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2020 New York State Assembly election

Elections to the New York State Assembly were held on November 3, 2020 in the U.S. state of New York. The elections were part of the biennial elections in the United States, with elections for the State Senate, the U.S. House, and U.S. president being held on the same day. Primary elections were held on June 23.

Assembly Democrats won 105 of the chamber's 150 seats on election day, while Republicans won 43 seats and two other seats were won by members of third parties.

Source	Ranking	As of
The Cook Political Report	Safe D	October 21, 2020

Longtime Asm. Carmen Arroyo (D-Bronx) was disqualified from the Democratic primary ballot due to election fraud.

Incumbent Asms. Michael DenDekker, Joseph Lentol, Michael Miller, Walter Mosley, Felix Ortiz, and Aravella Simotas were defeated in Democratic primaries.

Incumbents Ellen Jaffee (D-Suffern) and Mark Johns (R-Webster) were defeated in the general election.

Assemblymember Rebecca Seawright was disqualified from seeking re-election as a Democrat due to paperwork errors, but instead campaigned as the candidate of the Rise and Unite Party and was re-elected.

Assemblymember Fred Thiele, a member of the Independence Party who caucuses with the Democrats, was re-elected in Assembly District One.

2020 New York State Assembly Election Results
	Democratic	4,482,999	58.52%	3.49	105
	Republican	2,430,174	31.72%	3.43	43	1
	Conservative	301,261	3.93%	0.24	0
	Working Families	254,463	3.32%	0.56	0
	Independence	109,184	1.43%	0.23	1
	Libertarian	19,879	0.26%	0.19	0
	Liberal	5,941	0.08%		0
	Green	5,923	0.08%	0.03	0
	Serve America	4,689	0.06%		0
	Others	45,978	0.60%		1	1
7,660,491	100.00%		150
13,555,547	56.51%

+Elected in a special election.

The incumbent was Fred Thiele, who ran for re-election.

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	39,195	56.12%
	Independence	1,494	2.14%
	Total	Fred Thiele (incumbent)	40,689	58.26%
	Republican	25,850	37.02%
	Conservative	3,283	4.70%
	Total	Heather Collins	29,133	41.71%
	Write-in	19	0.03%
69,841	100%

The incumbent was Anthony Palumbo, who retired to successfully run for state senate. Republican Jodi Giglio, a former member of the Riverhead, New York town board, was elected.

Laura Jens-Smith, Riverhead town supervisor
William Schleisner

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	6,743	75.97
	Democratic	2,124	23.93
	Write-in	9	0.10%
8,876	100.0

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	34,874	49.13%
	Conservative	4,378	6.17%
	Independence	651	0.92%
	Total	Jodi Giglio	39,903	56.22%
	Democratic	28,501	40.16%
	Working Families	3,283	2.31%
	Total	Laura Jens-Smith	30,141	42.47%
	Libertarian	926	1.31%
	Write-in	6	0.01%
70,976	100%

The incumbent was Charles Fall, who ran for re-election.

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	32,185	67.30%
	Independence	720	1.50%
	Total	Charles Fall (incumbent)	32,905	68.80%
	Republican	13,015	27.21%
	Conservative	1,855	3.88%
	Total	Paul Ciurcina, Jr.	14,870	31.09%
	Write-in	50	0.11%
47,825	100%

The incumbent was Michael Cusick, who ran for re-election.

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	32,185	51.37%
	Independence	741	1.36%
	Total	Michael Cusick (incumbent)	28,776	52.73%
	Republican	23,636	43.31%
	Conservative	1,984	3.64%
	SAM	120	0.22%
	Total	Anthony DeGuerre	25,740	47.17%
	Write-in	58	0.11%
54,574	100%

The incumbent was Nicole Malliotakis, who retired to successfully run for congress.

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	27,888	53.24%
	Conservative	274	1.36%
	Total	Michael Tannousis	30,630	58.47%
	Democratic	21,076	40.23%
	Independence	621	1.19%
	Total	Brandon Peterson	21,697	41.42%
	Write-in	57	0.11%
52,384	100%

2020 New York state elections
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

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