Election Day Digest – NY Election Results

Election Night Results: Please note that all results represent unofficial totals and have yet to account for remaining absentee/affidavit ballots to be counted.

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Congress

Following the 2024 elections, New York will be represented by nineteen Democrats and seven Republicans in Congress with the victory of Tom Suozzi in the February 2024 Special Election in NY-3 and subsequent re-election in November along with the Democratic pickups of Laura Gillen in CD-4, Josh Riley in CD-19 and John Mannion in CD-22.

CD-1 (Suffolk): Republican incumbent Nick LaLota defeated Democratic challenger John Avlon in this Suffolk County contest by 11 points (56%) or 44,761 votes. Democrats had hopes of a pickup here, but LaLota ultimately improved his margin of victory by nearly 10,000 votes.

CD-3 (Queens, Nassau, Suffolk): Democratic incumbent Tom Suozzi defeated Republican Mike LiPetri by 3 points (51%) or 10,258 votes to win another full term after handily winning a Special Election to win back his old seat in February. His seat was the first of four House pickups for Democrats in New York this election cycle.

CD-4 (Nassau): Democratic challenger Laura Gillen defeated Republican incumbent Anthony D’Esposito by 2 points (51%) or 7,366 votes. After losing to D’Esposito by nearly 10,000 votes in 2022, former Hempstead Town Supervisor Laura Gillen was able to flip this seat back to the Democrats who had previously held the seat with Carolyn McCarthy from 1997-2014 and with Kathleen Rice from 2015-2022.

CD-16 (Bronx, Westchester): After defeating Democratic incumbent Jamaal Bowman in a primary, Democratic nominee Westchester County Executive George Latimer comfortably defeated his Republican challenger Miriam Flisser by nearly 40 points in this overwhelmingly Democratic district. After Latimer officially takes his position, the Westchester County Legislature will have to appoint an acting county executive. Following that appointment, the Legislature has 90 days to declare a special election to fill the remainder of the term through 2025. The heavy favorite to succeed Latimer is Ken Jenkins, Latimer’s deputy, who would be the first Black Westchester County Executive. Latimer has given his political blessing to Jenkins as the “most prepared individual” to become County Executive.

CD-17 (Dutchess, Putnam, Rockland, Westchester): Republican incumbent Mike Lawler defeated Democratic challenger and former Congressman Mondaire Jones by 7 points (51%) or 24,845 votes. After narrowly defeating incumbent Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney by 1,820 votes in 2022, Lawler was able to substantially improve upon his margin of victory. Republicans will likely be looking to Lawler as one of their top 2026 prospects to take on Governor Hochul.

CD-18 (Dutchess, Orange, Ulster): Democratic incumbent Pat Ryan defeated Republican challenger Alison Esposito by 13 points (57%), or 46,398 votes. After only winning by approximately 3,500 votes in 2022, Ryan was able to substantially improve upon his margin of victory and achieved a statement victory.

CD-19 (Broome, Chenango, Columbia, Cortland, Delaware, Greene, Otsego, Rensselaer, Sullivan, Tompkins, Ulster): Democratic challenger Josh Riley currently leads Republican incumbent Marc Molinaro by 0.8 points (50.6%) or 4,045 votes after losing to Molinaro by an almost identical margin in 2022. While the AP has called the race for Riley and remaining ballots to be counted are expected to favor Riley, if the margin of victory drops to 0.5% or less, a manual recount will be triggered according to New York election law.

CD-22 (Cayuga, Cortland, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga): Democratic challenger State Senator John Mannion defeated Republican incumbent Brandon Williams by 8 points (54%) or 28,174 votes. After securing re-election to the State Senate in 2022 by just 10 votes, Mannion had the joyous feeling of knowing he was victorious on election night. Mannion’s race was a top priority for Democrats. The New York State Democratic Party Coordinated Campaign led an unprecedented direct voter contact effort across Central New York with over 1 million phone calls and 100,000 door knocks that more than tripled the field effort here on the ground in 2022 strongly contributing to Mannion’s margin of victory.

State Senate

With the defeat of Iwen Chu in Southern Brooklyn, Senate Democrats lost their supermajority but will return to Albany with a strong majority of at least 40 members in 2025. That will increase to 41 members if Democratic candidate Chris Ryan holds on to his current lead in SD-50.

SD-1 (Suffolk): Republican incumbent Anthony Palumbo defeated Democratic challenger Sarah Anker by 6 points (51%), or 10,823 votes. Democrats had invested considerable resources in Anker’s candidacy, but Palumbo won a third term to the State Senate.

SD-4 (Suffolk): Democratic incumbent Monica Martinez defeated Republican challenger Teresa Bryant by 11 points (52%), or 13,228 votes. After winning re-election in 2022 by only 2,000 votes, Martinez was able to substantially improve upon her margin of victory.

SD-7 (Nassau): Republican incumbent Jack Martins defeated Democratic challenger Kim Keiserman by 10 points (52%), or 16,567 votes. While Keiserman took full advantage of the Public Matching Funds Program to elevate her candidacy, it was ultimately Martins who was able to capitalize on higher name recognition to secure his re-election.

SD-9 (Nassau): Republican incumbent Patricia Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick defeated Democratic challenger James Lynch by 8 points (50%), or 13,495 votes. Since the 2020 Presidential Election, the political current has shifted to the GOP in Nassau both in SD-7 and in SD-9. Democrats have held both districts before and will look to identify the winning candidates and messaging looking ahead to 2026.

SD-11 (Queens): In a district that could arguably pass for the NYC leftovers of the 2022 redistricting efforts of the Special Master that includes Rikers Island and loops around Eastern, Northern, and Western Queens, Democratic incumbent Toby Stavisky defeated Republican challenger Yiatin Chu by 7 points (50%), or 7,537 votes. In 2022, Stavisky ran in this redrawn district that only encompassed 2 percent of her former district. This time, Stavisky’s Republican opponent came from a growing Asian constituency that has trended towards the GOP with Chu improving on Stefano Forte’s performance in 2022.

SD-17 (Brooklyn): In 2022, Iwen Chu had the closest margin of victory for any Senate Democrat in New York City winning her election by just over 500 votes. This time, Republicans arguably ran a much better candidate that better fit this district that has a plurality of Asian American voters. Republican challenger Steve Chan, a former Marine and retired NYPD sergeant defeated Democratic incumbent Iwen Chu by 9 points (50%) or 5,632 votes. Chu’s defeat guarantees that Senate Democrats will lose their supermajority status that they have enjoyed for the past four years.

SD-23 (Brooklyn, Staten Island): After winning a close race to succeed her political mentor Diane Savino, Democratic incumbent Jessica Scarcella Spanton defeated Republican challenger Marko Kepi by 8 points (50%) or 8,150 votes to win re-election. Scarcella-Spanton was able to improve upon her 2022 margin of victory where she originally won election by just over 1,000 votes.

SD-38 (Rockland): Democratic challenger and former State Senator Elijah Reichlin-Melnick was unsuccessful in his comeback attempt losing his re-election bid to Republican incumbent Bill Weber by 8 points (49%) or 9,802 votes.

SD-39 (Dutchess, Orange, Putnam): Republican incumbent Rob Rolison defeated Democratic challenger Yvette Valdés Smith by 2 points (49%) or 3,875 votes. Democrats had placed high hopes in Valdés Smith and multiple independent expenditure groups had also supported her candidacy. While Valdés Smith edged out Rolison in Putnam and matched Rolison in Orange, her margin of defeat to Rolison came in Dutchess where Rolison’s strengths in Poughkeepsie overcame the strengths of Valdés Smith in Beacon.

SD-40 (Putnam, Rockland, Westchester): Democratic incumbent Peter Harckham defeated Republican challenger Gina Arena by 5 points (51%) or 10,962 votes. This is the second consecutive election where Harckham has defeated Arena. Harckham heads back to Albany for a fourth two-year term.

SD-41 (Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Ulster): After winning close races in 2020 and 2022, Democratic incumbent Michelle Hinchey was seeking a statement win in 2024 and accomplished it defeating Republican challenger Patrick Sheehan by 16 points (57%) or 28,620 votes. In the GOP stronghold of Greene County, Hinchey received just under 44 percent, matching President Obama’s historic 2012 performance and took care of business in Columbia (57%), Dutchess (53.2%), and Ulster (63.1%).

SD-42 (Orange): In 2022, Democratic incumbent James Skoufis came dangerously close to losing his seat to Republican challenger Dorey Houle. This time around, Skoufis handily defeated his Republican challenger in the rematch. While Skoufis was assisted by having Timothy Mitts on the Conservative line, he was still able to defeat Houle by 12 points (51%), or 17,157 votes. Skoufis continues to have a unique pulse on his district and once again dramatically outperformed the Democratic top of the ticket.

SD-46 (Albany, Montgomery, Schenectady): Democratic Assemblymember Patricia Fahy comfortably defeated Republican Ted Danz by 10 points (53%) or 15,431 votes to succeed long-time State Senator Neil Breslin who chose not to seek re-election. Fahy was able to improve upon Breslin’s margin of victory by over 3,000 votes by running up the score in familiar Albany County and holding the line in the newer territory of Rotterdam and Scotia/Glenville offsetting more Republican areas of Montgomery and Schenectady counties. As Fahy moves to the upper chamber, look for her to immediately become a strong voice for Upstate in the Senate Majority.

SD-48 (Cayuga, Onondaga): Democratic incumbent Rachel May was able to comfortably win re-election over her Republican challenger Caleb Slater by 15 points (55%) or 20,462 votes. Democrats are likely encouraged by May’s substantial improvement over her 2022 performance including winning just under 60 percent of the vote in Onondaga. They will look to the 2026 election cycle with the hope that May’s margin of victory could move her district into being considered a safer seat.

SD-52 (Broome, Cortland, Tompkins): Democratic incumbent Lea Webb defeated Republican challenger Michael Sigler by 14 points (55%), or 19,050 votes. While Webb edged out Sigler in Broome, her margin of victory came by dominating in Tompkins County winning nearly 70 percent of the vote. Republicans had hoped that Sigler would cut into Webb’s margins in Tompkins County. After winning a close race in 2022, Webb’s strong performance is certainly an encouragement for Senate Democrats who made a substantial investment to support her campaign both in 2022 and in 2024.

SD-56: Democratic incumbent Jeremy Cooney won a third term once again defeating Republican challenger Jim VanBrederode by 16 points (56%) or 21,141 votes. Democrats will hope that third term victories from Brouk and Cooney move both of their Rochester districts into safer territory.

New Senators

• GOP: Steve Chan (SD-17)
• Dem: Siela Bynoe (SD-6), Patricia Fahy (SD-46), April Baskin (SD-63)
• TBD: Democrat Chris Ryan or Republican Nick Paro (SD-50)

As of November 8^th, the Associated Press has not yet called the race between Democratic candidate Onondaga County Legislature Minority Leader Chris Ryan and Republican candidate Salina Town Supervisor Nick Paro for the 50^th State Senate district comprising portions of Onondaga and Oswego. Ryan currently leads Paro by 0.35% (48.67%) or 528 votes. Under New York State Election Law, a manual recount is required if the margin of victory is 0.5% or less after the canvassing of all absentee and affidavit ballots eligible to be counted. Democrats are hopeful that Ryan can grow his current lead of 550 votes above the recount threshold with the remaining absentees and affidavits. Two years ago, now Congressman-elect John Mannion went through the manual recount process winning re-election by only 10 votes.

State Assembly

Apparent Democratic pickups of Rebecca Kassay (AD-4), Judy Griffin (AD-21), and Aron Wieder (AD-97) will help Assembly Democrats offset the loss of Monica Wallace (AD-143) and the apparent loss of Gina Sillitti (AD-16) to have a net pickup of one seat to 103 members retaining their supermajority.

AD-1 (Suffolk): Democratic candidate Tommy John Schiavoni defeated Republican candidate Stephen Kiely by 12 points (53%) or 7,088 votes. Schiavoni becomes the new voice for the East End of Long Island in the Assembly Majority replacing longtime Assemblymember Fred Thiele.

AD-23 (Queens): After winning re-election by only 15 votes in 2022, Pheffer Amato won re-election by 2 points (49%) or 1,092 votes. Winning by 1,000 votes is certainly of greater comfort than 15 but you can expect this district to be competitive once again in 2026.

AD-25 (Queens): In a near upset, Democratic incumbent Nily Rozic won re-election by 5 points (49%) or 1,681 votes. Republican candidate Kenneth Paek was able to galvanize substantial support in the Asian community and substantially reduced Rozic’s margin of victory from 2022.

AD-40 (Queens): In 2022, Democratic incumbent Ron Kim won a close race by 356 votes. In 2024, he was able to win more comfortably by 10 points (51%) or 2,328 votes defeating his Republican challenger, Philip Wang.

AD-46 (Brooklyn): Republican incumbent Alec Brook-Krasny defeated Democratic challenger Chris McCreight by 4 points (47%) or 1,926 votes. Democrats had placed substantial hopes and resources into Chris McCreight but were unable to overcome growing Republican gains in this part of Southern Brooklyn.

AD-90 (Westchester): Democratic incumbent Nader Sayegh defeated Republican challenger John Isaac by 11 points (51%) or 5,904 votes. Compared to his Westchester delegation colleagues in the Assembly Majority, Sayegh’s race was much closer with his colleagues winning at or above 60 percent of the vote in their respective districts.

AD-96 (Rockland): Democratic candidate Patrick Carroll defeated Republican candidate Ronald Diz by 15 points (53%) or 10,275 votes to comfortably win election to the Assembly seat previously held by Ken Zebrowski.

AD-97 (Rockland): Democratic candidate Aron Weider, a prominent Rockland County figure and former county legislator defeated Republican incumbent John McGowan by 6 points (47%) or 3,448 votes to win back the Assembly seat that Ellen Jaffee previously held from 2007 to 2020 until losing it to Republican Mike Lawler. McGowan subsequently defeated Democratic candidate Eudson Francois to win the seat that Lawler vacated in 2022.

AD-99 (Orange, Rockland): In 2022, Chris Eachus was elected to the State Assembly by just 8 votes! This time around, Eachus comfortably won re-election by 11 points (53%) or 6,023 votes over Republican challenger Tom LaPolla.

AD-106 (Columbia, Dutchess): Democratic incumbent Didi Barrett was the beneficiary of substantial investment from the Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee in both her Primary and General Election. The investment paid off as Barrett defeated her Republican challenger Stephan Krakower by 13 points (54%) or 9,592 votes. It remains to be seen if Barrett’s improved margin of victory over 2022 will be enough to scare off a progressive primary challenger in 2026.

AD-107 (Albany, Columbia, Rensselaer, Washington): Republican incumbent Scott Bendett defeated Democratic challenger Chloe Pierce by 5 points (51%) or 4,510 votes. After defeating Kent Sopris in a bruising primary, Democrats grew to be very bullish on Pierce’s chances to knock out the first-term Republican incumbent. While Pierce performed well in the Town of Bethlehem in Albany County, Bendett was able to narrowly edge out Pierce in the Columbia portion of the district and run up big margins in the rural Rensselaer and Washington county portions of the district. Don’t be surprised to see Pierce play the long game and gear up for a rematch in 2026.

AD-126 (Cayuga, Onondaga): Republican incumbent John Lemondes defeated Democratic challenger Ian Phillips by 10 points (53%) or 7,430 votes. Republicans were certainly worried about Phillips and spent real resources to help shore up Lemondes. Phillips was one of many candidates across New York that were able to capitalize on the Public Matching Funds Program to help them run competitive campaigns. Phillips is known to be a persistent campaigner, and he’ll continue to be someone to watch in Central New York politics in the years to come.

AD-143 (Erie): Republican challenger Pat Chludzinski defeated Democratic incumbent Monica Wallace by 3 points (49%) or 2,313 votes. Republicans invested heavily in Chludzinski while Democrats invested robustly in the defense of Wallace. The Town of Cheektowaga would best be described as solidly purple with growing shades of red in the wake of Wallace’s defeat. One lingering question for debate is if the outcome of this race would have been different if Wallace had chosen to participate in the Public Matching Funds Program and at minimum neutralize the dollar advantage it gave to her opponent. Chludzinski was able to raise $160,000 from the program that provided critical resources to his winning campaign.

New Assemblymembers

GOP: Andrea Bailey (AD-133), Patrick Chludzinski (AD-143), Paul Bologna (AD-144), Joseph Sempolinski (AD-148), Andrew Molitor (AD-150)

Dems: Tommy John Schiavoni (AD-1), Noah Burroughs (AD-18), Larinda Hooks (AD-35), Claire Valdez (AD-37), Kalman Yeger (AD-41), Micah Lasher (AD-69), Jordan Wright (AD-70), Emérita Torres (AD-85), Patrick Carroll (AD-96) Aron Wieder (AD-97), Gabriella Romero (AD-109)

As of November 8, eight races for Assembly Districts remain undecided. Two of the races are between non-incumbents, so New York is guaranteed at least two new legislators. According to the Associated Press, those undecided races are:

• District 4 (Suffolk): Democratic challenger Rebecca Kassay leads incumbent Republican Edward Flood by .4 points (211 votes)
• District 11 (Suffolk): Democrat Kwani O’Pharrow leads Republican Joseph Cardinale by 1 point (462 votes), with no incumbents
• District 16 (Nassau): Republican challenger Daniel Norber leads incumbent Democrat Gina Sillitti by 1.2 points (857 votes)
  • Sillitti has conceded to her opponent: https://x.com/ginasillitti/status/1854029534514880516
• District 21 (Nassau): Democratic challenger Judy Griffin leads incumbent Republican Brian Curran by 3.4 points (2,221 votes)
• District 45 (Brooklyn): Incumbent Republican Michael Novakhov leads Democratic challenger Joey Cohen-Saban by 1 point (270 votes)
• District 100 (Orange, Sullivan): Democrat Paula Kay leads Republican Louis Ingrassia by 4.8 points (2,073 votes), with no incumbents
• District 119 (Oneida): Incumbent Democrat Marianne Buttenschon leads Republican challenger Christine Esposito by 1.4 points (443 votes)
• District 142 (Erie): Incumbent Democrat Patrick Burke leads Republican challenger Marc Priore by 1.6 points (778 votes)