Talk:New York City mayoralty elections

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Contents 1 Improving this article 2 1997 Results 3 Clean-up 3.1 the Greatest mayor of all (NOT!) 4 Fusion candidates

[edit] Improving this article

Does somebody knows how to improve this article ? I can't find election results for NYC Mayor before 2001. We know that in 1997, Giuliani won by a large margin, carrying 4 out of 5 boroughs (I presume he lost only in The Bronx, and that the 1993 and 1989 elections were close races, but that doesn't make an article. --Revas 21:45, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

• There are election results going back to 1834 (the first year it became an elected position) in the The Encyclopedia of New York City. I suppose I can start adding it from 1993 (it was published 1995) and then going back.--Pharos 05:00, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 1997 Results

Found election results for NYC mayor's race (99% precincts reporting) at CNN site. Added simple chart (borough breakdown was not available.) http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/gen/resources/election97/results.html

Added Mayor Giuliani's name to line 2. Nhprman 19:05, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Clean-up

I'm going to start a serious clean-up of this page - making the election results uniform to other Wikipedia pages, adding more results, and adding more details about the elections. 67.160.106.255 02:39, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Coincidentally, I started my own major clean-up 3-4 days ago, but due to time restrictions as of late, I haven't exactly completed it. It's great to hear someone else out there wants to put in some dedication to such an unfortunate eyesore of an article. I'll be glad to collaborate with you in any way possible. I purely am dedicated to fixing up this article for the point of making Wikipedia a better place. I have absolutely nothing to do with politions, New York, or even the USA. I'm just a simple minded Aussie trying to pitch in. In regards to your clean-up, go for it, and I'm here to help. Raider2044 ^{Bio • Talk • Contribs} 09:40, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for working on this page, but take care not to erase useful informations, such as Borough level results or minor parties (Bloomberg was also on the Conservative Party ticket in 2001, Green on the Working Family ticket and Hevesi did not run as a Democrat but in the Liberal party ticket. That's why I wonder if the election box used for legislatives election is revelant here. --Revas 15:09, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Revas, I have indeed thought about all the information that would be lost to using the election box templates. It is due to this sole fact that I am "hard-coding" the whole lot, and why it is taking a little longer. I expect to put in a fair amount of time tonight and have a somewhat cleaner output to display. I do not want to rewrite the article, I just want to bring in some continuity. Cheers. Raider2044 ^{Bio • Talk • Contribs} 10:22, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Following up on my previous comment, I have implemented my "clean up" version. I have not removed any previous information, and have infact included a tiny bit more (re: 1997). If you have any problems with me just going ahead, then criticise away, but I felt my version did not take away from the previous setup, I have merely brought in some continuity. I hope it is accepted by you guys, I know that you Revas in particular take great pride in this article. In regards to expanding it even further, at the moment it is fairly data filled, and lacks any true journalism. I will venture out to find information such as dates. It truly is hard to find much of this information, which surprises me. Happy editing.

[edit] the Greatest mayor of all (NOT!)

I'm surprised that nobody noticed that there were two elecitons missing. Impy, O'Brian, and Holy Joe were all mayors, too, ya know!!

The 1932 and '50 special elections were quite unusual, espeically since Impy was elected as an independent.

Also, the NYC Young Repbublicans club has a website and there, I found out which nonentities were nominated by the Republcians for Mayor in 1953 and '57, plus Louis Lefkowitz, who wasn't a nonentity.

Raider2044 Bio • Talk • Contribs 06:33, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your work, you really did great and long awaited job. I'll try to write some text in order to explain the context of each election. --Revas 17:35, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fusion candidates

Are there records of the votes Fusion candidates got on their respective tickets, i.e. at the last election, how many Bloomberg got as a Republican and as an Independence candidate? --William Quill 11:09, 3 March 2007 (UTC)