2022 United States Senate election in New York

2022 United States Senate election in New York

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Nominee Chuck Schumer Joe Pinion
Party Democratic Republican
Alliance Working Families Conservative
Popular vote 3,320,561 2,501,151
Percentage 56.78% 42.76%

Schumer:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90%
Pinion:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90%
Tie:      40–50%      50%
     No votes

U.S. senator before election

Chuck Schumer
Democratic

Elected U.S. senator

Chuck Schumer
Democratic

The 2022 United States Senate election in New York was held on November 8, 2022, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of New York.

Incumbent four-term Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer, who has served as Senate Majority Leader since 2021, was first elected in 1998, defeating Republican incumbent Al D'Amato. Schumer ran for a fifth term. Republican Joe Pinion is the first black Senate nominee of any major party in New York history. The filing deadline for the June primary was April 7, 2022.[1] Schumer became the longest-serving U.S. senator in the state's history once his fifth term began in the 118th Congress.[2]

Though Schumer was comfortably re-elected, he lost significant support on Long Island and Upstate New York compared to his last election in 2016. Pinion flipped the more conservative counties that Schumer had won in his previous runs, as well as some Democratic-leaning counties such as Nassau, Saratoga, Broome, Clinton, and Essex. However, Schumer's lead was large enough in New York City that it was called by most media outlets the moment the polls closed.[3]

Despite Democrats overperforming expectations on a national level during this cycle, this race was the most competitive in Schumer's Senate career since his first election in 1998, when he won by 10.5%, along with being the closest U.S. Senate election from New York since Hillary Clinton won by about 12.3 percentage points in 2000. This was due to a Democratic underperformance in New York state despite their overperformance nationally, and Schumer's performance was still the highest margin (aside from Thomas DiNapoli in the concurrent comptroller election) on the statewide ballot.

  1. ^ Cillizza, Chris (April 20, 2020). "Does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have her eye on a Senate seat?". CNN Politics.
  2. ^ Matthews, Karen; Hajela, Deepti. "New York's Schumer keeps Senate seat, but majority role up for grabs". www.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved November 9, 2022.
  3. ^ McKinley, Jesse (November 9, 2022). "Tough N.Y. Election Holds Lessons for Republicans and Democrats Alike". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 12, 2022.

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