New York gubernatorial elections
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There have been 89 '''gubernatorial elections in the state of New York''' since 1777.
==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 [[New York Constitution#Constitution of New York, 1777|1777 Constitution]] 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 of New York|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.
==Upcoming elections==
=== 2010 ===
{{main|New York gubernatorial election, 2010}}
==Recent Elections==
===2006===
{{main|New York gubernatorial election, 2006}}
<br clear="all">
{| class=wikitable border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
|+'''2006 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%" | Running mate
! width="16%" | Party
! width="20%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
! bgcolor=white rowspan="9" style="border-bottom:3px" valign="center" | [[Image:NYGov06County.png|thumb|Election results by county.]]
|-
| '''[[Eliot Spitzer]]'''
| '''[[David Paterson]]'''
| '''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]], <br>[[Independence Party of New York|Independence]], <br>[[Working Families Party|Working Families]]'''
| align="right" | '''2,882,542'''
| align="right" |
|-
| [[John Faso]]
| [[C. Scott Vanderhoef]]
| [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]], <br>[[Conservative Party of New York|Conservative]]
| align="right" | 1,217,516
| align="right" |
|-
| [[Malachy McCourt]]
| [[Alison Duncan]]
| [[Green Party (United States)|Green]]
| align="right" | 40,729
| align="right" |
|-
| [[John Clifton]]
| [[Donald Silberger]]
| [[United States Libertarian Party|Libertarian]]
| align="right" | 15,068
| align="right" |
|-
| [[Jimmy McMillan]]
|
| [[Rent Is Too High Party|Rent Is Too High]]
| align="right" | 13,743
| align="right" |
|-
| [[Maura DeLuca]]
|
| [[Socialist Workers Party (US)|Socialist Workers]]
| align="right" | 7,128
| align="right" |
|-
| [[Phoebe Legere]]
| [[Nancy Beattie]]
| [[Integrity Party of New York|Integrity]]
| align="right" |
| align="right" |
|-
| [[Jennifer Liese]]
| [[Wendy Holibaugh]]
| [[New York State Right to Life Party|Right to Life]]
| align="right" |
| align="right" |
|-
|}
===2002===
{{main|New York gubernatorial election, 2002}}
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{| class="wikitable" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
|+'''2002 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%" | Running mate
! width="16%" | Party
! width="20%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
! bgcolor=white rowspan="9" style="border-bottom:3px" valign="center" | [[Image:Governor-result-2002-NY.gif|center|260ppx|thumb|In red are counties where Pataki won, in blue by McCall and in green by Golisano. The blue patch is NYC except Staten Island]]
|-
| '''[[George Pataki]]'''
| '''[[Mary Donohue]]'''
| '''[[United States Republican Party|Republican]], <br>[[Conservative Party of New York|Conservative]]'''
| align="right" | '''2,262,255'''
| align="right" | '''48.23%'''
|-
| [[Carl McCall]]
| [[Dennis Mehiel]]
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]], <br> [[Working Families Party|Working Families]]
| align="right" | 1,534,064
| align="right" | 32.70%
|-
| [[B. Thomas Golisano]]
| '''[[Mary Donohue]]'''
| [[Independence Party of New York|Independence]]
| align="right" | 654,016
| align="right" | 13.94%
|-
| [[Gerard J. Cronin]]
| [[Stasia T. Vogel]]
| [[New York State Right to Life Party|Right to Life]]
| align="right" | 44,195
| align="right" | 0.94%
|-
| [[Stanley Aronowitz]]
| [[Jennifer Daniels]]
| [[Green Party (United States)|Green]]
| align="right" | 41,797
| align="right" | 0.89%
|-
| [[Thomas K. Leighton]]
| [[Thomas J. Hillgardner]]
| [[Marijuana Reform Party|Marijuana Reform]]
| align="right" | 21,977
| align="right" | 0.47%
|-
| [[Andrew M. Cuomo]]
| [[Charles G. King]]
| [[Liberal Party of New York|Liberal]]
| align="right" | 15,761
| align="right" | 0.34%
|-
| [[Scott Jeffrey]]
| [[Jay Greco]]
| [[United States Libertarian Party|Libertarian]]
| align="right" | 5,013
| align="right" | 0.11%
|-
|}
==1938-1998==
Gubernatorial elections under the State Constitution of 1938. The term is four years.
<br clear="all">
{| class=wikitable
|+'''1998 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%" | Running mate
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
! bgcolor=white rowspan="9" style="border-bottom:3px" valign="center" | [[Image:NY-governor-1998.PNG|center|260ppx|thumb|In red are counties carried by Pataki and in blue by Vallone. The blue patch is NYC except Staten Island]]
|-
| '''[[George Pataki|George E. Pataki]]'''
| '''[[Mary Donohue|Mary O. Donohue]]'''
| '''[[United States Republican Party|Republican]], <br> [[Conservative Party of New York|Conservative]]'''
| align="right" | '''2,571,991'''
| align="right" | '''54.32%'''
|-
| [[Peter Vallone|Peter F. Vallone, Sr.]]
| [[Sandra Frankel]]
| [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]], <br> [[Working Families Party|Working Families]]
| align="right" | 1,570,317
| align="right" | 33.16%
|-
| [[B. Thomas Golisano]]
| [[Laureen Oliver]]
| [[Independence Party of New York|Independence]]
| align="right" | 364,056
| align="right" | 7.69%
|-
| [[Betsy McCaughey Ross]]
| [[Jonathan C. Reiter]]
| [[Liberal Party (New York State)|Liberal]]
| align="right" | 77,915
| align="right" | 1.65%
|-
| [[Michael Reynolds (candidate)|Michael Reynolds]]
| [[Karen Prior]]
| [[New York State Right to Life Party|Right to Life]]
| align="right" | 56,683
| align="right" | 1.20%
|-
| [[Al Lewis (actor)|Al Lewis]]
| [[Alice Green]]
| [[Green Party (United States)|Green]]
| align="right" | 52,533
| align="right" | 1.11%
|-
| [[Thomas K. Leighton]]
| [[Jeffrey C. Wright]]
| [[Marijuana Reform Party|Marijuana Reform]]
| align="right" | 24,788
| align="right" | 0.52%
|-
| [[Mary Alice France]]
|
| [[Unity Party of New York|Unity Party]]
| align="right" | 9,692
| align="right" | 0.20%
|-
| [[Chris Garvey]]
| [[Don Silberger]]
| [[United States Libertarian Party|Libertarian]]
| align="right" | 4,722
| align="right" | 0.10%
|-
| [[Al Duncan]]
| [[Ruth Robinett]]
| [[Socialist Workers Party (USA)|Socialist Workers]]
| align="right" | 2,539
| align="right" | 0.05%
|-
|}
Note: 4,985,932 ballots have been cast on that election. Out of them, 250,696 were declared blank, void or missing.
{| class=wikitable
|+'''1994 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%" | Running mate
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[George Pataki|George E. Pataki]]'''
|'''[[Betsy McCaughey Ross]]'''
|'''[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]''', <br> '''[[Conservative Party of New York State|Conservative]]''', <br> '''Tax Cut Now'''
| align="right" | '''2,488,631'''
| align="right" | '''(48.8 %)'''
|-
|[[Mario Cuomo|Mario M. Cuomo]]
|[[Stan Lundine]]
|[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]], <br> [[Liberal Party (New York State)|Liberal]]
| align="right" | 2,364,904
| align="right" | (45.4 %)
|-
|[[Tom Golisano|B. Thomas Golisano]]
|Dominick Fusco
|[[Independence Party of New York|Independence Fusion]]
| align="right" | 217,490
| align="right" | (4.1 %)
|-
|Robert T. Walsh
|Virginia E. Sutton
|[[New York State Right to Life Party|Right to Life]]
| align="right" | 67,750
| align="right" | (1.3 %)
|-
|Robert L. Schulz
|Stan Dworkin
|[[United States Libertarian Party|Libertarian]]
| align="right" | 9,506
| align="right" | (0.2 %)
|-
|[[Lawrence Lane]]
|May Nell Bockman
|[[Socialist Workers Party (USA)|Socialist Workers]]
| align="right" | 5,410
| align="right" | (0.1 %)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1990 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Mario Cuomo|Mario M. Cuomo]]'''
|'''[[Stan Lundine]]'''
|'''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]''', <br> '''[[Liberal Party of New York|Liberal]]'''
| align="right" | '''2,157,087'''
| align="right" | '''(53.17%)'''
|-
|[[Pierre Rinfret]]
|George Yancey, Jr.
|[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
| align="right" | 865,948
| align="right" | (21.35%)
|-
|[[Herbert London]]
|Anthony DiPerna
|[[Conservative Party of New York State|Conservative]]
| align="right" | 827,614
| align="right" | (20.40%)
|-
|Louis P. Wein
|Gertrude G. Manning
|[[New York State Right to Life Party|Right to Life]]
| align="right" | 137,804
| align="right" | (3.40%)
|-
|[[Lenora Fulani]]
|Ada I. Vazquez
|[[New Alliance Party|New Alliance]]
| align="right" | 31,089
| align="right" | (0.77%)
|-
|W. Gary Johnson
|Dottie Lou Brokaw
|[[United States Libertarian Party|Libertarian]]
| align="right" | 24,611
| align="right" | (0.61%)
|-
|Craig Gannon
|Susan Anmuth
|[[Socialist Workers Party (USA)|Socialist Workers]]
| align="right" | 12,743
| align="right" | (0.31%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1986 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Mario Cuomo|Mario M. Cuomo]]
|'''[[Stan Lundine]]'''
|'''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]''', <br> '''[[Liberal Party of New York|Liberal]]'''
| align="right" | '''2,775,045'''
| align="right" | '''(64.63%)'''
|-
|[[Andrew O'Rourke]]
|E. Michael Kavanagh
|[[United States Republican Party|Republican]], <br> [[Conservative Party of New York State|Conservative]]
| align="right" | 1,363,968
| align="right" | (31.77%)
|-
|[[Denis Dillon]]
|Thomas E. Drolesky
|[[New York State Right to Life Party|Right to Life]]
| align="right" | 130,827
| align="right" | (3.05%)
|-
|[[Lenora Fulani]]
|Rafael Mendez
|[[New Alliance Party|New Alliance]]
| align="right" | 24,135
| align="right" | (0.56%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1982 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Mario Cuomo|Mario M. Cuomo]]'''
|'''[[Alfred DelBello]]'''
|'''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]''', <br> '''[[Liberal Party of New York|Liberal]]'''
| align="right" | '''2,675,213'''
| align="right" | '''(50.91%)'''
|-
|[[Lewis Lehrman]]
|James L. Emery
|[[United States Republican Party|Republican]], <br> [[Conservative Party of New York State|Conservative]],
| align="right" | 2,494,827
| align="right" | (47.48%)
|-
|Robert J. Bohner
|Paul Callahan
|[[New York State Right to Life Party|Right to Life]]
| align="right" | 52,356
| align="right" | (1.00%)
|-
|John H. Northrup
|David Hoesley
|[[United States Libertarian Party|Libertarian]]
| align="right" | 16,913
| align="right" | (0.32%)
|-
|Jane Benedict
|Angela M. Gilliam
|[[Unity Party of New York|Unity]]
| align="right" | 6,353
| align="right" | (0.12%)
|-
|Nancy Ross
|[[Lenora Fulani]]
|[[New Alliance Party|New Alliance]]
| align="right" | 5,277
| align="right" | (0.10%)
|-
|Diane Wang
|Peter A. Thierjung
|[[Socialist Workers Party (USA)|Socialist Workers]]
| align="right" | 3,766
| align="right" | (0.07%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1978 General General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Hugh Carey|Hugh Carey]]'''
|'''[[Mario Cuomo|Mario M. Cuomo]]'''
|'''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]'''
| align="right" | '''2,429,272'''
| align="right" | '''(50.95%)'''
|-
|[[Perry Duryea|Perry Duryea, Jr.]]
|[[Bruce Caputo]]
|[[United States Republican Party|Republican]], <br> [[Conservative Party of New York State|Conservative]]
| align="right" | 2,156,404
| align="right" | (45.22%)
|-
|Mary Jane Tobin
|Ellen McCormack
|[[New York State Right to Life Party|Right to Life]]
| align="right" | 130,193
| align="right" | (2.73%)
|-
|Gary Greenberg
|James Franz
|[[United States Libertarian Party|Libertarian]]
| align="right" | 18,990
| align="right" | (0.40%)
|-
|Dianne M. Feeley
|Kevin E. Kellogg
|[[Socialist Workers Party (USA)|Socialist Workers]]
| align="right" | 12,987
| align="right" | (0.27%)
|-
|Jarvis Tyner
|Grace Mora-Newman
|Communist
| align="right" | 11,400
| align="right" | (0.24%)
|-
|Paul Gallagher
|J. Philip Rubinstein
|Labor
| align="right" | 9,073
| align="right" | (0.19%)
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1974 General General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Hugh Carey]]'''
|'''[[Maryanne Krupsak|Mary Anne Krupsak]]'''
|'''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]'''
| align="right" | '''3,028,503
| align="right" | '''(57.22%)
|-
|[[Malcolm Wilson (New York)|Malcolm Wilson]]
|[[Ralph G. Caso]]
|[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
| align="right" | 2,219,667
| align="right" | (41.94%)
|-
|Wayne S. Amato
|Charles R. Schongar
|Courage
| align="right" | 12,459
| align="right" | (0.24%)
|-
|[[Jerome Tuccille|Jerry Tuccille]]
|Louis J. Sicilia
|[[United States Libertarian Party|Libertarian]]
| align="right" | 10,503
| align="right" | (0.20%)
|-
|Derrick Morrison
|James Mendieta
|[[Socialist Workers Party (USA)|Socialist Workers]]
| align="right" | 8,857
| align="right" | (0.17%)
|-
|Jose A. Ristorucci
|Carol A. Twigg
|Communist
| align="right" | 5,232
| align="right" | (0.10%)
|-
|John Emanuel
|
|[[Socialist Labor Party|Socialist Labor]]
| align="right" | 4,574
| align="right" | (0.09%)
|-
|Anton H. Chaitkin
|Victoria Statom
|Labor
| align="right" | 3,151
| align="right" | (0.06%)
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1970 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Nelson A. Rockefeller]]'''
|'''[[Malcolm Wilson (New York)|Malcolm Wilson]]'''
|'''[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]'''
| align="right" | '''3,151,432'''
| align="right" | '''(52.41%)'''
|-
|[[Arthur Goldberg]]
|[[Basil Paterson]]
|[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]], <br> [[Liberal Party of New York|Liberal]]
| align="right" | 2,421,426
| align="right" | (40.27%)
|-
|Paul L. Adams
|Edward F. Leonard
|[[Conservative Party of New York State|Conservative]]
| align="right" | 422,514
| align="right" | (7.03%)
|-
|Rasheed Storey
|Grace Mora-Newman
|[[Communist Party USA|Communist]]
| align="right" | 7,760
| align="right" | (0.13%)
|-
|[[Clifton DeBerry]]
|Jonathan Rothschild
|[[Socialist Workers Party (USA)|Socialist Workers]]
| align="right" | 5,766
| align="right" | (0.10%)
|-
|Stephen Emery
|Arnold Babel
|[[Socialist Labor Party|Socialist Labor]]
| align="right" | 3,963
| align="right" | (0.07%)
|-
|}
Note: The highest number of votes ever received by any Governor of NY until today
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1966 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Nelson A. Rockefeller]]
|'''[[Malcolm Wilson (New York)|Malcolm Wilson]]'''
|'''[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]'''
| align="right" | '''2,690,626'''
| align="right" | '''(44.61%)'''
|-
|Frank O'Connor
|[[Howard J. Samuels]]
|[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]
| align="right" | 2,298,363
| align="right" | (38.11%)
|-
|Paul L. Adams
|Kieran O'Doherty
|[[Conservative Party of New York State|Conservative]]
| align="right" | 513,023
| align="right" | (8.46%)
|-
|[[Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.]]
|[[Donald S. Harrington]]
|[[Liberal Party of New York|Liberal]]
| align="right" | 507,234
| align="right" | (8.41%)
|-
|Milton Herder
|Doris Ballantyne
|[[Socialist Labor Party|Socialist Labor]]
| align="right" | 12,730
| align="right" | (0.21%)
|-
|Judith White
|Richard Garza
|[[Socialist Workers Party (USA)|Socialist Workers]]
| align="right" | 12,506
| align="right" | (0.21%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1962 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Nelson A. Rockefeller]]'''
|'''[[Malcolm Wilson (New York)|Malcolm Wilson]]'''
|'''[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]'''
| align="right" | '''3,081587'''
| align="right" | '''(53.08%)'''
|-
|[[Robert M. Morgenthau]]
|John J. Burns
|[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]], <br> [[Liberal Party of New York|Liberal]]
| align="right" | 2,552,418
| align="right" | (43.97%)
|-
|David H. Jaquith
|E. Vernon Carbonara
|[[Conservative Party of New York State|Conservative]]
| align="right" | 141,877
| align="right" | (2.44%)
|-
|Richard Garza
|Sylvia Weinstein
|[[Socialist Workers Party (USA)|Socialist Workers]]
| align="right" | 19,698
| align="right" | (0.34%)
|-
|[[Eric Hass]]
|John Emanuel
|[[Socialist Labor Party|Socialist Labor]]
| align="right" | 9,762
| align="right" | (0.17%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1958 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Nelson A. Rockefeller]]'''
|'''[[Malcolm Wilson (New York)|Malcolm Wilson]]'''
|'''[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]'''
| align="right" | '''3,126,929'''
| align="right" | '''(54.74%)'''
|-
|[[W. Averell Harriman]]
|[[George DeLuca]]
|[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]], <br> [[Liberal Party of New York|Liberal]]
| align="right" | 2,553,895
| align="right" | (44.71%)
|-
|[[John T. McManus]]
|Annette T. Rubinstein
|[[Independent-Socialist]]
| align="right" | 31,658
| align="right" | (0.55%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1954 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[W. Averell Harriman]]'''
|'''[[George DeLuca]]'''
|'''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]''', <br> '''[[Liberal Party of New York|Liberal]]'''
| align="right" | '''2,560,738'''
| align="right" | '''(49.61%)'''
|-
|[[Irving Ives]]
|[[J. Raymond McGovern]]
|[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
| align="right" | 2,549,613
| align="right" | (49.40%)
|-
|[[John T. McManus]]
|Karen Morley
|[[American Labor Party|American Labor]]
| align="right" | 46,886
| align="right" | (0.91%)
|-
|David L. Weiss
|Dorothy Haines
|[[Socialist Workers Party (USA)|Socialist Workers]]
| align="right" | 2,617
| align="right" | (0.05%)
|-
|Nathan Karp
|Stephen Emery
|Industrial Government
| align="right" | 1,720
| align="right" | (0.03%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1950 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Thomas E. Dewey]]'''
|'''[[Frank C. Moore]]'''
|'''[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]'''
| align="right" | '''2,819,523'''
| align="right" | '''(53.11%)'''
|-
|[[Walter A. Lynch]]
|Richard H. Balch
|[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]], <br> [[Liberal Party of New York|Liberal]]
| align="right" | 2,246,855
| align="right" | (42.32%)
|-
|[[John T. McManus]]
|Clementina J. Paolone
|[[American Labor Party|American Labor]]
| align="right" | 221,966
| align="right" | (4.18%)
|-
|Michael Bartell
|Gladys Barker
|[[Socialist Workers Party (USA)|Socialist Workers]]
| align="right" | 13,274
| align="right" | (0.25%)
|-
|[[Eric Hass]]
|Nathan Karp
|Industrial Government
| align="right" | 7,254
| align="right" | (0.14%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1946 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Thomas E. Dewey]]'''
|'''[[Joe R. Hanley]]'''
|'''[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]'''
| align="right" | '''2,825,633'''
| align="right" | '''(56.92%)'''
|-
|[[James M. Mead]]
|[[Erastus Corning 2nd]]
|[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]], <br> [[Liberal Party of New York|Liberal]], <br> [[American Labor Party|American Labor]]
| align="right" | 2,138,482
| align="right" | (43.08%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1943 Special election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Lieutenant Governor candidate
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Joe R. Hanley]]'''
|'''[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]'''
| align="right" |
| align="right" |
|-
|[[William N. Haskell]]
|[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]
| align="right" |
| align="right" |
|-
|}
Note: Lt. Gov. Wallace died on 17 July 1943, and a special election to fill the vacancy was held.
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1942 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Thomas E. Dewey]]'''
|'''[[Thomas W. Wallace]]'''
|'''[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]'''
| align="right" | '''2,148,546'''
| align="right" | '''(52.10%)'''
|-
|John J. Bennett, Jr.
|[[Charles Poletti]]
|[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]
| align="right" | 1,501,039
| align="right" | (36.40%)
|-
|Dean Alfange
|
|[[American Labor Party|American Labor]]
| align="right" | 403,626
| align="right" | (9.79%)
|-
|Israel Amter
|
|[[Communist Party USA|Communist]]
| align="right" | 45,220
| align="right" | (1.10%)
|-
|Coleman B. Cheney
|Samuel H. Friedman
|[[Socialist Party of America|Socialist]]
| align="right" | 21,911
| align="right" | (0.53%)
|-
|Aaron M. Orange
|Bronko Papadopolos
|Industrial Government
| align="right" | 3,496
| align="right" | (0.08%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1938 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Herbert H. Lehman]]'''
|'''[[Charles Poletti]]'''
|'''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]''', <br> '''[[American Labor Party|American Labor]]'''
| align="right" | '''2,391,286'''
| align="right" | '''(50.38%)'''
|-
|[[Thomas E. Dewey]]
|Frederic Holdrege Bontecou, Sr.
|[[United States Republican Party|Republican]], <br> Independent Progressive
| align="right" | 2,326,682
| align="right" | (49.02%)
|-
|[[Norman Thomas|Norman Mattoon Thomas]]
|George W. Hartmann
|[[Socialist Party of America|Socialist]]
| align="right" | 24,980
| align="right" | (0.53%)
|-
|Aaron M. Orange
|Jacob Berlin
|Industrial Government
| align="right" | 3,516
| align="right" | (0.07%)
|-
|}
==1894-1936==
Gubernatorial elections under the State Constitution of 1894. The term was two years.
<br clear="all">
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1936 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Herbert H. Lehman]]'''
|'''[[M. William Bray]]'''
|'''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]''', <br> '''[[American Labor Party|American Labor]]'''
| align="right" | '''2,970,575'''
| align="right" | '''(53.45%)'''
|-
|[[William F. Bleakley]]
|Ralph K. Robertson
|[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
| align="right" | 2,450,104
| align="right" | (44.09%)
|-
|Harry W. Laidler
|Herman J. Hahn
|[[Socialist Party of America|Socialist]]
| align="right" | 96,233
| align="right" | (1.73%)
|-
|[[Robert Minor]]
|Julian S. Sawyer
|[[Communist Party USA|Communist]]
| align="right" | 40,406
| align="right" | (0.73%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1934 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Herbert H. Lehman]]'''
|'''[[M. William Bray]]'''
|'''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]'''
| align="right" | '''2,201,729'''
| align="right" | '''(58.01%)'''
|-
|[[Robert Moses]]
|[[Fred James Douglas]]
|[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
| align="right" | 1,393,638
| align="right" | (36.72%)
|-
|Charles Solomon
|Herman Kobbe
|[[Socialist Party of America|Socialist]]
| align="right" | 126,580
| align="right" | (3.34%)
|-
|Israel Amter
|William J. Burroughs
|[[Communist Party USA|Communist]]
| align="right" | 45,878
| align="right" | (1.21%)
|-
|William Frederick Varney
|James F. Luckey
|[[Law Preservation Party|Law Preservation]]
| align="right" | 20,449
| align="right" | (0.54%)
|-
|Aaron M. Orange
|Emil F. Teichert
|[[Socialist Labor Party|Socialist Labor]]
| align="right" | 7,225
| align="right" | (0.19%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1932 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Herbert H. Lehman]]'''
|'''[[M. William Bray]]'''
|'''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]'''
| align="right" | '''2,659,519'''
| align="right" | '''(56.69%)'''
|-
|[[William J. Donovan]]
|[[F. Trubee Davison]]
|[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
| align="right" | 1,812,080
| align="right" | (38.62%)
|-
|[[Louis Waldman]]
|Charles W. Noonan
|[[Socialist Party of America|Socialist]]
| align="right" | 102,959
| align="right" | (2.19%)
|-
|John F. Vichert
|H. Westlake Coon
|[[Law Preservation Party|Law Preservation]]
| align="right" | 83,452
| align="right" | (1.78%)
|-
|Israel Amter
|Henry Shepard
|[[Communist Party USA|Communist]]
| align="right" | 26,407
| align="right" | (0.56%)
|-
|Aaron M. Orange
|Emil F. Teichert
|[[Socialist Labor Party|Socialist Labor]]
| align="right" | 7,233
| align="right" | (0.15%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1930 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]'''
|'''[[Herbert H. Lehman]]'''
|'''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]'''
| align="right" | '''1,770,342'''
| align="right" | '''(56.49%)'''
|-
|[[Charles H. Tuttle]]
|[[Caleb Howard Baumes]]
|[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
| align="right" | 1,045,341
| align="right" | (33.36%)
|-
|Robert P. Carroll
|
|[[Law Preservation Party|Law Preservation]]
| align="right" | 190,666
| align="right" | (6.08%)
|-
|[[Louis Waldman]]
|Elizabeth C. Roth
|[[Socialist Party of America|Socialist]]
| align="right" | 100,444
| align="right" | (3.21%)
|-
|[[William Zebulon Foster]]
|J. Louis Engdahl
|[[Communist Party USA|Communist]]
| align="right" | 18,034
| align="right" | (0.58%)
|-
|Jeremiah D. Crowley
|Charles M. Carlson
|[[Socialist Labor Party|Socialist Labor]]
| align="right" | 9,096
| align="right" | (0.29%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1928 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]'''
|'''[[Herbert H. Lehman]]'''
|'''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]'''
| align="right" | '''2,130,193'''
| align="right" | '''(48.96%)'''
|-
|[[Albert Ottinger]]
|Charles Clapp Lockwood
|[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
| align="right" | 2,104,129
| align="right" | (48.36%)
|-
|[[Louis Waldman]]
|Herman J. Hahn
|[[Socialist Party of America|Socialist]]
| align="right" | 101,859
| align="right" | (2.34%)
|-
|William F. Dunne
|Franklin P. Brill
|[[Workers Party of America|Workers]]
| align="right" | 10,741
| align="right" | (0.25%)
|-
|Charles Hunter Corregan
|John E. DeLee
|[[Socialist Labor Party|Socialist Labor]]
| align="right" | 4,213
| align="right" | (0.10%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1926 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Alfred E. Smith]]'''
|'''[[Edwin Corning]]'''
|'''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]'''
| align="right" | '''1,523,813'''
| align="right" | '''(52.13%)'''
|-
|[[Ogden Mills]]
|[[Seymour Lowman]]
|[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
| align="right" | 1,276,137
| align="right" | (43.80%)
|-
|Jacob Panken
|Albert Claessens
|[[Socialist Party of America|Socialist]]
| align="right" | 83,481
| align="right" | (2.87%)
|-
|Charles E. Manierre
|Ella McCarthy
|[[Prohibition Party|Prohibition]]
| align="right" | 21,285
| align="right" | (0.73%)
|-
|[[Benjamin Gitlow]]
|Franklin P. Brill
|[[Workers Party of America|Workers]]
| align="right" | 5,507
| align="right" | (0.19%)
|-
|Jeremiah D. Crowley
|John E. DeLee
|[[Socialist Labor Party|Socialist Labor]]
| align="right" | 3,553
| align="right" | (0.12%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1924 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Alfred E. Smith]]'''
|[[George R. Lunn]]
|'''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]'''
| align="right" | '''1,627,111'''
| align="right" | '''(49.96%)'''
|-
|[[Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.]]
|'''[[Seymour Lowman]]'''
|[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
| align="right" | 1,518,552
| align="right" | (46.63%)
|-
|[[Norman Thomas|Norman Mattoon Thomas]]
|Charles Solomon
|[[Socialist Party of America|Socialist]]
| align="right" | 99,854
| align="right" | (3.07%)
|-
|[[James P. Cannon]]
|Franklin P. Brill
|[[Workers Party of America|Workers]]
| align="right" | 6,395
| align="right" | (0.20%)
|-
|Frank E. Passonno
|Milton Weinberger
|[[Socialist Labor Party|Socialist Labor]]
| align="right" | 4,931
| align="right" | (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.
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1922 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Alfred E. Smith]]'''
|'''[[George R. Lunn]]'''
|'''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]'''
| align="right" | '''1,397,670'''
| align="right" | '''(55.21%)'''
|-
|[[Nathan L. Miller]]
|[[William J. Donovan]]
|[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
| align="right" | 1,011,725
| align="right" | (39.97%)
|-
|Edward F. Cassidy
|Theresa B. Wiley
|[[Socialist Party of America|Socialist]], <br> [[Farmer-Labor Party|Farmer-Labor]]
| align="right" | 109,119
| align="right" | (4.31%)
|-
|George K. Hinds
|William C. Ramsdell
|[[Prohibition Party|Prohibition]]
| align="right" | 9,499
| align="right" | (0.38%)
|-
|Jeremiah D. Crowley
|John E. DeLee
|[[Socialist Labor Party|Socialist Labor]]
| align="right" | 9,499
| align="right" | (0.38%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1920 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Nathan L. Miller]]'''
|'''[[Jeremiah Wood]]'''
|'''[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]'''
| align="right" | '''1,335,878'''
| align="right" | '''(46.58%)'''
|-
|[[Alfred E. Smith]]
|George R. Fitts
|[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]
| align="right" | 1,261,812
| align="right" | (44.00%)
|-
|Joseph D. Cannon
|Jessie Wallace Hughan
|[[Socialist Party of America|Socialist]]
| align="right" | 159,804
| align="right" | (5.57%)
|-
|[[Dudley Field Malone]]
|
|[[Farmer-Labor Party|Farmer-Labor]]
| align="right" | 69,908
| align="right" | (2.44%)
|-
|George F. Thompson
|Edward G. Deltrich
|[[Prohibition Party|Prohibition]]
| align="right" | 35,509
| align="right" | (1.24%)
|-
|John P. Quinn
|
|[[Socialist Labor Party|Socialist Labor]]
| align="right" | 5,015
| align="right" | (0.17%)
|-
|}
*[http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9402E4DE1639E133A25750C1A96F9C946195D6CF] List of candidates, in NYT on September 13, 1920
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1918 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Alfred E. Smith]]'''
|'''[[Harry C. Walker]]'''
|'''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]'''
| align="right" | '''1,009,936'''
| align="right" | '''(47.37%)'''
|-
|[[Charles S. Whitman]]
|[[Edward Schoeneck]] (Republican), <br> Mamie W. Colvin (Prohibition)
|[[United States Republican Party|Republican]], <br> [[Prohibition Party|Prohibition]]
| align="right" | 995,094
| align="right" | (46.68%)
|-
|Charles Wesley Ervin
|[[Ella Reeve Bloor]]
|[[Socialist Party of America|Socialist]]
| align="right" | 121,705
| align="right" | (5.71%)
|-
|Olive M. Johnson
|August Gillhaus
|[[Socialist Labor Party|Socialist Labor]]
| align="right" | 5,183
| align="right" | (0.24%)
|-
|}
Notes:
*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.
*The total ballots cast for governor was 2,192,970. Besides the votes for the above candidates, there were 43,630 [[blank vote]]s, 16,892 [[spoilt vote]]s, and 530 scattering votes. <ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A00EED81339E13ABC4950DFB4678383609EDE Election result] in NYT on December 31, 1918</ref>
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1916 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="28%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Charles S. Whitman]]'''
|'''[[Edward Schoeneck]] (Republican)''', <br> L. Bradley Dorr (Progressive)
|'''[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]''', <br> '''[[Progressive Party (United States, 1912)|Progressive]]''', <br> '''American'''
| align="right" | '''850,020'''
| align="right" | '''(52.63%)'''
|-
|[[Samuel Seabury]]
|Thomas J. Kreuzer
|[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]
| align="right" | 686.862
| align="right" | (42.53%)
|-
|Algernon Lee
|Stephen J. Mahoney
|[[Socialist Party of America|Socialist]]
| align="right" | 52,560
| align="right" | (3.25%)
|-
|Charles E. Welch
|Clarence Z. Spriggs
|[[Prohibition Party|Prohibition]]
| align="right" | 21,773
| align="right" | (1.35%)
|-
|Jeremiah D. Crowley
|Boris Reinstein
|[[Socialist Labor Party|Socialist Labor]]
| align="right" | 3,847
| align="right" | (0.24%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1914 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Charles S. Whitman]]'''
|'''[[Edward Schoeneck]]'''
|'''[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]'''
| align="right" | '''686,701'''
| align="right" | '''(47.69%)'''
|-
|[[Martin H. Glynn]]
|Thomas B. Lockwood
|[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]], <br> [[United States Independence Party|Independence League]]
| align="right" | 541,269
| align="right" | (37.59%)
|-
|[[William Sulzer]]
|Charles E. Welch
|American, <br> [[Prohibition Party|Prohibition]]
| align="right" | 126,270
| align="right" | (8.77%)
|-
|[[Frederick Morgan Davenport]]
|Chauncey J. Hamlin
|[[Progressive Party (United States, 1912)|Progressive]]
| align="right" | 45,586
| align="right" | (3.17%)
|-
|Gustave A. Strebel
|Stephen J. Mahoney
|[[Socialist Party of America|Socialist]]
| align="right" | 37,793
| align="right" | (2.62%)
|-
|James F. Hunter
|Jeremiah D. Crowley
|[[Socialist Labor Party|Socialist Labor]]
| align="right" | 2,350
| align="right" | (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
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1912 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[William Sulzer]]'''
|'''[[Martin H. Glynn]]'''
|'''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]'''
| align="right" | '''649,559'''
| align="right" | '''(41.46%)'''
|-
|[[Job E. Hedges]]
|[[James W. Wadsworth, Jr.]]
|[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
| align="right" | 444,105
| align="right" | (28.35%)
|-
|[[Oscar Straus (politician)|Oscar Solomon Straus]]
|[[Frederick Morgan Davenport]]
|[[United States Independence Party|Independence League]], <br> [[Progressive Party (United States, 1912)|Progressive]]
| align="right" | 393,183
| align="right" | (25.10%)
|-
|Charles Edward Russell
|Gustave A. Strebel
|[[Socialist Party of America|Socialist]]
| align="right" | 56,917
| align="right" | (3.63%)
|-
|T. Alexander MacNicholl
|Clark Allis
|[[Prohibition Party|Prohibition]]
| align="right" | 18,990
| align="right" | (1.21%)
|-
|John Hall
|Jeremiah D. Crowley
|[[Socialist Labor Party|Socialist Labor]]
| align="right" | 3,792
| align="right" | (0.24%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1910 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[John Alden Dix]]'''
|'''[[Thomas F. Conway]]'''
|'''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]'''
| align="right" | '''689,700'''
| align="right" | '''(48.00%)'''
|-
|[[Henry Lewis Stimson]]
|[[Edward Schoeneck]]
|[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
| align="right" | 622,299
| align="right" | (43.31%)
|-
|Charles Edward Russell
|Gustave A. Strebel
|[[Socialist Party of America|Socialist]]
| align="right" | 48,529
| align="right" | (3.38%)
|-
|John J. Hopper
|[[William Randolph Hearst]]
|[[United States Independence Party|Independence League]]
| align="right" | 48,470
| align="right" | (3.37%)
|-
|T. Alexander MacNicholl
|Calvin McCarthy
|[[Prohibition Party|Prohibition]]
| align="right" | 22,295
| align="right" | (1.55%)
|-
|Frank E. Passanno
|James F. Hunter
|[[Socialist Labor Party|Socialist Labor]]
| align="right" | 5,717
| align="right" | (0.40%)
|-
|}
Note: Hearst was third place among the candidates for Lt. Gov., garnering more than 60,000 votes. [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9B03E7D91F39E733A25755C1A9649D946196D6CF] Election result, in NYT on December 16, 1910
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1908 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Charles Evans Hughes]]'''
|'''[[Horace White]]'''
|'''[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]'''
| align="right" | '''804,651'''
| align="right" | '''(49.08%)'''
|-
|[[Lewis S. Chanler]]
|[[John Alden Dix]]
|[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]
| align="right" | 735,189
| align="right" | (44.84%)
|-
|Clarence J. Shearn
|Daniel W. Finnimore
|[[United States Independence Party|Independence League]]
| align="right" | 43,212
| align="right" | (2.64%)
|-
|Joshua Wanhope
|Gustave A. Strebel
|[[Socialist Party of America|Socialist]]
| align="right" | 33,994
| align="right" | (2.07%)
|-
|George E. Stockwell
|Marshall A. Hudson
|[[Prohibition Party|Prohibition]]
| align="right" | 18,802
| align="right" | (1.15%)
|-
|Leander A. Armstrong
|Frank E. Passanno
|[[Socialist Labor Party|Socialist Labor]]
| align="right" | 3,655
| align="right" | (0.22%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1906 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Charles Evans Hughes]]'''
|[[M. Linn Bruce|Matthew Linn Bruce]]
|'''[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]'''
| align="right" | '''749,002'''
| align="right" | '''(50.52%)'''
|-
|[[William Randolph Hearst]]
|'''[[Lewis S. Chanler]]'''
|[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]], <br> [[United States Independence Party|Independence League]]
| align="right" | 691,105
| align="right" | (46.62%)
|-
|John C. Chase
|Gustave A. Strebel
|[[Socialist Party of America|Socialist]]
| align="right" | 21,751
| align="right" | (1.47%)
|-
|Henry M. Randall
|Freeman H. Bettys
|[[Prohibition Party|Prohibition]]
| align="right" | 15,985
| align="right" | (1.08%)
|-
|Thomas H. Jackson
|Frank E. Passanno
|[[Socialist Labor Party|Socialist Labor]]
| align="right" | 4,624
| align="right" | (0.31%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1904 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Frank W. Higgins]]'''
|'''[[M. Linn Bruce|Matthew Linn Bruce]]'''
|'''[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]'''
| align="right" | '''813,264'''
| align="right" | '''(50.27%)'''
|-
|[[D. Cady Herrick]]
|[[Francis Burton Harrison]]
|[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]
| align="right" | 691,105
| align="right" | (46.62%)
|-
|Thomas Prendergast
|
|[[Social Democratic Party (United States)|Social Democratic]]
| align="right" | 36,259
| align="right" | (2.24%)
|-
|John McKee
|
|[[Prohibition Party|Prohibition]]
| align="right" | 20,568
| align="right" | (1.27%)
|-
|[[Daniel DeLeon]]
|
|[[Socialist Labor Party|Socialist Labor]]
| align="right" | 8,976
| align="right" | (0.55%)
|-
|Alfred J. Boulton
|
|[[Populist Party (United States)|People's Party]]
| align="right" | 6,015
| align="right" | (0.37%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1902 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Benjamin B. Odell, Jr.]]'''
|'''[[Frank W. Higgins]]'''
|'''[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]'''
| align="right" | '''665,150'''
| align="right" | '''(48.09%)'''
|-
|[[Bird Sim Coler]]
|
|[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]
| align="right" | 656,347
| align="right" | (47.45%)
|-
|Benjamin Hanford
|
|[[Social Democratic Party (United States)|Social Democratic]]
| align="right" | 23,400
| align="right" | (1.69%)
|-
|Alfred L. Manierre
|
|[[Prohibition Party|Prohibition]]
| align="right" | 20,490
| align="right" | (1.48%)
|-
|[[Daniel DeLeon]]
|
|[[Socialist Labor Party|Socialist Labor]]
| align="right" | 15,886
| align="right" | (1.15%)
|-
|Edgar L. Ryder
|
|Liberal Democratic
| align="right" | 15,886
| align="right" | (1.15%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1900 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Benjamin B. Odell Jr.]]'''
|'''[[Timothy L. Woodruff]]'''
|'''[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]'''
| align="right" | '''804,859'''
| align="right" | '''(51.97%)'''
|-
|[[John B. Stanchfield]]
|William F. Mackey
|[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]
| align="right" | 693,733
| align="right" | (44.80%)
|-
|William T. Wardwell
|Albert J. Rumsey
|[[Prohibition Party|Prohibition]]
| align="right" | 22,704
| align="right" | (1.47%)
|-
|Charles Hunter Corregan
|Leander A. Armstrong
|[[Socialist Labor Party|Socialist Labor]]
| align="right" | 13,762
| align="right" | (0.89%)
|-
|Benjamin Hanford
|William Butscher
|[[Social Democratic Party (United States)|Social Democratic]]
| align="right" | 13,493
| align="right" | (0.87%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1898 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Theodore Roosevelt]]'''
|'''[[Timothy L. Woodruff]]'''
|'''[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]'''
| align="right" | '''661,707'''
| align="right" | '''49.02%'''
|-
|[[Augustus Van Wyck]]
|Elliott Danforth
|[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]
| align="right" | 643,921
| align="right" | 47.70%
|-
|Benjamin Hanford
|
|[[Socialist Labor Party|Socialist Labor]]
| align="right" | 23,860
| align="right" | 1.77%
|-
|John Kline
|
|[[Prohibition Party|Prohibition]]
| align="right" | 18,383
| align="right" | 1.36%
|-
|Theodore Bacon
|[[Thomas Mott Osborne]]
|[[Citizens Union]]
| align="right" | 2,103
| align="right" | 0.16%
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1896 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Frank S. Black]]'''
|'''[[Timothy L. Woodruff]]'''
|'''[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]'''
| align="right" | '''787,516'''
| align="right" | '''(52.63%)'''
|-
|[[Wilbur F. Porter]]
|Frederick C. Schraub
|[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]], <br> [[Populist Party (United States)|Populist]]
| align="right" | 574,524
| align="right" | (40.33%)
|-
|Daniel. G. Griffin
|Frederic W. Hinrichs
|[[National Democratic Party (United States)|National Democratic]]
| align="right" | 26,698
| align="right" | (1.87%)
|-
|Howard Balkam
|
|[[Socialist Labor Party|Socialist Labor]]
| align="right" | 18,362
| align="right" | (1.29%)
|-
|William W. Smith
|
|[[Prohibition Party|Prohibition]]
| align="right" | 17,419
| align="right" | (1.22%)
|-
|}
Note: The majority faction of the Democratic Party were then known as Silver Democrats.<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D0DE0DF1331E033A25752C0A9679D94679ED7CF The candidates for state offices], in NYT on November 1, 1896</ref>
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1894 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Levi P. Morton]]'''
|'''[[Charles T. Saxton]]'''
|'''[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]'''
| align="right" | '''673,818'''
| align="right" | '''(47.69%)'''
|-
|[[David B. Hill]]
|[[Daniel N. Lockwood]]
|[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]
| align="right" | 517,710
| align="right" | (40.79%)
|-
|[[Everett Pepperrell Wheeler]]
|
|State Democracy
| align="right" | 27,202
| align="right" | (2.14%)
|-
|Francis E. Baldwin
|
|[[Prohibition Party|Prohibition]]
| align="right" | 23,525
| align="right" | (1.85%)
|-
|Charles Horatio Matchett
|
|[[Socialist Labor Party|Socialist Labor]]
| align="right" | 15,868
| align="right" | (1.25%)
|-
|Charles B. Matthews
|
|[[Populist Party (United States)|Populist]]
| align="right" | 11,049
| align="right" | (0.87%)
|-
|}
==1876-1891==
Gubernatorial elections under the State Constitution of 1846, amended in 1874. The term was three years.
<br clear="all">
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1891 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Roswell P. Flower]]'''
|'''[[William F. Sheehan]]'''
|'''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]'''
| align="right" | '''582,893'''
| align="right" | '''(50.13%)'''
|-
|[[Jacob S. Fassett]]
|John W. Vrooman
|[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
| align="right" | 534,956
| align="right" | (46.00%)
|-
|Joseph W. Bruce
|
|[[Prohibition Party|Prohibition]]
| align="right" | 30,353
| align="right" | (2.61%)
|-
|[[Daniel DeLeon]]
|
|[[Socialist Labor Party|Socialist Labor]]
| align="right" | 14,651
| align="right" | (1.26%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1888 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[David B. Hill]]'''
|'''[[Edward F. Jones]]'''
|'''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]'''
| align="right" | '''650,464'''
| align="right" | '''(49.45%)'''
|-
|[[Warner Miller]]
|Stephen Van Rensselaer Cruger
|[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
| align="right" | 631,293
| align="right" | (48.00%)
|-
|W. Martin Jones
|G. R. Powell
|[[Prohibition Party|Prohibition]]
| align="right" | 30,215
| align="right" | (2.30%)
|-
|Edward Hall
|
|
| align="right" | 3,348
| align="right" | (0.25%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1885 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[David B. Hill]]'''
|'''[[Edward F. Jones]]'''
|'''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]'''
| align="right" | '''501,465'''
| align="right" | '''(48.93%)'''
|-
|[[Ira Davenport (New York)|Ira Davenport]]
|[[Joseph Bradford Carr]]
|[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
| align="right" | 490,331
| align="right" | (47.85%)
|-
|Henry Clay Bascom
|W. Jennings Demorest
|[[Prohibition Party|Prohibition]]
| align="right" | 30,867
| align="right" | (3.01%)
|-
|George O. Jones
|Lyman W. Gage
|[[United States Greenback Party|National Greenback-Labor]]
| align="right" | 2,130
| align="right" | (0.21%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1882 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Grover Cleveland]]'''
|'''[[David B. Hill]]'''
|'''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]'''
| align="right" | '''535,318'''
| align="right" | '''(58.47%)'''
|-
|[[Charles J. Folger]]
|Benjamin Platt Carpenter
|[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
| align="right" | 342,464
| align="right" | (37.41%)
|-
|Alphonso A. Hopkins
|William H. Boole
|[[Prohibition Party|Prohibition]]
| align="right" | 25,783
| align="right" | (2.82%)
|-
|Epenetus Howe
|James Allen
|[[United States Greenback Party|National Greenback-Labor]]
| align="right" | 11,974
| align="right" | (1.31%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1879 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Alonzo B. Cornell]]'''
|'''[[George Gilbert Hoskins]]'''
|'''[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]'''
| align="right" | '''418,567'''
| align="right" | '''(46.68%)'''
|-
|[[Lucius Robinson]]
|[[Clarkson N. Potter]]
|[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]
| align="right" | 375,790
| align="right" | (41.91%)
|-
|[[John Kelly (U.S. politician)|John Kelly]]
|
|[[Tammany Hall]]
| align="right" | 77,566
| align="right" | (8.65%)
|-
|Harris Lewis
|John M. Wieting
|[[United States Greenback Party|Greenback-Labor]]
| align="right" | 20,286
| align="right" | (2.26%)
|-
|John W. Mears
|James H. Bronson
|[[Prohibition Party|Prohibition]]
| align="right" | 4,437
| align="right" | (0.47%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1876 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Lucius Robinson]]'''
|'''[[William Dorsheimer]]'''
|'''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]'''
| align="right" | '''519,831'''
| align="right" | '''(51.97%)'''
|-
|[[Edwin D. Morgan]]
|Sherman S. Rogers
|[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
| align="right" | 489,371
| align="right" | (48.26%)
|-
|William J. Groo
|Albert F. Brown
|[[Prohibition Party|Prohibition]]
| align="right" | 3,412
| align="right" | (0.34%)
|-
|Richard M. Griffin
|
|[[United States Greenback Party|Greenback]]
| align="right" | 1,436
| align="right" | (0.14%)
|-
|}
==1847-1874==
Gubernatorial elections under the State Constitution of 1846. The term was two years.
<br clear="all">
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1874 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Samuel Jones Tilden]]'''
|'''[[William Dorsheimer]]'''
|'''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]'''
| align="right" | '''416,391'''
| align="right" | '''(52.43%)'''
|-
|[[John Adams Dix]]
|[[John Cleveland Robinson]]
|[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
| align="right" | 366,074
| align="right" | (46.09%)
|-
|[[Myron Holley Clark]]
|J. L. Bagg
|[[Prohibition Party|Prohibition]]
| align="right" | 11,768
| align="right" | (1.48%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1872 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[John Adams Dix]]'''
|'''[[John Cleveland Robinson]]'''
|'''[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]'''
| align="right" | '''445,801'''
| align="right" | '''(53.19%)'''
|-
|[[Francis Kernan]]
|[[Chauncey M. Depew]]
|[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]], <br> [[Liberal Republican Party|Liberal Republican]]
| align="right" | 392,350
| align="right" | (46.81%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1870 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[John Thompson Hoffman]]'''
|'''[[Allen C. Beach]]'''
|'''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]'''
| align="right" | '''399,490'''
| align="right" | '''(52.19%)'''
|-
|[[Stewart L. Woodford]]
|[[DeWitt Clinton Littlejohn]]
|[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
| align="right" | 366,424
| align="right" | (47.84%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1868 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[John Thompson Hoffman]]'''
|'''[[Allen C. Beach]]'''
|'''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]'''
| align="right" | '''439,301'''
| align="right" | '''(51.64%)'''
|-
|[[John Augustus Griswold]]
|[[Alonzo B. Cornell]]
|[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
| align="right" |
| align="right" | (48.36%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1866 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Reuben E. Fenton]]'''
|'''[[Stewart L. Woodford]]'''
|'''[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]'''
| align="right" | '''366,315'''
| align="right" | '''(50.96%)'''
|-
|[[John Thompson Hoffman]]
|[[Robert H. Pruyn]]
|[[United States Democratic Party|Conservative Union]]
| align="right" | 352,526
| align="right" | (49.04%)
|-
|}
Note: John T. Hoffman was a Democrat, Robert H. Pruyn a Republican. The "Conservative Union" ticket was nominated by the Democrats in an attempt to attract Republicans, especially Democrats who had joined the Republican Union and remained Republicans after the Civil War, to return to the Democratic Party. <ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=990CE1D7133DE53BBC4952DFBF66838D679FDE The Conservative Union state convention opens] in NYT on September 11, 1866</ref>
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1864 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Reuben E. Fenton]]'''
|'''[[Thomas G. Alvord]]'''
|'''[[National Union Party (United States)|Republican Union]]'''
| align="right" | '''368,557'''
| align="right" | '''(50.50%)'''
|-
|[[Horatio Seymour]]
|[[David R. Floyd-Jones]]
|[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]
| align="right" | 361,264
| align="right" | (49.50%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1862 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Horatio Seymour]]'''
|'''[[David R. Floyd-Jones]]'''
|'''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]'''
| align="right" | '''306,649'''
| align="right" | '''(50.89%)'''
|-
|[[James S. Wadsworth]]
|[[Lyman Tremain]]
|[[National Union Party (United States)|Republican Union]]
| align="right" | 295,897
| align="right" | (49.11%)
|-
|}
Note:
*Horatio Seymour was the candidate of the rump Democratic Party which favored a compromise on the slavery issue, and to end the war. <ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9503E6D71F3FEE34BC4952DFBF668389679FDE The Democratic state convention] in NYT on September 11, 1862</ref>
*James Wadsworth was a Republican, Lyman Tremain a Democrat, nominated by the Republican Union in which the Republican Party was joined by a large faction of the Democratic Party who supported Lincoln and the Union against the South in the Civil War.
*The total of ballots cast were more than 70,000 less than in the previous election because the soldiers in the field were not allowed to vote.
*Seymour won the gubernatorial election in 1862, but all state cabinet offices were carried by the Republican Union in 1861 and 1863.
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1860 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Edwin D. Morgan]]'''
|'''[[Robert Campbell (politician)|Robert Campbell]]'''
|'''[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]'''
| align="right" | '''358,272'''
| align="right" | '''(53.24%)'''
|-
|William Kelly
|[[William C. Crain]]
|[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]
| align="right" | 294,812
| align="right" | (43.81%)
|-
|James T. Brady
|H. K. Viele
|[[United States Democratic Party|National Democratic]]
| align="right" | 19,841
| align="right" | (2.95%)
|-
|}
Note:
*William Kelly was the candidate of the majority faction of the Democratic Party which supported [[Stephen A. Douglas]] for President. <ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D05E0DB123FEE34BC4952DFBF66838B679FDE The Democratic candidate accepts] in NYT on September 11, 1860</ref>
*James T. Brady was a member of [[Tammany Hall]]. The National Democracy was the minority faction of the Democratic Party which supported [[John C. Breckinridge]] for President. <ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9D04E7DE123FEE34BC4850DFBE66838B679FDE The National Democracy's candidate accepts]] in NYT on August 30, 1860</ref> ; <ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9507E2DB173BE53BBC4153DFBE66838B679FDE The Breckinridge and Lane Democratic state convention] in NYT on August 9, 1860</ref>
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1858 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Edwin D. Morgan]]'''
|'''[[Robert Campbell (politician)|Robert Campbell]]'''
|'''[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]'''
| align="right" | '''257,953'''
| align="right" | '''(45.49%)'''
|-
|[[Amasa J. Parker]]
|[[John J. Taylor]]
|[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]
| align="right" | 230,513
| align="right" | (42.29%)
|-
|[[Lorenzo Burrows]]
|[[Nathaniel S. Benton]]
|[[Know Nothing|American]]
| align="right" | 61,137
| align="right" | (11.22%)
|-
|[[Gerrit Smith]]
|
|Abolitionist
| align="right" | 5,470
| align="right" | (1.00%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1856 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[John Alsop King]]'''
|'''[[Henry R. Selden]]'''
|'''[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]'''
| align="right" | '''264,400'''
| align="right" | '''(44.52%)'''
|-
|[[Amasa J. Parker]]
|
|[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]
| align="right" | 198,616
| align="right" | (33.44%)
|-
|Erastus Brooks
|Lyman Odell
|[[Know Nothing|American]]
| align="right" | 130,870
| align="right" | (22.04%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1854 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Myron Holley Clark]]'''
|'''[[Henry J. Raymond]] (Whig, Anti-Nebraska, Temperance)''', <br>[[Bradford R. Wood]] (Anti-Rent, Free Democratic)
|'''[[United States Whig Party|Whig]]''', <br>'''[[Anti-Nebraska Party|Anti-Nebraska]]''', <br>'''[[Anti-Rent War|Anti-Rent]]''', <br> '''[[Free-Soil Party|Free Democratic]]''', <br>'''[[Temperance movement|Temperance]]'''
| align="right" | '''156,804'''
| align="right" | '''(33.40%)'''
|-
|[[Horatio Seymour]]
|[[William H. Ludlow]]
|[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]] ([[Hunkers and Barnburners|Soft]])
| align="right" | 156,495
| align="right" | (33.34%)
|-
|Daniel Ullman
|Gustavus Adolphus Scroggs
|[[Know Nothing|American]]
| align="right" | 122,282
| align="right" | (26.05%)
|-
|[[Greene C. Bronson]]
|Elijah Ford
||[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]] ([[Hunkers and Barnburners|Hard]])
| align="right" | 33,850
| align="right" | (7.21%)
|-
|}
Notes:
*Myron Clark won this election with the lowest percentage ever in NY Gov. elections, nominated by the Whigs (of which party he was a member), and endorsed by the Anti-Nebraska Party <ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B06EEDF1238EE3BBC4850DFBF66838F649FDE The Anti-Nebraska state convention] in NYT on October 30, 1854</ref> (which merged in 1855 with the Whigs to form the Republican Party), the Anti-Rent Party <ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9E07E1DC1238EE3BBC4F51DFB667838F649FDE The Anti-Rent state convention] in NYT on October 27, 1854</ref>, the "Free Democrats" <ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A02E3DF1238EE3BBC4E51DFBF66838F649FDE The Free-Soil Democratic state convention opens] in NYT on September 26, 1854</ref> (the remnants of the Free-Soil Party with radical anti-slavery Democrats), and the supporters of Temperance <ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E0CE1DF1238EE3BBC4051DFBF66838F649FDE The Temperance state convention] in NYT on September 28, 1854</ref>.
*The "Soft" or "Soft-shell" candidate was the choice of the majority faction of the Democratic Party.
*The American Party was called "Know Nothing" in contemporaneous newspapers.
*The "National Democracy" (a faction of the Democratic Party) were called "Hards" or "Hard-shells" by contemporaneous newspapers.
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1852 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Horatio Seymour]]'''
|'''[[Sanford E. Church]]'''
|'''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]'''
| align="right" | '''264,121'''
| align="right" | '''(50.31%)'''
|-
|[[Washington Hunt]]
|William Kent
|[[United States Whig Party|Whig]]
| align="right" | 241,525
| align="right" | (46.01%)
|-
|Minthorne Tompkins
|[[Seth Merrill Gates]]
|[[Free-Soil Party|Free Democratic]]
| align="right" | 19,296
| align="right" | (3.68%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1850 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Washington Hunt]]'''
|William Kent (Whig) <br>'''[[Sanford E. Church]] ([[Anti-Rent War|Anti-Rent]])'''
|'''[[United States Whig Party|Whig]]''', <br>'''[[Anti-Rent War|Anti-Rent]]'''
| align="right" | '''214,614'''
| align="right" | '''(49.64%)'''
|-
|[[Horatio Seymour]]
|'''[[Sanford E. Church]]'''
|[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]
| align="right" | 214,352
| align="right" | (49.57%)
|-
|William Lawrence Chaplin
|
|Abolitionist
| align="right" | 3,416
| align="right" | (0.79%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1848 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Hamilton Fish]]'''
|'''[[George Washington Patterson]]'''
|'''[[United States Whig Party|Whig]]'''
| align="right" | '''218,776'''
| align="right" | '''(47.56%)'''
|-
|[[John Adams Dix]]
|[[Seth Merrill Gates]]
|[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]] ([[Barnburners and Hunkers|Barnburner]]), <br> [[Free Soil Party|Free Soil]]
| align="right" | 122,811
| align="right" | (26.70%)
|-
|[[Reuben H. Walworth]]
|[[Charles O'Conor]]
|[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]] ([[Barnburners and Hunkers|Hunker]])
| align="right" | 116,811
| align="right" | (25.39%)
|-
|[[William Goodell]]
|
|Abolitionist
| align="right" | 1,593
| align="right" | (0.35%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1847 Special election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Lieutenant Governor candidate
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Hamilton Fish]]'''
|'''[[United States Whig Party|Whig]]'''
|
|
|-
|}
Note: At the first judicial election under the Constitution of 1846, Addison Gardiner was elected in June 1847 to the Court of Appeals, to take office on January 1, 1848. To fill the upcoming vacancy, on September 27, a special election was called by the State Legislature to be held at the annual state election. <ref>[*[http://books.google.com/books?id=E3sFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA32 Google Book] ''The New York Civil List'' compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (page 32; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)]</ref>
==1822-1846==
Gubernatorial elections under the State Constitution of 1821. The term was two years. Since 1822 until today, all elections have been held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. The elected candidate takes office on January 1 of the following year.
<br clear="all">
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1846 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[John Young (governor)|John Young]]'''
|[[Hamilton Fish]] (Whig) <br>'''[[Addison Gardiner]] (Anti-Rent)'''
|'''[[United States Whig Party|Whig]]''', <br> '''[[Anti-Rent War|Anti-Rent]]'''
| align="right" | '''198,878'''
| align="right" | '''(48.93%)'''
|-
|[[Silas Wright]]
|'''[[Addison Gardiner]]'''
|[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]
| align="right" | 187,306
| align="right" | (46.09%)
|-
|Henry Bradley
|William Lawrence Chaplin
|[[Liberty Party (United States)|Liberty]], <br>[[National Reform Association|National Reform]]
| align="right" | 12,844
| align="right" | (3.16%)
|-
|Ogden Edwards
|
|[[Know Nothing|Native American]]
| align="right" | 6,306
| align="right" | (1.55%)
|-
|Lewis Masquirer
|
|
| align="right" | 1,100
| align="right" | (0.27%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1844 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Silas Wright]]'''
|'''[[Addison Gardiner]]'''
|'''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]'''
| align="right" | '''241,090'''
| align="right" | '''(49.48%)'''
|-
|[[Millard Fillmore]]
|[[Samuel J. Wilkin]]
|[[United States Whig Party|Whig]]
| align="right" | 231,057
| align="right" | (47.42%)
|-
|Alvan Stewart
|Charles O. Shepard
|[[Liberty Party (United States)|Liberty]]
| align="right" | 15,136
| align="right" | (3.11%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1842 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[William C. Bouck]]'''
|'''[[Daniel S. Dickinson]]'''
|'''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]'''
| align="right" | '''208,072'''
| align="right" | '''(51.83%)'''
|-
|[[Luther Bradish]]
|Gabriel Furman
|[[United States Whig Party|Whig]]
| align="right" | 186,091
| align="right" | (46.36%)
|-
|Alvan Stewart
|Charles O. Shepard
|[[Liberty Party (United States)|Liberty]]
| align="right" | 7,263
| align="right" | (1.81%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1840 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[William H. Seward]]'''
|'''[[Luther Bradish]]'''
|'''[[United States Whig Party|Whig]]'''
| align="right" | '''222,011'''
| align="right" | '''(50.29%)'''
|-
|[[William C. Bouck]]
|[[Daniel S. Dickinson]]
|[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]
| align="right" | 216,808
| align="right" | (49.11%)
|-
|[[Gerrit Smith]]
|Charles O. Shepard
|[[Liberty Party (United States)|Liberty]]
| align="right" | 2,662
| align="right" | (0.60%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1838 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[William H. Seward]]'''
|'''[[Luther Bradish]]'''
|'''[[United States Whig Party|Whig]]'''
| align="right" | '''192,882'''
| align="right" | '''(51.39%)'''
|-
|[[William L. Marcy]]
|[[John Tracy]]
|[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]
| align="right" | 182,461
| align="right" | (48.61%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1836 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[William L. Marcy]]'''
|'''[[John Tracy]]'''
|'''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]'''
| align="right" | '''166,122'''
| align="right" | '''(54.24%)'''
|-
|[[Jesse Buel]]
|[[Gamaliel H. Barstow]]
|[[United States Whig Party|Whig]]
| align="right" | 136,648
| align="right" | (44.62%)
|-
|Isaac S. Smith
|Moses Jacques
|[[Locofocos]]
| align="right" | 3,496
| align="right" | (1.14%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1834 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[William L. Marcy]]'''
|'''[[John Tracy]]'''
|'''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]'''
| align="right" | '''181,905'''
| align="right" | '''(51.84%)'''
|-
|[[William H. Seward]]
|[[Silas M. Stilwell]]
|[[United States Whig Party|Whig]]
| align="right" | 168,969
| align="right" | (48.16%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1832 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[William L. Marcy]]'''
|'''[[John Tracy]]'''
|'''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]'''
| align="right" | '''166,410'''
| align="right" | '''(51.51%)'''
|-
|[[Francis Granger]]
|Samuel Stevens
|[[Anti-Masonic Party|Anti-Masonic]], <br> [[National Republican Party|National Republican]]
| align="right" | 156,672
| align="right" | (48.49%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1830 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Enos T. Throop]]'''
|'''[[Edward Philip Livingston]]'''
|'''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]'''
| align="right" | '''128,842'''
| align="right" | '''(51.22%)'''
|-
|[[Francis Granger]]
|Samuel Stevens
|[[Anti-Masonic Party|Anti-Masonic]], <br> [[National Republican Party|National Republican]]
| align="right" | 120,361
| align="right" | (47.85%)
|-
|Ezekiel Williams
|
|[[Workingmen's Party of New York|Workingmen's]]
| align="right" | 2,332
| align="right" | (0.93%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1828 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Martin Van Buren]]'''
|'''[[Enos T. Throop]]'''
|'''[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]'''
| align="right" | '''136,794'''
| align="right" | '''(49.46%)'''
|-
|[[Smith Thompson]]
|[[Francis Granger]]
|[[National Republican Party|National Republican]]
| align="right" | 106,444
| align="right" | (38.49%)
|-
|Solomon Southwick
|John Crary
|[[Anti-Masonic Party|Anti-Masonic]]
| align="right" | 33,345
| align="right" | (12.06%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1826 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="24%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[DeWitt Clinton]]'''
|Henry Huntington
|'''[[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]] (Clintonian)'''
| align="right" | '''99,785'''
| align="right" | '''(50.93%)'''
|-
|[[William B. Rochester]]
|'''[[Nathaniel Pitcher]]'''
|[[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]] ([[Bucktails]])
| align="right" | 96,135
| align="right" | (49.07%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1824 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[DeWitt Clinton]]'''
|'''[[James Tallmadge, Jr.]]'''
|'''People's'''
| align="right" | '''103,452'''
| align="right" | '''(54.29%)'''
|-
|[[Samuel Young (New York)|Samuel Young]]
|[[Erastus Root]]
|[[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]]
| align="right" | 87,093
| align="right" | (45.71%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1822 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Joseph C. Yates]]'''
|'''[[Erastus Root]]'''
|'''[[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]]'''
| align="right" | '''128,493'''
| align="right" | '''(97.79%)'''
|-
|Solomon Southwick
|
|
| align="right" | 2,910
| align="right" | (2.21%)
|-
|}
==1777-1820==
Gubernatorial elections under the State Constitution of 1777. The term was three years, the election held in the last week of April or on May 1.
<br clear="all">
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1820 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="26%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[DeWitt Clinton]]'''
|'''[[John Tayler]]'''
|'''[[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]] (Clintonian)'''
| align="right" | '''47,445'''
| align="right" | '''(50.78%)'''
|-
|[[Daniel D. Tompkins]]
|
|[[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]] ([[Bucktails]])
| align="right" | 45,990
| align="right" | (49.22%)
|-
|}
Note:
*Tompkins was the sitting US Vice President.
*DeWitt Clinton was legislated out of office on December 31, 1822.
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1817 Special election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[DeWitt Clinton]]'''
|'''[[John Tayler]]'''
|'''[[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]]'''
| align="right" | '''43,310'''
| align="right" | '''(96.70%)'''
|-
|[[Peter Buell Porter]]
|
|
| align="right" | 1,479
| align="right" | (3.30%)
|-
|}
Note: Governor Tompkins was elected US Vice President in November 1816, he resigned in February 1817. Article XVII of the [[Constitution of New York, 1777|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.
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1816 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Daniel D. Tompkins]]'''
|'''[[John Tayler]]'''
|'''[[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]]'''
| align="right" | '''45,412'''
| align="right" | '''(54.02%)'''
|-
|[[Rufus King]]
|[[George Tibbits]]
|[[United States Federalist Party|Federalist]]
| align="right" | 38,647
| align="right" | (45.98%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1813 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Daniel D. Tompkins]]'''
|'''[[John Tayler]]'''
|'''[[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]]'''
| align="right" | '''43,324'''
| align="right" | '''(52.17%)'''
|-
|[[Stephen Van Rensselaer]]
|George Huntington
|[[United States Federalist Party|Federalist]]
| align="right" | 39,718
| align="right" | (47.83%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1811 Special election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Lieutenant Governor candidate
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[DeWitt Clinton]]'''
|'''[[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]]'''
| align="right" |
| align="right" |
|-
|[[Nicholas Fish]]
|[[United States Federalist Party|Federalist]]
| align="right" |
| align="right" |
|-
|[[Marinus Willett]]
|[[Tammany Hall]]
| align="right" |
| align="right" |
|-
|}
Note: Lt. Gov. Broome died in August 1810, and the [[New York Constitution|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.
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1810 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Daniel D. Tompkins]]'''
|'''[[John Broome (politician)|John Broome]]'''
|'''[[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]]'''
| align="right" | '''43,094'''
| align="right" | '''(54.15%)'''
|-
|[[Jonas Platt]]
|[[Nicholas Fish]]
|[[United States Federalist Party|Federalist]]
| align="right" | 36,484
| align="right" | (45.85%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1807 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="24%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Daniel D. Tompkins]]'''
|'''[[John Broome (politician)|John Broome]]'''
|'''[[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]] (Clintonian)'''
| align="right" | '''35,074'''
| align="right" | '''(53.09%)'''
|-
|[[Morgan Lewis (governor)|Morgan Lewis]]
|[[Thomas Storm]]
|[[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]] (Lewisites)
| align="right" | 30,989
| align="right" | (46.91%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1804 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="28%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[Morgan Lewis (governor)|Morgan Lewis]]'''
|'''[[John Broome (politician)|John Broome]]'''
|'''[[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]] (Clintonian)'''
| align="right" | '''30,829'''
| align="right" | '''(58.20%)'''
|-
|[[Aaron Burr]]
|[[Oliver Phelps]]
|[[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]] ([[Tammany Hall]]) <br>[[Federalist Party|Federalist]]
| align="right" | 22,139
| align="right" | (41.80%)
|-
|}
Note: Aaron Burr was the sitting US Vice President
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1801 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[George Clinton (vice president)|George Clinton]]'''
|'''[[Jeremiah Van Rensselaer]]'''
|'''[[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]]'''
| align="right" | '''24,808'''
| align="right" | '''(54.34%)'''
|-
|[[Stephen Van Rensselaer]]
|[[James Watson (politician)|James Watson]]
|[[United States Federalist Party|Federalist]]
| align="right" | 20,843
| align="right" | (45.66%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1798 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[John Jay]]'''
|'''[[Stephen Van Rensselaer]]'''
|'''[[United States Federalist Party|Federalist]]'''
| align="right" | '''16,012'''
| align="right" | '''(54.01%)'''
|-
|[[Robert Livingston (1746-1813)|Robert R. Livingston]]
|
|[[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]]
| align="right" | 13,632
| align="right" | (45.99%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1795 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[John Jay]]'''
|'''[[Stephen Van Rensselaer]]'''
|'''[[United States Federalist Party|Federalist]]'''
| align="right" | '''13,479'''
| align="right" | '''(53.14%)'''
|-
|[[Robert Yates (politician)|Robert Yates]]
|
|[[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]]
| align="right" | 11,884
| align="right" | (46.86%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1792 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="16%" | Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[George Clinton (vice president)|George Clinton]]'''
|'''[[Pierre Van Cortlandt]]'''
|'''[[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]]'''
| align="right" | '''8,440'''
| align="right" | '''(50.32%)'''
|-
|[[John Jay]]
|[[Stephen Van Rensselaer]]
|[[United States Federalist Party|Federalist]]
| align="right" | 8,332
| align="right" | (49.68%)
|-
|}
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. Under the [[New York Constitution|Constitution of 1777]], the votes were canvassed by a joint committe of the state legislature, six members each from the [[New York State Assembly|assembly]] and the [[New York State Senate|senate]]. The members were [[David Gelston]], [[Thomas Tillotson]], [[Melancton Smith]], David Graham, [[Pierre Van Cortlandt, Jr.]], David McCarty, [[Jonathan N. Havens]], [[Samuel Jones (NY comptroller)|Samuel Jones]], [[Isaac Roosevelt (politician)|Isaac Roosevelt]], [[Leonard Gansevoort]] and [[Joshua Sands]]. The state constitution said that the cast votes shall be delivered to the secretary of state "by the sheriff or his deputy". The ballots froms [[Otsego County, New York|Otsego County]] were forwarded to the secretary of state by Sheriff Smith who was holding over in office until the appointment of a successor after his term had expired. The ballot box from [[Clinton County, New York|Clinton County]] was delivered to the secretary of state's office by a person without deputation who had received the box from the sheriff. The ballot box from [[Tioga County, New York|Tioga County]] was delivered to the secretary of state by the clerk of the special deputy appointed by the sheriff. The canvass committee disagreed on whether to allow these ballots to be counted or not. The question was referred to the [[U.S. Senator]]s from New York, Federalist [[Rufus King]] and Dem.-Rep. [[Aaron Burr]], for arbitration. King said all votes ought to be canvassed, Burr said that the ballots from Clinton County ought to be allowed, the ones from Otsego and Tioga Counties should be rejected. Thereupon, a majority of the canvass committee (Gelston, Tillotson, Smith, Graham, Van Cortlandt, McCarty, Havens) rejected the ballots from all three counties and declared George Clinton duly elected governor by a majority of 108 votes. The minority (Jones, Roosevelt, Gansevoort, Sands) protested in writing. In Otsego County, John Jay had a majority of about 400, and discounting the small majorities for Clinton in Tioga and Clinton Counties, would have won the election. Clinton was accused by the Federalists of [[usurpation]] and the canvass committe of having made a partisan decision against the wishes of the electorate. <ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=Gm04AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA42 ''History of Political Parties in the State of New-York'' by John S. Jenkins (pages 43ff; Alden & Markham, Auburn NY, 1846)]</ref>
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1789 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="20%"| Party
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[George Clinton (vice president)|George Clinton]]'''
|'''[[Pierre Van Cortlandt]]'''
| [[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]]
| align="right" | '''6,391'''
| align="right" | '''(51.74%)'''
|-
|[[Robert Yates (politician)|Robert Yates]]
|
| [[Federalist Party|Federalist]]
| align="right" | 5,962
| align="right" | (48.26%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1786 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[George Clinton (vice president)|George Clinton]]'''
|'''[[Pierre Van Cortlandt]]'''
| align="right" |
| align="right" |
|-
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|
| align="right" |
| align="right" |
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{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1783 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[George Clinton (vice president)|George Clinton]]'''
|'''[[Pierre Van Cortlandt]]'''
| align="right" | '''3,584'''
| align="right" | '''(75.50%)'''
|-
|[[Philip Schuyler]]
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| align="right" | 643
| align="right" | (13.55%)
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|[[Ephraim Paine]]
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| align="right" | 520
| align="right" | (10.95%)
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1780 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[George Clinton (vice president)|George Clinton]]'''
|'''[[Pierre Van Cortlandt]]'''
| align="right" |
| align="right" |
|-
|
|
| align="right" |
| align="right" |
|-
|}
{| class=wikitable
|+''' 1777 General election results'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! width="20%" | Governor candidate
! width="20%"| [[Running mate|Running Mate]]
! width="18%" colspan="2" | Popular Vote
|-
|'''[[George Clinton (vice president)|George Clinton]]'''
|'''[[Pierre Van Cortlandt]]'''
| align="right" | '''1,828'''
| align="right" | '''(48.59%)'''
|-
|[[Philip Schuyler]]
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| align="right" | 1,199
| align="right" | (31.87%)
|-
|[[John Morin Scott]]
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| align="right" | 368
| align="right" | (9.78%)
|-
|[[John Jay]]
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| align="right" | 367
| align="right" | (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 Livingston (1746-1813)|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.
==See also==
* [[New York Attorney General elections]]
* [[New York Comptroller elections]]
{{New York gubernatorial elections}}
==References==
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==Sources==
*[http://www.ourcampaigns.com/ContainerHistory.html?ContainerID=258 NY Gov elections]
*[http://www.cresswellslist.com/gubern/ny_gub.htm NY Gov candidates]
*[http://www.ourcampaigns.com/ContainerHistory.html?ContainerID=2245&ShowPrimaries=Y NY Lt Gov candidates]
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