Members of Pew Research Center’s nationally representative American Trends Panel were matched to public voting records from three national commercial voter files in an attempt to find a record for voting in the 2020 election. While Biden’s popular vote differential was an improvement over Hillary Clinton’s 2016 2-point advantage, it was not as resounding as congressional Democrats’ 9-point advantage over Republicans in votes cast in the 2018 elections for the U.S. Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump 306-232 in the Electoral College and had a 4-point margin in the popular vote. adult citizens casting a ballot in the 2020 election. Amid a global pandemic, with unprecedented changes in how Americans voted, voter turnout rose 7 percentage points over 2016, resulting in a total of 66% of U.S. The 2020 presidential election was historic in many ways. Here are the questions used for this report and its methodology. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education, turnout and vote choice in the three elections, and many other characteristics.

The surveys are weighted to be representative of the U.S.

Everyone who took part is a member of Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel recruited through national, random sampling of telephone numbers or, since 2018, residential addresses. The surveys were supplemented with measures taken from annual recruitment and profile surveys conducted in 20. adults online in November 2020, 10,640 adults in November 2018 and 4,183 adults in November and December 2016. Panelists for whom a record of voting was located are considered validated voters all others are presumed not to have voted. adults online and verified their turnout in the three general elections using commercial voter files that aggregate official state turnout records.

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He was re-elected to a second term with 58% of the vote in 2016. The incumbent was Republican Lee Zeldin, who had represented the district since 2015. The 1st district is located in eastern Long Island and includes most of central and eastern Suffolk County. See also: New York's 1st congressional district Results of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in New York by district: DistrictĭistrNew York's 1st congressional district election United States House of Representatives elections in New York, 2018

Most news outlets report election results using only the primary affiliation of party registration of candidates rather than by the party nominees who are elected, and most pollsters group candidates the same way. As a result, New York ballots tend to list many political parties. New York is near unique among the states in that it allows electoral fusion (cross-endorsement). Nationally, the Democratic Party won control of the House of Representatives on election day. ĭemocrats won a total of 21 New York House seats, while Republicans won six.

Chris Collins (R-27th District) was narrowly re-elected despite having been arrested on insider trading charges in August 2018. Claudia Tenney (R-22nd District) (defeated by Democrat Anthony Brindisi). John Faso (R-19th District) (defeated by Democrat Antonio Delgado), and Rep. Dan Donovan (R-11th District) (defeated by Democrat Max Rose), Rep. The defeated Republican incumbents were Rep. On November 6, 2018, the Democratic Party held the open seat in District 25 and defeated three Republican incumbents with the exception of Crowley, all Democratic incumbent members of Congress in New York were re-elected. In the JDemocratic primary in District 14, insurgent Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez upset longtime incumbent Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-25th District) on March 16, 2018. Prior to the 2018 elections, one New York House seat was vacant due to the death of Rep. Elections were held in all 27 of New York's congressional districts in 2018.

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