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Election 1936 Results

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1936 New York governor election

Herbert H. Lehman (Democrat) beat William F. Bleakley (Republican) in New York in 1936, 53.5% to 44.1%, a margin of 9.4 points and 520,471 votes.

The Democratic hold continued from 1934, when Herbert H. Lehman also won.

Republicans led in 53 of the 62 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 9. The largest, Kings, cast 968,992 votes and went to the Democrat by 42.4 points. The closest was Sullivan, where 696 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
Herbert H. Lehman won Democratic 2,970,575 53.5%
William F. Bleakley Republican 2,450,104 44.1%
All other candidates 136,660 2.5%
Total5,557,339

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Kings 690,154 71.2% 278,838 28.8% 968,992 D+42.4
New York 490,486 69.5% 215,174 30.5% 705,660 D+39.0
Bronx 389,935 74.1% 136,439 25.9% 526,374 D+48.2
Queens 274,087 55.9% 215,793 44.1% 489,880 D+11.9
Erie 172,292 50.7% 167,530 49.3% 339,822 D+1.4
Westchester 105,978 40.6% 155,039 59.4% 261,017 R+18.8
Monroe 115,129 54.7% 95,321 45.3% 210,450 D+9.4
Nassau 71,036 41.3% 100,949 58.7% 171,985 R+17.4
Onondaga 66,372 45.3% 80,201 54.7% 146,573 R+9.4
Albany 73,492 57.7% 53,951 42.3% 127,443 D+15.3
Oneida 41,916 45.6% 49,941 54.4% 91,857 R+8.7
Suffolk 33,907 40.5% 49,853 59.5% 83,760 R+19.0
Richmond 42,082 60.2% 27,843 39.8% 69,925 D+20.4
Rensselaer 30,779 44.8% 37,993 55.2% 68,772 R+10.5
Broome 28,393 42.6% 38,252 57.4% 66,645 R+14.8
Orange 25,609 40.8% 37,182 59.2% 62,791 R+18.4
Niagara 28,965 47.7% 31,764 52.3% 60,729 R+4.6
Schenectady 30,725 51.8% 28,604 48.2% 59,329 D+3.6
Dutchess 23,427 43.4% 30,500 56.6% 53,927 R+13.1
Chautauqua 22,711 42.4% 30,807 57.6% 53,518 R+15.1
Ulster 19,078 43.2% 25,117 56.8% 44,195 R+13.7
Steuben 15,829 39.2% 24,518 60.8% 40,347 R+21.5
St. Lawrence 12,976 33.5% 25,728 66.5% 38,704 R+32.9
Jefferson 14,115 36.6% 24,433 63.4% 38,548 R+26.8
Chemung 16,000 45.1% 19,493 54.9% 35,493 R+9.8
Saratoga 14,009 41.3% 19,944 58.7% 33,953 R+17.5
Oswego 11,322 33.6% 22,329 66.4% 33,651 R+32.7
Cayuga 13,214 39.8% 20,017 60.2% 33,231 R+20.5
Cattaraugus 11,534 35.5% 20,995 64.5% 32,529 R+29.1
Rockland 15,239 47.8% 16,660 52.2% 31,899 R+4.5
Montgomery 13,925 48.4% 14,868 51.6% 28,793 R+3.3
Herkimer 11,428 40.1% 17,076 59.9% 28,504 R+19.8
Ontario 9,221 34.0% 17,929 66.0% 27,150 R+32.1
Wayne 7,738 30.8% 17,407 69.2% 25,145 R+38.5
Otsego 8,236 34.2% 15,825 65.8% 24,061 R+31.5
Fulton 9,233 39.3% 14,259 60.7% 23,492 R+21.4
Washington 7,779 34.1% 15,020 65.9% 22,799 R+31.8
Columbia 8,446 39.6% 12,867 60.4% 21,313 R+20.7
Clinton 9,853 46.9% 11,170 53.1% 21,023 R+6.3
Delaware 6,190 29.9% 14,500 70.1% 20,690 R+40.2
Madison 5,889 29.1% 14,380 70.9% 20,269 R+41.9
Tompkins 7,722 38.1% 12,542 61.9% 20,264 R+23.8
Franklin 8,448 42.1% 11,619 57.9% 20,067 R+15.8
Genesee 6,705 33.4% 13,347 66.6% 20,052 R+33.1
Sullivan 9,503 48.2% 10,199 51.8% 19,702 R+3.5
Warren 6,896 35.2% 12,670 64.8% 19,566 R+29.5
Allegany 5,374 28.0% 13,822 72.0% 19,196 R+44.0
Livingston 6,545 34.8% 12,262 65.2% 18,807 R+30.4
Chenango 5,073 27.4% 13,427 72.6% 18,500 R+45.2
Essex 5,184 31.3% 11,403 68.7% 16,587 R+37.5
Cortland 4,779 29.1% 11,620 70.9% 16,399 R+41.7
Greene 6,848 43.0% 9,067 57.0% 15,915 R+13.9
Orleans 4,346 29.4% 10,452 70.6% 14,798 R+41.3
Wyoming 4,362 29.8% 10,261 70.2% 14,623 R+40.3
Tioga 4,535 34.3% 8,676 65.7% 13,211 R+31.3
Seneca 4,729 38.2% 7,652 61.8% 12,381 R+23.6
Schoharie 4,511 39.9% 6,787 60.1% 11,298 R+20.1
Lewis 2,779 24.7% 8,462 75.3% 11,241 R+50.6
Putnam 4,184 39.5% 6,407 60.5% 10,591 R+21.0
Yates 2,403 26.4% 6,703 73.6% 9,106 R+47.2
Schuyler 2,676 36.8% 4,592 63.2% 7,268 R+26.4
Hamilton 904 35.7% 1,625 64.3% 2,529 R+28.5

Counties as they stood in 1936; 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