Lead
- 33,101
- Total
- 151,722
- vs nation
- D+23.3
New York 61st State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 39,196
- Total
- 156,746
- vs nation
- D+20.6
- Lead
- 19,110
- Total
- 140,285
- vs nation
- D+11.5
- Lead
- 32,511
- Total
- 137,933
- vs nation
- D+19.7
- Lead
- 36,421
- Total
- 147,178
- vs nation
- D+17.5
- Lead
- 32,853
- Total
- 148,022
- vs nation
- D+24.7
- Lead
- 36,512
- Total
- 142,529
- vs nation
- D+25.1
- Lead
- 39,391
- Total
- 138,790
- vs nation
- D+19.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+21.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 314,0602024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,777 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 113 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $78,6752024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 72.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 9.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+52.2 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+31.2 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 6, NJ · twin score 84.8
presidential history
Party record book
New York 61st 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
76.0%
121,744 votes · D+52.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 61.6%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
60.0%
88,497 votes · R+20.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 59.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
121,744votes
76.0% of the vote · D+52.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 97,843 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
88,497votes
60.0% of the vote · R+20.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 77,656 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
+29.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+52.2 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Walter Mondale, 1984 · +29.0 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+13.8pts R vs U.S.
Place D+4.0 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alf Landon, 1936 · +9.4 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.
New York 61st State Senate District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 52.2 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 31.2 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 21.8 points.
A population of 314,060, a 73% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $78,675 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 6 and State Senate District 23.
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.
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