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Election 1998 Results

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1998 US House elections in New York

New York elected 31 members of the House in 1998: Democrats won 18 seats and Republicans 13.

The closest was the 4th district, decided by 5.5 points: Carolyn McCarthy (Democrat) beat Gregory R. Becker (Republican), 48.4% to 42.9%, a margin of 5.5 points and 10,272 votes.

In the House vote by county, Republicans led in 42 of the 62 counties and Democrats in 19 and other candidates in 1. The largest, Nassau, cast 435,238 votes and went to the Republican by 6.1 points. The closest was Washington, where 317 votes separated the top two.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Every district

District	Democrat	Votes	Republican	Votes	Others	Margin
1	William G. Holst	55,630 (31.7%)	Michael P. Forbes	99,460 (56.7%)	20,242	R+25.0
2	John C. Bace	37,949 (25.9%)	Rick Lazio	85,089 (58.0%)	23,684	R+32.1
3	Kevin N. Langberg	63,628 (31.2%)	Peter T. King	117,258 (57.5%)	23,106	R+26.3
4	Carolyn McCarthy	90,256 (48.4%)	Gregory R. Becker	79,984 (42.9%)	16,364	D+5.5
5	Gary L. Ackerman	97,404 (56.2%)	David C. Pinzon	49,586 (28.6%)	26,257	D+27.6
6	Gregory W. Meeks	76,122 (66.2%)	none		38,908	D+66.2
7	Joseph Crowley	50,924 (49.5%)	James J. Dillon	18,896 (18.4%)	33,065	D+31.1
8	Jerrold Nadler	112,948 (71.4%)	Theodore Howard	18,383 (11.6%)	26,846	D+59.8
9	Anthony Weiner	69,439 (51.4%)	Louis Telano	24,486 (18.1%)	41,174	D+33.3
10	Edolphus Towns	83,528 (69.8%)	Ernestine M. Brown	5,577 (4.7%)	30,642	D+65.1
11	Major R. Owens	75,773 (70.9%)	David Greene	7,284 (6.8%)	23,835	D+64.1
12	Nydia M. Velázquez	53,269 (65.2%)	Rosemarie Markgraf	6,405 (7.8%)	22,048	D+57.4
13	Eugene V. Prisco	40,167 (29.2%)	Vito Fossella	76,138 (55.4%)	21,182	R+26.2
14	Carolyn B. Maloney	111,072 (67.4%)	Stephanie E. Kupferman	32,458 (19.7%)	21,269	D+47.7
15	Charles B. Rangel	90,424 (76.6%)	David E. Cunningham	5,633 (4.8%)	22,052	D+71.8
16	José E. Serrano	67,367 (74.6%)	Thomas W. Bayley, Jr.	2,457 (2.7%)	20,443	D+71.9
17	Eliot L. Engel	80,947 (70.6%)	Peter Fiumefreddo	11,037 (9.6%)	22,699	D+61.0
18	Nita M. Lowey	91,623 (55.2%)	none		74,423	D+55.2
19	Dick Collins	56,378 (30.0%)	Sue W. Kelly	104,467 (55.6%)	27,177	R+25.6
20	Paul J. Feiner	65,589 (34.4%)	Benjamin A. Gilman	98,546 (51.6%)	26,790	R+17.3
21	Michael R. McNulty	146,639 (67.0%)	Lauren Ayers	50,931 (23.3%)	21,183	D+43.8
22	Jean P. Bordewich	81,296 (37.9%)	John E. Sweeny	106,919 (49.9%)	26,260	R+12.0
23	none		Sherwood L. Boehlert	111,242 (60.8%)	71,855	R+60.8
24	Neil P. Tallon	31,011 (18.2%)	John M. McHugh	116,682 (68.6%)	22,330	R+50.4
25	Yvonne Rothenberg	53,461 (28.2%)	James T. Walsh	121,204 (63.8%)	15,222	R+35.7
26	Maurice D. Hinchey	108,204 (57.3%)	William H. Bud Walker	54,776 (29.0%)	25,855	D+28.3
27	Bill Cook	75,978 (36.9%)	Thomas M. Reynolds	102,042 (49.5%)	28,132	R+12.6
28	Louise McIntosh Slaughter	118,856 (61.5%)	Richard A. Kaplan	56,443 (29.2%)	17,837	D+32.3
29	John J. Lafalce	97,235 (52.8%)	Chris Collins	69,481 (37.7%)	17,354	D+15.1
30	Crystal D. Peoples	55,199 (29.4%)	Jack Quinn	116,093 (61.7%)	16,742	R+32.4
31	Caleb Rossiter	40,091 (22.7%)	Amo Houghton	107,615 (60.9%)	28,867	R+38.2

The House vote in every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
Nassau	182,538 41.9%	208,896 48.0%	43,804	435,238	R+6.1
Kings	273,504 65.5%	53,403 12.8%	90,782	417,689	D+52.7
Suffolk	120,833 33.1%	205,130 56.1%	39,446	365,409	R+23.1
New York	290,084 79.6%	48,148 13.2%	26,291	364,523	D+66.4
Queens	223,337 67.4%	47,480 14.3%	60,694	331,511	D+53.0
Erie	123,922 41.6%	168,286 56.5%	5,512	297,720	R+14.9
Westchester	135,938 49.5%	62,081 22.6%	76,730	274,749	D+26.9
Monroe	140,445 58.6%	78,968 32.9%	20,349	239,762	D+25.6
Bronx	146,408 72.3%	17,539 8.7%	38,639	202,586	D+63.6
Onondaga	45,367 31.7%	97,942 68.3%		143,309	R+36.7
Albany	81,273 75.6%	26,210 24.4%		107,483	D+51.2
Richmond	27,283 27.2%	57,073 57.0%	15,840	100,196	R+29.7
Orange	25,306 28.2%	49,587 55.3%	14,727	89,620	R+27.1
Rockland	28,625 33.0%	46,533 53.6%	11,623	86,781	R+20.6
Oneida	0 0.0%	49,037 59.8%	32,951	81,988	R+59.8
Dutchess	24,550 31.1%	42,699 54.1%	11,712	78,961	R+23.0
Niagara	35,672 49.5%	27,831 38.6%	8,579	72,082	D+10.9
Broome	37,321 51.9%	20,914 29.1%	13,637	71,872	D+22.8
Saratoga	28,086 39.4%	34,507 48.4%	8,641	71,234	R+9.0
Ulster	34,521 57.1%	19,661 32.5%	6,317	60,499	D+24.6
Rensselaer	29,028 53.8%	21,724 40.3%	3,161	53,913	D+13.5
Schenectady	35,410 71.7%	13,966 28.3%		49,376	D+43.4
Chautauqua	12,168 28.6%	24,887 58.5%	5,485	42,540	R+29.9
Oswego	5,559 17.5%	26,207 82.5%		31,766	R+65.0
Steuben	4,570 14.7%	20,365 65.5%	6,167	31,102	R+50.8
Putnam	7,343 23.9%	17,792 57.9%	5,589	30,724	R+34.0
Chemung	4,883 16.3%	19,238 64.3%	5,803	29,924	R+48.0
Ontario	11,641 42.0%	16,070 58.0%		27,711	R+16.0
Tompkins	16,080 58.3%	9,228 33.5%	2,267	27,575	D+24.8
St. Lawrence	6,137 22.3%	21,433 77.7%		27,570	R+55.5
Jefferson	3,311 13.1%	21,938 86.9%		25,249	R+73.8
Cattaraugus	6,751 26.9%	13,868 55.4%	4,432	25,051	R+28.4
Wayne	9,016 37.7%	14,882 62.3%		23,898	R+24.5
Cayuga	6,106 26.9%	15,833 69.8%	745	22,684	R+42.9
Herkimer	471 2.1%	13,112 59.1%	8,590	22,173	R+57.0
Warren	10,880 49.3%	8,021 36.3%	3,182	22,083	D+12.9
Madison	0 0.0%	10,770 48.9%	11,264	22,034	Others
Clinton	6,512 29.9%	15,284 70.1%		21,796	R+40.2
Columbia	8,298 38.6%	11,672 54.3%	1,508	21,478	R+15.7
Sullivan	10,173 48.7%	8,767 42.0%	1,935	20,875	D+6.7
Washington	8,229 43.4%	7,912 41.7%	2,823	18,964	D+1.7
Livingston	7,825 43.3%	10,246 56.7%		18,071	R+13.4
Otsego	0 0.0%	12,364 68.7%	5,636	18,000	R+68.7
Tioga	7,560 42.8%	6,616 37.4%	3,493	17,669	D+5.3
Genesee	5,953 35.8%	10,675 64.2%		16,628	R+28.4
Greene	4,773 29.5%	9,729 60.1%	1,674	16,176	R+30.6
Allegany	2,755 18.4%	8,372 55.9%	3,840	14,967	R+37.5
Chenango	0 0.0%	10,032 67.1%	4,909	14,941	R+67.1
Delaware	834 5.7%	9,669 65.8%	4,199	14,702	R+60.1
Montgomery	8,664 60.6%	4,852 33.9%	784	14,300	D+26.7
Cortland	3,740 27.4%	9,911 72.6%		13,651	R+45.2
Fulton	3,351 25.0%	10,032 75.0%		13,383	R+49.9
Essex	3,207 25.3%	7,985 62.9%	1,497	12,689	R+37.7
Wyoming	3,918 33.1%	7,936 66.9%		11,854	R+33.9
Franklin	3,260 28.0%	8,364 72.0%		11,624	R+43.9
Orleans	5,518 48.5%	5,103 44.9%	751	11,372	D+3.6
Schoharie	1,476 14.1%	6,594 63.0%	2,402	10,472	R+48.9
Seneca	3,561 38.1%	5,497 58.8%	285	9,343	R+20.7
Lewis	1,105 14.2%	6,674 85.8%		7,779	R+71.6
Yates	1,513 21.6%	4,928 70.5%	550	6,991	R+48.8
Schuyler	1,354 21.4%	3,950 62.4%	1,026	6,330	R+41.0
Hamilton	461 17.7%	2,150 82.3%		2,611	R+64.7

Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

New York in every House election we hold

Year	Seats	House vote
2024	D 19, R 7	D+14.7
2022	D 15, R 11	D+11.7
2020	D 19, R 8	D+25.7
2018	D 21, R 6	D+35.8
2016	D 18, R 9	D+27.0
2014	D 18, R 9	D+11.6
2012	D 21, R 6	D+26.6
2010	D 21, R 8	D+15.5
2008	D 26, R 3	D+29.2
2006	D 23, R 6	D+31.1
2004	D 20, R 9	D+16.6
2002	D 19, R 10	D+3.5
2000	D 19, R 12	D+10.4
1998	D 18, R 13	D+8.5
1996	D 18, R 13	D+10.6
1994	D 17, R 14	R+0.8
1992	D 18, R 13	D+5.1
1990	D 21, R 13	D+4.6

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