NY-GOV: Hochul leads Blakeman by 20 points in latest Siena poll [View all]
The primaries are over, so it’s time to shift gears into general election mode. And a new Siena University poll has Gov. Kathy Hochul leading Republican challenger Bruce Blakeman with over 50% of the vote for the first time since the start of the year.
The poll conducted between June 17 and June 23 had Hochul up 52%-32% against Blakeman among registered voters surveyed. That’s up from 49%-33% a Siena poll in April pegged the contest at. This is also the first time since February that Hochul cracked the 50% threshold in race polling.
Siena surveyed 1,120 registered New Yorkers with a 3.6 percentage point margin of error. It had Hochul winning among self-identified moderates with 53% of polled voters, as well as among 49% suburbanites surveyed, a plurality. She easily won New York City with 63% of voters polled saying they’d back her, although upstate was split between the governor and Blakeman 42%-41%. Independents were also more divided as the governor held a small plurality of 41%-36%.
In more good news for Hochul, her net favorability has returned to the positives (though barely), with a 1% net positive at 44% favorable, 43% unfavorable in the latest poll, up from a 5% net negative at 41%-46% two months ago. But Blakeman’s favorability also increased, going from a net negative 17% favorable, 19% unfavorable in April to 25%-21% in the latest poll. He still remains mostly unknown, though.
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