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Election 1966 Results

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1966 New York governor election

Nelson Rockefeller (Republican) beat Frank D. O'Connor (Democrat) in New York in 1966, 44.6% to 38.1%, a margin of 6.5 points and 392,263 votes.

The Republican hold continued from 1962, when Nelson A. Rockefeller also won.

Republicans led in 55 of the 62 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 7. The largest, Kings, cast 747,865 votes and went to the Democrat by 10.4 points. The closest was Franklin, where 31 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
Nelson Rockefeller won Republican 2,690,626 44.6%
Frank D. O'Connor Democratic 2,298,363 38.1%
All other candidates 532,470 8.8%
Paul L. Adams Conservative 510,023 8.5%
Total6,031,482

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Kings 341,106 45.6% 263,538 35.2% 143,221 747,865 D+10.4
Queens 277,658 39.6% 280,669 40.0% 143,391 701,718 R+0.4
Nassau 149,220 27.2% 288,926 52.7% 110,099 548,245 R+25.5
New York 185,098 37.6% 230,261 46.8% 76,812 492,171 R+9.2
Bronx 199,719 45.5% 154,349 35.2% 84,416 438,484 D+10.3
Erie 187,073 47.7% 144,569 36.9% 60,482 392,124 D+10.8
Westchester 97,449 28.2% 194,340 56.2% 53,815 345,604 R+28.0
Suffolk 89,978 31.2% 135,514 47.0% 62,627 288,119 R+15.8
Monroe 89,961 36.3% 112,495 45.4% 45,314 247,770 R+9.1
Onondaga 82,579 50.0% 56,229 34.0% 26,380 165,188 D+16.0
Albany 61,690 46.2% 64,002 47.9% 7,849 133,541 R+1.7
Oneida 35,741 39.0% 41,385 45.1% 14,562 91,688 R+6.2
Richmond 30,431 35.9% 35,547 42.0% 18,680 84,658 R+6.0
Broome 25,880 34.6% 38,304 51.1% 10,714 74,898 R+16.6
Niagara 31,309 42.5% 30,861 41.9% 11,571 73,741 D+0.6
Dutchess 22,258 31.0% 36,658 51.1% 12,809 71,725 R+20.1
Rockland 20,741 30.3% 34,593 50.5% 13,219 68,553 R+20.2
Orange 22,095 33.5% 33,693 51.0% 10,248 66,036 R+17.6
Schenectady 20,337 31.6% 35,788 55.6% 8,202 64,327 R+24.0
Rensselaer 24,399 38.6% 33,575 53.1% 5,296 63,270 R+14.5
Ulster 17,471 34.0% 26,513 51.6% 7,371 51,355 R+17.6
Chautauqua 17,145 35.2% 23,134 47.5% 8,390 48,669 R+12.3
Saratoga 12,670 33.0% 21,736 56.6% 4,017 38,423 R+23.6
St. Lawrence 14,584 42.6% 16,441 48.0% 3,243 34,268 R+5.4
Chemung 11,943 36.1% 17,567 53.1% 3,589 33,099 R+17.0
Oswego 13,169 42.0% 12,665 40.4% 5,513 31,347 D+1.6
Steuben 8,869 28.3% 18,577 59.4% 3,854 31,300 R+31.0
Jefferson 11,924 38.6% 15,886 51.4% 3,116 30,926 R+12.8
Cayuga 12,035 40.6% 11,593 39.1% 6,020 29,648 D+1.5
Cattaraugus 9,429 34.5% 13,228 48.4% 4,655 27,312 R+13.9
Ontario 9,432 36.8% 12,348 48.1% 3,877 25,657 R+11.4
Herkimer 8,253 34.2% 11,654 48.3% 4,216 24,123 R+14.1
Wayne 7,272 31.8% 11,578 50.7% 4,008 22,858 R+18.8
Montgomery 8,768 38.5% 11,228 49.3% 2,794 22,790 R+10.8
Sullivan 7,725 35.6% 11,041 50.8% 2,957 21,723 R+15.3
Clinton 9,304 43.4% 10,198 47.6% 1,922 21,424 R+4.2
Columbia 6,598 31.6% 11,977 57.4% 2,290 20,865 R+25.8
Putnam 6,418 31.7% 10,226 50.5% 3,602 20,246 R+18.8
Otsego 5,702 29.1% 11,057 56.5% 2,810 19,569 R+27.4
Genesee 7,379 38.4% 8,859 46.1% 2,968 19,206 R+7.7
Tompkins 5,142 26.8% 10,352 54.0% 3,686 19,180 R+27.2
Madison 6,716 36.0% 8,285 44.4% 3,662 18,663 R+8.4
Fulton 6,629 35.6% 9,650 51.8% 2,351 18,630 R+16.2
Washington 6,389 35.2% 9,605 52.9% 2,179 18,173 R+17.7
Warren 5,870 33.2% 9,889 55.9% 1,926 17,685 R+22.7
Livingston 5,231 30.6% 9,365 54.7% 2,518 17,114 R+24.2
Delaware 4,494 27.0% 9,636 57.9% 2,524 16,654 R+30.9
Greene 5,619 34.4% 9,149 56.0% 1,567 16,335 R+21.6
Chenango 4,948 31.6% 8,067 51.5% 2,655 15,670 R+19.9
Allegany 3,380 23.6% 8,649 60.5% 2,272 14,301 R+36.8
Essex 5,290 37.1% 7,865 55.1% 1,115 14,270 R+18.0
Cortland 4,587 32.6% 6,583 46.7% 2,919 14,089 R+14.2
Franklin 6,241 46.4% 6,272 46.7% 929 13,442 R+0.2
Tioga 4,026 30.3% 7,226 54.3% 2,052 13,304 R+24.1
Wyoming 4,134 32.9% 6,780 54.0% 1,638 12,552 R+21.1
Orleans 3,877 33.4% 6,224 53.7% 1,496 11,597 R+20.2
Seneca 3,938 35.3% 5,401 48.4% 1,823 11,162 R+13.1
Schoharie 3,419 33.6% 5,409 53.1% 1,362 10,190 R+19.5
Lewis 3,421 40.8% 4,018 47.9% 950 8,389 R+7.1
Yates 1,615 23.6% 4,133 60.3% 1,101 6,849 R+36.8
Schuyler 1,784 31.1% 3,035 52.9% 923 5,742 R+21.8
Hamilton 801 30.1% 1,631 61.4% 226 2,658 R+31.2

Counties as they stood in 1966; 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