United States Senate election in New York, 1982

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United States Senate election in New York, 1982

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Nominee Pat Moynihan Florence Sullivan
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 3,232,146 1,696,766
Percentage 65.1% 34.2%

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County results

U.S. senator before election

Pat Moynihan
Democratic

Elected U.S. Senator

Pat Moynihan
Democratic

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The 1982 United States Senate election in New York was held on November 2, 1982. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan won re-election to a second term.

Major candidates

Democratic

Republican

  • Florence Sullivan, Assemblywoman from New York's 20th Assembly District (since 1979)

Results

General election results[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Daniel Patrick “Pat” Moynihan (Incumbent) 3,232,146 65.1
Republican Florence Sullivan 1,696,766 34.2
Libertarian James J. McKeown 23,379 0.5
Socialist Workers Steven Wattenmaker 15,206 0.5

References