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1891 New York governor election

Roswell Pettibone Flower (Democrat) beat Jacob Sloat Fassett (Republican) in New York in 1891, 50.1% to 46.0%, a margin of 4.1 points and 47,937 votes.

The Democratic hold continued from 1888, when David B. Hill won.

Republicans led in 39 of the 58 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 19. The largest, New York, cast 239,108 votes and went to the Democrat by 24.9 points. The closest was Putnam, where 14 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Governor

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Roswell Pettibone Flower won Democratic 582,893 50.1%
Jacob Sloat Fassett Republican 534,956 46.0%
All other candidates 45,004 3.9%
Total1,162,853

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
New York 146,067 61.1% 86,565 36.2% 6,476 239,108 D+24.9
Kings 82,685 54.1% 66,605 43.6% 3,467 152,757 D+10.5
Erie 28,876 49.3% 27,596 47.1% 2,112 58,584 D+2.2
Albany 19,598 54.7% 15,371 42.9% 869 35,838 D+11.8
Monroe 14,783 42.5% 18,653 53.6% 1,341 34,777 R+11.1
Onondaga 14,620 45.1% 16,529 50.9% 1,297 32,446 R+5.9
Rensselaer 14,590 51.4% 12,881 45.4% 918 28,389 D+6.0
Oneida 13,012 47.5% 13,279 48.5% 1,115 27,406 R+1.0
Westchester 13,240 51.7% 11,409 44.5% 982 25,631 D+7.1
Queens 11,543 55.5% 8,680 41.7% 588 20,811 D+13.8
Orange 9,325 46.6% 9,813 49.1% 857 19,995 R+2.4
Steuben 8,188 43.7% 9,457 50.5% 1,085 18,730 R+6.8
St. Lawrence 6,081 33.6% 11,169 61.8% 834 18,084 R+28.1
Dutchess 8,409 47.9% 8,334 47.5% 802 17,545 D+0.4
Jefferson 8,093 47.0% 8,431 49.0% 679 17,203 R+2.0
Ulster 8,625 50.8% 7,530 44.4% 817 16,972 D+6.5
Chautauqua 5,707 35.1% 9,704 59.6% 863 16,274 R+24.6
Oswego 6,481 41.4% 8,566 54.8% 598 15,645 R+13.3
Cayuga 5,802 41.9% 7,357 53.1% 703 13,862 R+11.2
Broome 5,750 41.6% 7,229 52.3% 837 13,816 R+10.7
Otsego 6,090 46.3% 6,436 48.9% 630 13,156 R+2.6
Cattaraugus 5,395 41.4% 6,901 52.9% 740 13,036 R+11.6
Saratoga 5,614 43.3% 6,585 50.8% 767 12,966 R+7.5
Niagara 5,796 49.1% 5,300 44.9% 708 11,804 D+4.2
Ontario 5,257 45.4% 5,897 50.9% 429 11,583 R+5.5
Suffolk 5,211 45.5% 5,659 49.4% 589 11,459 R+3.9
Herkimer 5,272 46.5% 5,638 49.7% 438 11,348 R+3.2
Chemung 5,756 51.0% 5,036 44.6% 501 11,293 D+6.4
Wayne 4,344 39.5% 6,192 56.4% 451 10,987 R+16.8
Delaware 4,673 42.7% 5,498 50.3% 767 10,938 R+7.5
Washington 3,832 35.8% 6,332 59.1% 542 10,706 R+23.4
Columbia 5,205 48.7% 5,107 47.7% 385 10,697 D+0.9
Montgomery 5,063 48.7% 4,934 47.5% 397 10,394 D+1.2
Madison 4,000 39.0% 5,560 54.2% 704 10,264 R+15.2
Allegany 3,272 33.6% 5,320 54.6% 1,155 9,747 R+21.0
Chenango 4,007 42.8% 4,610 49.2% 755 9,372 R+6.4
Richmond 5,039 57.5% 3,435 39.2% 289 8,763 D+18.3
Clinton 4,001 46.5% 4,426 51.4% 182 8,609 R+4.9
Livingston 3,676 43.6% 4,222 50.0% 540 8,438 R+6.5
Tompkins 3,450 42.3% 4,330 53.1% 371 8,151 R+10.8
Schoharie 4,384 58.0% 2,847 37.6% 332 7,563 D+20.3
Lewis 3,545 47.4% 3,654 48.8% 283 7,482 R+1.5
Franklin 2,640 35.4% 4,527 60.8% 281 7,448 R+25.3
Greene 3,839 52.1% 3,178 43.1% 357 7,374 D+9.0
Cortland 2,886 39.3% 3,984 54.2% 482 7,352 R+14.9
Tioga 3,084 42.4% 3,859 53.1% 329 7,272 R+10.7
Genesee 2,981 41.7% 3,714 51.9% 459 7,154 R+10.2
Wyoming 2,729 39.7% 3,701 53.8% 446 6,876 R+14.1
Orleans 2,969 43.2% 3,387 49.3% 509 6,865 R+6.1
Schenectady 3,408 51.8% 2,905 44.1% 268 6,581 D+7.6
Sullivan 3,081 47.2% 3,099 47.5% 350 6,530 R+0.3
Essex 2,439 37.9% 3,727 58.0% 263 6,429 R+20.0
Warren 2,588 40.7% 3,390 53.4% 376 6,354 R+12.6
Seneca 3,176 52.1% 2,685 44.1% 230 6,091 D+8.1
Rockland 3,191 54.0% 2,405 40.7% 317 5,913 D+13.3
Yates 1,977 38.7% 2,917 57.1% 216 5,110 R+18.4
Schuyler 1,617 40.8% 2,123 53.6% 221 3,961 R+12.8
Putnam 1,611 47.4% 1,625 47.8% 161 3,397 R+0.4

Counties as they stood in 1891; some have since been split, merged or renamed. Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

New York governor elections we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2022 Kathy Hochul (D) D+6.4
2018 Andrew Cuomo (D) D+23.4
2014 Andrew Cuomo (D) D+13.9
2010 Andrew Cuomo (D) D+29.3
2006 Eliot Spitzer (D) D+40.8
2002 George Pataki (R) R+15.9
1998 George Pataki (R) R+21.2
1994 George E. Pataki (R) R+3.3
1990 Mario Cuomo (D) D+31.8
1986 Mario M. Cuomo (D) D+32.9
1982 Mario M. Cuomo (D) D+3.4
1978 Hugh L. Carey (D) D+5.7
1974 Hugh L. Carey (D) D+15.3
1970 Nelson Rockefeller (R) R+12.1
1966 Nelson Rockefeller (R) R+6.5
1962 Nelson A. Rockefeller (R) R+9.1
1958 Nelson A. Rockefeller (R) R+10.2
1954 W. Averell Harriman (D) D+0.2
1950 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+10.8
1946 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+13.8
1942 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+15.7
1938 Herbert H. Lehman (D) D+1.4
1936 Herbert H. Lehman (D) D+9.4
1934 Herbert H. Lehman (D) D+21.2
1932 Herbert H. Lehman (D) D+18.1
1930 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+23.1
1928 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+0.6
1926 Alfred Emanuel Smith (D) D+8.5
1924 Alfred E. Smith (D) D+3.3
1922 Alfred Emanuel Smith (D) D+15.2
1920 Nathan L. Miller (R) R+2.6
1918 Al Smith (D) D+0.7
1916 Charles S. Whitman (R) R+10.0
1914 Charles S. Whitman (R) R+10.4
1912 William Sulzer (D) D+13.1
1910 John Alden Dix (D) D+4.7
1908 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+4.2
1906 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+3.9
1904 Frank W. Higgins (R) R+5.0
1902 Benjamin B. Odell Jr. (R) R+0.6
1900 Benjamin B. Odell Jr. (R) R+7.2
1898 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+1.3
1896 Frank S. Black (R) R+15.0
1894 Levi P. Morton (R) R+12.3
1891 Roswell Pettibone Flower (D) D+4.1
1888 David B. Hill (D) D+1.5
1885 David B. Hill (D) D+1.1
1882 Grover Cleveland (D) D+21.1
1879 Alonzo B. Cornell (R) R+4.8
1876 Lucius Robinson (D) D+3.0
1874 Samuel J. Tilden (D) D+6.3
1872 John Adams Dix (R) R+6.4
1870 John T. Hoffman (D) D+4.3
1868 John T. Hoffman (D) D+3.3
1866 Reuben Fenton (R) R+51.0