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state senate district

New York 55th State Senate District

Contests in this Place (43 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

Boundary 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

Italian17.2%10.9%4.8%

German17.1%8.6%12.5%

Irish15.1%10.5%9.4%

English11.6%5.6%9.5%

Polish4.8%3.9%2.2%

American4.4%4.2%5.3%

French2.0%1.3%1.6%

Scottish1.8%—1.3%

African American†11.0%8.0%9.9%

Jamaican0.6%1.6%0.4%

African0.5%0.6%0.5%

Ethiopian0.2%——

Somali0.2%——

Haitian0.2%0.9%0.3%

West Indian0.2%0.4%—

Puerto Rican6.8%5.1%1.8%

Mexican0.7%2.5%11.3%

Dominican0.6%4.6%0.7%

Cuban0.4%—0.7%

Spanish0.3%——

Chinese0.8%3.6%1.3%

Asian Indian0.7%1.9%1.4%

Vietnamese0.3%—0.6%

Korean0.3%0.6%0.4%

Nepalese0.3%——

Filipino0.2%0.6%0.9%

Burmese0.2%——

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 SD 55	New York	United States
Median age	40.7	39.9	39.1
Age 18–24	9.7%	9.0%	9.2%
Age 65 and older	18.8%	18.0%	17.2%

Household economy

Measure	NY SD 55	New York	United States
Median household income	$81,951	$85,974	$84,427
Poverty rate	11.9%	14.0%	12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)	41.5%	40.0%	35.6%

Housing and tenure

Measure	NY SD 55	New York	United States
Owner-occupied homes	64.6%	54.3%	65.2%
Renter-occupied homes	35.4%	45.7%	34.8%
Median home value	$239,200	$423,800	$332,700
Median gross rent (monthly)	$1,200	$1,621	$1,413
Renters paying 30%+ of income	50.3%	52.1%	51.1%
Vacant housing units	5.9%	10.0%	10.1%

Getting to work

Measure	NY SD 55	New York	United States
Mean commute	19.6 min	32.6 min	26.4 min
Commutes 60 minutes or more	2.7%	16.8%	8.6%
Drives alone to work	69.4%	48.8%	68.8%
Takes public transit	1.6%	21.6%	3.2%
Works from home	18.2%	14.9%	15.1%

Languages at home

Measure	NY SD 55	New York	United States
Speaks a non-English language at home	12.6%	30.9%	22.3%
Spanish	5.8%	14.8%	13.6%
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic	1.1%	2.0%	0.7%
Other Indo-European	1.9%	4.0%	2.0%

Religious landscape

Measure	NY SD 55	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 SD 55	New York	United States
Foreign-born residents	7.5%	22.8%	14.1%
Naturalized citizens	4.9%	13.6%	7.4%
Not U.S. citizens	2.6%	9.2%	6.8%
Veterans (18+)	4.5%	3.7%	6.2%
Income inequality (Gini)	0.470	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).

President results by year

Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries

HarrisDemocratic63.7%104,178TrumpRepublican35.4%57,811OtherAll other candidates0.9%1,512

D+28.4

Lead: 46,367
Total: 163,501
vs nation: D+29.8

modeled Census-place estimatereview required

BidenDemocratic63.4%109,111TrumpRepublican34.0%58,593OtherAll other candidates2.6%4,473

D+29.3

Lead: 50,518
Total: 172,177
vs nation: D+24.9