While Kamala Harris did not win the presidency, many Democrats in New York had a better election night.

“I believe that we continue to win even when there is something that may resemble a red wave,” Democratic state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins told reporters on Tuesday.

In the New York state Legislature, Democratic-control appears unshaken — even though Donald Trump made gains in the state.

“The top of the ticket underperformed the presidential nominee’s 2020 margins — here in New York state, candidates who have a direct communication, who have a direct relationship with their constituents and voters in New York state tended to perform pretty well overall,” explained Trip Yang, a Democratic consultant who worked on several state level races both this cycle and in the past.

Boasting a majority since 2019, state Senate Democrats expect to hold 41 of 63 districts.

Ahead of their 2025 return to Albany, Deputy Majority Leader Michael Gianaris says they aren’t changing their playbook.

“What we need to do as a party is not act more like Republicans, because they didn’t really pick up that many votes — we just lost a ton. People stayed home, and so they weren’t making a choice to run to the Republicans. They were just saying, ‘You gotta do better,’” Gianaris told NY1.

The Queens Democrat also runs the fundraising arm of the state Senate Democrats.

“We need to do better. We need to focus on their real concerns and I think the national party should take a page out of the state Legislature here in New York where we have been talking about affordability, child care,” he continued.

While the balance of power largely remains the same in the Legislature, it will be harder for state Senate Democrats to override a veto on a bill from Gov. Kathy Hochul — a rarely used tool available to the Legislature. It has not been attempted during Hochul’s tenure.

The state Board of Elections still needs to finalize election results, but it appears that Senate Democrats lost supermajority status. This means when one party occupies at least two-thirds of the chamber’s seat count.

Republicans say it could help them in the 2026 race for governor.

“Very obviously progressive, left wing bastion and yet: in Brooklyn, we saw not only President Trump’s numbers do better, but certainly we picked up a seat there — that seat broke the supermajority, the veto-proof majority,” state Senate Minority Leader Robert Ortt, a Republican from North Tonawanda, said.

Republican Steve Chan ousted Iwen Chu, the freshman representative of state Senate District 17, including Brooklyn’s Sunset Park and Bensonhurst neighborhoods.

“I do think there’s real opportunity in the city of New York, as evidenced by Senator Chan’s victory, but also as evidenced by Lee Zeldin’s performance in 2022 and Donald Trump’s performance in 24. I think you can see that the right messenger and the right message will connect,” Ortt said. “The Democrats’ closing argument was that if you vote for President Trump, you’re a Nazi, you’re un-American, or you’re garbage. And I just don’t think you know those aren’t compelling arguments. Insulting voters never really, in my view, have ever been very effective.”

The state Assembly’s balance of power is also relatively unchanged. Democrats added one seat and can expect to control 103 out of 150 seats.

“Come Election Day, as a voter, you can make a more nuanced, more complicated, subjective judgment and determine for yourself if the local candidate running for state assembly can best respect your values and you trust them to represent you,” Yang said.

The legislative session starts in early January 2025.