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This was the first time since 1950 that Democrats won the Class 3 United States Senate seat from New York, and the last time an incumbent U.S. Senator from New York lost a general election. Schumer's swearing in marked the first time since 1947 that Democrats held both of New York's U.S. Senate seats.
The 1998 United States Senate elections were held on November 3, 1998, with the 34 seats of Class 3 contested in regular elections. This was seen as an even contest between the Republican Party and Democratic Party .
In the Senate elections, Republicans picked up open seats in Ohio and Kentucky and narrowly defeated Democratic incumbent Carol Moseley Braun (Illinois), but these were cancelled out by the Democrats' gain of an open seat in Indiana and defeats of Republican Senators Al D'Amato (New York) and Lauch Faircloth (North Carolina). The balance of the ...
1998 New York's 6th congressional district special election; 1998 United States Senate election in New York This page was last ...
Under the provisions of the New York Constitution of 1938 and the U.S. Supreme Court decision to follow the One man, one vote rule, re-apportioned in 1992 by the Legislature, 61 Senators and 150 assemblymen were elected in single-seat districts for two-year terms. Senate and Assembly districts consisted of approximately the same number of ...
D'Amato went on to prevail in the general election by defeating Javits, running on the Liberal Party ticket, and Democratic U.S. Representative Elizabeth Holtzman. He was re-elected in 1986 and 1992 but was defeated in 1998 by Chuck Schumer. [2] [3] As of 2025, D'Amato is the last Republican to have represented New York in the U.S. Senate. [4]
This is the most recent Congress with a Republican senator from New York, Al D'Amato, who lost re-election in 1998, and a Democratic senator from Kentucky, Wendell Ford, who retired at the end of the Congress. Both chambers retained a Republican majority. President Clinton was impeached by the US House of Representatives of the 105th Congress.
The 1998 New York gubernatorial election was an election for the state governorship held on November 3, 1998. Incumbent Republican governor George Pataki was re-elected with 54.3% of the vote. [1] [2] This remains the last statewide election in New York where a Republican won a majority of the vote.