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Election 1982 Results

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1982 New York governor election

Mario M. Cuomo (Democrat) beat Lew Lehrman (Republican) in New York in 1982, 50.9% to 47.5%, a margin of 3.4 points and 180,386 votes.

The Democratic hold continued from 1978, when Hugh L. Carey won.

Republicans led in 53 of the 62 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 9. The largest, Nassau, cast 502,069 votes and went to the Republican by 3.8 points. The closest was Tompkins, where 515 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
Mario M. Cuomo won Democratic 2,675,213 50.9%
Lew Lehrman Republican 2,494,827 47.5%
All other candidates 84,851 1.6%
Total5,254,891

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Nassau 235,158 46.8% 254,346 50.7% 12,565 502,069 R+3.8
Queens 290,106 61.0% 179,180 37.7% 6,537 475,823 D+23.3
Kings 296,436 67.7% 135,200 30.9% 6,034 437,670 D+36.8
Suffolk 163,569 44.4% 196,982 53.4% 8,220 368,771 R+9.1
New York 270,243 74.4% 85,905 23.6% 7,160 363,308 D+50.7
Erie 178,337 49.6% 177,146 49.3% 4,011 359,494 D+0.3
Westchester 155,390 50.2% 148,764 48.1% 5,396 309,550 D+2.1
Monroe 113,222 45.2% 133,385 53.2% 3,929 250,536 R+8.0
Bronx 176,466 73.6% 59,235 24.7% 3,937 239,638 D+48.9
Onondaga 77,854 46.4% 86,995 51.9% 2,882 167,731 R+5.4
Albany 78,037 58.5% 54,173 40.6% 1,271 133,481 D+17.9
Richmond 46,589 50.2% 44,358 47.8% 1,835 92,782 D+2.4
Oneida 43,025 47.4% 46,526 51.2% 1,237 90,788 R+3.9
Rockland 44,753 49.5% 44,126 48.8% 1,498 90,377 D+0.7
Dutchess 27,814 35.9% 48,277 62.4% 1,329 77,420 R+26.4
Broome 32,234 42.1% 43,358 56.6% 957 76,549 R+14.5
Orange 29,197 38.3% 45,670 60.0% 1,304 76,171 R+21.6
Niagara 31,637 43.4% 40,613 55.7% 703 72,953 R+12.3
Schenectady 28,807 45.9% 33,159 52.9% 747 62,713 R+6.9
Rensselaer 27,810 44.6% 33,739 54.2% 752 62,301 R+9.5
Saratoga 20,585 35.1% 37,530 63.9% 599 58,714 R+28.9
Ulster 24,322 42.4% 31,974 55.7% 1,100 57,396 R+13.3
Chautauqua 18,827 37.3% 31,145 61.7% 482 50,454 R+24.4
Oswego 12,270 35.6% 21,525 62.4% 709 34,504 R+26.8
St. Lawrence 13,441 40.2% 19,621 58.7% 384 33,446 R+18.5
Chemung 11,299 34.2% 21,473 64.9% 303 33,075 R+30.8
Steuben 8,391 25.9% 23,654 73.0% 348 32,393 R+47.1
Ontario 10,981 36.4% 18,766 62.3% 394 30,141 R+25.8
Cattaraugus 8,529 29.6% 19,908 69.0% 412 28,849 R+39.4
Jefferson 10,127 36.0% 17,685 62.8% 347 28,159 R+26.8
Cayuga 10,406 37.2% 17,178 61.4% 387 27,971 R+24.2
Wayne 8,705 32.4% 17,629 65.7% 496 26,830 R+33.3
Putnam 9,736 36.5% 16,373 61.5% 533 26,642 R+24.9
Tompkins 12,164 48.1% 12,679 50.1% 468 25,311 R+2.0
Herkimer 9,304 39.0% 14,311 59.9% 258 23,873 R+21.0
Clinton 7,614 32.1% 15,763 66.5% 317 23,694 R+34.4
Columbia 8,942 38.6% 13,939 60.2% 277 23,158 R+21.6
Sullivan 9,268 40.1% 13,482 58.4% 346 23,096 R+18.2
Montgomery 8,029 38.5% 12,582 60.4% 220 20,831 R+21.9
Otsego 6,928 33.3% 13,686 65.8% 200 20,814 R+32.5
Madison 7,199 34.8% 13,146 63.6% 326 20,671 R+28.8
Genesee 6,949 33.8% 13,340 64.9% 276 20,565 R+31.1
Warren 5,795 29.4% 13,738 69.6% 198 19,731 R+40.3
Livingston 6,203 31.9% 12,982 66.8% 238 19,423 R+34.9
Washington 5,485 28.6% 13,553 70.6% 171 19,209 R+42.0
Fulton 6,431 34.0% 12,296 65.0% 190 18,917 R+31.0
Greene 6,056 35.6% 10,778 63.3% 200 17,034 R+27.7
Chenango 4,561 27.5% 11,800 71.2% 212 16,573 R+43.7
Delaware 5,309 32.1% 11,028 66.7% 199 16,536 R+34.6
Tioga 4,566 28.8% 11,079 69.9% 210 15,855 R+41.1
Cortland 5,079 32.4% 10,316 65.7% 295 15,690 R+33.4
Allegany 3,180 21.2% 11,657 77.8% 150 14,987 R+56.6
Essex 4,052 28.8% 9,851 70.0% 171 14,074 R+41.2
Franklin 4,928 36.2% 8,474 62.3% 204 13,606 R+26.1
Wyoming 3,263 26.0% 9,143 72.7% 168 12,574 R+46.8
Orleans 3,855 30.9% 8,490 68.1% 126 12,471 R+37.2
Seneca 4,774 39.2% 7,235 59.5% 160 12,169 R+20.2
Schoharie 3,854 36.4% 6,607 62.4% 135 10,596 R+26.0
Lewis 2,332 27.8% 5,933 70.8% 113 8,378 R+43.0
Yates 2,115 30.8% 4,666 67.9% 87 6,868 R+37.1
Schuyler 1,961 30.3% 4,418 68.2% 100 6,479 R+37.9
Hamilton 714 23.7% 2,257 75.0% 38 3,009 R+51.3

Counties as they stood in 1982; 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