New York elections in 2026

28 electoral votes · 26 House seats · Mid-Atlantic · 1 statewide race on the 2026 ballot

Simulationas of 27 Sep 2026

New York Governor: D 52.0 to R 46.0, lean Democratic, well sourced. Hochul Leads Blakeman in New York But Siena Poll Shows Tightening Race

House delegation as simulated: 17 D, 6 R, 3 tossups of 26 districts swept.

Model readings of live reporting, not polling. The full New York board, with sourcing and the county map where one exists, is on the Midterms 2026 tab of the homepage.

How New York votes

New York's politics are set by the scale of New York City against a large upstate with distinct economies from Buffalo to the North Country. Democrats dominate statewide, while cost of living, crime and migration policy drive its internal battles.

Its largest population centers include New York City, Buffalo, Rochester, Albany. Where a state's people live, and what those places do for a living, is the starting point for how Electorate HQ simulations reason about it.

On the ballot in New York

Election day is November 3, 2026. New York has 1 statewide race and 26 House seats on the ballot.

Statewide races

New York governor's race

House districts

Every House seat is elected every two years. Each district below is listed with the counties inside it, computed from the current Census boundary files, wherever those files give a clean answer. Not sure which district is yours? Use the address lookup below.

Find your exact districts

Your address goes to the U.S. Census Bureau's public geocoder to find your districts. It is not stored, and no AI sees it.

Which district am I in? New York districts by county

House districts follow population, not county lines, so a single county can hold several districts and a single district can span many. Each county is listed under the district that holds its center, so if your county appears once above, that district holds most of it and is probably yours. If it appears under several, or if you live near a district line, use the address lookup for the exact answer.

Before you vote in New York

Registration deadlines, early voting windows, mail ballot rules and identification requirements are all set at the state level and change between cycles, so the authoritative source is your own election office rather than any national site. The federal directory at vote.gov links to every state's registration system, and your county election office publishes the sample ballot that includes local contests.

The ballot section above covers the federal and statewide offices on the New York ballot for November 3, 2026. Each statewide race links to a page with current coverage and an AI-generated simulation of the contest, always labeled as a simulation rather than a poll.

Local races

Local councils and commissions, school boards, judges, sheriffs and municipal offices are also on many New York ballots, and they vary block by block. Your county election office publishes the authoritative local sample ballot.

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New York's weight in Washington

New York carries 28 electoral votes, which ranks it 4 of 51 by that measure, and sends 26 voting members to the House.

That arithmetic is why the same national argument lands differently here than in a state of another size: a candidate courting New York is competing for a specific share of the map, and the issues below are the ones that share actually turns on.

How New York is represented

New York is divided into 26 House districts, each drawn to hold roughly the same number of people, while its two Senate seats represent the state as a whole. A campaign here therefore runs two different arguments at once: a local one shaped by whichever district a voter lives in, and a statewide one that has to hold together across all 26.

Electoral votes follow the same arithmetic, House seats plus two, which is why New York carries 28 in a presidential year and why small states carry proportionally more weight there than population alone would give them. The district list above shows every district on the 2026 ballot and the counties the boundary files place inside each one.

Latest New York political headlines

Election Day 2026: Hochul leads Blakeman by 9 points in new poll of likely voters for New York governorABC7 New York · 23 Sep 2026AI Safety: Governor Hochul Announces Next Steps to Regulate Major AI Developers and Protect New YorkersGovernor Kathy Hochul (.gov) · 21 Sep 2026New York Election 2026: Key Races and Historical Presidential Election Resultsnbcnews.com · 26 Sep 2026More Affordable, Safer, Better Run: Mayor Mamdani’s First Management Report Shows ‘Pothole Politics’ is Working Across City GovernmentNYC.gov · 17 Sep 2026Interpreting Wednesday’s dual polls in the race for N.Y. governorSpectrum News · 23 Sep 2026NY Governor's Race: Hochul Up 19 Points Over Blakeman With The Cost Of Living & Economy Top Of Voters' Minds, Quinnipiac University New York State Poll Finds; Senator Chuck Schumer's Job Approval: 36%Quinnipiac University Poll · 23 Sep 2026Siena Poll Of Likely New York State Voters: Hochul 50%, Blakeman 41% (Hochul 49-39% in August)Siena Poll · 23 Sep 2026Mamdani Administration Advances Plan to Build Nearly 4,000 New Homes at 100 Gold StreetNYC.gov · 23 Sep 2026

Simulate New York

In the Electorate HQ simulator, New York is one of 51 delegations that reads current reporting and decides a presidential race issue by issue. Results are AI simulations, clearly labeled, with the reasoning shown for every call. See the methodology for what that does and does not mean.

Analysis covering New York

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