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Election 1990 Results

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1990 New York governor election

Mario Cuomo (Democrat) beat Pierre Andrew Rinfret (Republican) in New York in 1990, 53.2% to 21.3%, a margin of 31.8 points and 1,291,139 votes.

The Democratic hold continued from 1986, when Mario M. Cuomo also won.

Democrats led in 40 of the 62 counties and Republicans in 12 and other candidates in 10. The largest, Nassau, cast 355,070 votes and went to the Democrat by 23.3 points. The closest was Schuyler, where 28 votes separated the top two.

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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

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Mario Cuomo won	Democratic	2,157,087	53.2%
Pierre Andrew Rinfret	Republican	865,948	21.3%
Herbert London	Conservative	827,614	20.4%
All other candidates		206,247	5.1%
Total		4,056,896

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
Nassau	175,153 49.3%	92,486 26.0%	87,431	355,070	D+23.3
Suffolk	142,250 46.3%	93,863 30.5%	71,297	307,410	D+15.7
Kings	217,163 73.5%	28,302 9.6%	49,933	295,398	D+63.9
Queens	191,721 65.8%	40,175 13.8%	59,582	291,478	D+52.0
Erie	152,975 56.1%	46,689 17.1%	73,017	272,681	D+39.0
New York	202,306 78.6%	22,779 8.8%	32,405	257,490	D+69.7
Westchester	127,862 54.3%	48,849 20.7%	58,812	235,523	D+33.5
Monroe	111,164 50.7%	43,512 19.9%	64,512	219,188	D+30.9
Bronx	117,054 76.6%	12,962 8.5%	22,815	152,831	D+68.1
Onondaga	65,850 47.1%	29,861 21.4%	43,980	139,691	D+25.8
Albany	62,922 56.7%	14,413 13.0%	33,692	111,027	D+43.7
Richmond	47,700 57.4%	13,829 16.6%	21,584	83,113	D+40.8
Oneida	32,519 40.3%	26,991 33.4%	21,241	80,751	D+6.8
Rockland	38,889 52.6%	14,552 19.7%	20,498	73,939	D+32.9
Orange	27,044 38.1%	20,558 28.9%	23,441	71,043	D+9.1
Broome	39,603 56.9%	19,470 28.0%	10,587	69,660	D+28.9
Dutchess	24,878 36.8%	19,985 29.6%	22,655	67,518	D+7.2
Saratoga	22,246 41.1%	11,772 21.7%	20,112	54,130	D+19.3
Niagara	22,914 42.4%	12,104 22.4%	18,975	53,993	D+20.0
Ulster	20,892 39.3%	13,273 25.0%	18,992	53,157	D+14.3
Schenectady	26,933 51.0%	9,543 18.1%	16,284	52,760	D+33.0
Rensselaer	22,001 41.8%	9,361 17.8%	21,226	52,588	D+24.0
Chautauqua	15,866 39.5%	10,221 25.4%	14,130	40,217	D+14.0
Oswego	9,989 30.3%	9,353 28.4%	13,603	32,945	Others
Ontario	11,463 38.9%	8,480 28.8%	9,514	29,457	D+10.1
St. Lawrence	12,326 44.9%	8,872 32.3%	6,267	27,465	D+12.6
Chemung	12,729 49.0%	7,359 28.3%	5,904	25,992	D+20.7
Putnam	10,447 42.0%	6,301 25.4%	8,098	24,846	D+16.7
Jefferson	10,545 43.4%	7,864 32.4%	5,874	24,283	D+11.0
Steuben	8,251 34.0%	9,076 37.4%	6,949	24,276	R+3.4
Wayne	6,727 28.0%	9,831 40.9%	7,471	24,029	R+12.9
Tompkins	13,844 58.2%	5,756 24.2%	4,194	23,794	D+34.0
Cayuga	7,139 31.6%	5,531 24.5%	9,948	22,618	Others
Cattaraugus	8,480 38.8%	6,701 30.6%	6,692	21,873	D+8.1
Herkimer	7,192 34.4%	8,186 39.1%	5,536	20,914	R+4.8
Columbia	7,597 38.1%	4,075 20.4%	8,270	19,942	Others
Sullivan	6,770 34.6%	6,586 33.6%	6,229	19,585	D+0.9
Madison	7,183 36.8%	5,562 28.5%	6,753	19,498	D+8.3
Clinton	8,278 44.4%	6,826 36.6%	3,523	18,627	D+7.8
Warren	6,933 38.9%	5,290 29.7%	5,618	17,841	D+9.2
Otsego	6,001 34.7%	5,942 34.3%	5,363	17,306	D+0.3
Livingston	5,891 34.7%	5,503 32.4%	5,597	16,991	D+2.3
Montgomery	7,035 41.6%	3,843 22.7%	6,047	16,925	D+18.9
Washington	5,852 35.4%	4,391 26.5%	6,302	16,545	Others
Genesee	5,427 33.7%	4,935 30.7%	5,722	16,084	Others
Fulton	5,578 35.7%	3,994 25.6%	6,052	15,624	Others
Greene	5,111 34.2%	3,762 25.2%	6,079	14,952	Others
Tioga	6,382 44.6%	5,029 35.2%	2,884	14,295	D+9.5
Delaware	4,006 28.5%	5,355 38.0%	4,718	14,079	R+9.6
Chenango	4,935 35.6%	5,590 40.3%	3,334	13,859	R+4.7
Franklin	5,939 45.3%	4,824 36.8%	2,357	13,120	D+8.5
Cortland	4,177 33.8%	4,249 34.4%	3,924	12,350	R+0.6
Essex	3,956 32.1%	5,715 46.4%	2,646	12,317	R+14.3
Allegany	3,457 30.0%	4,392 38.1%	3,686	11,535	R+8.1
Wyoming	3,060 29.3%	3,206 30.7%	4,185	10,451	Others
Orleans	3,325 32.6%	3,479 34.1%	3,396	10,200	R+1.5
Schoharie	3,786 38.4%	2,312 23.5%	3,754	9,852	D+15.0
Seneca	2,652 27.9%	3,327 35.0%	3,524	9,503	Others
Lewis	2,233 28.9%	3,625 46.9%	1,877	7,735	R+18.0
Yates	2,049 31.5%	2,338 36.0%	2,115	6,502	R+4.4
Schuyler	1,832 36.0%	1,860 36.6%	1,392	5,084	R+0.6
Hamilton	605 20.5%	1,078 36.6%	1,263	2,946	Others

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

Year	Winner	Margin
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

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