2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York
The 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York were held November 6, 2018 to elect a U.S. Representative from each of New York's 27 congressional districts. The elections coincided with the gubernatorial election, as well as an election to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. Contested primaries were held June 26, 2018. On Election Day, Democrats gained three New York House seats, and the Democratic Party retook control of the House of Representatives. Democrats won a total of 21 New York House seats, while Republicans won six.
Overview
Elections were held in all 27 of New York's congressional districts in 2018. Prior to the 2018 elections, one New York House seat was vacant due to the death of Rep. Louise Slaughter on March 16, 2018. In the June 26, 2018 Democratic primary in District 14, insurgent Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez upset longtime incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley. On November 6, 2018, the Democratic Party held the open seat in District 25 and defeated three Republican incumbents; with the exception of Crowley, all Democratic incumbent members of Congress in New York were re-elected. The defeated Republican incumbents were Rep. Dan Donovan , Rep. John Faso , and Rep. Claudia Tenney was narrowly re-elected despite having been arrested on insider trading charges in August 2018.Democrats won a total of 21 New York House seats, while Republicans won six. Nationally, the Democratic Party won control of the House of Representatives on Election Day.
By district
Results of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York by district: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. He was re-elected to a second term with 58% of the vote in 2016.Democratic primary
New York's 1st district was included on the initial list of Republican-held seats being targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018.Candidates
;Declared- Kate Browning, Suffolk County Legislator
- Elaine DiMasi, physicist
- Perry Gershon, businessman
- Vivian Viloria-Fisher, former Suffolk County Legislator and candidate for Brookhaven Town Supervisor in 2013
- David Pechefsky, New York City Council staffer
- Brendon Henry, bartender
- Hannah Selinger, writer and sommelier
- Dave Calone, venture capitalist, former chairman of the Suffolk Planning Commission and candidate in 2016
- Fred Thiele, state assemblyman
Results
Republican primary
- Lee Zeldin, incumbent
General election
Endorsements
Polling
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 to a thirteenth term with 62% of the vote in 2016.Democratic primary
Results
Republican primary
- Peter King, incumbent
General election
Endorsements
Results
District 3
The 3rd district includes most of the North Shore of Long Island. It covers northwestern Suffolk County, northern Nassau County, and northeastern Queens. The incumbent was Democrat Tom Suozzi, who had represented the district since 2017. He was elected to replace retiring Representative Steve Israel with 53% of the vote in 2016. New York's 3rd district was included on the initial list of Democrat-held seats being targeted by the National Republican Congressional Committee in 2018.Democratic primary
- Tom Suozzi, incumbent
Republican primary
- Dan DeBono, investment banker
General election
Results
District 4
The 4th district is located in central and southern Nassau County. The incumbent was Democrat Kathleen Rice, who had represented the district since 2015. She was re-elected to a second term with 59.5% of the vote in 2016.Democratic primary
- Kathleen Rice, incumbent
Republican primary
- Ameer Benno, attorney
General election
Results
District 5
The 5th district is mostly located 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 to a tenth term with 85% of the vote in 2016.Democratic primary
Candidates
- Gregory Meeks, incumbent
- Mizan Choudhury
- Carl Achille
Results
General election
Results
District 6
The 6th district is located entirely within Queens in New York City. The incumbent was Democrat Grace Meng, who had represented the district since 2013. She was re-elected to a third term with 72% of the vote in 2016.Democratic primary
- Grace Meng, incumbent
General election
Results
District 7
The 7th district is located entirely in New York City and includes parts of Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan. The incumbent was Democrat Nydia Velázquez, who had represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 12th district from 1993 to 2013. She was re-elected to a thirteenth term with 91% of the vote in 2016.Democratic primary
- Nydia Velázquez, incumbent
General election
Results
District 8
The 8th district is located entirely in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. The incumbent was Democrat Hakeem Jeffries, who had represented the district since 2013. He was re-elected to a third term with 93% of the vote in 2016.Democratic primary
Results
- Hakeem Jeffries, incumbent
General election
Results
District 9
The 9th district is located entirely within the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The incumbent was Democrat Yvette Clarke, who had represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 11th district from 2007 to 2013. She was re-elected to a sixth term with 92% of the vote in 2016.Democratic primary
Results
Republican primary
- Lutchi Gayot, businessman
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 to a thirteenth full term with 78% of the vote in 2016.Democratic primary
- Jerrold Nadler, incumbent
Republican primary
- Naomi Levin, software engineer
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 had represented the district since 2015. He was re-elected to a second term with 62% of the vote in 2016.Democratic primary
New York's 11th district was included on the initial list of Republican-held seats being targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018.Candidates
;Declared- Michael DeVito, retired Marine Staff Sergeant
- Zach Emig, bond trader
- Max Rose, army veteran and chief of staff at Brightpoint Health
- Paul Sperling, millennial entrepreneur & native Staten Islander
- Boyd Melson, retired boxer and Army Reserves Captain
- Mike DeCillis, teacher and retired police officer
Results
Republican primary
Former Congressman Michael Grimm, who resigned in 2014 after pleading guilty to federal tax fraud charges for which he served eight months in prison, challenged Donovan in the primary.Endorsements
Polling
Results
Conservative primary
Dan Donovan, the incumbent Congressman, also ran in the primary for the Conservative Party of New York State.Results
General election
Polling
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 to a thirteenth term with 83% of the vote in 2016.Democratic primary
Results
Republican primary
- Eliot Rabin, businessman
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 Adriano Espaillat, who had represented the district since 2017. He was elected to replace retiring Representative Charles Rangel with 89% of the vote in 2016.Democratic primary
- Adriano Espaillat, incumbent
Republican primary
- Jineea Butler, "hip hop" analyst
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. The incumbent was Democrat Joseph Crowley, a leader of the New Democrat Coalition, who had represented the district since 2013. Crowley previously represented the 7th district from 1999 to 2013. He was re-elected to a tenth term with 83% of the vote in 2016. Crowley, who had been named as a potential successor to Nancy Pelosi as House Leader or Speaker, sought re-election in 2018.Backed by the organization Brand New Congress, Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez challenged Crowley in the June primary. Ocasio-Cortez was an organizer in Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign. She alleged that Crowley was not progressive enough for the district. She defeated Crowley in the Democratic primary election. Crowley remained on the ballot on the Working Families Party line, but did not actively campaign.
Democratic primary
Candidates
- Joe Crowley, incumbent
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, bartender and activist
Results
Republican primary
- Anthony Pappas, St. John's University economics and finance associate professor
General election
Endorsements
Results
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 to a fourteenth full term with 95% of the vote in 2016.Democratic primary
- José Serrano, incumbent
Republican primary
- Jason Gonzalez
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, New Rochelle, and Rye. The incumbent was 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. He was re-elected to a fifteenth term with 95% of the vote in 2016.Democratic primary
Results
General election
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. The incumbent was 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. She was re-elected to a fifteenth term unopposed in 2016.Democratic primary
- Nita Lowey, incumbent
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, who had represented the district since 2013. He was re-elected to a third term with 56% of the vote in 2016.New York's 18th district has been included on the initial list of Democratic held seats being targeted by the National Republican Congressional Committee in 2018.
Democratic primary
- Sean Patrick Maloney, incumbent
Republican primary
- James O'Donnell, Orange County legislator
General election
Debates
- , October 23, 2018
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 John Faso, who had represented the district since 2017. He was elected to replace retiring Representative Chris Gibson with 54% of the vote in 2016. The Democratic nominee was Antonio Delgado. Actress Diane Neal ran under the newly created Friends of Diane Neal ballot line.Democratic primary
New York's 19th district was included on the initial list of Republican-held seats being targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018.Candidates
;Declared- Jeff Beals, teacher and former U.S. diplomat
- David Clegg, lawyer
- Antonio Delgado, attorney
- Brian Flynn, businessman
- Pat Ryan, Iraq War veteran and businessman
- Gareth Rhodes, former gubernatorial aide
- Erin Collier, economist
- Mike Hein, Ulster County Executive
- Zephyr Teachout, candidate for governor in 2014 and nominee for this seat in 2016
- Will Yandik, Livingston Deputy Supervisor and candidate for this seat in 2016
- Sue Sullivan, strategic planning consultant
Polling
Results
Republican primary
- John Faso, incumbent
Independent candidates
- Diane Neal, actress
- Dal LaMagna, businessman
General election
Debates
- , October 19, 2018
Endorsements
Polling
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ResultsDistrict 20The 20th district is located in the Capital District and includes all of Albany and Schenectady Counties, and portions of Montgomery, Rensselaer and Saratoga Counties. The incumbent was Democrat Paul Tonko, who had represented the district since 2013 and previously represented the 21st district from 2009 to 2013. He was re-elected to a fifth term with 68% of the vote in 2016.Democratic primary
ResultsDistrict 21The 21st district, the state's largest and most rural congressional district, includes most of the North Country and the northern suburbs of Syracuse. The district borders Vermont to the east. The incumbent was Republican Elise Stefanik, who had represented the district since 2015. She was re-elected to a second term with 65% of the vote in 2016.Democratic primaryCandidates;Declared
Republican primaryFarmer and real estate broker Russ Finley planned on making a primary challenge of Stefanik, but later withdrew from the race, leaving Stefanik unopposed in the primary.
General electionPollingResultsDistrict 22The 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 was Republican Claudia Tenney, who had represented the district since 2017. She was elected to replace retiring Representative Richard Hanna with 47% of the vote in 2016.New York's 22nd district was included on the initial list of Republican-held seats being targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018. Democratic primary
EndorsementsPollingResultsDistrict 23The 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 to a fifth term with 58% of the vote in 2016.Democratic primaryCandidates;Declared
Republican primary
ResultsGeneral electionEndorsementsPollingResultsDistrict 24The 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 re-elected to a second term with 61% of the vote in 2016.Democratic primaryNew York's 24th district was included on the initial list of Republican-held seats being targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018.Candidates;Declared
ResultsRepublican primary
PollingResultsDistrict 25The 25th district is located entirely within Monroe County, centered on the city of Rochester. The seat was vacant due to the March 2018 death of incumbent Democratic Representative Louise Slaughter, who represented the district from 2013 to 2018 and previously represented the 28th district from 1993 to 2013 and the 30th district from 1987 to 1993.Following precedent set in 2010, two concurrent elections were held in November 2018. One election was held to fill the seat for the 2018 lame-duck session, and another was held to fill the seat for the 2019–2020 term. Democratic primaryCandidates;Declared
Republican primary
PollingResultsDistrict 26The 26th district is located in Erie and Niagara counties and includes the cities of Buffalo and Niagara Falls. The incumbent was Democrat Brian Higgins, who had represented the district since 2013, and previously represented the 27th district from 2005 to 2013. He was re-elected to a seventh term with 75% of the vote in 2016.Democratic primary
ResultsDistrict 27The 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.On August 11, 2018, incumbent Republican Chris Collins, who had represented the district since 2013 and was re-elected to a third term with 67% of the vote in 2016, announced that he would withdraw from his re-election campaign after being arrested for insider trading. Removing himself from the ballot would have required Collins to be nominated as a dummy candidate in another election or to move his legal place of residence out of state. On September 17, 2018, Collins announced that he had changed course and would campaign for re-election in November after all. Democratic primaryNew York's 27th district was included on the initial list of Republican-held seats being targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018.Candidates;Nominee
Candidates;Nominee
Following Collins's August 11 announcement that he would withdraw from the race, as many as 20 candidates expressed interest in the Republican nomination. Among them were the following:
Polling
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