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Election 1998 Results

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1998 New York governor election

George Pataki (Republican) beat Peter Vallone Sr. (Democrat) in New York in 1998, 54.3% to 33.2%, a margin of 21.2 points and 1,001,674 votes.

The Republican hold continued from 1994, when George E. Pataki also won.

Republicans led in 58 of the 62 counties and Democrats in 4. The largest, Nassau, cast 423,801 votes and went to the Republican by 36.4 points. The closest was Hamilton, where 1,962 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
George Pataki won Republican 2,571,991 54.3%
Peter Vallone Sr. Democratic 1,570,317 33.2%
Tom Golisano Independence 364,056 7.7%
All other candidates 228,872 4.8%
Total4,735,236

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Nassau 119,911 28.3% 274,105 64.7% 29,785 423,801 R+36.4
Kings 241,963 62.1% 122,141 31.3% 25,668 389,772 D+30.7
Suffolk 97,164 26.3% 224,797 60.9% 46,994 368,955 R+34.6
New York 232,835 64.2% 96,594 26.6% 33,395 362,824 D+37.6
Queens 198,693 54.9% 140,716 38.9% 22,492 361,901 D+16.0
Erie 76,001 24.7% 178,853 58.2% 52,258 307,112 R+33.5
Westchester 86,612 32.7% 156,003 58.9% 22,084 264,699 R+26.2
Monroe 48,697 20.6% 100,754 42.6% 87,152 236,603 R+22.0
Bronx 135,765 71.4% 43,955 23.1% 10,412 190,132 D+48.3
Onondaga 29,134 19.3% 100,969 67.0% 20,692 150,795 R+47.6
Albany 32,848 29.1% 58,542 51.8% 21,536 112,926 R+22.8
Richmond 26,404 28.4% 60,688 65.2% 5,952 93,044 R+36.8
Orange 17,538 20.5% 59,818 69.9% 8,238 85,594 R+49.4
Rockland 24,439 29.0% 52,998 62.9% 6,816 84,253 R+33.9
Dutchess 15,121 19.8% 53,442 69.9% 7,843 76,406 R+50.2
Oneida 9,084 12.0% 57,380 75.6% 9,447 75,911 R+63.6
Saratoga 9,926 14.5% 46,291 67.6% 12,275 68,492 R+53.1
Broome 9,828 14.5% 47,041 69.4% 10,946 67,815 R+54.9
Niagara 12,712 18.9% 42,613 63.2% 12,079 67,404 R+44.4
Ulster 12,795 21.7% 38,958 65.9% 7,320 59,073 R+44.3
Rensselaer 9,820 17.8% 35,514 64.5% 9,706 55,040 R+46.7
Schenectady 10,694 20.2% 32,030 60.4% 10,282 53,006 R+40.3
Chautauqua 7,878 18.9% 28,945 69.5% 4,845 41,668 R+50.6
Oswego 4,404 12.6% 26,122 74.5% 4,547 35,073 R+61.9
Ontario 3,840 12.0% 17,203 53.6% 11,043 32,086 R+41.6
St. Lawrence 4,411 15.0% 21,357 72.4% 3,727 29,495 R+57.5
Putnam 4,881 16.7% 21,885 74.8% 2,511 29,277 R+58.1
Steuben 2,602 9.1% 21,838 76.3% 4,169 28,609 R+67.2
Tompkins 8,277 29.8% 15,172 54.7% 4,308 27,757 R+24.8
Chemung 3,097 11.2% 20,983 75.9% 3,578 27,658 R+64.7
Wayne 2,694 9.9% 16,270 59.6% 8,330 27,294 R+49.7
Jefferson 2,613 9.9% 20,008 76.1% 3,670 26,291 R+66.2
Cayuga 3,689 14.9% 18,114 73.0% 3,008 24,811 R+58.1
Clinton 3,518 14.5% 18,497 76.4% 2,196 24,211 R+61.9
Cattaraugus 4,052 16.8% 16,841 69.8% 3,244 24,137 R+53.0
Columbia 4,162 18.9% 14,831 67.3% 3,032 22,025 R+48.4
Sullivan 5,670 26.9% 13,424 63.6% 2,007 21,101 R+36.7
Madison 2,838 13.7% 15,141 73.0% 2,748 20,727 R+59.4
Herkimer 2,191 10.7% 15,736 77.2% 2,455 20,382 R+66.5
Warren 2,789 13.8% 14,436 71.3% 3,030 20,255 R+57.5
Livingston 2,296 11.8% 10,894 55.8% 6,323 19,513 R+44.1
Otsego 2,994 16.0% 13,470 71.8% 2,305 18,769 R+55.8
Genesee 2,051 10.9% 12,131 64.8% 4,549 18,731 R+53.8
Washington 2,308 13.1% 12,982 73.9% 2,287 17,577 R+60.7
Montgomery 2,652 15.8% 11,756 69.8% 2,426 16,834 R+54.1
Greene 2,457 14.9% 12,121 73.4% 1,938 16,516 R+58.5
Tioga 1,667 10.1% 12,404 75.3% 2,411 16,482 R+65.1
Fulton 2,168 13.2% 11,975 72.8% 2,297 16,440 R+59.7
Delaware 2,065 13.0% 12,190 76.5% 1,682 15,937 R+63.5
Chenango 1,778 11.9% 11,303 76.0% 1,800 14,881 R+64.0
Cortland 2,663 18.2% 10,094 68.9% 1,887 14,644 R+50.7
Essex 1,654 12.0% 10,930 79.3% 1,191 13,775 R+67.3
Allegany 1,508 11.2% 9,830 73.3% 2,077 13,415 R+62.0
Franklin 2,057 15.6% 9,497 72.2% 1,602 13,156 R+56.6
Wyoming 1,360 10.7% 8,840 69.5% 2,517 12,717 R+58.8
Orleans 1,273 11.1% 7,372 64.1% 2,852 11,497 R+53.0
Schoharie 1,672 15.8% 7,476 70.7% 1,431 10,579 R+54.9
Seneca 1,359 12.8% 7,428 70.2% 1,790 10,577 R+57.4
Lewis 778 9.2% 6,554 77.6% 1,112 8,444 R+68.4
Yates 865 11.8% 4,955 67.5% 1,524 7,344 R+55.7
Schuyler 765 12.8% 4,471 74.6% 756 5,992 R+61.8
Hamilton 337 11.2% 2,313 77.1% 351 3,001 R+65.8

Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

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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