Jerry Nadler Reelected To NY's 10th Congressional District

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — Longtime Congressmember Jerry Nadler has won another term representing the west side of Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn, according to NY1.

Nadler easily defeated Republican candidate Cathy Bernstein and Libertarian candidate Michael Madrid.

With 1o0 percent of the in-person voting precincts reporting as of 12:12 a.m., Nadler led with 68.8 percent of the vote, ahead of Bernstein at 30 percent and Madrid with 1.2 percent, according to NY1. New York will not count absentee ballots until next week.

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Nadler has held New York's 10th Congressional District seat since 1992.

He tweeted out Tuesday night, but not about his own race.

"Every vote will be counted. That is the American way, plain and simple," Nadler wrote. "In Arizona and in Pennsylvania, and in all the remaining states. No stunts or lies or cheap political theater are going to change that."

In his own race, Nadler pointed to his experience as a major difference between him and his two opponents.

"My experience and record of accomplishment," Nadler told Patch. "I am a fearless and principled liberal and have been on the frontlines in the fight for civil rights and civil liberties, relentlessly defending our country's fundamental promise of equality for all."

Madrid, who works as a software engineer, pointed to the fact that he isn't a "professional politician" as a reason voters should have cast their ballot his way.

"I am a software engineer, not a professional politician. Professional politicians seem more interested in proposing huge wishlist bills — stuff to fire up their base which the other side will surely reject," Madrid told Patch. "As a software engineer I'd break down these bills into manageable pieces so we can make constant progress, then hash out the other pieces."

Bernstein, on the other hand, has lived on the Upper West Side for 35 years and told Patch that the "single most pressing issue facing our community is homelessness."

The 10th Congressional District includes Morningside Heights, the Upper West Side, Midtown Manhattan, Greenwich Village, the Financial District and Borough Park in Brooklyn.

Nadler held a position in the New York City Assembly for 16 years before he ran for Congress, and is the current Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.

Nadler, Bernstein, and Madrid all responded to Patch's candidate surveys, which you can read more about below.

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