New York's 16th Congressional District election, 2022 (August 23 Democratic primary)

Elections in New York, 2022

• Primary date: June 28; August 23 (congressional and state senate only)
• Mail-in registration deadline: June 3; July 29 (congressional and state senate only)
• Online reg. deadline: June 3; July 29 (congressional and state senate only)
• In-person reg. deadline: June 3; July 29 (congressional and state senate only)

• Early voting starts: June 18; August 13 (congressional and state senate only)
• Early voting ends: June 26; August 21 (congressional and state senate only)
• Poll times: 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.
• Absentee/mail-in deadline: June 28; August 23 (congressional and state senate only)

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New York's 16th Congressional District
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Election details
Filing deadline: June 10, 2022
Primary: August 23, 2022 General: November 8, 2022
How to vote
Poll times: 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. (general elections); primary times vary by county Voting in New York
Race ratings
Cook Partisan Voter Index (2022): D+20 Cook Political Report: Solid Democratic Inside Elections: Solid Democratic Sabato's Crystal Ball: Safe Democratic
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A Democratic Party primary took place on August 23, 2022, in New York's 16th Congressional District to determine which Democratic candidate would run in the district's general election on November 8, 2022.

Incumbent Jamaal Bowman advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House New York District 16.

Candidate filing deadline	Primary election	General election
June 10, 2022	August 23, 2022	November 8, 2022

A primary election is an election in which registered voters select a candidate that they believe should be a political party's candidate for elected office to run in the general election. They are also used to choose convention delegates and party leaders. Primaries are state-level and local-level elections that take place prior to a general election. New York utilizes a closed primary process, in which the selection of a party's candidates in an election is limited to registered party members.

For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.

This page focuses on New York's 16th Congressional District Democratic primary. For more in-depth information on the district's Republican primary and the general election, see the following pages:

• New York's 16th Congressional District election, 2022 (August 23 Republican primary)
• New York's 16th Congressional District election, 2022

Candidates and election results

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House New York District 16

Incumbent Jamaal Bowman defeated Vedat Gashi, Catherine Parker, and Mark Jaffe in the Democratic primary for U.S. House New York District 16 on August 23, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Jamaal Bowman	54.4	21,643
		Vedat Gashi	25.1	10,009
		Catherine Parker	18.9	7,503
		Mark Jaffe	1.5	608
		Other/Write-in votes	0.1	36

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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Manuel Casanova (D)
• Michael Gerald (D)

News and conflicts in this primary

This race was featured in The Heart of the Primaries, a newsletter capturing stories related to conflicts within each major party. Click here to read more about conflict in this and other 2022 Democratic U.S. House primaries. Click here to subscribe to the newsletter.

• Heart of the Primaries 2022, Democrats-Issue 16 (March 31, 2022)
• Heart of the Primaries 2022, Democrats-Issue 11 (February 24, 2022)

Ballot access requirements

The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in New York in the 2022 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in New York, click here.

Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2022
State	Office	Party	Signatures required	Filing fee	Filing deadline	Source
New York	U.S. House	Ballot-qualified party	1,062, or 4.25% of the number of enrolled members of the party in the district, whichever is less	N/A	6/10/2022	Source
New York	U.S. House	Unaffiliated	3,500	N/A	7/5/2022	Source

District analysis

Click the tabs below to view information about voter composition, past elections, and demographics in both the district and the state.

• District map - A map of the district before and after redistricting.
• Effect of redistricting - How districts in the state changed as a result of redistricting following the 2020 census.
• Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2022 U.S. House elections in the state.
• Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the district and the state.
• Demographics - Information about the state's demographics and how they compare to the country as a whole.
• State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.

District map

Below was the map in use at the time of the election, enacted as part of the 2020 redistricting cycle, compared to the map in place before the election.

New York District 16
before 2020 redistricting cycle

Click a district to compare boundaries.

New York District 16
after 2020 redistricting cycle

Click a district to compare boundaries.

Effect of redistricting

See also: Redistricting in New York after the 2020 census

The table below details the results of the 2020 presidential election in each district at the time of the 2022 election and its political predecessor district. This data was compiled by Daily Kos Elections.

2020 presidential results by Congressional district, New York
District	2022 district		Political predecessor district
	Joe Biden	Donald Trump	Joe Biden	Donald Trump
New York's 1st	49.5%	49.3%	47.3%	51.5%
New York's 2nd	48.7%	50.2%	47.4%	51.4%
New York's 3rd	53.6%	45.4%	54.7%	44.3%
New York's 4th	56.8%	42.2%	55.6%	43.4%
New York's 5th	80.9%	18.5%	83.3%	16.2%
New York's 6th	64.7%	34.4%	61.8%	37.4%
New York's 7th	80.8%	18.2%	81.8%	17.3%
New York's 8th	76.3%	23.1%	82.9%	16.5%
New York's 9th	75.4%	23.9%	81.4%	17.8%
New York's 10th	85.1%	13.9%	59.6%	39.4%
New York's 11th	45.7%	53.4%	44.3%	54.8%
New York's 12th	85.2%	13.8%	76.1%	22.9%
New York's 13th	88.1%	11.1%	88.1%	11.1%
New York's 14th	77.9%	21.3%	73.3%	25.9%
New York's 15th	84.7%	14.7%	86.4%	13.0%
New York's 16th	71.4%	27.7%	75.3%	23.8%
New York's 17th	54.5%	44.4%	51.8%	46.8%
New York's 18th	53.4%	45.0%	84.1%	14.8%
New York's 19th	51.3%	46.7%	49.8%	48.3%
New York's 20th	58.6%	39.4%	59.3%	38.7%
New York's 21st	42.8%	55.2%	43.8%	54.2%
New York's 22nd	52.6%	45.2%	53.4%	44.4%
New York's 23rd	40.4%	57.6%	43.3%	54.5%
New York's 24th	40.3%	57.5%	43.2%	54.7%
New York's 25th	58.8%	39.1%	60.1%	37.8%
New York's 26th	60.8%	37.4%	62.6%	35.6%

Competitiveness

See also: Primary election competitiveness in state and federal government, 2022

This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in New York.

Post-filing deadline analysis

The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in New York in 2022. Information below was calculated on August 18, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.

One hundred six candidates filed to run for New York's 26 U.S. House districts, including 67 Democrats and 39 Republicans. That's 4.08 candidates per district, more than the four candidates per district in 2020 and the 3.15 in 2018.

This was the first election to take place under new district lines following the 2020 census, which resulted in New York losing one U.S. House district. The 106 candidates who ran this year were two fewer than the 108 who ran in 2020 and 21 more than the 85 who ran in 2018. Seventy-seven candidates ran in 2016, 55 in 2014, and 81 in 2012.

Four incumbents ran in districts other than the ones they represented at the time. Rep. Claudia Tenney (R), who represented the 22nd district, ran in the 24th. Rep. Sean Maloney (D), who represented the 18th district, ran in the 17th, and Rep. Mondaire Jones (D), the incumbent in the 17th, ran in the 10th.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D), who represented the 10th district, ran in the 12th this year. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D), the incumbent in the 12th district, ran for re-election, making the 12th the only New York district in 2022 where two incumbents ran against each other.

Five incumbents—two Democrats and three Republicans—did not file to run for re-election. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R), who represented the 1st district, and Rep. Tom Suozzi (D), who represented the 3rd district, filed to run for governor. Rep. John Katko (R), who represented the 24th district, and Rep. Kathleen Rice (D), who represented the 4th district, retired. Rep. Christopher Jacobs (R), who represented the 27th district, also retired. The 27th district was eliminated after 2022 due to redistricting.

There were seven open seats this year, a decade-high. That number was up from four in 2020, and from one in 2018. There were four open seats in 2016 and two in 2014 and 2012.

The open seats included Zeldin’s 1st district, Suozzi’s 3rd, Rice’s 4th, Maloney’s 18th, and Tenney’s 22nd. Additionally, the 19th and the 23rd district were vacant before the primaries took place. Rep. Antonio Delgado (D), who represented the 19th, was appointed Lt. Governor of New York, and Rep. Tom Reed (R), who represented the 23rd, resigned after a sexual misconduct allegation. Special elections were held on August 23 to fill both seats.

Fourteen candidates ran to replace Nadler in the 10th district, the most candidates who ran for a seat this year. One of the candidates, former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D), unofficially withdrew from the race, but his name appeared on the ballot.

There were 16 contested Democratic primaries this year, the same number as in 2020, and three more than in 2018, when there were 13. There were 10 contested Democratic primaries in 2016, five in 2014, and 10 in 2012.

There were eight contested Republican primaries. That was one more than in 2020, when there were seven contested Republican primaries, and seven more than in 2018, when there was only one. There were three contested Republican primaries in 2016, five in 2014, and five in 2012.

Seven incumbents did not face any primary challengers this year. One seat—the 5th— was guaranteed to Democrats because no Republicans filed. No seats were guaranteed to Republicans because no Democrats filed.

Presidential elections

Partisan Voter Index

See also: The Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index

Heading into the 2022 elections, based on results from the 2020 and 2016 presidential elections, the Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district was D+20. This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were 20 percentage points more Democratic than the national average. This made New York's 16th the 64th most Democratic district nationally.

2020 presidential election results

The table below shows what the vote in the 2020 presidential election would have been in this district. The presidential election data was compiled by Daily Kos.

2020 presidential results in New York's 16th based on 2022 district lines
Joe Biden	Donald Trump
71.4%	27.7%

Presidential voting history

See also: Presidential election in New York, 2020

New York presidential election results (1900-2020)

• 18 Democratic wins
• 13 Republican wins

Year	1900	1904	1908	1912	1916	1920	1924	1928	1932	1936	1940	1944	1948	1952	1956	1960	1964	1968	1972	1976	1980	1984	1988	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008	2012	2016	2020
Winning Party	R	R	R	D	R	R	R	R	D	D	D	D	R	R	R	D	D	D	R	D	R	R	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D

Demographics

The table below details demographic data in New York and compares it to the broader United States as of 2019.

Demographic Data for New York
	New York	United States
Population	20,201,249	331,449,281
Land area (sq mi)	47,123	3,531,905
Race and ethnicity**
White	62.3%	70.4%
Black/African American	15.4%	12.6%
Asian	8.6%	5.6%
Native American	0.4%	0.8%
Pacific Islander	0%	0.2%
Other (single race)	8.6%	5.1%
Multiple	4.7%	5.2%
Hispanic/Latino	19.1%	18.2%
Education
High school graduation rate	87.2%	88.5%
College graduation rate	37.5%	32.9%
Income
Median household income	$71,117	$64,994
Persons below poverty level	13.6%	12.8%
Source: population provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "Decennial Census" (2020). Other figures provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2015-2020).
**Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here.

State party control

Congressional delegation

The table below displays the partisan composition of New York's congressional delegation as of November 2022.

Congressional Partisan Breakdown from New York, November 2022
Party	U.S. Senate	U.S. House	Total
Democratic	2	19	21
Republican	0	8	8
Independent	0	0	0
Vacancies	0	0	0
Total	2	27	29

State executive

The table below displays the officeholders in New York's top four state executive offices as of November 2022.

State executive officials in New York, November 2022
Office	Officeholder
Governor	Kathy Hochul
Lieutenant Governor	Antonio Delgado
Secretary of State	Robert Rodriguez
Attorney General	Letitia James

State legislature

The tables below highlight the partisan composition of the New York State Legislature as of November 2022.

New York State Senate

Party		As of November 2022
	Democratic Party	42
	Republican Party	20
	Vacancies	1
Total		63

New York House of Representatives

Party		As of November 2022
	Democratic Party	107
	Republican Party	42
	Independence	0
	Vacancies	1
Total		150

Trifecta control

As of November 2022, New York was a Democratic trifecta, with majorities in both chambers of the state legislature and control of the governorship. The table below displays the historical trifecta status of the state.

New York Party Control: 1992-2022
Six years of Democratic trifectas  •  No Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.

Year	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Governor	D	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D
Senate	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	D	D
Assembly	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D

See also

• New York's 16th Congressional District election, 2022 (August 23 Republican primary)
• New York's 16th Congressional District election, 2022
• United States House elections in New York, 2022 (August 23 Democratic primaries)
• United States House elections in New York, 2022 (August 23 Republican primaries)
• United States House Democratic Party primaries, 2022
• United States House Republican Party primaries, 2022
• United States House of Representatives elections, 2022
• U.S. House battlegrounds, 2022

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Footnotes

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New York's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Kirsten Gillibrand (D)

Chuck Schumer (D)

Representatives

District 1

Nicholas LaLota (R)

District 2

Andrew Garbarino (R)

District 3

Tom Suozzi (D)

District 4

Laura Gillen (D)

District 5

Gregory Meeks (D)

District 6

Grace Meng (D)

District 7

Nydia Velazquez (D)

District 8

Hakeem Jeffries (D)

District 9

Yvette Clarke (D)

District 10

Daniel Goldman (D)

District 11

Nicole Malliotakis (R)

District 12

Jerrold Nadler (D)

District 13

Adriano Espaillat (D)

District 14

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D)

District 15

Ritchie Torres (D)

District 16

George Latimer (D)

District 17

Michael Lawler (R)

District 18

Pat Ryan (D)

District 19

Josh Riley (D)

District 20

Paul Tonko (D)

District 21

Elise Stefanik (R)

District 22

John Mannion (D)

District 23

Nick Langworthy (R)

District 24

Claudia Tenney (R)

District 25

Joseph Morelle (D)

District 26

Tim Kennedy (D)

Democratic Party (21)

Republican Party (7)

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