New York: who should earn your vote for Congress in 2026

Opinion · The paper’s scorecard

New York: every race for Congress on the 3 November 2026 ballot, and how the candidates measure up against our standards.

Sitting and former members are scored on the same key votes, read from the official House and Senate roll calls; each vote links to the record. Candidates who have never served in Congress have no votes to score, and outside the battlegrounds we have not researched them, so they are marked as not scored. Where only one candidate could be measured, the mark rates that record on its own; it is not a verdict on the opponent. How the marks work · All states

District 1 R+4

✓ Meets our standards: Nick LaLota

Chris Gallant

Democrat

No congressional voting record; not scored

Meets our standards

Nick LaLota

Republican · incumbent

Scored on 21 key votes · total +3

✓Smaller government
✓Small business over giants
?Live and let live
✓Light touch on tech
✗Free speech
✗No surveillance state
✗Home first, open trade
✓Checks on power
✓Right to bear arms
✓Hard on violent crime

With us (11)

Voted for the Limit, Save, Grow Act tying the 2023 debt-limit increase to spending cuts. Source
Voted for the 2025 package cancelling about $9 billion in approved spending. Source
Voted for a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. Source

Against us (10)

Voted for the 2024 law forcing TikTok's sale or ban. Source
Voted for the Antisemitism Awareness Act, which civil-liberties groups opposed as a limit on campus speech. Source
Voted against the amendment requiring a warrant to search Americans' communications under FISA Section 702 (it failed 212-212). Source

District 2 R+6

✓ Meets our standards: Andrew Garbarino

Meets our standards

Andrew Garbarino

Republican · incumbent

Scored on 27 key votes · total +3

✓Smaller government
~Small business over giants
✓Live and let live
✓Light touch on tech
✗Free speech
✗No surveillance state
✗Home first, open trade
✓Checks on power
✓Right to bear arms
✓Hard on violent crime

With us (16)

Voted for the Limit, Save, Grow Act tying the 2023 debt-limit increase to spending cuts. Source
Voted for the 2025 package cancelling about $9 billion in approved spending. Source
Voted for a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. Source

Against us (11)

Voted against the 2022 antitrust package funding merger enforcement with fees on the largest deals. Source
Voted for the 2024 law forcing TikTok's sale or ban. Source
Voted for the Antisemitism Awareness Act, which civil-liberties groups opposed as a limit on campus speech. Source

Patrick Halpin

Democrat

No congressional voting record; not scored

District 3 EVEN

No mark

Mike LiPetri

Republican

No congressional voting record; not scored

Tom Suozzi

Democrat · incumbent

Scored on 22 key votes · total +0

✗Smaller government
~Small business over giants
✓Live and let live
✓Light touch on tech
✗Free speech
✗No surveillance state
✓Home first, open trade
✓Checks on power
✗Right to bear arms
~Hard on violent crime

With us (10)

Voted for the 2022 antitrust package funding merger enforcement with fees on the largest deals. Source
Voted for the Respect for Marriage Act. Source
Voted for the CLARITY Act, a light-touch rulebook for digital assets. Source

Against us (12)

Voted against the 2025 package cancelling about $9 billion in approved spending. Source
Voted against a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. Source
Voted against the Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act. Source

District 4 D+2

✓ Meets our standards: Laura Gillen

Jeanine Driscoll

Republican

No congressional voting record; not scored

Meets our standards

Laura Gillen

Democrat · incumbent

Scored on 11 key votes · total +5

✗Smaller government
✓Small business over giants
?Live and let live
✓Light touch on tech
?Free speech
✓No surveillance state
✓Home first, open trade
✓Checks on power
?Right to bear arms
✓Hard on violent crime

With us (9)

Voted for the Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act. Source
Voted for the CLARITY Act, a light-touch rulebook for digital assets. Source
Voted against a further clean extension of FISA surveillance authorities in 2026. Source

Against us (2)

Voted against the 2025 package cancelling about $9 billion in approved spending. Source
Voted against a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. Source

District 5 D+24

No mark

George Marsh

Republican

No congressional voting record; not scored

Gregory Meeks

Democrat · incumbent

Scored on 27 key votes · total -3

✗Smaller government
~Small business over giants
✓Live and let live
✗Light touch on tech
~Free speech
✗No surveillance state
✓Home first, open trade
~Checks on power
✗Right to bear arms
✗Hard on violent crime

With us (9)

Voted for the 2022 antitrust package funding merger enforcement with fees on the largest deals. Source
Voted for the Respect for Marriage Act. Source
Voted against the 2024 law forcing TikTok's sale or ban. Source

Against us (18)

Voted against the Limit, Save, Grow Act tying the 2023 debt-limit increase to spending cuts. Source
Voted against the 2025 package cancelling about $9 billion in approved spending. Source
Voted against a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. Source

District 6 D+6

No mark

Joseph Chou

Republican

No congressional voting record; not scored

Grace Meng

Democrat · incumbent

Scored on 27 key votes · total -1

✗Smaller government
~Small business over giants
✓Live and let live
✗Light touch on tech
~Free speech
✓No surveillance state
✓Home first, open trade
~Checks on power
✗Right to bear arms
✗Hard on violent crime

With us (11)

Voted for the 2022 antitrust package funding merger enforcement with fees on the largest deals. Source
Voted for the Respect for Marriage Act. Source
Voted against the 2024 law forcing TikTok's sale or ban. Source

Against us (16)

Voted against the Limit, Save, Grow Act tying the 2023 debt-limit increase to spending cuts. Source
Voted against the 2025 package cancelling about $9 billion in approved spending. Source
Voted against a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. Source

District 7 D+25

No mark

Nydia Velázquez (D): incumbent retiring.

Melvin Rivera

Republican

No congressional voting record; not scored

Claire Valdez

Democrat

No congressional voting record; not scored

District 8 D+24

No mark

Hakeem Jeffries

Democrat · incumbent

Scored on 27 key votes · total -3

✗Smaller government
~Small business over giants
✓Live and let live
✗Light touch on tech
✗Free speech
~No surveillance state
✓Home first, open trade
~Checks on power
✗Right to bear arms
✗Hard on violent crime

With us (9)

Voted for the 2022 antitrust package funding merger enforcement with fees on the largest deals. Source
Voted for the Respect for Marriage Act. Source
Voted for the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, barring agencies from buying Americans' data without a warrant. Source

Against us (18)

Voted against the Limit, Save, Grow Act tying the 2023 debt-limit increase to spending cuts. Source
Voted against the 2025 package cancelling about $9 billion in approved spending. Source
Voted against a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. Source

Lewis Mizrahi

Republican

No congressional voting record; not scored

District 9 D+22

No mark

Joel Anabilah-Azumah

Republican

No congressional voting record; not scored

Yvette Clarke

Democrat · incumbent

Scored on 26 key votes · total -1

✗Smaller government
~Small business over giants
✓Live and let live
✗Light touch on tech
~Free speech
✓No surveillance state
✓Home first, open trade
~Checks on power
✗Right to bear arms
✗Hard on violent crime

With us (11)

Voted for the 2022 antitrust package funding merger enforcement with fees on the largest deals. Source
Voted for the Respect for Marriage Act. Source
Voted against the Antisemitism Awareness Act, which civil-liberties groups opposed as a limit on campus speech. Source

Against us (15)

Voted against the Limit, Save, Grow Act tying the 2023 debt-limit increase to spending cuts. Source
Voted against the 2025 package cancelling about $9 billion in approved spending. Source
Voted against a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. Source

District 10 D+32

No mark

Dan Goldman (D): incumbent lost renomination.

Brad Lander

Democrat

No congressional voting record; not scored

Jennifer Moore

Republican

No congressional voting record; not scored

District 11 R+10

✓ Meets our standards: Nicole Malliotakis

Michael DeCillis

Democrat

No congressional voting record; not scored

Meets our standards

Nicole Malliotakis

Republican · incumbent

Scored on 27 key votes · total +3

✓Smaller government
✓Small business over giants
✓Live and let live
✓Light touch on tech
✗Free speech
✗No surveillance state
✗Home first, open trade
~Checks on power
✓Right to bear arms
✓Hard on violent crime

With us (15)

Voted for the Limit, Save, Grow Act tying the 2023 debt-limit increase to spending cuts. Source
Voted for a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. Source
Voted for the 2022 antitrust package funding merger enforcement with fees on the largest deals. Source

Against us (12)

Voted against the 2025 package cancelling about $9 billion in approved spending. Source
Voted for the 2024 law forcing TikTok's sale or ban. Source
Voted for the Antisemitism Awareness Act, which civil-liberties groups opposed as a limit on campus speech. Source

District 12 D+33

No mark

Jerry Nadler (D): incumbent retiring.

Micah Lasher

Democrat

No congressional voting record; not scored

Caroline Shinkle

Republican

No congressional voting record; not scored

District 13 D+32

No mark

Adriano Espaillat (D): incumbent lost renomination.

Darializa Avila Chevalier

Democrat

No congressional voting record; not scored

Jomo Williams

Republican

No congressional voting record; not scored

District 14 D+19

No mark

Diamant Hysenaj

Republican

No congressional voting record; not scored

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Democrat · incumbent

Scored on 27 key votes · total +0

✗Smaller government
~Small business over giants
✓Live and let live
✗Light touch on tech
✓Free speech
✓No surveillance state
✓Home first, open trade
~Checks on power
✗Right to bear arms
✗Hard on violent crime

With us (13)

Voted for the 2022 antitrust package funding merger enforcement with fees on the largest deals. Source
Voted for the Respect for Marriage Act. Source
Voted against the 2024 law forcing TikTok's sale or ban. Source

Against us (14)

Voted against the Limit, Save, Grow Act tying the 2023 debt-limit increase to spending cuts. Source
Voted against the 2025 package cancelling about $9 billion in approved spending. Source
Voted against a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. Source

District 15 D+27

No mark

Stylo Sapaskis

Republican

No congressional voting record; not scored

Ritchie Torres

Democrat · incumbent

Scored on 27 key votes · total -1

✗Smaller government
~Small business over giants
✓Live and let live
✓Light touch on tech
✗Free speech
~No surveillance state
✓Home first, open trade
~Checks on power
✗Right to bear arms
✗Hard on violent crime

With us (10)

Voted for the 2022 antitrust package funding merger enforcement with fees on the largest deals. Source
Voted for the Respect for Marriage Act. Source
Voted for the CLARITY Act, a light-touch rulebook for digital assets. Source

Against us (17)

Voted against the Limit, Save, Grow Act tying the 2023 debt-limit increase to spending cuts. Source
Voted against the 2025 package cancelling about $9 billion in approved spending. Source
Voted against a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. Source

District 16 D+18

Leans our way: George Latimer

Joseph Cinquemani

Republican

No congressional voting record; not scored

Leans our way

George Latimer

Democrat · incumbent

Scored on 11 key votes · total +1

✗Smaller government
✗Small business over giants
?Live and let live
✓Light touch on tech
?Free speech
✓No surveillance state
✓Home first, open trade
✓Checks on power
?Right to bear arms
✗Hard on violent crime

With us (6)

Voted for the CLARITY Act, a light-touch rulebook for digital assets. Source
Voted against a further clean extension of FISA surveillance authorities in 2026. Source
Voted for ending the emergency behind the tariffs on Canada. Source

Against us (5)

Voted against the 2025 package cancelling about $9 billion in approved spending. Source
Voted against a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. Source
Voted against the Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act. Source

District 17 D+1

No mark

Cait Conley

Democrat

No votes in Congress: scored on platform and record, promises at half weight · total +1.5

~Smaller government
✓Small business over giants
?Live and let live
~Light touch on tech
~Free speech
✓No surveillance state
✓Home first, open trade
✓Checks on power
✗Right to bear arms
~Hard on violent crime

With us (5)

Platform says 'corporate giants have squeezed out small businesses' and pledges 'Cutting red tape, expanding access to affordable capital', ending pharma 'pay for delay' deals and holding utility monopolies accountable. Source
Platform calls for 'Passing clear data privacy laws to give consumers control over personal data', 'strict standards for how federal agencies use AI, including transparency and human oversight', and an end to masked ICE agents. Source
Platform pledges 'Ending military escalation with Iran and pursuing diplomacy to ensure Iran never gets a nuclear weapon'; she told The Nation that Trump 'has not made America safer' and urged 'using soft power, reinvesting in USAID, diplomacy, partnerships and alliances'. Source

Against us (2)

Giffords PAC endorsed Conley; its profile says she 'supports commonsense gun safety measures like universal background checks and red flag laws' and 'will also work to ban assault weapons like the ones she carried in combat that have no place on civilian streets, crack down on dangerous, untraceable ghost guns'. It describes her as a gun owner. Source
NRA-PVF grades Conley 'F' for the 3 November 2026 general election (its lowest grade, defined as 'a consistent anti-gun candidate'); incumbent Mike Lawler is graded B. The page does not list the positions behind the grade. Source

Mike Lawler

Republican · incumbent

Scored on 19 key votes · total +2

✓Smaller government
✓Small business over giants
?Live and let live
?Light touch on tech
✗Free speech
✗No surveillance state
✗Home first, open trade
✓Checks on power
✓Right to bear arms
✓Hard on violent crime

With us (10)

Voted for the Limit, Save, Grow Act tying the 2023 debt-limit increase to spending cuts. Source
Voted for the 2025 package cancelling about $9 billion in approved spending. Source
Voted for a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. Source

Against us (9)

Voted for the 2024 law forcing TikTok's sale or ban. Source
Voted for the Antisemitism Awareness Act, which civil-liberties groups opposed as a limit on campus speech. Source
Voted against the amendment requiring a warrant to search Americans' communications under FISA Section 702 (it failed 212-212). Source

District 18 D+2

✓ Meets our standards: Pat Ryan

Jacqueline Auringer

Republican

No congressional voting record; not scored

Meets our standards

Pat Ryan

Democrat · incumbent

Scored on 23 key votes · total +2

✗Smaller government
✓Small business over giants
✓Live and let live
✓Light touch on tech
✗Free speech
✗No surveillance state
✓Home first, open trade
✓Checks on power
✗Right to bear arms
✓Hard on violent crime

With us (13)

Voted for the 2022 antitrust package funding merger enforcement with fees on the largest deals. Source
Voted for the Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act. Source
Voted for the Respect for Marriage Act. Source

Against us (10)

Voted against the Limit, Save, Grow Act tying the 2023 debt-limit increase to spending cuts. Source
Voted against the 2025 package cancelling about $9 billion in approved spending. Source
Voted against a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. Source

District 19 D+1

✓ Meets our standards: Josh Riley

Peter Oberacker

Republican

No congressional voting record; not scored

Meets our standards

Josh Riley

Democrat · incumbent

Scored on 11 key votes · total +3

✗Smaller government
✗Small business over giants
?Live and let live
✓Light touch on tech
?Free speech
✓No surveillance state
✓Home first, open trade
✓Checks on power
?Right to bear arms
✓Hard on violent crime

With us (8)

Voted for the CLARITY Act, a light-touch rulebook for digital assets. Source
Voted against a further clean extension of FISA surveillance authorities in 2026. Source
Voted for ending the emergency behind the tariffs on Canada. Source

Against us (3)

Voted against the 2025 package cancelling about $9 billion in approved spending. Source
Voted against a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. Source
Voted against the Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act. Source

District 20 D+8

No mark

Ralph Ambrosio

Republican

No congressional voting record; not scored

Paul Tonko

Democrat · incumbent

Scored on 27 key votes · total -2

✗Smaller government
~Small business over giants
✓Live and let live
✗Light touch on tech
✗Free speech
✓No surveillance state
✓Home first, open trade
~Checks on power
✗Right to bear arms
✗Hard on violent crime

With us (10)

Voted for the 2022 antitrust package funding merger enforcement with fees on the largest deals. Source
Voted for the Respect for Marriage Act. Source
Voted for the amendment requiring a warrant to search Americans' communications under FISA Section 702 (it failed 212-212). Source

Against us (17)

Voted against the Limit, Save, Grow Act tying the 2023 debt-limit increase to spending cuts. Source
Voted against the 2025 package cancelling about $9 billion in approved spending. Source
Voted against a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. Source

District 21 R+10

No mark

Elise Stefanik (R): incumbent retiring.

Anthony Constantino

Republican

No congressional voting record; not scored

Blake Gendebien

Democrat

No congressional voting record; not scored

District 22 D+4

✓ Meets our standards: John Mannion

Kailee Buller

Republican

No congressional voting record; not scored

Meets our standards

John Mannion

Democrat · incumbent

Scored on 11 key votes · total +3

✗Smaller government
✗Small business over giants
?Live and let live
✓Light touch on tech
?Free speech
✓No surveillance state
✓Home first, open trade
✓Checks on power
?Right to bear arms
✓Hard on violent crime

With us (8)

Voted for the CLARITY Act, a light-touch rulebook for digital assets. Source
Voted against a further clean extension of FISA surveillance authorities in 2026. Source
Voted for ending the emergency behind the tariffs on Canada. Source

Against us (3)

Voted against the 2025 package cancelling about $9 billion in approved spending. Source
Voted against a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. Source
Voted against the Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act. Source

District 23 R+10

✓ Meets our standards: Nick Langworthy

Aaron Gies

Democrat

No congressional voting record; not scored

Meets our standards

Nick Langworthy

Republican · incumbent

Scored on 19 key votes · total +5

✓Smaller government
✓Small business over giants
?Live and let live
✓Light touch on tech
✗Free speech
✓No surveillance state
✗Home first, open trade
✓Checks on power
✓Right to bear arms
✓Hard on violent crime

With us (13)

Voted for the Limit, Save, Grow Act tying the 2023 debt-limit increase to spending cuts. Source
Voted for the 2025 package cancelling about $9 billion in approved spending. Source
Voted for a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. Source

Against us (6)

Voted for the 2024 law forcing TikTok's sale or ban. Source
Voted for a further clean extension of FISA surveillance authorities in 2026. Source
Voted against ending the emergency behind the tariffs on Canada. Source

District 24 R+11

Leans our way: Claudia Tenney

Alissa Ellman

Democrat

No congressional voting record; not scored

Leans our way

Claudia Tenney

Republican · incumbent

Scored on 26 key votes · total +1

✓Smaller government
~Small business over giants
✗Live and let live
✓Light touch on tech
✗Free speech
✗No surveillance state
✗Home first, open trade
✓Checks on power
✓Right to bear arms
✓Hard on violent crime

With us (14)

Voted for the Limit, Save, Grow Act tying the 2023 debt-limit increase to spending cuts. Source
Voted for the 2025 package cancelling about $9 billion in approved spending. Source
Voted for a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. Source

Against us (12)

Voted against the 2022 antitrust package funding merger enforcement with fees on the largest deals. Source
Voted against the Respect for Marriage Act. Source
Voted for the 2024 law forcing TikTok's sale or ban. Source

District 25 D+10

No mark

Virginia McIntyre

Republican

No congressional voting record; not scored

Joseph Morelle

Democrat · incumbent

Scored on 27 key votes · total -4

✗Smaller government
~Small business over giants
✓Live and let live
✗Light touch on tech
✗Free speech
✗No surveillance state
✓Home first, open trade
~Checks on power
✗Right to bear arms
✗Hard on violent crime

With us (8)

Voted for the 2022 antitrust package funding merger enforcement with fees on the largest deals. Source
Voted for the Respect for Marriage Act. Source
Voted against a further clean extension of FISA surveillance authorities in 2026. Source

Against us (19)

Voted against the Limit, Save, Grow Act tying the 2023 debt-limit increase to spending cuts. Source
Voted against the 2025 package cancelling about $9 billion in approved spending. Source
Voted against a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. Source

District 26 D+11

No mark

Dennis Hannon

Republican

No congressional voting record; not scored

Tim Kennedy

Democrat · incumbent

Scored on 11 key votes · total -1

✗Smaller government
✗Small business over giants
?Live and let live
✗Light touch on tech
?Free speech
✓No surveillance state
✓Home first, open trade
✓Checks on power
?Right to bear arms
✗Hard on violent crime

With us (5)

Voted against a further clean extension of FISA surveillance authorities in 2026. Source
Voted for ending the emergency behind the tariffs on Canada. Source
Voted for the September 2026 resolution directing U.S. forces out of hostilities with Iran. Source

Against us (6)

Voted against the 2025 package cancelling about $9 billion in approved spending. Source
Voted against a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution. Source
Voted against the Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act. Source

Photo credits. Official congressional portraits are works of the U.S. government and in the public domain. Others:

Cait Conley: DHSgov, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (file)