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Election 1942 Results

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1942 New York governor election

Thomas E. Dewey (Republican) beat John J. Bennett Jr. (Democrat) in New York in 1942, 52.1% to 36.4%, a margin of 15.7 points and 647,507 votes.

New York changed party: in 1938 it went Democratic, for Herbert H. Lehman.

Republicans led in 58 of the 62 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 4. The largest, Kings, cast 684,685 votes and went to the Democrat by 9.6 points. The closest was Hamilton, where 998 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
Thomas E. Dewey won Republican 2,148,546 52.1%
John J. Bennett Jr. Democratic 1,501,039 36.4%
Dean Alfange American Labor 403,626 9.8%
All other candidates 70,627 1.7%
Total4,123,838

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Kings 288,682 42.2% 222,878 32.6% 173,125 684,685 D+9.6
New York 198,873 43.2% 179,795 39.1% 81,559 460,227 D+4.1
Bronx 154,464 39.6% 120,425 30.9% 114,813 389,702 D+8.7
Queens 160,894 41.3% 191,579 49.2% 36,851 389,324 R+7.9
Erie 92,128 35.5% 161,374 62.1% 6,307 259,809 R+26.7
Westchester 50,598 27.9% 121,840 67.1% 9,064 181,502 R+39.3
Monroe 54,021 31.4% 113,156 65.7% 5,058 172,235 R+34.3
Nassau 36,752 24.1% 110,015 72.2% 5,548 152,315 R+48.1
Albany 68,750 56.0% 48,740 39.7% 5,249 122,739 D+16.3
Onondaga 38,009 32.0% 77,312 65.1% 3,503 118,824 R+33.1
Oneida 27,468 38.9% 40,873 57.9% 2,259 70,600 R+19.0
Suffolk 18,670 27.0% 48,547 70.2% 1,891 69,108 R+43.2
Rensselaer 24,181 39.3% 35,489 57.7% 1,821 61,491 R+18.4
Schenectady 15,549 32.1% 31,029 64.0% 1,894 48,472 R+31.9
Broome 14,282 30.7% 31,020 66.7% 1,210 46,512 R+36.0
Orange 14,349 31.0% 30,404 65.6% 1,561 46,314 R+34.7
Richmond 20,048 43.9% 22,976 50.3% 2,656 45,680 R+6.4
Niagara 12,507 28.3% 30,438 69.0% 1,185 44,130 R+40.6
Dutchess 12,857 31.7% 26,381 65.1% 1,271 40,509 R+33.4
Chautauqua 8,865 25.1% 25,764 72.9% 697 35,326 R+47.8
Ulster 10,885 31.5% 22,425 64.9% 1,239 34,549 R+33.4
Steuben 6,628 24.4% 20,121 74.0% 433 27,182 R+49.6
St. Lawrence 7,191 26.7% 19,061 70.7% 714 26,966 R+44.0
Saratoga 8,375 31.1% 17,808 66.1% 744 26,927 R+35.0
Chemung 7,983 31.4% 16,887 66.4% 577 25,447 R+35.0
Oswego 7,096 28.1% 17,555 69.5% 592 25,243 R+41.4
Jefferson 6,656 26.4% 18,129 71.9% 444 25,229 R+45.5
Rockland 8,526 34.2% 15,263 61.2% 1,165 24,954 R+27.0
Cayuga 7,077 29.3% 16,325 67.6% 761 24,163 R+38.3
Cattaraugus 5,444 24.6% 16,067 72.7% 575 22,086 R+48.1
Montgomery 7,060 34.5% 12,777 62.5% 599 20,436 R+28.0
Herkimer 6,012 30.1% 13,463 67.4% 497 19,972 R+37.3
Ontario 4,882 24.9% 14,433 73.6% 308 19,623 R+48.7
Wayne 3,573 19.6% 14,443 79.1% 247 18,263 R+59.5
Washington 4,846 27.9% 12,211 70.4% 293 17,350 R+42.4
Otsego 4,393 25.9% 12,245 72.3% 308 16,946 R+46.3
Fulton 4,400 26.7% 11,500 69.8% 574 16,474 R+43.1
Columbia 5,040 30.7% 10,883 66.4% 477 16,400 R+35.6
Sullivan 4,959 31.1% 9,639 60.4% 1,348 15,946 R+29.3
Warren 4,628 29.3% 10,863 68.7% 318 15,809 R+39.4
Madison 3,408 22.7% 11,349 75.7% 227 14,984 R+53.0
Genesee 3,672 24.6% 10,944 73.4% 298 14,914 R+48.8
Delaware 3,031 20.5% 11,580 78.5% 143 14,754 R+57.9
Clinton 5,438 36.9% 8,996 61.1% 295 14,729 R+24.2
Allegany 2,611 18.5% 11,311 80.1% 193 14,115 R+61.6
Livingston 3,684 26.7% 9,883 71.7% 212 13,779 R+45.0
Chenango 2,958 22.4% 10,058 76.1% 196 13,212 R+53.7
Tompkins 3,238 24.6% 9,460 71.9% 455 13,153 R+47.3
Greene 4,275 32.7% 8,445 64.7% 335 13,055 R+31.9
Franklin 4,386 35.1% 7,827 62.7% 265 12,478 R+27.6
Cortland 2,757 23.3% 8,895 75.3% 165 11,817 R+51.9
Essex 2,824 24.1% 8,747 74.7% 140 11,711 R+50.6
Orleans 2,740 23.5% 8,644 74.2% 272 11,656 R+50.7
Wyoming 2,416 21.9% 8,516 77.2% 93 11,025 R+55.3
Schoharie 3,044 31.3% 6,459 66.4% 221 9,724 R+35.1
Putnam 3,069 33.6% 5,512 60.4% 552 9,133 R+26.7
Tioga 2,192 24.2% 6,729 74.2% 152 9,073 R+50.0
Seneca 2,688 29.7% 6,245 69.0% 115 9,048 R+39.3
Lewis 1,957 25.1% 5,753 73.7% 91 7,801 R+48.7
Yates 1,153 17.5% 5,399 81.8% 51 6,603 R+64.3
Schuyler 1,137 22.3% 3,903 76.7% 49 5,089 R+54.4
Hamilton 760 29.9% 1,758 69.2% 23 2,541 R+39.3

Counties as they stood in 1942; 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