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1994 United States Senate election in New York

The 1994 United States Senate election in New York was held November 8, 1994. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan won re-election to a fourth term. As of 2024, this is the last time a man has won the Class 1 Senate seat from New York.

1994 United States Senate election in New York
← 1988 November 8, 1994 2000 →
 
Nominee Pat Moynihan Bernadette Castro
Party Democratic Republican
Alliance Liberal Conservative
Popular vote 2,646,541 1,988,308
Percentage 55.25% 41.51%
County results
Moynihan:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%
Castro:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%
U.S. senator before election

Pat Moynihan
Democratic

Elected U.S. Senator

Pat Moynihan
Democratic

Democratic primary

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Candidates

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Results

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Results by county:
  Moynihan
  •   50–60%
  •   60–70%
  •   70–80%
  •   80–90%
  •   90–100%
Democratic primary results
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Daniel Patrick Moynihan (incumbent) 526,766 74.72%
Democratic Al Sharpton 178,231 25.28%
Total votes 704,997 100.00%

Republican primary

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Candidates

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Results

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Republican primary results
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Bernadette Castro 12,300 62.91%
Republican Henry Hewes 7,251 37.09%
Total votes 19,551 100.00%

General election

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Campaign

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1994 was significant for the Republican Revolution, mostly as a referendum against President Bill Clinton and his health care plan, and was seen as a tough year for Democratic incumbents. Moynihan, however, was New York State's most popular politician at the time, and ran ahead of all other Democrats competing statewide.[1]

Republican Castro was running for office for the first time and had trouble raising funds due to being seen as unlikely to win; at times during the race she trailed by up to 30 percentage points.[1] She portrayed herself as a fiscally conservative, socially moderate Republican in the mold of Governor of New Jersey Christine Todd Whitman, and attempted to portray Moynihan as excessively liberal and prone to government spending.[1] But Moynihan repeated his past strong performance among upstate voters, in addition to the usual Democratic strongholds in New York City.[1]

Results

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General Election Results[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Patrick Moynihan 2,528,387 52.78
Liberal Patrick Moynihan 118,154 2.47
Total Patrick Moynihan (Incumbent) 2,646,541 55.25  11.77
Republican Bernadette Castro 1,711,760 35.73
Conservative Bernadette Castro 276,548 5.77
Total Bernadette Castro 1,988,308 41.51  10.46
Right to Life Henry Hewes 95,954 2.00  0.93
Independence Ismael Betancourt, Jr. 26,650 0.56 N/A
Libertarian Norma Segal 17,991 0.38  0.18
Socialist Workers Naomi Craine 14,892 0.31  0.12
Majority 658,233 13.74 −22.16
Total votes 4,790,336 100.00
Democratic hold

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d Finder, Alan (November 9, 1994). "Defying Anti-Incumbent Mood, Moynihan Wins Easily". The New York Times.
  2. ^ "Vote Cast for United States Senator by Party of Candidate New York State by County November 8, 1994" (PDF). www.elections.ny.gov.
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