Participation measured against the same-year citizen voting-age population. Audited cycles count total general-election participants — ballots or participating voters, not presidential candidate votes.
2020–20243 cycles · 3 audited
2024 turnout
84.8%12,314 participants ÷ 14,527 CVAP
2020→2022 drop-off
+29.0 ptsPresidential-dependent
Drop-off vs state
+7.3 ptsPositive means a larger decline than the statewide pattern
Mechanical 2026
55.8%Recent-cycle and two-cycle persistence scenarios; not a forecast
Participation by cycle
Presidential Midterm
0%20%40%60%80%100%
61.8%
202020222024
Select a presidential cycle to show it on the map and results ledger above.
Cycle
Participants
CVAP
Turnout
Series
Quality
12,314
14,527 ± 663
84.8%
Audited
E/A
2022Mid
9,075
14,688 ± 613
61.8%
Audited
E/A
12,420
13,682 ± 604
90.8%
Audited
E/A
Sources and methods
2024: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 323/229.
2022: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 322/184.
2020: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 321/4.
presidential history
Party record book
Niskayuna, NY · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
2004–2024 · 6 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
66.8%
8,260 votes · D+35.7
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 65.9%
Republican
George W. Bush2004
41.8%
4,676 votes · D+14.7
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · 38.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
8,260votes
66.8% of the vote · D+35.7
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 7,995 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
4,676votes
41.8% of the vote · D+14.7
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · 4,333 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
Kamala Harris2024
+35.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+33.9 · U.S. R+1.5
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +31.2 pts
Republican
John McCain2008
−14.4pts R vs U.S.
Place D+21.7 · U.S. D+7.3
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · −17.2 pts
U.S. House elections · 2 House
U.S. House
Each row shows U.S. House votes counted inside this Place. “Vote lead” is the local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
Niskayuna · which candidate this place backed in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain. The figures below are Schenectady County, New York, the county containing Niskayuna — Niskayuna’s own primary vote sits inside those totals and is not separately reported.
Presidential nominating contests in Niskayuna, by party and cycle.
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
Niskayuna's professional-class demographic reflects decades of General Electric's global research campus anchoring the community, producing an electorate that has leaned toward college-educated suburban voting patterns in recent cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 35.7 points in 2020. Between 2020 and 2024 the city moved 1.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 33.9 points.
A population of 21,227, a 75% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $134,052 describe the city. The city's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Springdale and Greentree.
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Political twins — cities
The cities 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.
In 2024, Niskayuna, New York voted Democratic by 33.9 points (D+33.9), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 12,129 votes cast, 7,995 went Democratic and 3,883 went Republican.
How many people live in Niskayuna, New York?
Niskayuna, New York has a population of 21,227 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Niskayuna, New York?
Median household income in Niskayuna, New York is $134,052 — above the national median of $80,734. The New York state median is $85,974.
What is the political history of Niskayuna, New York?
Akashic tracks 6 presidential elections in Niskayuna, New York from 2004 to 2024. Of those, 6 went Democratic and 0 went Republican.
