The 2020 New York state elections took place on November 3, 2020. Primary elections occurred on June 23, 2020. All 27 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives were up for election, as were all 63 seats in the New York State Senate and all 150 seats in the New York State Assembly. The 2020 United States presidential election occurred on the same date as the general election.
On Election Day, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden defeated Republican incumbent president Donald Trump by a wide margin in New York and won the White House. In the elections to the U.S. House of Representatives, 19 Democrats and eight Republicans prevailed; two Democratic incumbents were defeated. In the New York State Senate elections, Democrats won 43 seats and Republicans won 20, thereby giving them a supermajority. Democrats retained their supermajority in the New York State Assembly.[1]
Federal elections
editState elections
editSee also
edit- Elections in New York (state)
- Bilingual elections requirement for New York (per Voting Rights Act Amendments of 2006)[2]
References
edit- ^ "2020 New York election results". The New York Times. November 3, 2020. Retrieved January 19, 2022.
- ^ "Covered Areas for Voting Rights Bilingual Election Materials—2015", Voting Rights Act Amendments of 2006, Determinations Under Section 203, Federal Register, retrieved October 13, 2020,
A Notice by the Census Bureau on 12/05/2016
External links
edit- Certified 2020 election results in New York
- Government Documents Round Table of the American Library Association, "New York", Voting & Elections Toolkits
- "New York: Election Tools, Deadlines, Dates, Rules, and Links", Vote.org, Oakland, CA
- "League of Women Voters of New York". (State affiliate of the U.S. League of Women Voters)
- New York at Ballotpedia