1988 general · November 8, 1988

1988 New York State Senate election results, district by district

Every New York State Senate district in the 1988 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.

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Seats after the election

Republicans controlled the chamber · 61 seats

After the electionD 27 · R 34
Races61
Changed party1
Unopposed18%11 races
Incumbents defeated1

Every district

D 27 · R 34

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
SD-1Kenneth La Valle (R)41.6
SD-2James J. Lack (R)37.6
SD-3Caesar Trunzo (R)34.8
SD-4Owen H. Johnson (R)36.5
SD-5Ralph J. Marino (R)33.7
SD-6John R. Dunne (R)28.4
SD-7Michael J. Tully (R)20.6
SD-8Norman J. Levy (R)46.4
SD-9Dean G. Skelos (R)38.4
SD-10Andrew Jenkins (D)Unopposed
SD-11Frank Padavan (R)29.7
SD-12Leonard Price Stavisky (D)Unopposed
SD-13Emanuel R. Gold (D)Unopposed
SD-14George Onorato (D)Unopposed
SD-15Serphin R. Maltese Jr. (R)9.3
SD-16Jeremy S. Weinstein (D)Unopposed
SD-17Howard Babbush (D)74.2
SD-18Donald Halperin (D)61.4
SD-19Martin M. Solomon (D)45.6
SD-20Ada L. Smith (D)65.9
SD-21Martin Markowitz (D)68.9
SD-22Velmanette Montgomery (D)85.4
SD-23Christopher J. Mega (R)29.4
SD-24John J. Marchi (R)73.4
SD-25Martin Connor (D)58.9
SD-26Roy A. Goodman (R)33.5
SD-27Manfred Ohrenstein (D)55.8
SD-28Franz S. Leichter (D)71.2
SD-29David A. Paterson (D)81.7
SD-30Olga A. Mendez (D)76.6
SD-31Joseph Galiber (D)75.1
SD-32Israel Ruiz Jr. (D)93.7
SD-33Abraham Bernstein (D)65.5
SD-34Guy J. Velella (R)33.1
SD-35Nicholas A. Spano (R)14.5
SD-36Suzi Oppenheimer (D)27.2
SD-37Mary B. Goodhue (R)92.5
SD-38Eugene Levy (R)90.4
SD-39E. Arthur Gray (D)13.1FlippedIncumbent lost
SD-40Charles D. Cook (R)91.1
SD-41Jay P. Rolison (R)Unopposed
SD-42Howard C. Nolan Jr. (D)38.8
SD-43Joseph L. Bruno (R)Unopposed
SD-44Hugh T. Farley (R)44.1
SD-45Ronald B. Stafford (R)Unopposed
SD-46John McHugh (R)Unopposed
SD-47James H. Donovan (R)41.5
SD-48Nancy Larraine Hoffmann (D)27.8
SD-49Tarky J. Lombardi Jr. (R)44.1
SD-50James L. Seward (R)91.3
SD-51Thomas W. Libous (R)1.1
SD-52John Kuhl (R)90.4
SD-53L. Paul Kehoe (R)93.4
SD-54John D. Perry (D)43.5
SD-55Ralph Quattrociocchi (D)4.6
SD-56Jess J. Present (R)38.8
SD-57William T. Stachowski (D)38.1
SD-58Anthony M. Masiello (D)92.2
SD-59Dale M. Volker (R)Unopposed
SD-60John B. Sheffer II (R)Unopposed
SD-61John B. Daly (R)40.2

New York State Senate

Results are each source's final count; margins are the winner's lead over the runner-up in points of the vote. Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl Klarner