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New York 1st Congressional District

Contests in this Place (80 available)

President38 · 1876–2024 · 3 mapped

▦ precinct · ▥ counties · ▢ no spatial detail

President margin by year

Place winner margin

1876–2024 · D minus R

Full record · 1876 → 2024

2024

District by 2024 margin · Precinct returns · VEST · MIT Election Lab

The precinct map shows the 2024 presidential vote; the timeline scrubs the district’s overall result across 1892–2024, on its current boundaries.

People and households

Who lives here

Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.

Race · ethnicity · ancestry

Communities and origins

Italian24.9%10.9%4.8%

Irish19.6%10.5%9.4%

German13.3%8.6%12.5%

English5.1%5.6%9.5%

Polish4.8%3.9%2.2%

American4.7%4.2%5.3%

Russian1.8%1.2%—

Greek1.5%——

Salvadoran3.3%0.9%0.7%

Puerto Rican2.8%5.1%1.8%

Dominican1.6%4.6%0.7%

Ecuadorian1.3%1.6%—

Mexican1.0%2.5%11.3%

Colombian1.0%0.9%0.4%

Guatemalan0.7%0.5%0.5%

Honduran0.7%0.3%0.3%

Asian Indian1.5%1.9%1.4%

Chinese1.2%3.6%1.3%

Pakistani0.7%0.4%—

Filipino0.5%0.6%0.9%

Korean0.3%0.6%0.4%

Bangladeshi0.2%0.6%—

African American†2.8%8.0%9.9%

Haitian0.6%0.9%0.3%

Jamaican0.5%1.6%0.4%

Guyanese0.2%0.7%—

Hispanic or Latino counts residents of any race; the race groups count only their non-Hispanic residents, so the groups are mutually exclusive and sum to 100%. Expand a row to see ancestries reported within that group.

Age and life stage

Measure	NY-1	New York	United States
Median age	44.1	39.9	39.1
Age 18–24	9.0%	9.0%	9.2%
Age 65 and older	17.9%	18.0%	17.2%

Household economy

Measure	NY-1	New York	United States
Median household income	$134,242	$85,974	$84,427
Poverty rate	6.2%	14.0%	12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)	40.2%	40.0%	35.6%

Housing and tenure

Measure	NY-1	New York	United States
Owner-occupied homes	82.2%	54.3%	65.2%
Renter-occupied homes	17.8%	45.7%	34.8%
Median home value	—	$423,800	$332,700
Median gross rent (monthly)	—	$1,621	$1,413
Renters paying 30%+ of income	58.8%	52.1%	51.1%
Vacant housing units	11.7%	10.0%	10.1%

Getting to work

Measure	NY-1	New York	United States
Mean commute	31.1 min	32.6 min	26.4 min
Commutes 60 minutes or more	14.1%	16.8%	8.6%
Drives alone to work	72.1%	48.8%	68.8%
Takes public transit	4.8%	21.6%	3.2%
Works from home	12.0%	14.9%	15.1%

Languages at home

Measure	NY-1	New York	United States
Speaks a non-English language at home	24.8%	30.9%	22.3%
Spanish	16.1%	14.8%	13.6%
French (incl. Cajun & Haitian)	1.1%	1.5%	0.7%
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic	1.1%	2.0%	0.7%
Other Indo-European	3.3%	4.0%	2.0%

Religious landscape

Measure	NY-1	New York	United States
Catholic	—	30.8%	18.6%
Evangelical Protestant	—	5.1%	16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted	—	48.7%	51.5%

Origins and service

Measure	NY-1	New York	United States
Foreign-born residents	16.8%	22.8%	14.1%
Naturalized citizens	9.9%	13.6%	7.4%
Not U.S. citizens	6.9%	9.2%	6.8%
Veterans (18+)	4.0%	3.7%	6.2%
Income inequality (Gini)	—	0.517	0.483

American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations · American Community Survey 2024 — housing and tenure (B25003, B25002, B25077, B25064, B25070), commuting (B08013, B08303, B08301), origins and service (B05002, B21001, B19083) · District housing, commuting and origins figures are constituent-county values weighted by each county’s share of the district — the Census publishes these at 119th-Congress lines and Akashic maps districts on the 2026 (cd:120) lines.

President results by year

Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries

HarrisDemocratic44.7%190,061TrumpRepublican54.8%233,190OtherAll other candidates0.5%1,939

R+10.1

Lead: 43,129
Total: 425,190
vs nation: R+8.7

modeled Census-place estimatereview required

BidenDemocratic48.6%207,865TrumpRepublican50.3%215,368OtherAll other candidates1.1%4,844

R+1.8

Lead: 7,503
Total: 428,077
vs nation: R+6.2

modeled Census-place estimatemodeled estimate

ClintonDemocratic43.1%162,103TrumpRepublican52.9%199,097OtherAll other candidates4.0%14,962

R+9.8

Lead: 36,994
Total: 376,162
vs nation: R+11.9

exact aggregate

ObamaDemocratic49.6%162,185RomneyRepublican49.0%160,220OtherAll other candidates1.4%4,679

D+0.6

Lead: 1,965
Total: 327,084
vs nation: R+3.3

modeled Census-place estimatemodeled estimate

ObamaDemocratic50.9%184,685McCainRepublican48.1%174,352OtherAll other candidates1.0%3,566

D+2.8

Lead: 10,333
Total: 362,603
vs nation: R+4.4

modeled Census-place estimatemodeled estimate

KerryDemocratic48.0%168,362BushRepublican50.2%176,015OtherAll other candidates1.8%6,149

R+2.2

Lead: 7,653
Total: 350,526
vs nation: D+0.3

modeled Census-place estimatemodeled estimate

GoreDemocratic51.9%163,427BushRepublican43.4%136,778OtherAll other candidates4.7%14,904

D+8.5

Lead: 26,649
Total: 315,109
vs nation: D+7.9

modeled Census-place estimatemodeled estimate

ClintonDemocratic50.3%139,724DoleRepublican37.3%103,611OtherAll other candidates12.4%34,439

D+13.0

Lead: 36,113
Total: 277,774
vs nation: D+4.5

modeled Census-place estimatemodeled estimate

Key facts

2024 presidential margin: R+10.1MIT Election Lab
Population: 776,9662024 5-year
Population density: 1,171 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
Land area: 664 sq miTIGER/Line
Median household income: $134,2422024 5-year
White (non-Hispanic): 72.3%2024 5-year
Black: 4.2%2024 5-year
Hispanic / Latino: 14.9%2024 5-year
Peak Democratic margin: D+13.0 in 1996MIT Election Lab
Peak Republican margin: R+57.6 in 1956MIT Election Lab
Most similar: Congressional District 2, NY · twin score 91.3

presidential history

Party record book

New York 1st Congressional 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

Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.

Democratic

Lyndon B. Johnson1964

53.9%

96,273 votes · D+8.0 · modeled estimate

Runner-up · Al Gore, 2000 · 51.9%

Republican

Dwight D. Eisenhower1956

78.8%

95,219 votes · R+57.6 · modeled estimate

Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 75.7%

Most votes

Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.

Democratic

Joe Biden2020

207,865votes

48.6% of the vote · R+1.8 · modeled estimate

Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 184,685 votes

Republican

Donald Trump2020

215,368votes

50.3% of the vote · R+1.8 · modeled estimate

Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · 199,097 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

Al Gore2000

+7.9pts D vs U.S.

Place D+8.5 · U.S. D+0.5 · modeled estimate

Runner-up · Bill Clinton, 1996 · +4.5 pts

Republican

Thomas E. Dewey1948

+50.6pts R vs U.S.

Place R+46.1 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate

Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · +49.5 pts

current representation

Current officeholders

RNicolas LaLotaU.S. House · NY-01+0.25

DChuck SchumerU.S. Senate-0.35

DKirsten GillibrandU.S. Senate-0.45

Federal officeholders only. State and local officeholders are planned for the next data pass.

2026 election

On the ballot

NY-01 · U.S. House

Republican Nicolas LaLota holds the seat and is contesting it.

Primary held June 23, 2026. Akashic does not yet carry the nominees for this contest.

How the seat has run

Year	U.S. House	President	Ran ahead
2024	R+10.4Nick Lalota	R+10.1	+0.3
2022	R+11.0Nicholas J Lalota	—	—
2020	R+9.7Lee M Zeldin	R+1.8	—
2018	R+4.1Lee M Zeldin	—	—

“Ran ahead” is how far the winning party’s House candidate ran ahead of that party’s presidential margin in the same district. A dash means the House race and the presidential figure were measured on different district lines, so the two cannot be subtracted — both are still shown unchanged.

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U.S. House

Each result reflects the U.S. House district as it was drawn for that election; redistricting has redrawn these lines over time, so they can differ from the current 120th-Congress district shown on the map above.

Source · MIT Election Lab (MEDSL), House. CC BY 4.0.
Year	District	Won	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	1	R	44.8%183,540	55.2%226,285	410,100
2022	1	R	44.5%141,907	55.5%177,040	318,995
2020	1	R	45.1%169,294	54.8%205,715	375,116
2018	1	R	47.4%127,991	51.5%139,027	270,053
2016	1	R	41.8%135,278	58.2%188,499	323,890
2014	1	R	45.6%78,722	54.4%94,035	172,757
2012	1	D	52.4%145,198	47.6%131,650	276,848
2010	1	D	50.2%98,316	49.8%97,723	196,039
2008	1	D	58.4%162,083	41.6%115,545	277,628
2006	1	D	62.2%104,360	37.8%63,328	167,688
2004	1	D	56.2%156,354	43.8%121,855	278,209
2002	1	D	50.2%84,276	48.6%81,524	167,791
2000	1	R	40.6%97,299	55.5%133,020	239,604
1998	1	R	35.9%55,630	64.1%99,460	155,090
1996	1	R	45.3%96,496	54.7%116,620	213,116
1994	1	R	43.5%80,146	49.2%90,491	184,033
1992	1	D	51.7%117,940	48.3%110,043	227,983
1990	1	D	52.5%75,211	32.4%46,380	143,180
1988	1	D	50.8%105,624	49.2%102,327	207,951
1986	1	D	51.2%67,139	42.3%55,413	131,031
1984	1	R	46.9%94,551	53.1%107,029	201,580
1982	1	R	36.1%49,787	63.9%88,234	138,021
1980	1	R	41.9%85,629	56.3%115,213	204,486
1978	1	R	41.9%67,180	56.3%90,115	160,204
1976	1	D	65.3%135,528	29.7%61,671	207,468

New York 1st Congressional District sits in the Mid-Atlantic. In 2024 it voted Republican.

Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 13.0 points in 1996 and a Republican high of 57.6 points in 1956. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 8.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 10.1 points.

A population of 776,966, a 72% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $134,242 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Congressional District 2 and Congressional District 17.

Political twins — districts

The congressional districts whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.

Congressional District 2

New York

91.3twin score

elasticity% Catholic% unaffiliated≠ 12-yr trend

Congressional District 17

New York

86.4twin score

median income% Evangelical% unaffiliated≠ elasticity

Congressional District 4

New York

85.1twin score

elasticity% Catholicmedian income≠ median age

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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Frequently asked questions

How did New York 1st Congressional District vote in 2024?

In 2024, New York 1st Congressional District voted Republican by 10.1 points (R+10.1), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 425,190 votes cast, 190,061 went Democratic and 233,190 went Republican.

When did New York 1st Congressional District last vote Democratic?

The most recent presidential election in which New York 1st Congressional District voted Democratic was 2012.

How many people live in New York 1st Congressional District?

New York 1st Congressional District has a population of 776,966 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.

What is the median household income in New York 1st Congressional District?

Median household income in New York 1st Congressional District is $134,242 — above the national median of $80,734. The New York state median is $85,974.

What is the political history of New York 1st Congressional District?

Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in New York 1st Congressional District from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 6 went Democratic and 32 went Republican.

Measure

NY-1

New York

United States

Median age

44.1

39.9

39.1

Age 18–24

9.0%

9.2%

Age 65 and older

17.9%

18.0%

17.2%

Measure

NY-1

New York

United States

Median household income

$134,242

$85,974

$84,427

Poverty rate

6.2%

14.0%

12.5%

Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)

40.2%

40.0%

35.6%

Measure

NY-1

New York

United States

Owner-occupied homes

82.2%

54.3%

65.2%

Renter-occupied homes

17.8%

45.7%

34.8%

Median home value

—

$423,800

$332,700

Median gross rent (monthly)

—

$1,621

$1,413

Renters paying 30%+ of income

58.8%

52.1%

51.1%

Vacant housing units

11.7%

10.0%

10.1%

Measure

NY-1

New York

United States

Mean commute

31.1 min

32.6 min

26.4 min

Commutes 60 minutes or more

14.1%

16.8%

8.6%

Drives alone to work

72.1%

48.8%

68.8%

Takes public transit

4.8%

21.6%

3.2%

Works from home

12.0%

14.9%

15.1%

Measure

NY-1

New York

United States

Speaks a non-English language at home

24.8%

30.9%

22.3%

Spanish

16.1%

14.8%

13.6%

French (incl. Cajun & Haitian)

1.1%

1.5%

0.7%

Russian, Polish, or other Slavic

1.1%

2.0%

0.7%

Other Indo-European

3.3%

4.0%

2.0%

Measure

NY-1

New York

United States

Catholic

—

30.8%

18.6%

Evangelical Protestant

—

5.1%

16.5%

Unclaimed / not counted

—

48.7%

51.5%

Measure

NY-1

New York

United States

Foreign-born residents

16.8%

22.8%

14.1%

Naturalized citizens

9.9%

13.6%

7.4%

Not U.S. citizens

6.9%

9.2%

6.8%

Veterans (18+)

4.0%

3.7%

6.2%

Income inequality (Gini)

—

0.517

0.483

Key facts

2024 presidential margin

R+10.1MIT Election Lab

Population

776,9662024 5-year

Population density

1,171 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line

Land area

664 sq miTIGER/Line

Median household income

$134,2422024 5-year

White (non-Hispanic)

72.3%2024 5-year

Black

4.2%2024 5-year

Hispanic / Latino

14.9%2024 5-year

Peak Democratic margin

D+13.0 in 1996MIT Election Lab

Peak Republican margin

R+57.6 in 1956MIT Election Lab

Most similar

Congressional District 2, NY · twin score 91.3

Year

U.S. House

President

Ran ahead

2024

R+10.4Nick Lalota

R+10.1

+0.3

2022

R+11.0Nicholas J Lalota

—

2020

R+9.7Lee M Zeldin

R+1.8

—

2018

R+4.1Lee M Zeldin

—

Source · MIT Election Lab (MEDSL), House. CC BY 4.0.

Year

District

Won

Democratic

Republican

Total

2024

44.8%183,540

55.2%226,285

410,100

2022

44.5%141,907

55.5%177,040

318,995

2020

45.1%169,294

54.8%205,715

375,116

2018

47.4%127,991

51.5%139,027

270,053

2016

41.8%135,278

58.2%188,499

323,890

2014

45.6%78,722

54.4%94,035

172,757

2012

52.4%145,198

47.6%131,650

276,848

2010

50.2%98,316

49.8%97,723

196,039

2008

58.4%162,083

41.6%115,545

277,628

2006

62.2%104,360

37.8%63,328

167,688

2004

56.2%156,354

43.8%121,855

278,209

2002

50.2%84,276

48.6%81,524

167,791

2000

40.6%97,299

55.5%133,020

239,604

1998

35.9%55,630

64.1%99,460

155,090

1996

45.3%96,496

54.7%116,620

213,116

1994

43.5%80,146

49.2%90,491

184,033

1992

51.7%117,940

48.3%110,043

227,983

1990

52.5%75,211

32.4%46,380

143,180

1988

50.8%105,624

49.2%102,327

207,951

1986

51.2%67,139

42.3%55,413

131,031

1984

46.9%94,551

53.1%107,029

201,580

1982

36.1%49,787

63.9%88,234

138,021

1980

41.9%85,629

56.3%115,213

204,486

1978

41.9%67,180

56.3%90,115

160,204

1976

65.3%135,528

29.7%61,671

207,468