page_title: 2006 United States Senate election in New York
section_title: Analysis
hierarchical_section_title: 2006 United States Senate election in New York / General election / Analysis
caption_attribution_description: English: Image showing county-by-county results of the 2006 US Senate election in New York, results taken from uselectionatlas.org
context_page_description: The 2006 United States Senate election in New York was held on November 7, 2006. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton won re-election to a second term in office, by a more than two-to-one margin. Clinton was challenged by Republican John Spencer, former Mayor of Yonkers, and longtime political activist Howie Hawkins of the Green Party.
context_section_description: Clinton's victory margin over her Republican opponent (67%–31%) was a significant gain over her showing in the 2000 senate race against Rick Lazio (55%–43%).  She carried all but four of New York's sixty-two counties.
  It was the second-largest margin of victory for a Senate race in New York history, and the third-largest for a statewide race in New York. Clinton's 2006 margin did not quite equal the percentage received by Eliot Spitzer in the concurrent gubernatorial race (69%%–29%) nor by Charles Schumer in his 2004 Senate re-election campaign (71%%–24%), both of which had also been against little-known Republican opponents.
caption: Election results by county.
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