How Much Money Went To Jerry Nadler Compared To UWS Challengers

Upper West Side NY

06 November, 2020

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UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — Congressman Jerry Nadler won reelection Tuesday night against Republican Cathy Bernstein and Libertarian Michael Madrid to represent the 1oth Congressional District. With 100 percent of the vote in, Nadler won with 68.8 percent of the vote, ahead of Bernstein at 30 percent and Madrid at 1.2 percent, according to NY1. New York will not count absentee ballots until next week. Nadler has held the congressional seat since 1992, and was considered the heavy favorite going into the race. The 10th Congressional District includes Morningside Heights, the Upper West Side, Midtown Manhattan, Greenwich Village, the Financial District and Borough Park in Brooklyn. The longtime congress member also dominated the two other candidates in the amount of money raised and spent in the lead up to the 2020 Election. Using the latest publicly available data from the Federal Election Commission, Patch calculated how much each candidate raised and spent in the time period before the most recent election. Totals are from 2019 and 2020 and have been rounded to the closest whole number. Jerry Nadler Total Contributions: $1,651,765 Total Individual Contributions: $1,053,400 Other Committee Contributions: $598,366 Operating Expenditures: $1,530,376 Cathy Bernstein Total Contributions:$49,975 Total Individual Contributions: $47,805 Other Committee Contributions: $0 Operating Expenditures: $28,384 Michael Madrid Total Contributions: $13,735 Total Individual Contributions: $8,735 Other Committee Contributions: $5,000 Operating Expenditures: $8,666 The amount of money raised by Nadler compared to the other two candidates wasn't close, as he raised 32 times more than the second closest Bernstein's total. Read More: Jerry Nadler Reelected To NY's 10th Congressional District Patch reporter Maya Kaufman contributed to this report.