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Election 1970 Results

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1970 New York governor election

Nelson Rockefeller (Republican) beat Arthur Goldberg (Democrat) in New York in 1970, 52.4% to 40.3%, a margin of 12.1 points and 730,006 votes.

The Republican hold continued from 1966, when Nelson Rockefeller also won.

Republicans led in 57 of the 62 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 5. The largest, Queens, cast 677,337 votes and went to the Republican by 10.6 points. The closest was Cattaraugus, where 621 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 3,151,432 52.4%
Arthur Goldberg Democratic 2,421,426 40.3%
Paul L. Adams Conservative 422,514 7.0%
All other candidates 17,489 0.3%
Total6,012,861

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Queens 280,771 41.5% 352,859 52.1% 43,707 677,337 R+10.6
Kings 341,297 50.5% 304,711 45.1% 29,523 675,531 D+5.4
Nassau 206,928 36.1% 316,787 55.2% 49,703 573,418 R+19.2
New York 268,515 57.4% 181,366 38.8% 18,003 467,884 D+18.6
Erie 205,531 51.9% 162,286 41.0% 28,191 396,008 D+10.9
Bronx 189,951 49.0% 179,782 46.4% 18,054 387,787 D+2.6
Westchester 110,441 31.0% 222,224 62.3% 23,844 356,509 R+31.4
Suffolk 95,294 28.9% 188,780 57.2% 45,708 329,782 R+28.3
Monroe 101,333 38.7% 126,912 48.4% 33,872 262,117 R+9.8
Onondaga 57,587 34.1% 88,322 52.3% 22,962 168,871 R+18.2
Albany 50,178 38.0% 76,927 58.2% 5,059 132,164 R+20.2
Oneida 29,257 31.4% 57,858 62.0% 6,185 93,300 R+30.7
Richmond 19,358 21.2% 64,633 70.6% 7,519 91,510 R+49.5
Rockland 24,725 31.7% 46,807 59.9% 6,561 78,093 R+28.3
Niagara 36,409 47.7% 33,031 43.2% 6,961 76,401 D+4.4
Broome 25,006 32.9% 46,240 60.8% 4,775 76,021 R+27.9
Dutchess 19,521 26.6% 48,110 65.5% 5,841 73,472 R+38.9
Orange 18,079 25.8% 47,032 67.1% 4,988 70,099 R+41.3
Schenectady 20,475 31.2% 40,530 61.8% 4,559 65,564 R+30.6
Rensselaer 19,642 31.1% 40,054 63.3% 3,558 63,254 R+32.3
Ulster 15,841 28.6% 34,791 62.7% 4,829 55,461 R+34.2
Chautauqua 23,161 44.5% 25,319 48.6% 3,571 52,051 R+4.1
Saratoga 11,600 26.1% 29,990 67.4% 2,892 44,482 R+41.3
St. Lawrence 12,263 36.6% 20,020 59.7% 1,237 33,520 R+23.1
Chemung 11,199 33.8% 20,212 61.0% 1,700 33,111 R+27.2
Oswego 10,732 32.8% 18,520 56.6% 3,472 32,724 R+23.8
Steuben 9,604 29.6% 21,102 64.9% 1,784 32,490 R+35.4
Cayuga 10,382 35.6% 13,303 45.6% 5,484 29,169 R+10.0
Jefferson 9,613 33.9% 17,500 61.8% 1,215 28,328 R+27.8
Cattaraugus 12,181 44.6% 12,802 46.9% 2,329 27,312 R+2.3
Ontario 8,950 33.4% 14,420 53.8% 3,409 26,779 R+20.4
Wayne 8,273 34.5% 12,599 52.6% 3,098 23,970 R+18.0
Herkimer 8,077 33.9% 14,252 59.8% 1,518 23,847 R+25.9
Putnam 5,847 25.4% 14,956 64.9% 2,244 23,047 R+39.5
Montgomery 7,792 34.8% 13,484 60.2% 1,130 22,406 R+25.4
Tompkins 6,740 30.6% 13,664 62.0% 1,623 22,027 R+31.4
Clinton 8,037 37.9% 12,361 58.3% 790 21,188 R+20.4
Sullivan 7,633 36.1% 12,352 58.4% 1,157 21,142 R+22.3
Genesee 8,297 39.8% 10,865 52.1% 1,689 20,851 R+12.3
Columbia 5,666 27.2% 13,455 64.6% 1,704 20,825 R+37.4
Otsego 6,436 32.3% 12,268 61.6% 1,210 19,914 R+29.3
Madison 6,029 30.3% 11,522 58.0% 2,318 19,869 R+27.6
Fulton 6,861 35.2% 11,423 58.6% 1,208 19,492 R+23.4
Livingston 6,071 33.0% 10,812 58.7% 1,525 18,408 R+25.8
Washington 5,783 31.8% 11,109 61.1% 1,299 18,191 R+29.3
Warren 5,204 28.9% 11,554 64.2% 1,230 17,988 R+35.3
Delaware 4,597 27.9% 10,775 65.5% 1,089 16,461 R+37.5
Greene 4,804 29.2% 10,409 63.3% 1,219 16,432 R+34.1
Chenango 5,274 32.8% 9,476 59.0% 1,305 16,055 R+26.2
Tioga 4,582 30.6% 9,274 61.9% 1,116 14,972 R+31.3
Cortland 4,695 31.8% 8,275 56.0% 1,803 14,773 R+24.2
Allegany 4,720 32.2% 8,764 59.8% 1,160 14,644 R+27.6
Franklin 5,394 38.9% 8,002 57.8% 454 13,850 R+18.8
Essex 4,228 31.0% 8,785 64.4% 628 13,641 R+33.4
Orleans 4,938 40.7% 6,102 50.3% 1,083 12,123 R+9.6
Wyoming 4,521 37.9% 6,477 54.3% 931 11,929 R+16.4
Seneca 3,682 33.5% 6,196 56.4% 1,106 10,984 R+22.9
Schoharie 3,472 35.1% 5,798 58.6% 630 9,900 R+23.5
Lewis 3,153 39.4% 4,451 55.6% 408 8,012 R+16.2
Yates 2,244 31.7% 3,837 54.1% 1,007 7,088 R+22.5
Schuyler 1,800 31.7% 3,038 53.5% 836 5,674 R+21.8
Hamilton 752 26.7% 1,867 66.4% 193 2,812 R+39.7

Counties as they stood in 1970; 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