- Lead
- 29,853
- Total
- 155,375
- vs nation
- R+17.7
New York 62nd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 22,843
- Total
- 157,586
- vs nation
- R+19.0
- Lead
- 30,655
- Total
- 140,185
- vs nation
- R+24.0
- Lead
- 9,147
- Total
- 133,365
- vs nation
- R+10.7
- Lead
- 9,893
- Total
- 143,606
- vs nation
- R+14.2
- Lead
- 16,197
- Total
- 145,639
- vs nation
- R+8.7
- Lead
- 6,338
- Total
- 138,922
- vs nation
- R+5.1
- Lead
- 5,894
- Total
- 132,514
- vs nation
- R+4.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+19.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 318,3392024 5-year
- Population density
- 289 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1,102 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $72,1932024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 83.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 6.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+32.4 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+51.2 in 1920MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 53, NY · twin score 91.4
presidential history
Party record book
New York 62nd 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
66.1%
88,228 votes · D+32.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 45.8%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
71.9%
99,263 votes · R+43.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 71.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
88,228votes
66.1% of the vote · D+32.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 65,728 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
99,263votes
71.9% of the vote · R+43.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 92,379 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
+9.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+32.4 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Jimmy Carter, 1980 · +2.4 pts
Republican
Herbert Hoover1932
+45.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+27.8 · U.S. D+17.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alf Landon, 1936 · +39.5 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.
Covering a largely rural swath of upstate New York, this district delivered a 19.2-point Republican presidential margin in 2024 — an unusually wide gap in a state where statewide offices routinely go Democratic by double digits.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 32.4 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 51.2 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 19.2 points.
A population of 318,339, a 83% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $72,193 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 53 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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