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Election 1950 Results

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1950 New York governor election

Thomas E. Dewey (Republican) beat Walter A. Lynch (Democrat) in New York in 1950, 53.1% to 42.3%, a margin of 10.8 points and 572,668 votes.

The Republican hold continued from 1946, when Thomas E. Dewey also won.

Republicans led in 58 of the 62 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 4. The largest, Kings, cast 818,777 votes and went to the Democrat by 16.6 points. The closest was Hamilton, where 1,466 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 2,819,523 53.1%
Walter A. Lynch Democratic 2,246,855 42.3%
All other candidates 242,494 4.6%
Total5,308,872

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Kings 477,534 58.3% 341,243 41.7% 818,777 D+16.6
New York 313,943 55.3% 253,994 44.7% 567,937 D+10.6
Queens 211,560 40.9% 305,462 59.1% 517,022 R+18.2
Bronx 303,490 62.8% 180,091 37.2% 483,581 D+25.5
Erie 133,172 42.0% 183,867 58.0% 317,039 R+16.0
Nassau 73,180 29.3% 176,612 70.7% 249,792 R+41.4
Westchester 75,732 30.9% 169,162 69.1% 244,894 R+38.2
Monroe 88,003 45.8% 104,333 54.2% 192,336 R+8.5
Onondaga 45,220 34.8% 84,839 65.2% 130,059 R+30.5
Albany 71,147 54.7% 58,836 45.3% 129,983 D+9.5
Suffolk 29,200 29.7% 69,278 70.3% 98,478 R+40.7
Oneida 36,504 42.5% 49,311 57.5% 85,815 R+14.9
Rensselaer 22,551 35.1% 41,733 64.9% 64,284 R+29.8
Broome 19,699 31.3% 43,183 68.7% 62,882 R+37.3
Richmond 21,473 35.7% 38,660 64.3% 60,133 R+28.6
Niagara 23,457 39.2% 36,425 60.8% 59,882 R+21.7
Schenectady 20,019 35.1% 37,079 64.9% 57,098 R+29.9
Orange 15,842 30.6% 35,890 69.4% 51,732 R+38.8
Dutchess 14,990 31.6% 32,484 68.4% 47,474 R+36.8
Chautauqua 13,539 31.9% 28,968 68.1% 42,507 R+36.3
Ulster 12,468 30.3% 28,615 69.7% 41,083 R+39.3
Chemung 10,367 32.4% 21,672 67.6% 32,039 R+35.3
Saratoga 9,256 29.1% 22,512 70.9% 31,768 R+41.7
Steuben 8,529 27.8% 22,185 72.2% 30,714 R+44.5
Rockland 10,499 34.8% 19,711 65.2% 30,210 R+30.5
St. Lawrence 8,874 30.0% 20,754 70.0% 29,628 R+40.1
Oswego 9,018 31.6% 19,542 68.4% 28,560 R+36.8
Cayuga 8,962 32.5% 18,599 67.5% 27,561 R+35.0
Jefferson 8,074 30.4% 18,487 69.6% 26,561 R+39.2
Cattaraugus 8,349 32.7% 17,162 67.3% 25,511 R+34.5
Montgomery 9,129 37.5% 15,189 62.5% 24,318 R+24.9
Herkimer 8,329 34.8% 15,576 65.2% 23,905 R+30.3
Ontario 6,631 30.2% 15,300 69.8% 21,931 R+39.5
Otsego 5,623 28.0% 14,460 72.0% 20,083 R+44.0
Wayne 4,958 25.2% 14,707 74.8% 19,665 R+49.6
Sullivan 8,091 42.5% 10,926 57.5% 19,017 R+14.9
Columbia 5,095 26.9% 13,869 73.1% 18,964 R+46.3
Clinton 7,645 41.1% 10,936 58.9% 18,581 R+17.7
Fulton 5,643 30.8% 12,668 69.2% 18,311 R+38.4
Washington 4,666 25.9% 13,379 74.1% 18,045 R+48.3
Tompkins 4,879 27.6% 12,799 72.4% 17,678 R+44.8
Warren 4,317 24.9% 13,055 75.1% 17,372 R+50.3
Madison 4,296 25.0% 12,898 75.0% 17,194 R+50.0
Delaware 3,953 23.4% 12,948 76.6% 16,901 R+53.2
Genesee 4,595 27.2% 12,288 72.8% 16,883 R+45.6
Livingston 5,117 31.9% 10,905 68.1% 16,022 R+36.1
Franklin 5,937 39.6% 9,063 60.4% 15,000 R+20.8
Chenango 3,659 24.7% 11,173 75.3% 14,832 R+50.7
Allegany 3,225 22.1% 11,388 77.9% 14,613 R+55.9
Greene 4,259 29.5% 10,183 70.5% 14,442 R+41.0
Cortland 3,136 23.8% 10,023 76.2% 13,159 R+52.3
Essex 3,272 25.7% 9,445 74.3% 12,717 R+48.5
Wyoming 3,285 26.0% 9,351 74.0% 12,636 R+48.0
Putnam 4,110 32.6% 8,512 67.4% 12,622 R+34.9
Orleans 3,099 26.6% 8,567 73.4% 11,666 R+46.9
Seneca 3,635 33.8% 7,113 66.2% 10,748 R+32.4
Schoharie 3,416 32.4% 7,140 67.6% 10,556 R+35.3
Tioga 2,519 23.9% 8,010 76.1% 10,529 R+52.2
Lewis 2,357 30.9% 5,281 69.1% 7,638 R+38.3
Yates 1,361 19.5% 5,630 80.5% 6,991 R+61.1
Schuyler 1,398 25.8% 4,016 74.2% 5,414 R+48.4
Hamilton 570 21.9% 2,036 78.1% 2,606 R+56.3

Counties as they stood in 1950; 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