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Election 1938 Results

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1938 New York governor election

Herbert H. Lehman (Democrat) beat Thomas E. Dewey (Republican) in New York in 1938, 50.4% to 49.0%, a margin of 1.4 points and 64,394 votes.

The Democratic hold continued from 1936, when Herbert H. Lehman also won.

Republicans led in 56 of the 62 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 6. The largest, Kings, cast 802,236 votes and went to the Democrat by 37.0 points. The closest was Hamilton, where 941 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 2,391,286 50.4%
Thomas E. Dewey Republican 2,326,892 49.0%
All other candidates 28,446 0.6%
Total4,746,624

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Kings 549,409 68.5% 252,827 31.5% 802,236 D+37.0
New York 383,086 67.6% 183,690 32.4% 566,776 D+35.2
Bronx 327,058 73.4% 118,304 26.6% 445,362 D+46.9
Queens 206,824 51.5% 194,878 48.5% 401,702 D+3.0
Erie 126,643 43.8% 162,583 56.2% 289,226 R+12.4
Westchester 84,943 38.0% 138,741 62.0% 223,684 R+24.1
Monroe 84,293 43.7% 108,601 56.3% 192,894 R+12.6
Nassau 49,891 31.7% 107,558 68.3% 157,449 R+36.6
Onondaga 53,547 39.8% 80,901 60.2% 134,448 R+20.3
Albany 74,732 58.1% 53,887 41.9% 128,619 D+16.2
Oneida 33,356 39.9% 50,333 60.1% 83,689 R+20.3
Suffolk 25,090 34.0% 48,761 66.0% 73,851 R+32.1
Rensselaer 28,727 42.7% 38,582 57.3% 67,309 R+14.6
Richmond 30,463 52.6% 27,447 47.4% 57,910 D+5.2
Schenectady 21,379 39.3% 33,085 60.7% 54,464 R+21.5
Broome 18,691 35.0% 34,775 65.0% 53,466 R+30.1
Niagara 19,741 37.9% 32,402 62.1% 52,143 R+24.3
Orange 18,419 35.7% 33,177 64.3% 51,596 R+28.6
Dutchess 19,404 40.8% 28,211 59.2% 47,615 R+18.5
Chautauqua 14,457 34.0% 28,025 66.0% 42,482 R+31.9
Ulster 15,514 38.6% 24,662 61.4% 40,176 R+22.8
Steuben 11,536 34.1% 22,298 65.9% 33,834 R+31.8
Saratoga 12,041 36.0% 21,370 64.0% 33,411 R+27.9
St. Lawrence 9,749 30.6% 22,147 69.4% 31,896 R+38.9
Jefferson 9,527 30.1% 22,143 69.9% 31,670 R+39.8
Chemung 12,403 39.8% 18,764 60.2% 31,167 R+20.4
Cayuga 10,871 36.7% 18,721 63.3% 29,592 R+26.5
Oswego 9,611 32.9% 19,646 67.1% 29,257 R+34.3
Rockland 11,938 41.8% 16,620 58.2% 28,558 R+16.4
Cattaraugus 8,677 31.9% 18,520 68.1% 27,197 R+36.2
Montgomery 9,900 38.8% 15,614 61.2% 25,514 R+22.4
Herkimer 8,589 33.9% 16,746 66.1% 25,335 R+32.2
Ontario 7,354 32.0% 15,603 68.0% 22,957 R+35.9
Washington 6,457 31.0% 14,368 69.0% 20,825 R+38.0
Otsego 6,310 30.4% 14,450 69.6% 20,760 R+39.2
Wayne 5,688 27.4% 15,049 72.6% 20,737 R+45.1
Fulton 6,244 31.8% 13,407 68.2% 19,651 R+36.5
Sullivan 8,672 45.0% 10,619 55.0% 19,291 R+10.1
Delaware 4,807 25.4% 14,083 74.6% 18,890 R+49.1
Columbia 6,330 33.5% 12,557 66.5% 18,887 R+33.0
Clinton 7,144 37.9% 11,718 62.1% 18,862 R+24.2
Franklin 6,602 37.2% 11,129 62.8% 17,731 R+25.5
Warren 5,943 33.5% 11,785 66.5% 17,728 R+33.0
Madison 4,948 28.1% 12,682 71.9% 17,630 R+43.9
Genesee 4,881 29.5% 11,638 70.5% 16,519 R+40.9
Allegany 3,858 23.7% 12,437 76.3% 16,295 R+52.6
Livingston 5,258 32.8% 10,781 67.2% 16,039 R+34.4
Tompkins 5,532 35.1% 10,248 64.9% 15,780 R+29.9
Chenango 3,897 25.7% 11,275 74.3% 15,172 R+48.6
Essex 4,267 28.9% 10,480 71.1% 14,747 R+42.1
Greene 5,699 39.0% 8,915 61.0% 14,614 R+22.0
Cortland 4,143 29.3% 9,980 70.7% 14,123 R+41.3
Orleans 3,787 28.7% 9,389 71.3% 13,176 R+42.5
Wyoming 3,671 28.9% 9,013 71.1% 12,684 R+42.1
Tioga 3,512 31.0% 7,811 69.0% 11,323 R+38.0
Seneca 4,074 37.7% 6,725 62.3% 10,799 R+24.5
Lewis 2,561 25.5% 7,496 74.5% 10,057 R+49.1
Schoharie 3,181 31.7% 6,848 68.3% 10,029 R+36.6
Putnam 3,951 39.9% 5,945 60.1% 9,896 R+20.1
Yates 1,939 24.8% 5,882 75.2% 7,821 R+50.4
Schuyler 1,992 31.5% 4,322 68.5% 6,314 R+36.9
Hamilton 909 32.9% 1,850 67.1% 2,759 R+34.1

Counties as they stood in 1938; 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