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1978 general · November 7, 1978

1978 New York U.S. House election results, district by district

New York's U.S. House races in the 1978 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.

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Races39
Changed party4
Unopposed3%1 races

Every district

D 26 · R 13

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

Results are each source's final count; margins are the winner's lead over the runner-up in points of the vote. Source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab