Political campaigns Carolyn Maloney

in 1992, maloney elected house of representatives, narrowly defeating 15-year incumbent bill green, progressive republican, become second woman represent district after susan molinari. 14th , predecessors had been 1 of few districts in city republicans did well; in fact, held seat 8 of 56 years between 1937 , maloney s victory. although district had been made more democratic in redistricting, maloney s win still considered upset.

following maloney s win, republicans continued hold of state senate, assembly, , city council seats on manhattan s east side decade. since 2002, democrats have dominated area, , hold of area s seats in state legislature , city council.

maloney faced significant opposition republican city councilman charles millard in 1994, year of republican tidal wave in midterm congressional elections. defeated millard handily, taking 64 percent of vote. has not faced credible opposition since, , has been reelected 8 more times average of 77 percent of vote.

in 2004, maloney faced potential democratic primary challenge robert jereski, former green party political candidate , unsuccessful candidate delegate 2004 democratic national convention on slate of dennis kucinich. jereski opposed iraq war while maloney had voted resolution authorize force; later forcefully renounced war, including memorably @ town hall meeting in district antiwar congressman john murtha. however, jereski didn t qualify ballot because petition found have invalid signatures, leaving him 4 short of 1250 required.

in december 2008, maloney hired public-relations firm bolster efforts named governor david paterson hillary clinton s successor new york senator. maloney toured parts of state, overshadowed caroline kennedy s promotional tour same seat. maloney interviewed governor 55 minutes. public opinion polls placed maloney s support senate seat in single digits, trailing front-runner, then-new york state attorney general andrew cuomo, although bid endorsed national organization women political action committee, feminist majority political action committee, new york times columnist nicholas kristof, , other columnists , editorial boards.

on january 23, 2009, paterson named congresswoman kirsten gillibrand post. many urged maloney run against gillibrand in 2010.

although had been leading gillibrand in both rasmussen , quinnipiac polls, maloney ruled out run u.s. senate , instead retained congressional seat.

in democratic primary congress on september 14, 2010, maloney defeated well-funded opponent, reshma saujani, 34-year-old indian-american hedge fund lawyer, landslide, 62-percentage point margin, racking more 81% of vote saujani s 19 percent. success due in large part substantial grassroots effort, volunteers , motivated field team reaching out registered voters across district. night, saujani said, m running again , 3 months later announced publicly not challenge maloney again.

in 2012 maloney s republican challenger christopher wright, took leave of absence j. p. morgan campaign. maloney won 80.9% of total , margin of on 120,000 votes.

in 2014 challenged republican nicholas di iorio financial contractor pfizer. maloney won 80% of vote.

in 2016 democratic primary, defeated challenger pete lindner 90.1% of vote, , in winning general election contest, against republican robert ardini, received more votes other candidate, republican or democrat, running congressional seat in new york state