2016 United States Senate election in New York

2016 United States Senate election in New York

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Nominee Chuck Schumer Wendy Long
Party Democratic Republican
Alliance
Popular vote 5,221,967 2,009,380
Percentage 70.64% 27.18%

Schumer:      40-50%      50-60%      60-70%      70-80%      80-90%      >90%
Long:      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 2016 United States Senate election in New York was held November 8, 2016, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of New York, concurrently with the presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. The primaries took place on June 28. As of 2023, this is the last time any U.S. Senate candidate in New York won a general election by more than 35 percentage points.

Incumbent Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer won re-election to a fourth term in office. This was considered by many polling aggregate groups to be one of the safest Democratic seats in the nation for this cycle. The prediction turned out to be correct, with Schumer winning around 71% of the vote and all but 5 of the state's 62 counties: Hamilton, Orleans, Wyoming, Allegany and Steuben.

As of 2022, this is the latest election where Jefferson, Oswego, Delaware, Schoharie, Herkimer, Genesee, Wayne, Livingston, Yates, Schuyler, Chemung, Tioga, Lewis and Chenango counties voted Democratic.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Declared

Republican primary

Candidates

Declared

Declined

Third-party and independent candidates

Libertarian Party

  • Alex Merced, activist

Green Party

  • Robin Laverne Wilson

Conservative Party

General election

Debates

Dates Location Schumer Long Link
October 30, 2016 Schenectady, New York Participant Participant Full debate - C-SPAN

Endorsements

Chuck Schumer
U.S. Senators
  • Al D'Amato, former U.S. Senator from New York, 1981-1999 (Republican)
Media Companies
  • Advance Media New York Editorial Board

Predictions

Source Ranking As of
The Cook Political Report Safe D November 2, 2016
Sabato's Crystal Ball Safe D November 7, 2016
Rothenberg Political Report Safe D November 3, 2016
Daily Kos Safe D November 8, 2016
Real Clear Politics Safe D November 7, 2016

Polling

Poll source Date(s)
administered
Sample
size
Margin of
error
Chuck
Schumer (D)
Wendy
Long (R)
Other Undecided
SurveyMonkey November 1–7, 2016 2,208 ± 4.6% 71% 25% 4%
SurveyMonkey October 31–November 6, 2016 2,132 ± 4.6% 71% 25% 4%
Siena College Archived June 3, 2017, at the Wayback Machine November 3–4, 2016 617 ± 4.5% 67% 25% 8%
SurveyMonkey October 28–November 3, 2016 1,949 ± 4.6% 71% 26% 3%
SurveyMonkey October 27–November 2, 2016 1,755 ± 4.6% 70% 26% 4%
SurveyMonkey October 26–November 1, 2016 1,645 ± 4.6% 70% 27% 3%
SurveyMonkey October 25–31, 2016 1,734 ± 4.6% 68% 28% 4%
Siena College Archived March 11, 2017, at the Wayback Machine October 13–17, 2016 611 ± 4.6% 66% 27% 1% 6%
NBC 4 NY/WSJ/Marist September 21–23, 2016 676 ± 3.8% 70% 24% 1% 6%
Siena College Archived January 31, 2017, at the Wayback Machine September 11–15, 2016 600 ± 5.0% 69% 23% 8%
Emerson College August 28–30, 2016 800 ± 3.4% 60% 23% 4% 12%
Siena College August 7–10, 2016 717 ± 4.3% 63% 24% 13%
Quinnipiac University Archived August 15, 2016, at the Wayback Machine July 13–17, 2016 1,104 ± 3.0% 60% 28% 1% 8%
Siena College June 22–28, 2016 803 ± 4.0% 66% 23% 11%
Siena College Archived January 31, 2017, at the Wayback Machine May 22–26, 2016 825 ± 3.9% 64% 22% 14%
Siena College Archived March 3, 2017, at the Wayback Machine April 24–27, 2016 802 ± 4.1% 64% 24% 12%
Public Policy Polling April 7–10, 2016 1,403 ± 2.6% 55% 23% 22%
Quinnipiac University Archived August 15, 2016, at the Wayback Machine March 22–29, 2016 1,667 ± 2.4% 63% 24% 11%

Results

United States Senate election in New York, 2016
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Chuck Schumer 4,784,218 64.72% +6.25%
Working Families Chuck Schumer 241,672 3.27% -0.73%
Independence Chuck Schumer 150,654 2.04% -1.82%
Women's Equality Chuck Schumer 45,401 0.61% N/A
Total Chuck Schumer (incumbent) 5,221,945 70.64% +4.31%
Republican Wendy Long 1,723,920 23.32% -3.65%
Conservative Wendy Long 267,622 3.62% -1.62%
Reform Wendy Long 17,813 0.24% N/A
Total Wendy Long 2,009,355 27.18% -5.03%
Green Robin Laverne Wilson 113,413 1.53% +0.61%
Libertarian Alex Merced 48,120 0.65% +0.11%
Total votes 7,392,833 100.0% N/A
Democratic hold

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican


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