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Election 1986 Results

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1986 New York governor election

Mario M. Cuomo (Democrat) beat Andrew P. O'Rourke (Republican) in New York in 1986, 64.6% to 31.8%, a margin of 32.9 points and 1,411,419 votes.

The Democratic hold continued from 1982, when Mario M. Cuomo also won.

Democrats led in 57 of the 62 counties as they stood then and Republicans in 5. The largest, Nassau, cast 394,262 votes and went to the Democrat by 21.2 points. The closest was Allegany, where 27 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 2,775,229 64.6%
Andrew P. O'Rourke Republican 1,363,810 31.8%
All other candidates 155,085 3.6%
Total4,294,124

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Nassau 223,651 56.7% 139,924 35.5% 30,687 394,262 D+21.2
Queens 247,827 70.8% 90,416 25.8% 11,890 350,133 D+45.0
Kings 253,235 77.6% 61,969 19.0% 11,032 326,236 D+58.6
Suffolk 193,889 61.6% 104,359 33.1% 16,613 314,861 D+28.4
Erie 213,293 70.8% 77,754 25.8% 10,002 301,049 D+45.0
New York 225,562 80.7% 45,305 16.2% 8,471 279,338 D+64.5
Westchester 153,049 58.4% 100,977 38.5% 8,040 262,066 D+19.9
Monroe 156,657 69.9% 63,150 28.2% 4,325 224,132 D+41.7
Bronx 137,303 77.6% 31,924 18.1% 7,616 176,843 D+59.6
Onondaga 97,952 64.4% 50,371 33.1% 3,760 152,083 D+31.3
Albany 76,645 65.5% 36,416 31.1% 3,987 117,048 D+34.4
Oneida 49,358 60.5% 30,406 37.3% 1,859 81,623 D+23.2
Richmond 44,507 63.4% 22,757 32.4% 2,936 70,200 D+31.0
Rockland 41,825 60.3% 24,463 35.3% 3,095 69,383 D+25.0
Broome 43,524 65.5% 21,177 31.9% 1,765 66,466 D+33.6
Orange 33,924 51.6% 29,916 45.5% 1,907 65,747 D+6.1
Dutchess 31,668 51.0% 28,474 45.8% 1,976 62,118 D+5.1
Niagara 38,548 66.2% 18,236 31.3% 1,450 58,234 D+34.9
Rensselaer 30,331 54.5% 23,234 41.8% 2,077 55,642 D+12.8
Schenectady 32,133 59.3% 20,185 37.3% 1,857 54,175 D+22.1
Ulster 27,003 51.8% 23,991 46.0% 1,169 52,163 D+5.8
Saratoga 26,157 52.3% 22,130 44.3% 1,714 50,001 D+8.1
Chautauqua 27,820 63.9% 15,126 34.8% 575 43,521 D+29.2
Oswego 15,885 53.2% 13,367 44.7% 625 29,877 D+8.4
Steuben 15,763 54.9% 12,340 43.0% 590 28,693 D+11.9
St. Lawrence 17,941 64.4% 9,383 33.7% 541 27,865 D+30.7
Chemung 17,300 62.2% 9,656 34.7% 856 27,812 D+27.5
Ontario 16,864 63.2% 9,318 34.9% 522 26,704 D+28.3
Cattaraugus 15,015 59.1% 9,838 38.7% 554 25,407 D+20.4
Jefferson 15,296 63.7% 8,223 34.2% 504 24,023 D+29.4
Cayuga 13,047 54.7% 10,252 43.0% 558 23,857 D+11.7
Tompkins 15,600 67.9% 6,866 29.9% 501 22,967 D+38.0
Putnam 11,099 48.5% 10,904 47.7% 861 22,864 D+0.9
Wayne 12,747 55.8% 9,621 42.1% 462 22,830 D+13.7
Columbia 10,277 49.2% 10,069 48.2% 524 20,870 D+1.0
Clinton 12,865 61.8% 7,471 35.9% 470 20,806 D+25.9
Madison 11,080 56.9% 7,974 41.0% 412 19,466 D+16.0
Herkimer 10,257 53.4% 8,513 44.3% 438 19,208 D+9.1
Sullivan 8,919 48.3% 9,089 49.3% 446 18,454 R+0.9
Otsego 8,842 49.8% 8,394 47.3% 525 17,761 D+2.5
Montgomery 9,710 55.2% 7,239 41.2% 639 17,588 D+14.0
Genesee 9,491 54.8% 7,362 42.5% 461 17,314 D+12.3
Livingston 9,845 58.3% 6,633 39.3% 412 16,890 D+19.0
Warren 8,181 50.5% 7,655 47.2% 377 16,213 D+3.2
Washington 7,637 48.2% 7,785 49.2% 411 15,833 R+0.9
Fulton 7,945 50.6% 7,328 46.7% 424 15,697 D+3.9
Delaware 7,236 48.0% 7,466 49.6% 360 15,062 R+1.5
Greene 6,454 43.5% 7,944 53.5% 440 14,838 R+10.0
Chenango 7,274 51.0% 6,726 47.2% 260 14,260 D+3.8
Tioga 7,950 57.2% 5,548 39.9% 395 13,893 D+17.3
Cortland 7,782 56.2% 5,702 41.1% 374 13,858 D+15.0
Allegany 6,500 49.1% 6,473 48.9% 270 13,243 D+0.2
Essex 6,037 52.6% 5,169 45.0% 279 11,485 D+7.6
Franklin 7,102 62.7% 4,044 35.7% 186 11,332 D+27.0
Wyoming 5,303 51.3% 4,675 45.2% 363 10,341 D+6.1
Seneca 5,679 55.7% 4,248 41.7% 264 10,191 D+14.0
Orleans 5,208 53.1% 4,392 44.8% 204 9,804 D+8.3
Schoharie 4,666 50.4% 4,247 45.9% 343 9,256 D+4.5
Lewis 3,152 49.6% 3,063 48.2% 135 6,350 D+1.4
Yates 3,513 56.9% 2,537 41.1% 129 6,179 D+15.8
Schuyler 2,830 55.2% 2,206 43.1% 87 5,123 D+12.2
Hamilton 1,076 41.6% 1,430 55.3% 80 2,586 R+13.7

Counties as they stood in 1986; 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