Kathy C. Hochul won with 51.2% of the vote (3,156,423 votes), ahead of Lee Zeldin with 45.3% (2,787,951 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 6.0 percentage points (368,472 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 6.0 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 13.6 points toward Republicans.
6,160,490 votes were counted in this race, for 9 candidates or options.
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