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There have been 89 gubernatorial elections in the state of New York since 1777.

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[edit] General Information

Originally the term was three years long and began on July 1, the election being held in the last week of April or May 1. In 1817, following the resignation of Daniel D. Tompkins after serving only 8 months of his term, there was a new election, since the 1777 Contitution did not give the Lt. Gov. the right to succeed to the governor's office, and DeWitt Clinton was elected for a whole three-year-term. The New York State Constitutional Convention of 1821 reduced the term to two years - beginning on January 1 and ending on December 31 - and moved the election to the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Due to this measure, DeWitt Clinton's own second term was cut short by half a year. Beginning with the election in 1876, the term was increased to three years again, beginning with the election in 1894 reduced to two years, and since the election in 1938 has its present duration of four years.

Although the candidates for Lieutenant Governor have always run on tickets with the governor's candidates, until the election of 1936 they were elected on separate ballots, so on several occasions (1826, 1846, 1850, 1906, 1924) the governor and his lieutenant were elected of different slates.

In only 15 of the total 89 elections the incumbent ran and was defeated.

The elected candidates are shown in bold face in the tables below.

[edit] Upcoming elections

[edit] 2010

Main article: New York gubernatorial election, 2010

[edit] Recent Elections

[edit] 2006

Main article: New York gubernatorial election, 2006

[edit] 2002

Main article: New York gubernatorial election, 2002

[edit] 1998

Main article: New York gubernatorial election, 1998


General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote (PV)
In red are counties carried by Pataki and in blue by Vallone. The blue patch is NYC except Staten Island
In red are counties carried by Pataki and in blue by Vallone. The blue patch is NYC except Staten Island
George E. Pataki Mary O. Donohue Republican,
Conservative		 2,571,991 54.32%
Peter F. Vallone Sr. Sandra Frankel Democrat,
Working Families		 1,570,317 33.16%
B. Thomas Golisano Laureen Oliver Independence 364,056 7.69%
Betsy McCaughey Ross Jonathan C. Reiter Liberal 77,915 1.65%
Michael Reynolds Karen Prior Right to Life 56,683 1.20%
Al Lewis Alice Green Green 52,533 1.11%
Thomas K. Leighton Jeffrey C. Wright Marijuana Reform 24,788 0.52%
Mary Alice France - Unity Party 9,692 0.20%
Chris Garvey Don Silberger Libertarian 4,722 0.10%
Al Duncan Ruth Robinett Socialist Workers 2,539 0.05%

4,985,932 ballots have been cast on that election. Out of them, 250,696 were declared blank, void or missing.

[edit] 1994

Main article: New York gubernatorial election, 1994


General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote (PV)
George E. Pataki Betsy McCaughey Ross Republican,
Conservative,
Tax Cut Now		 2,488,631 (48.8 %)
Mario M. Cuomo Stan Lundine Democratic,
Liberal		 2,364,904 (45.4 %)
B. Thomas Golisano Dominick Fusco Independence Fusion 217,490 (4.1 %)
Robert T. Walsh Virginia E. Sutton Right to Life 67,750 (1.3 %)
Robert L. Schulz Stan Dworkin Libertarian 9,506 (0.2 %)
Lawrence Lane May Nell Bockman Socialist Workers 5,410 (0.1 %)


Democratic Primary popular vote percentage Republican Primary popular vote percentage
Mario Cuomo 548,762 (79.45%) St. Sen. George Pataki 273,620 (75.60%)
Lenora Fulani 141,918 (20.55%) Richard M. Rosenbaum 88,302 (24.40%)

[edit] 1974-1990


1990 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Mario M. Cuomo Stan Lundine Democratic,
Liberal		 2,157,087 (53.17%)
Pierre Rinfret George Yancey, Jr. Republican 865,948 (21.35%)
Herbert London Anthony DiPerna Conservative 827,614 (20.40%)
Louis P. Wein Gertrude G. Manning Right to Life 137,804 (3.40%)
Lenora Fulani Ada I. Vazquez New Alliance 31,089 (0.77%)
W. Gary Johnson Dottie Lou Brokaw Libertarian 24,611 (0.61%)
Craig Gannon Susan Anmuth Socialist Workers 12,743 (0.31%)
1986 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Mario M. Cuomo Stan Lundine Democratic,
Liberal		 2,775,045 (64.63%)
Andrew O'Rourke E. Michael Kavanagh Republican,
Conservative		 1,363,968 (31.77%)
Denis Dillon Thomas E. Drolesky Right to Life 130,827 (3.05%)
Lenora Fulani Rafael Mendez New Alliance 24,135 (0.56%)
1982 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Mario M. Cuomo Alfred DelBello Democratic,
Liberal		 2,675,213 (50.91%)
Lewis Lehrman James L. Emery Republican,
Conservative,		 2,494,827 (47.48%)
Robert J. Bohner Paul Callahan Right to Life 52,356 (1.00%)
John H. Northrup David Hoesley Libertarian 16,913 (0.32%)
Jane Benedict Angela M. Gilliam Unity 6,353 (0.12%)
Nancy Ross Lenora Fulani New Alliance 5,277 (0.10%)
Diane Wang Peter A. Thierjung Socialist Workers 3,766 (0.07%)
1978 General General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Hugh Carey Mario M. Cuomo Democratic 2,429,272 (50.95%)
Perry Duryea, Jr. Bruce Caputo Republican,
Conservative		 2,156,404 (45.22%)
Mary Jane Tobin Ellen McCormack Right to Life 130,193 (2.73%)
Gary Greenberg James Franz Libertarian 18,990 (0.40%)
Dianne M. Feeley Kevin E. Kellogg Socialist Workers 12,987 (0.27%)
Jarvis Tyner Grace Mora-Newman Communist 11,400 (0.24%)
Paul Gallagher J. Philip Rubinstein Labor 9,073 (0.19%)
1974 General General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Hugh Carey Mary Anne Krupsak Democratic 3,028,503 (57.22%)
Malcolm Wilson Ralph G. Caso Republican 2,219,667 (41.94%)
Wayne S. Amato Charles R. Schongar Courage 12,459 (0.24%)
Jerry Tuccille Louis J. Sicilia Libertarian 10,503 (0.20%)
Derrick Morrison James Mendieta Socialist Workers 8,857 (0.17%)
Jose A. Ristorucci Carol A. Twigg Communist 5,232 (0.10%)
John Emanuel Socialist Labor 4,574 (0.09%)
Anton H. Chaitkin Victoria Statom Labor 3,151 (0.06%)

[edit] 1938-1970


1970 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Nelson A. Rockefeller Malcolm Wilson Republican 3,151,432 (52.41%)
Arthur Goldberg Basil Paterson Democratic,
Liberal		 2,421,426 (40.27%)
Paul L. Adams Edward F. Leonard Conservative 422,514 (7.03%)
Rasheed Storey Grace Mora-Newman Communist 7,760 (0.13%)
Clifton DeBerry Jonathan Rothschild Socialist Workers 5,766 (0.10%)
Stephen Emery Arnold Babel Socialist Labor 3,963 (0.07%)

Note: The highest number of votes ever received by any Governor of NY until today

1966 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Nelson A. Rockefeller Malcolm Wilson Republican 2,690,626 (44.61%)
Frank O'Connor Howard J. Samuels Democratic 2,298,363 (38.11%)
Paul L. Adams Kieran O'Doherty Conservative 513,023 (8.46%)
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. Donald S. Harrington Liberal 507,234 (8.41%)
Milton Herder Doris Ballantyne Socialist Labor 12,730 (0.21%)
Judith White Richard Garza Socialist Workers 12,506 (0.21%)
1962 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Nelson A. Rockefeller Malcolm Wilson Republican 3,081587 (53.08%)
Robert M. Morgenthau John J. Burns Democratic,
Liberal		 2,552,418 (43.97%)
David H. Jaquith E. Vernon Carbonara Conservative 141,877 (2.44%)
Richard Garza Sylvia Weinstein Socialist Workers 19,698 (0.34%)
Eric Hass John Emanuel Socialist Labor 9,762 (0.17%)
1958 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Nelson A. Rockefeller Malcolm Wilson Republican 3,126,929 (54.74%)
W. Averell Harriman George DeLuca Democratic,
Liberal		 2,553,895 (44.71%)
John T. McManus Annette T. Rubinstein Independent-Socialist 31,658 (0.55%)
1954 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
W. Averell Harriman George DeLuca Democratic,
Liberal		 2,560,738 (49.61%)
Irving Ives J. Raymond McGovern Republican 2,549,613 (49.40%)
John T. McManus Karen Morley American Labor 46,886 (0.91%)
David L. Weiss Dorothy Haines Socialist Workers 2,617 (0.05%)
Nathan Karp Stephen Emery Industrial Government 1,720 (0.03%)
1950 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Thomas E. Dewey Frank C. Moore Republican 2,819,523 (53.11%)
Walter A. Lynch Richard H. Balch Democratic,
Liberal		 2,246,855 (42.32%)
John T. McManus Clementina J. Paolone American Labor 221,966 (4.18%)
Michael Bartell Gladys Barker Socialist Workers 13,274 (0.25%)
Eric Hass Nathan Karp Industrial Government 7,254 (0.14%)
1946 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Thomas E. Dewey Joe R. Hanley Republican 2,825,633 (56.92%)
James M. Mead Erastus Corning 2nd Democratic,
Liberal,
American Labor		 2,138,482 (43.08%)
1942 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Thomas E. Dewey Thomas W. Wallace Republican 2,148,546 (52.10%)
John J. Bennett, Jr. Charles Poletti Democratic 1,501,039 (36.40%)
Dean Alfange American Labor 403,626 (9.79%)
Israel Amter Communist 45,220 (1.10%)
Coleman B. Cheney Samuel H. Friedman Socialist 21,911 (0.53%)
Aaron M. Orange Bronko Papadopolos Industrial Government 3,496 (0.08%)

Note: Lt. Gov. Wallace died on 17 July 1943. In November, Republican Joe R. Hanley defeated Democrat William N. Haskell in a special election, and served as Lt. Gov. for the remainder of the term.

1938 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Herbert H. Lehman Charles Poletti Democratic,
American Labor		 2,391,286 (50.38%)
Thomas E. Dewey Frederic Holdrege Bontecou, Sr. Republican,
Independent Progressive		 2,326,682 (49.02%)
Norman Mattoon Thomas George W. Hartmann Socialist 24,980 (0.53%)
Aaron M. Orange Jacob Berlin Industrial Government 3,516 (0.07%)

[edit] 1922-1934


1936 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Herbert H. Lehman M. William Bray Democratic,
American Labor		 2,970,575 (53.45%)
William F. Bleakley Ralph K. Robertson Republican 2,450,104 (44.09%)
Harry W. Laidler Herman J. Hahn Socialist 96,233 (1.73%)
Robert Minor Julian S. Sawyer Communist 40,406 (0.73%)
1934 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Herbert H. Lehman M. William Bray Democratic 2,201,729 (58.01%)
Robert Moses Fred James Douglas Republican 1,393,638 (36.72%)
Charles Solomon Herman Kobbe Socialist 126,580 (3.34%)
Israel Amter William J. Burroughs Communist 45,878 (1.21%)
William Frederick Varney James F. Luckey Law Preservation 20,449 (0.54%)
Aaron M. Orange Emil F. Teichert Socialist Labor 7,225 (0.19%)
1932 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Herbert H. Lehman M. William Bray Democratic 2,659,519 (56.69%)
William J. Donovan F. Trubee Davison Republican 1,812,080 (38.62%)
Louis Waldman Charles W. Noonan Socialist 102,959 (2.19%)
John F. Vichert H. Westlake Coon Law Preservation 83,452 (1.78%)
Israel Amter Henry Shepard Communist 26,407 (0.56%)
Aaron M. Orange Emil F. Teichert Socialist Labor 7,233 (0.15%)
1930 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Franklin D. Roosevelt Herbert H. Lehman Democratic 1,770,342 (56.49%)
Charles H. Tuttle Caleb Howard Baumes Republican 1,045,341 (33.36%)
Robert P. Carroll Law Preservation 190,666 (6.08%)
Louis Waldman Elizabeth C. Roth Socialist 100,444 (3.21%)
William Zebulon Foster J. Louis Engdahl Communist 18,034 (0.58%)
Jeremiah D. Crowley Charles M. Carlson Socialist Labor 9,096 (0.29%)
1928 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Franklin D. Roosevelt Herbert H. Lehman Democratic 2,130,193 (48.96%)
Albert Ottinger Charles Clapp Lockwood Republican 2,104,129 (48.36%)
Louis Waldman Herman J. Hahn Socialist 101,859 (2.34%)
William F. Dunne Franklin P. Brill Workers 10,741 (0.25%)
Charles Hunter Corregan John E. DeLee Socialist Labor 4,213 (0.10%)
1926 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Alfred E. Smith Edwin Corning Democratic 1,523,813 (52.13%)
Ogden Mills Seymour Lowman Republican 1,276,137 (43.80%)
Jacob Panken Albert Claessens Socialist 83,481 (2.87%)
Charles E. Manierre Ella McCarthy Prohibition 21,285 (0.73%)
Benjamin Gitlow Franklin P. Brill Workers 5,507 (0.19%)
Jeremiah D. Crowley John E. DeLee Socialist Labor 3,553 (0.12%)
1924 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Alfred E. Smith George R. Lunn Democratic 1,627,111 (49.96%)
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. Seymour Lowman Republican 1,518,552 (46.63%)
Norman Mattoon Thomas Charles Solomon Socialist 99,854 (3.07%)
James P. Cannon Franklin P. Brill Workers 6,395 (0.20%)
Frank E. Passonno Milton Weinberger Socialist Labor 4,931 (0.15%)

Note: This was the last time the running mate of the elected governor was defeated, Democrat Smith having Republican Lowman as lieutenant for the duration of this term.

1922 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Alfred E. Smith George R. Lunn Democratic 1,397,670 (55.21%)
Nathan L. Miller William J. Donovan Republican 1,011,725 (39.97%)
Edward F. Cassidy Theresa B. Wiley Socialist,
Farmer-Labor		 109,119 (4.31%)
George K. Hinds William C. Ramsdell Prohibition 9,499 (0.38%)
Jeremiah D. Crowley John E. DeLee Socialist Labor 9,499 (0.38%)

[edit] 1902-1920


1920 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Nathan L. Miller Jeremiah Wood Republican 1,335,878 (46.58%)
Alfred E. Smith George R. Fitts Democratic 1,261,812 (44.00%)
Joseph D. Cannon Jessie Wallace Hughan Socialist 159,804 (5.57%)
Dudley Field Malone Farmer-Labor 69,908 (2.44%)
George F. Thompson Edward G. Deltrich Prohibition 35,509 (1.24%)
John P. Quinn Socialist Labor 5,015 (0.17%)
  • [1] List of candidates, in NYT on September 13, 1920
1918 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Alfred E. Smith Harry C. Walker Democratic 1,009,936
Charles S. Whitman Edward Schoeneck (Republican),
Mamie W. Colvin (Prohibition)		 Republican,
Prohibition		 995,094
Charles Wesley Ervin Ella Reeve Bloor Socialist
Olive M. Johnson August Gillhaus Socialist Labor 5,183

Note: This was the first time women voted for governor of New York, and Alfred E. Smith was the first governor elected with more than 1 million votes.

1916 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Charles S. Whitman Edward Schoeneck (Republican),
L. Bradley Dorr (Progressive)		 Republican,
Progressive,
American		 850,020 (52.63%)
Samuel Seabury Thomas J. Kreuzer Democratic 686.862 (42.53%)
Algernon Lee Stephen J. Mahoney Socialist 52,560 (3.25%)
Charles E. Welch Clarence Z. Spriggs Prohibition 21,773 (1.35%)
Jeremiah D. Crowley Boris Reinstein Socialist Labor 3,847 (0.24%)
1914 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Charles S. Whitman Edward Schoeneck Republican 686,701 (47.69%)
Martin H. Glynn Thomas B. Lockwood Democratic,
Independence League		 541,269 (37.59%)
William Sulzer Charles E. Welch American,
Prohibition		 126,270 (8.77%)
Frederick Morgan Davenport Chauncey J. Hamlin Progressive 45,586 (3.17%)
Gustave A. Strebel Stephen J. Mahoney Socialist 37,793 (2.62%)
James F. Hunter Jeremiah D. Crowley Socialist Labor 2,350 (0.16%)

Note: William Sulzer had been elected governor as a Democrat at the previous election, but was impeached. Martin Glynn had been elected Lt. Gov and succeeded to the governorship upon Sulzer's impeachment

1912 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
William Sulzer Martin H. Glynn Democratic 649,559 (41.46%)
Job E. Hedges James W. Wadsworth, Jr. Republican 444,105 (28.35%)
Oscar Solomon Straus Frederick Morgan Davenport Independence League,
Progressive		 393,183 (25.10%)
Charles Edward Russell Gustave A. Strebel Socialist 56,917 (3.63%)
T. Alexander MacNicholl Clark Allis Prohibition 18,990 (1.21%)
John Hall Jeremiah D. Crowley Socialist Labor 3,792 (0.24%)
1910 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
John Alden Dix Thomas F. Conway Democratic 689,700 (48.00%)
Henry Lewis Stimson Edward Schoeneck Republican 622,299 (43.31%)
Charles Edward Russell Gustave A. Strebel Socialist 48,529 (3.38%)
John J. Hopper William Randolph Hearst Independence League 48,470 (3.37%)
T. Alexander MacNicholl Calvin McCarthy Prohibition 22,295 (1.55%)
Frank E. Passanno James F. Hunter Socialist Labor 5,717 (0.40%)

Note: Hearst was third place among the candidates for Lt. Gov., garnering more than 60,000 votes. [2] Election result, in NYT on December 16, 1910


1908 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Charles Evans Hughes Horace White Republican 804,651 (49.08%)
Lewis S. Chanler John Alden Dix Democratic 735,189 (44.84%)
Clarence J. Shearn Daniel W. Finnimore Independence League 43,212 (2.64%)
Joshua Wanhope Gustave A. Strebel Socialist 33,994 (2.07%)
George E. Stockwell Marshall A. Hudson Prohibition 18,802 (1.15%)
Leander A. Armstrong Frank E. Passanno Socialist Labor 3,655 (0.22%)
1906 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Charles Evans Hughes Matthew Linn Bruce Republican 749,002 (50.52%)
William Randolph Hearst Lewis S. Chanler Democratic,
Independence League		 691,105 (46.62%)
John C. Chase Gustave A. Strebel Socialist 21,751 (1.47%)
Henry M. Randall Freeman H. Bettys Prohibition 15,985 (1.08%)
Thomas H. Jackson Frank E. Passanno Socialist Labor 4,624 (0.31%)
1904 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Frank W. Higgins Matthew Linn Bruce Republican 813,264 (50.27%)
D. Cady Herrick Francis Burton Harrison Democratic 691,105 (46.62%)
Thomas Prendergast Social Democratic 36,259 (2.24%)
John McKee Prohibition 20,568 (1.27%)
Daniel DeLeon Socialist Labor 8,976 (0.55%)
Alfred J. Boulton People's Party 6,015 (0.37%)
1902 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Benjamin B. Odell, Jr. Frank W. Higgins Republican 665,150 (48.09%)
Bird Sim Coler Democratic 656,347 (47.45%)
Benjamin Hanford Social Democratic 23,400 (1.69%)
Alfred L. Manierre Prohibition 20,490 (1.48%)
Daniel DeLeon Socialist Labor 15,886 (1.15%)
Edgar L. Ryder Liberal Democratic 15,886 (1.15%)

[edit] 1879-1900


1900 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Benjamin B. Odell Jr. Timothy L. Woodruff Republican 804,859 (51.97%)
John B. Stanchfield William F. Mackey Democratic 693,733 (44.80%)
William T. Wardwell Albert J. Rumsey Prohibition 22,704 (1.47%)
Charles Hunter Corregan Leander A. Armstrong Socialist Labor 13,762 (0.89%)
Benjamin Hanford William Butscher Social Democratic 13,493 (0.87%)
1898 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Theodore Roosevelt Timothy L. Woodruff Republican 661,707 49.02%
Augustus Van Wyck Elliott Danforth Democratic 643,921 47.70%
Benjamin Hanford Socialist Labor 23,860 1.77%
John Kline Prohibition 18,383 1.36%
Theodore Bacon Thomas Mott Osborne Citizens Union 2,103 0.16%
1896 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Frank S. Black Timothy L. Woodruff Republican 787,516 (52.63%)
Wilbur E. Porter Democratic,
Populist		 574,524 (40.33%)
Daniel. G. Griffin National Democratic 26,698 (1.87%)
Howard Balkam Socialist Labor 18,362 (1.29%)
William W. Smith Prohibition 17,419 (1.22%)
1894 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Levi P. Morton Charles T. Saxton Republican 673,818 (47.69%)
David B. Hill Daniel N. Lockwood Democratic 517,710 (40.79%)
Everett Pepperrell Wheeler State Democracy 27,202 (2.14%)
Francis E. Baldwin Prohibition 23,525 (1.85%)
Charles Horatio Matchett Socialist Labor 15,868 (1.25%)
Charles B. Matthews Populist 11,049 (0.87%)
1891 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Roswell P. Flower William F. Sheehan Democratic 582,893 (50.13%)
Jacob S. Fassett Republican 534,956 (46.00%)
Joseph W. Bruce Prohibition 30,353 (2.61%)
Daniel DeLeon Socialist Labor 14,651 (1.26%)
1888 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
David B. Hill Edward F. Jones Democratic 650,464 (49.45%)
Warner Miller Republican 631,293 (48.00%)
W. Martin Jones Prohibition 30,215 (2.30%)
Edward Hall 3,348 (0.25%)
1885 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
David B. Hill Edward F. Jones Democratic 501,465 (48.93%)
Ira Davenport Republican 490,331 (47.85%)
H. Clay Bascom Prohibition 30,867 (3.01%)
George O. Jones 2,130 (0.21%)
1882 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Grover Cleveland David B. Hill Democratic 535,318 (58.47%)
Charles J. Folger Benjamin Platt Carpenter Republican 342,464 (37.41%)
Alphonso A. Hopkins William H. Boole Prohibition 25,783 (2.82%)
Epenetus Howe James Allen 11,974 (1.31%)
1879 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Alonzo B. Cornell George Gilbert Hoskins Republican 418,567 (46.68%)
Lucius Robinson Clarkson N. Potter Democratic 375,790 (41.91%)
John Kelly Tammany Hall 77,566 (8.65%)
Harris Lewis John M. Wieting 20,286 (2.26%)
John W. Mears James H. Bronson Prohibition 4,437 (0.47%)

[edit] 1850-1876


1876 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Lucius Robinson William Dorsheimer Democratic 519,831 (51.97%)
Edwin D. Morgan Republican 489,371 (48.26%)
William J. Groo Prohibition 3,412 (0.34%)
Richard M. Griffin 1,436 (0.14%)
1874 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Samuel Jones Tilden William Dorsheimer Democratic 416,391 (52.43%)
John Adams Dix Republican 366,074 (46.09%)
Myron Holley Clark 11,768 (1.48%)
1872 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
John Adams Dix John Cleveland Robinson Republican 445,801 (53.19%)
Francis Kernan Chauncey M. Depew Democratic,
Liberal Republican		 392,350 (46.81%)
1870 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
John Thompson Hoffman Allen C. Beach Democratic 399,490 (52.19%)
Stewart L. Woodford Robert H. Pruyn Republican 366,424 (47.84%)
1868 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
John Thompson Hoffman Allen C. Beach Democratic 439,301 (51.64%)
John Augustus Griswold Alonzo B. Cornell Republican (48.36%)
1866 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Reuben E. Fenton Stewart L. Woodford Republican 366,315 (50.96%)
John Thompson Hoffman Democratic 352,526 (49.04%)
1864 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Reuben E. Fenton Thomas G. Alvord National Union 368,557 (50.50%)
Horatio Seymour Democratic 361,264 (49.50%)
1862 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Horatio Seymour David R. Floyd-Jones Constitutional Union 306,649 (50.89%)
James S. Wadsworth Lyman Tremain Republican Union 295,897 (49.11%)

Note: In 1862, both the Democratic and Republican party members and followers were divided over the issues of slavery, the war itself and its probable outcome. So, the candidates were nominated by conventions that used the names Constitutional Union (largely Democrats, but including the bigger part of the Know Nothings, and factions of the Republican and other parties) and Republican Union (largely Republican, but including factions of the Democratic and other parties).

The total votes cast were more than 70,000 less than in the previous election because the soldiers in the field were not allowed to vote, which is believed to have given a slight majority to the defeatists. The elected governor Seymour was anti-Lincoln, anti-federal government, anti-war, pro-slavery and did his best to undermine the federal war effort during the next two years.

1860 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Edwin D. Morgan Robert Campbell Republican 358,272 (53.24%)
William Kelly William C. Crain Democratic (Barnburner) 294,812 (43.81%)
James T. Brady Democratic (Hunker) 19,841 (2.95%)
1858 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Edwin D. Morgan Robert Campbell Republican 257,953 (45.49%)
Amasa J. Parker John J. Taylor Democratic 230,513 (42.29%)
Lorenzo Burrows Nathaniel S. Benton American 61,137 (11.22%)
Gerrit Smith Abolitionist 5,470 (1.00%)
1856 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
John Alsop King Henry R. Selden Republican 264,400 (44.52%)
Amasa J. Parker Democratic 198,616 (33.44%)
Erastus Brooks 130,870 (22.04%)
1854 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Myron Holley Clark Henry J. Raymond Whig,
Free Democratic		 156,804 (33.40%)
Horatio Seymour Democratic (Barnburner) 156,495 (33.34%)
Daniel Ullman American 122,282 (26.05%)
Greene C. Bronson Democratic (Hunker) 33,850 (7.21%)

Note: Myron Clark won this election with the lowest percentage ever in NY Gov. elections.

1852 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Horatio Seymour Sanford E. Church Democratic 264,121 (50.31%)
Washington Hunt William Kent Whig 241,525 (46.01%)
Minthorne Tompkins 19,296 (3.68%)
1850 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Washington Hunt Whig 214,614 (49.64%)
Horatio Seymour Sanford E. Church Democratic 214,352 (49.57%)
William L. Chaplin Abolitionist 3,416 (0.79%)

[edit] 1822-1848


1848 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Hamilton Fish George Washington Patterson Whig 218,776 (47.56%)
John Adams Dix Seth Merrill Gates Democratic (Barnburner),
Free Soil		 122,811 (26.70%)
Reuben H. Walworth Charles O'Conor Democratic (Hunker) 116,811 (25.39%)
William Goodell Abolitionist 1,593 (0.35%)
1846 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
John Young Hamilton Fish (Whig)
Addison Gardiner (Anti-Rent)		 Whig,
Anti-Rent		 198,878 (48.93%)
Silas Wright Addison Gardiner Democratic 187,306 (46.09%)
Henry Bradley William E. Chaplin Liberty,
National Reform		 12,844 (3.16%)
Ogden Edwards 6,306 (1.55%)
Lewis Masquirer 1,100 (0.27%)

Note: Addison Gardiner resigned in 1847, and Hamilton Fish was elected Lt. Gov. in a special election.

1844 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Silas Wright Addison Gardiner Democratic 241,090 (49.48%)
Millard Fillmore Samuel J. Wilkin Whig 231,057 (47.42%)
Alvan Stewart Charles O. Shepard Liberty 15,136 (3.11%)
1842 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
William C. Bouck Daniel S. Dickinson Democratic 208,072 (51.83%)
Luther Bradish Gabriel Furman Whig 186,091 (46.36%)
Alvan Stewart Charles O. Shepard Liberty 7,263 (1.81%)
1840 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
William H. Seward Luther Bradish Whig 222,011 (50.29%)
William C. Bouck Daniel S. Dickinson Democratic 216,808 (49.11%)
Gerrit Smith Charles O. Shepard Liberty 2,662 (0.60%)
1838 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
William H. Seward Luther Bradish Whig 192,882 (51.39%)
William L. Marcy John Tracy Democratic 182,461 (48.61%)
1836 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
William L. Marcy John Tracy Democratic 166,122 (54.24%)
Jesse Buel Gamaliel H. Barstow Whig 136,648 (44.62%)
Isaac S. Smith Moses Jacques Locofocos 3,496 (1.14%)
1834 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
William L. Marcy John Tracy Democratic 181,905 (51.84%)
William H. Seward Silas M. Stilwell Whig 168,969 (48.16%)
1832 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
William L. Marcy John Tracy Democratic 166,410 (51.51%)
Francis Granger Samuel Stevens Anti-Masonic,
National Republican		 156,672 (48.49%)
1830 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Enos T. Throop Edward Philip Livingston Democratic 128,842 (51.22%)
Francis Granger Samuel Stevens Anti-Masonic,
National Republican		 120,361 (47.85%)
Ezekiel Williams Working Men's 2,332 (0.93%)
1828 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Martin Van Buren Enos T. Throop Democratic 136,794 (49.46%)
Smith Thompson Francis Granger National Republican 106,444 (38.49%)
Solomon Southwick John Crary Anti-Masonic 33,345 (12.06%)
1826 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
DeWitt Clinton Henry Huntington Democratic-Republican (Clintonian) 99,785 (50.93%)
William B. Rochester Nathaniel Pitcher Democratic-Republican (Bucktails) 96,135 (49.07%)
1824 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
DeWitt Clinton James Tallmadge, Jr. People's 103,452 (54.29%)
Samuel Young Erastus Root Democratic-Republican 87,093 (45.71%)
1822 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Joseph C. Yates Erastus Root Democratic-Republican 128,493 (97.79%)
Solomon Southwick 2,910 (2.21%)

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1820 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
DeWitt Clinton John Tayler Democratic-Republican (Clintonian) 47,445 (50.78%)
Daniel D. Tompkins Democratic-Republican (Bucktails) 45,990 (49.22%)

Note: Tompkins was the sitting US Vice President.

1817 Special election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
DeWitt Clinton John Tayler Democratic-Republican 43,310 (96.70%)
Peter Buell Porter 1,479 (3.30%)

Note: Governor Tompkins was elected US Vice President in November 1816, he resigned in February 1817. Article XVII of the New York State Constitution of 1777 said that "...as often as the seat of government shall become vacant, a wise and descreet freeholder of this State shall be, by ballot, elected governor,...,which elections shall be always held at the times and places of choosing representatives in assembly..." This meant that, whenever a vacancy occurred, the Lt. Gov. did not succeed to the governor's office but administrated the state only until the end of the yearly term of the New York State Assembly on June 30, the successor being elected in April.

1816 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Daniel D. Tompkins John Tayler Democratic-Republican 45,412 (54.02%)
Rufus King George Tibbits Federalist 38,647 (45.98%)
1813 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Daniel D. Tompkins John Tayler Democratic-Republican 43,324 (52.17%)
Stephen Van Rensselaer George Huntington Federalist 39,718 (47.83%)
1811 Special election results
Lieutenant Governor candidate Party Popular Vote
DeWitt Clinton Democratic-Republican
Nicholas Fish Federalist
Marinus Willett Tammany Hall

Note: Lt. Gov. Broome died in August 1810, and the 1777 Constiturion provided for new elections if a vacancy occurred either in the Governor's or the Lieutenant Governor's office. See 1817 general election.

1810 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Daniel D. Tompkins John Broome Democratic-Republican 43,094 (54.15%)
Jonas Platt Nicholas Fish Federalist 36,484 (45.85%)
1807 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Daniel D. Tompkins John Broome Democratic-Republican (Clintonian) 35,074 (53.09%)
Morgan Lewis Thomas Storm Democratic-Republican (Lewisites) 30,989 (46.91%)
1804 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Morgan Lewis John Broome Democratic-Republican (Clintonian) 30,829 (58.20%)
Aaron Burr Oliver Phelps Democratic-Republican (Tammany Hall)
Federalist		 22,139 (41.80%)

Note: Aaron Burr was the sitting US Vice President

1801 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
George Clinton Jeremiah Van Rensselaer Democratic-Republican 24,808 (54.34%)
Stephen Van Rensselaer James Watson Federalist 20,843 (45.66%)
1798 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
John Jay Stephen Van Rensselaer Federalist 16,012 (54.01%)
Robert R. Livingston Democratic-Republican 13,632 (45.99%)
1795 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
John Jay Stephen Van Rensselaer Federalist 13,479 (53.14%)
Robert Yates Democratic-Republican 11,884 (46.86%)
1792 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
George Clinton Pierre Van Cortlandt Democratic-Republican 8,457 (50.73%)
John Jay Federalist 8,215 (49.27%)

Note: John Jay received more votes than George Clinton, but on technicalities the votes of Otsego, Tioga and Clinton counties were disqualified and not counted, giving George Clinton a slight majority. The state constitution said that the cast votes shall be delivered to the secretary of state "by the sheriff or his deputy", but, for example, Otsego County Sheriff Smith's term had expired, so at the time of the election, the sheriff's office had been legally vacant, and the votes could not be brought to the state capital by anybody legally authorized. Clinton partisans in the state legislature, in state courts and federal offices were adamant to accept any argument that this would in practice subtract the constitutional right to vote from the voters in these counties, and these votes were disqualified.

1789 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
George Clinton Pierre Van Cortlandt Democratic-Republican 6,391 (51.74%)
Robert Yates Federalist 5,962 (48.26%)
1786 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Popular Vote
George Clinton Pierre Van Cortlandt
1783 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Popular Vote
George Clinton Pierre Van Cortlandt 3,584 (75.50%)
Philip Schuyler 643 (13.55%)
Ephraim Paine 520 (10.95%)
1780 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Popular Vote
George Clinton Pierre Van Cortlandt
1777 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Popular Vote
George Clinton Pierre Van Cortlandt 1,828 (48.59%)
Philip Schuyler 1,199 (31.87%)
John Morin Scott 368 (9.78%)
John Jay 367 (9.76%)

Note: The election began on June 1, but due to the Independence War it took some time to collect and count the votes. The official result was announced on July 9, and George Clinton assumed office immediately. Subsequent elections, until 1820, happened during the last week of April, the term beginning on July 1. Some votes were also cast for Philip Livingston and Chancellor Robert R. Livingston although they were not candidates.

There were no parties yet, the Democratic-Republican and Federalist Parties appeared in 1789, until then the candidacies were personal. Besides, due both to the still raging war and to the novel concept of elections instead of appointment, there was no election campaign at all. Only some political active men of the time wrote letters, endorsing the one or other candidate or guessing the outcome. Clinton’s victory was a complete surprise to them, the feeling of the political class having been that the decision would be between Schuyler and Jay.

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