2016 United States House of Representatives elections in New York


The 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in New York were held on November 8, 2016, to elect 27 U.S. representatives from the state of New York. The elections coincided with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as United States [House of Representatives elections, 2016|other elections] to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. The primaries took place on June 28.
In the general election, 18 Democrats and nine Republicans prevailed. No incumbents were defeated.

District 1

The 1st district is located in eastern Long Island and includes most of central and eastern Suffolk County. The incumbent was Republican Lee Zeldin, who had represented the district since 2015, ran for re-election. He was first elected in 2014 with 53% of the vote, defeating Democratic incumbent Tim Bishop. The district had a PVI of R+2.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

Results

Throne-Holst won the primary by 417 votes.

General election

Results


District 2

The 2nd district is based along the South Shore of Long Island and includes southwestern Suffolk County and a small portion of southeastern Nassau County. The incumbent was Republican Peter T. King, who had represented the district since 2013, and previously represented the 3rd district from 1993 to 2013. He was re-elected with 65% of the vote in 2014. The district had a PVI of R+1.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

General election

Results


District 3

The 3rd district is based along the north shore of Long Island and includes portions of Nassau and Suffolk Counties. The incumbent, Democrat Steve Israel, had represented northern Long Island since 2000 and announced he would not seek re-election on January 5, 2016.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Tom Suozzi, former Nassau County executive & mayor of Glen Cove
    Eliminated in primary
  • Joseph C. Clarke, perennial candidate
  • Jonathan Kaiman, former North Hempstead town supervisor and chair of Nassau County finance board
  • Anna Kaplan, North Hempstead town council member
  • Steve Stern, Suffolk County legislator, 16th district; businessman
    Declined
  • Judi Bosworth, Nassau County legislator, 10th district
  • Steve Israel, incumbent U.S. representative
  • Lori Scheinman, philanthropist
  • William Spencer, Suffolk County legislator, 18th district
  • Robert Zimmerman, Long Island Economic development commissioner

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee

General election

Debates

  • , October 26, 2016

Results

Suozzi defeated Martins in the general election.

District 4

The 4th district was located in central and southern Nassau County. Incumbent Democrat Kathleen Rice, who had represented the district since 2014, ran for re-election. She was elected with 53% of the vote in 2014. The district had a PVI of D+3.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee

General election

Results


District 5

The 5th district is mostly located entirely within Queens in New York City, but also includes a small portion of Nassau County. The incumbent was Democrat Gregory Meeks, who had represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 6th district from 1998 to 2013. He was re-elected in 2012 with 90% of the vote. The district had a PVI of D+35.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Gregory Meeks, incumbent U.S. representative
    Eliminated in primary
  • Ali A. Mirza

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Michael O'Reilly

General election

Results


District 6

The 6th district is located entirely within Queens in New York City. Incumbent Democrat Grace Meng, who had represented the district since 2013, ran for re-election. She was re-elected in 2014, winning the general election with 100% of the vote. The district had a PVI of D+13.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Danniel S. Maio, co-owner of the Identity Map Company

General election

Results


District 7

The 7th district is located entirely in New York City and includes parts of Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan. Incumbent Democrat, Nydia Velázquez, who had represented the district since 2013, and previously represented the 12th district from 1993 to 2013, ran for re-election. She was re-elected in 2014 with 56% of the vote. The district had a PVI of D+34.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Nydia Velázquez, incumbent U.S. representative
    Eliminated in primary
  • Jeffrey M. Kurzon, attorney
  • Yungman F. Lee, banking executive

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Allan E. Romaguera

General election

Results


District 8

The 8th district is located entirely in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. Incumbent Democrat Hakeem Jeffries, who had represented the district since 2013, ran for re-election. He was re-elected in 2014, winning the general election with 84% of the vote. The district had a PVI of D+35.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee
Jeffries also received the Working Families nomination.

Republican primary

No Republicans filed.

Conservative primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Daniel J. Cavanagh

General election

Results


District 9

The 9th district is located entirely within the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Incumbent Democrat Yvette Clarke, who had represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 11th district from 2007 to 2013, ran for re-election. She was re-elected in 2014 with 89.5% of the vote. The district had a PVI of D+32.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee
Clarke also received the Working Families nomination.

Republican primary

No Republicans filed.

Conservative primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Alan Bellone

General election

Results


District 10

The 10th district is located in New York City and includes the Upper West Side of Manhattan, the west side of Lower Manhattan, including Greenwich Village and the Financial District, and parts of Brooklyn, including Borough Park. The incumbent was Democrat Jerrold Nadler, who had represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 8th district from 1993 to 2013 and the 17th district from 1992 to 1993. He was re-elected in 2014 with 82% of the vote. The district had a PVI of D+23.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Jerrold Nadler, incumbent U.S. representative
    Eliminated in primary
  • Mikhail Oliver Rosenberg, social entrepreneur and former investment banker

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Philip Rosenthal, physicist, lawyer, and entrepreneur

General election

Results


District 11

The 11th district is located entirely in New York City and includes all of Staten Island and parts of southern Brooklyn. The incumbent was Republican Dan Donovan, who took office in 2015 after the resignation of Republican Michael Grimm. Donovan took office after winning a 2015 special election over Democrat Vincent J. Gentile. The district had a Cook Partisan Voting Index of R+2.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Richard Reichard, former president of the Staten Island Democratic Association

General election

Results


District 12

The 12th district is located entirely in New York City and includes several neighborhoods in the East Side of Manhattan, Greenpoint and western Queens. The incumbent was Democrat Carolyn Maloney, who had represented the district since 2013, and previously represented the 14th district from 1993 to 2013. She was re-elected in 2014 with 84% of the vote. The district had a PVI of D+27.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee

General election

Results


District 13

The 13th district is located entirely in New York City and includes Upper Manhattan and a small portion of the western Bronx. The incumbent was Democrat Charles Rangel, who had represented the district since 2013, and previously represented the 15th district from 1993 to 2013, the 16th district from 1983 to 1993, the 19th district from 1973 to 1983 and the 18th district from 1971 to 1973. He was re-elected in 2014 with 87% of the vote. The district had a PVI of D+42.

Democratic primary

Rangel said during the 2014 election and confirmed after his victory that he would not run for a 24th term in 2016.
Rangel had faced strong primary challenges in previous elections and had said that he would be "involved" in picking his successor. Former state assemblyman, former city councilman and candidate for the seat in 1996 and 2010 [United States House of Representatives elections in New York#District 13|2010] Adam Clayton Powell IV, the son of former U.S. Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr., whom Rangel unseated in the primary in 1970, ran for the seat. State Assemblyman Keith L. T. Wright also ran for the seat.

Candidates

Nominee

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Robert Evans, Jr., attorney

General election

Results


District 14

The 14th district is located in New York City and includes the eastern Bronx and part of north-central Queens. Incumbent Democrat, Joseph Crowley, who had represented the district since 2013, and previously represented the 7th district from 1999 to 2013, ran for re-election. He was re-elected in 2014 with 88% of the vote. The district had a PVI of D+26.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Frank Spotorno, small businessman

General election

Results

Crowley won re-election, attaining 77.7% of the vote. This would prove to be Crowley's final victory in an election for Congress. In June 2018, Crowley was upset by the unknown Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the Democratic primary.

District 15

The 15th district is located entirely within The Bronx in New York City and is one of the smallest districts by area in the entire country. The incumbent was Democrat José E. Serrano, who had represented the district since 2013, and previously represented the 16th district from 1993 to 2013 and the 18th district from 1990 to 1993. He was re-elected with 90% of the vote in 2014. The district had a PVI of D+43.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Alejandro Vega

General election

Results


District 16

The 16th district is located in the northern part of The Bronx and the southern half of Westchester County, including the cities of Mount Vernon, Yonkers and Rye. Incumbent Democrat Eliot Engel, who had represented the district since 2013, and previously represented the 17th district from 1993 to 2013 and the 19th district from 1989 to 1993, ran for re-election. He was re-elected in 2014 with 100% of the vote. The district had a PVI of D+21.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

Republican primary

No Republicans filed.

General election

Engel was challenged by Independent candidate Derickson K. Lawrence.

Results


District 17

The 17th district contains all of Rockland County and the northern and central portions of Westchester County, including the cities of Peekskill and White Plains. Incumbent Democrat Nita Lowey, who had represented the district since 2013, and previously represented the 18th district from 1993 to 2013 and the 20th district from 1989 to 1993, ran for re-election. She was re-elected in 2014 with 56% of the vote. The district had a PVI of D+5.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

Republican primary

No Republicans filed.

General election

Results


District 18

The 18th district is located entirely within the Hudson Valley, covering all of Orange County and Putnam County, as well as parts of southern Dutchess County and northeastern Westchester County. The incumbent was Democrat Sean Patrick Maloney. He was elected to the House in 2012 by a slim margin, defeating former Republican Rep. Nan Hayworth, and defeated her again in 2014 in a rematch by a slim margin. The district had an even PVI.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Phil Oliva Jr., senior advisor to Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino
    Eliminated in primary
  • Ken Del Vecchio, filmmaker
    Withdrew
  • Sakima Brown, former Poughkeepsie school board member, Iraq War veteran, and nominee for State Assembly in 2014
  • Dan Castricone, former Orange County legislator and 2014 State Assembly candidate
  • John Lange, former state legislative aide
  • Frank Spaminato

General election

Results


District 19

The 19th district is located in New York's Hudson Valley and Catskills regions and includes all of Columbia, Delaware, Greene, Otsego, Schoharie, Sullivan and Ulster counties, and parts of Broome, Dutchess, Montgomery and Rensselaer counties. The incumbent was Republican Chris Gibson, who had represented the district since 2013, and previously represented the 20th district from 2011 to 2013. He was re-elected in 2014 with 63% of the vote. The district had a PVI of D+1.

Republican primary

Gibson, a supporter of term limits, had pledged to limit himself to four terms in office but opted to retire at the end of his third.

Candidates

Nominee

Endorsements

Polling

Democratic primary

Only Will Yandik and Zephyr Teachout filed papers with the New York State Board of Elections as, although John Keho had filed with the Federal Elections Commission, he did not with the New York State Board of Elections.

Candidates

Nominee

Endorsements

Polling

Results

In the June 28, 2016 primary, Teachout won the Democratic nomination handily. by a 71.11% to 28.65% margin.
Teachout was unopposed in filing for the Working Families Party nomination.

General election

This was considered one of the most highly contested races in New York in 2016.

Debates

  • , September 15, 2016
  • , October 13, 2016
  • , October 24, 2016

Results


District 20

The 20th district is located in the Capital District and includes all of Albany and Schenectady counties, and portions of Montgomery, Rensselear and Saratoga counties. Incumbent Democrat Paul Tonko, who had represented the district since 2013, and previously represented the 21st district from 2009 to 2013, ran for re-election. He was re-elected in 2014 with 61% of the vote. The district had a PVI of D+7.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Joe Vitollo, businessman

General election

Results


District 21

The 21st district, the state's largest and most rural, includes most of the North Country, as well as the northern suburbs of Syracuse and borders Vermont to the east. The incumbent was Republican Elise Stefanik, who had represented the district since 2015. She was elected in 2014 with 55.1% of the vote. The district had an even PVI.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Mike Derrick, retired Army colonel
    Declined
  • Aaron Woolf, grocery store owner, filmmaker and nominee for this seat in 2014

Green primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Matt Funiciello, bakery owner, political activist and nominee for this seat in 2014

General election

Results


District 22

The 22nd district is located in Central New York and includes all of Chenango, Cortland, Madison and Oneida counties, and parts of Broome, Herkimer, Oswego and Tioga counties. The incumbent, Republican Richard Hanna, did not run for re-election.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

General election

Campaign

Babinec stated he would caucus with the House Republicans if he was elected to Congress.

Results


District 23

The 23rd district includes all of Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Chemung, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Tompkins and Yates counties, along with parts of Ontario and Tioga counties.
The incumbent was Republican Tom Reed, who had represented the district since 2013, and previously represented the 29th district from 2009 to 2013. He was re-elected in 2014 with 60% of the vote. The district had a PVI of R+3.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

General election

Results


District 24

The 24th district includes all of Cayuga, Onondaga and Wayne counties, and the western part of Oswego County. The incumbent was Republican John Katko, who had represented the district since 2015. He was elected in 2014 with 59.6% of the vote, defeating Democratic incumbent Dan Maffei. The district had a PVI of D+3.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

General election

Debates

  • , October 25, 2016

Polling

Poll sourceDate
administered		Sample
size		Margin of
error		John
Katko 		Eric
Kingson 		Undecided
Harper Polling (R-NRCC)September 12–16, 2016456±4.651%28%21%

Results


District 25

The 25th district located entirely within Monroe County, centered on the city of Rochester. The incumbent was Democrat Louise Slaughter, who had represented the district since 2013, and previously represented the 28th district from 1993 to 2013 and the 30th district from 1987 to 1993. Due to Slaughter's age, recent health problems, and the death of her husband, there was speculation that she might retire, but she ran for re-election. She was re-elected in 2014 with 49% of the vote. The district had a PVI of D+7.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee

General election

Results


District 26

The 25th district located in Erie and Niagara counties and includes the cities of Buffalo and Niagara Falls. Incumbent Democrat Brian Higgins, who had represented the district since 2013, and previously represented the 27th district from 2005 to 2013, ran for re-election. He was re-elected in 2014 with 68% of the vote. The district had a PVI of D+12.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Shelly Schratz, business owner and former Amherst Town Board member

General election

Results


District 27

The 27th district is located in Western New York and includes all of Orleans, Genesee, Wyoming and Livingston counties, and parts of Erie, Monroe, Niagara and Ontario counties. Incumbent Republican Chris Collins, who had represented the district since 2013, ran for re-election. He was re-elected in 2014 with 71% of the vote. The district had a PVI of R+8.

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee
  • Diana K. Kastenbaum, small business owner

General election

Results