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Election 1978 Results

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1978 New York governor election

Hugh L. Carey (Democrat) beat Perry B. Duryea (Republican) in New York in 1978, 50.9% to 45.2%, a margin of 5.7 points and 272,868 votes.

The Democratic hold continued from 1974, when Hugh L. Carey also won.

Republicans led in 51 of the 62 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 11. The largest, Nassau, cast 476,281 votes and went to the Republican by 3.3 points. The closest was Rockland, where 22 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
Hugh L. Carey won Democratic 2,429,272 50.9%
Perry B. Duryea Republican 2,156,404 45.2%
All other candidates 183,144 3.8%
Total4,768,820

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Nassau 218,022 45.8% 233,957 49.1% 24,302 476,281 R+3.3
Queens 267,698 61.1% 156,821 35.8% 13,371 437,890 D+25.3
Kings 274,265 66.9% 124,361 30.3% 11,244 409,870 D+36.6
Suffolk 141,828 40.5% 193,972 55.4% 14,604 350,404 R+14.9
Erie 155,518 49.0% 143,803 45.4% 17,765 317,086 D+3.7
New York 224,959 74.6% 67,856 22.5% 8,795 301,610 D+52.1
Westchester 131,564 46.1% 143,355 50.2% 10,384 285,303 R+4.1
Monroe 111,528 50.9% 98,663 45.0% 8,870 219,061 D+5.9
Bronx 147,529 68.1% 63,144 29.2% 5,895 216,568 D+39.0
Onondaga 62,185 41.6% 82,269 55.0% 5,098 149,552 R+13.4
Albany 65,096 54.1% 48,832 40.6% 6,429 120,357 D+13.5
Oneida 39,350 47.4% 40,157 48.3% 3,585 83,092 R+1.0
Richmond 38,303 50.1% 35,304 46.2% 2,848 76,455 D+3.9
Rockland 35,133 47.3% 35,111 47.3% 3,975 74,219 level
Broome 32,661 47.2% 34,527 49.9% 2,050 69,238 R+2.7
Dutchess 27,743 40.1% 38,285 55.4% 3,083 69,111 R+15.3
Orange 26,792 40.5% 36,590 55.3% 2,790 66,172 R+14.8
Niagara 31,555 48.7% 30,636 47.3% 2,539 64,730 D+1.4
Schenectady 26,536 45.3% 28,588 48.8% 3,488 58,612 R+3.5
Rensselaer 25,955 44.3% 29,938 51.1% 2,710 58,603 R+6.8
Ulster 21,720 42.2% 28,073 54.6% 1,658 51,451 R+12.3
Saratoga 20,043 39.7% 28,310 56.1% 2,089 50,442 R+16.4
Chautauqua 22,088 48.7% 21,835 48.1% 1,433 45,356 D+0.6
St. Lawrence 14,521 45.5% 16,036 50.2% 1,369 31,926 R+4.7
Oswego 11,150 35.7% 19,231 61.6% 816 31,197 R+25.9
Steuben 10,938 37.2% 17,448 59.4% 1,011 29,397 R+22.1
Chemung 11,919 41.5% 15,852 55.2% 971 28,742 R+13.7
Cayuga 9,933 36.7% 15,886 58.7% 1,222 27,041 R+22.0
Ontario 11,571 43.2% 14,189 53.0% 1,013 26,773 R+9.8
Jefferson 10,764 41.5% 14,519 56.0% 664 25,947 R+14.5
Cattaraugus 11,703 46.2% 12,711 50.2% 916 25,330 R+4.0
Putnam 9,588 39.3% 13,694 56.2% 1,101 24,383 R+16.8
Wayne 9,052 37.8% 14,110 58.9% 783 23,945 R+21.1
Sullivan 9,453 42.1% 12,388 55.1% 632 22,473 R+13.1
Herkimer 10,764 48.0% 11,061 49.3% 600 22,425 R+1.3
Tompkins 10,284 48.4% 10,443 49.2% 504 21,231 R+0.7
Columbia 8,110 38.7% 12,138 57.9% 725 20,973 R+19.2
Clinton 7,160 34.2% 12,763 60.9% 1,038 20,961 R+26.7
Montgomery 9,151 45.6% 10,135 50.5% 775 20,061 R+4.9
Genesee 7,309 37.9% 11,238 58.3% 738 19,285 R+20.4
Madison 6,247 33.9% 11,563 62.8% 595 18,405 R+28.9
Otsego 6,736 36.6% 11,196 60.9% 451 18,383 R+24.3
Washington 6,440 35.3% 11,433 62.7% 355 18,228 R+27.4
Fulton 7,645 42.6% 9,747 54.3% 574 17,966 R+11.7
Livingston 6,958 38.8% 10,354 57.7% 620 17,932 R+18.9
Warren 6,632 37.4% 10,680 60.3% 407 17,719 R+22.8
Greene 6,010 36.8% 9,779 59.9% 548 16,337 R+23.1
Delaware 5,302 33.9% 10,061 64.3% 292 15,655 R+30.4
Cortland 5,487 36.0% 9,290 61.0% 446 15,223 R+25.0
Chenango 5,209 34.8% 9,297 62.1% 464 14,970 R+27.3
Tioga 5,626 39.6% 8,134 57.3% 439 14,199 R+17.7
Essex 4,879 36.5% 7,995 59.8% 492 13,366 R+23.3
Allegany 4,578 34.9% 8,040 61.4% 486 13,104 R+26.4
Franklin 3,776 29.2% 8,532 66.0% 614 12,922 R+36.8
Orleans 4,849 39.0% 7,180 57.8% 400 12,429 R+18.8
Wyoming 4,061 33.9% 7,485 62.5% 439 11,985 R+28.6
Seneca 4,619 40.8% 6,232 55.1% 468 11,319 R+14.3
Schoharie 4,147 39.0% 6,091 57.2% 404 10,642 R+18.3
Lewis 3,537 36.8% 5,676 59.1% 391 9,604 R+22.3
Yates 2,374 34.9% 4,288 62.9% 150 6,812 R+28.1
Schuyler 1,909 36.6% 3,176 61.0% 124 5,209 R+24.3
Hamilton 810 28.3% 1,946 68.1% 102 2,858 R+39.7

Counties as they stood in 1978; 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