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1978 general · November 7, 1978

1978 New York election results

Every race on New York's ballot in the 1978 general election: winners, margins and seats that changed party.

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Races250
Changed party12
Unopposed4%11 races
Incumbents defeated6

Governors

D 1

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
New YorkHugh L. Carey (D)6.0

U.S. House

D 26 · R 13 · 4 changed party

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
NY-1William Carney (R)14.3Flipped
NY-2Thomas Downey (D)9.7
NY-3Jerome A. Ambro (D)2.9
NY-4Norman Lent (R)33.6
NY-5John W. Wydler (R)16.7
NY-6Lester L. Wolff (D)27.1
NY-7Joseph P. Addabbo (D)89.8
NY-8Benjamin S. Rosenthal (D)62.7
NY-9Geraldine Ferraro (D)9.8
NY-10Mario Biaggi (D)90.1
NY-11James Scheuer (D)56.9
NY-12Shirley Chisholm (D)75.5
NY-13Stephen Solarz (D)62.3
NY-14Frederick W. Richmond (D)58.5
NY-15Leo C. Zeferetti (D)39.8
NY-16Elizabeth Holtzman (D)69.0
NY-17John M. Murphy (D)21.2
NY-18Sedgwick Green (R)6.5Flipped
NY-19Charles B. Rangel (D)93.7
NY-20Theodore Weiss (D)69.3
NY-21Robert Garcia (D)95.9
NY-22Jonathan B. Bingham (D)68.2
NY-23Peter A. Peyser (D)5.4Flipped
NY-24Richard L. Ottinger (D)13.3
NY-25Hamilton Fish (R)56.9
NY-26Benjamin Gilman (R)32.4
NY-27Matthew McHugh (D)11.5
NY-28Samuel S. Stratton (D)56.6
NY-29Gerald Solomon (R)8.0Flipped
NY-30Robert C. McEwen (R)21.0
NY-31Donald J. Mitchell (R)Unopposed
NY-32James M. Hanley (D)6.3
NY-33Gary A. Lee (R)16.4
NY-34Frank Horton (R)74.3
NY-35Barber B. Conable (R)43.1
NY-36John LaFalce (D)50.6
NY-37Henry Nowak (D)59.1
NY-38Jack F. Kemp (R)89.7
NY-39Stanley N. Lundine (D)16.9

New York State Senate

D 25 · R 35

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
SD-1Kenneth La Valle (R)40.0
SD-2James J. Lack (R)4.7
SD-3Caesar Trunzo (R)33.3
SD-4Owen H. Johnson (R)17.2
SD-5Ralph J. Marino (R)32.5
SD-6John R. Dunne (R)27.2
SD-7John D. Caemmerer (R)20.9
SD-8Norman J. Levy (R)36.9
SD-9Carol Berman (D)42.7
SD-10Jeremy S. Weinstein (D)49.0
SD-11Frank Padavan (R)32.6
SD-12Gary L. Ackerman (D)42.2
SD-13Emanuel R. Gold (D)52.3
SD-14Anthony V. Gazarra (D)Unopposed
SD-15Martin J. Knorr (R)23.2
SD-16Howard Babbush (D)54.3
SD-17Major Owens (D)83.3
SD-18Thomas J. Bartosewicz (D)75.9
SD-19Martin Markowitz (D)55.5
SD-20Donald Halperin (D)65.4
SD-21Christopher J. Mega (R)3.7
SD-22Martin M. Solomon (D)44.8
SD-23Vander L. Beatty (D)69.8
SD-24John J. Marchi (R)5.2
SD-25Martin Connor (D)62.3
SD-26Roy A. Goodman (R)14.6
SD-27Manfred Ohrenstein (D)64.4
SD-28Carl McCall (D)79.2
SD-29Franz S. Leichter (D)74.8
SD-30Olga A. Mendez (D)65.1
SD-31Israel Ruiz Jr. (D)74.9
SD-32Joseph Galiber (D)75.0
SD-33Abraham Bernstein (D)89.9
SD-34John D. Calandra (R)1.8
SD-35John E. Flynn (R)37.1
SD-36Joseph R. Pisani (R)33.2
SD-37Mary B. Goodhue (R)36.5
SD-38Linda Winikow (D)21.6
SD-39Jay P. Rolison (R)34.4
SD-40Richard E. Schermerhorn (R)25.1
SD-41Joseph L. Bruno (R)26.8
SD-42Howard C. Nolan Jr. (D)26.2
SD-43Ronald B. Stafford (R)Unopposed
SD-44Hugh T. Farley (R)44.0
SD-45H. Douglas Barclay (R)43.5
SD-46James H. Donovan (R)34.1
SD-47Warren M. Anderson (R)22.9
SD-48Charles D. Cook (R)36.2
SD-49Martin S. Auer (R)31.3
SD-50Tarky J. Lombardi Jr. (R)52.3
SD-51William T. Smith (R)Unopposed
SD-52Frederick L. Warder (R)3.1
SD-53John D. Perry (D)7.7
SD-54Fred J. Eckert (R)33.4
SD-55Joseph A. Tauriello (D)34.8
SD-56Raymond D. Gallagher (D)50.4
SD-57Jess J. Present (R)25.9
SD-58Dale M. Volker (R)45.3
SD-59Walter J. Floss Jr. (R)15.8
SD-60John B. Daly (R)28.5

New York State Assembly

D 86 · R 64 · 8 changed party

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Results are each source's final count; margins are the winner's lead over the runner-up in points of the vote. Source: Algara, Carlos; Amlani, Sharif (Harvard Dataverse); Harvard Dataverse / Carl Klarner; MIT Election Data and Science Lab