2016 United States Senate election in New York

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2016 United States Senate election in New York
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Nominee Chuck Schumer Wendy Long
Party Democratic Republican
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Popular vote5,221,9672,009,380
Percentage70.64%27.18%
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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%
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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.

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Incumbent Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer won re-election to a fourth term in office. [1] 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.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Declared

Republican primary

Candidates

Declared

Declined

Third-party and independent candidates

Libertarian Party

Green Party

Conservative Party

General election

Debates

DatesLocationSchumerLongLink
October 30, 2016 Schenectady, New York ParticipantParticipant Full debate - C-SPAN

Endorsements

Chuck Schumer
U.S. Senators
  • Al D'Amato, former U.S. Senator from New York, 1981-1999 (Republican) [9]
Media Companies

Predictions

SourceRankingAs of
The Cook Political Report [11] Safe DNovember 2, 2016
Sabato's Crystal Ball [12] Safe DNovember 7, 2016
Rothenberg Political Report [13] Safe DNovember 3, 2016
Daily Kos [14] Safe DNovember 8, 2016
Real Clear Politics [15] Safe DNovember 7, 2016

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered		Sample
size		Margin of
error		Chuck
Schumer (D)		Wendy
Long (R)		OtherUndecided
SurveyMonkey November 1–7, 20162,208± 4.6%71%25%—4%
SurveyMonkey October 31–November 6, 20162,132± 4.6%71%25%—4%
Siena College Archived June 3, 2017, at the Wayback Machine November 3–4, 2016617± 4.5%67%25%—8%
SurveyMonkey October 28–November 3, 20161,949± 4.6%71%26%—3%
SurveyMonkey October 27–November 2, 20161,755± 4.6%70%26%—4%
SurveyMonkey October 26–November 1, 20161,645± 4.6%70%27%—3%
SurveyMonkey October 25–31, 20161,734± 4.6%68%28%—4%
Siena College Archived March 11, 2017, at the Wayback Machine October 13–17, 2016611± 4.6%66%27%1%6%
NBC 4 NY/WSJ/Marist September 21–23, 2016676± 3.8%70%24%1%6%
Siena College Archived January 31, 2017, at the Wayback Machine September 11–15, 2016600± 5.0%69%23%—8%
Emerson College August 28–30, 2016800± 3.4%60%23%4%12%
Siena College August 7–10, 2016717± 4.3%63%24%—13%
Quinnipiac University Archived August 15, 2016, at the Wayback Machine July 13–17, 20161,104± 3.0%60%28%1%8%
Siena College June 22–28, 2016803± 4.0%66%23%—11%
Siena College Archived January 31, 2017, at the Wayback Machine May 22–26, 2016825± 3.9%64%22%—14%
Siena College Archived March 3, 2017, at the Wayback Machine April 24–27, 2016802± 4.1%64%24%—12%
Public Policy Polling April 7–10, 20161,403± 2.6%55%23%—22%
Quinnipiac University Archived August 15, 2016, at the Wayback Machine March 22–29, 20161,667± 2.4%63%24%—11%

Results

United States Senate election in New York, 2016 [16]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Chuck Schumer4,784,21864.72%+6.25%
Working Families Chuck Schumer241,6723.27%-0.73%
Independence Chuck Schumer150,6542.04%-1.82%
Women's Equality Chuck Schumer45,4010.61%N/A
Total Chuck Schumer (incumbent)5,221,94570.64%+4.31%
Republican Wendy Long1,723,92023.32%-3.65%
Conservative Wendy Long267,6223.62%-1.62%
Reform Wendy Long17,8130.24%N/A
Total Wendy Long 2,009,35527.18%-5.03%
Green Robin Laverne Wilson113,4131.53%+0.61%
Libertarian Alex Merced48,1200.65%+0.11%
Total votes7,392,833 100.0% N/A
Democratic hold

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

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