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Election 2002 Results

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2002 New York governor election

George Pataki (Republican) beat Carl McCall (Democrat) in New York in 2002, 49.4% to 33.5%, a margin of 15.9 points and 729,191 votes.

The Republican hold continued from 1998, when George Pataki also won.

Republicans led in 57 of the 62 counties and Democrats in 4 and other candidates in 1. The largest, Kings, cast 398,536 votes and went to the Democrat by 22.1 points. The closest was Albany, where 56 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

CandidatePartyVotesShare
George Pataki won Republican 2,262,255 49.4%
Carl McCall Democratic 1,533,064 33.5%
Tom Golisano Independence 654,016 14.3%
All other candidates 128,743 2.8%
Total4,578,078

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Kings 230,040 57.7% 141,846 35.6% 26,650 398,536 D+22.1
Nassau 99,865 26.4% 232,785 61.5% 45,861 378,511 R+35.1
Suffolk 82,776 23.4% 209,361 59.1% 62,071 354,208 R+35.7
New York 202,101 57.2% 117,863 33.4% 33,128 353,092 D+23.9
Queens 160,746 46.5% 155,599 45.0% 29,373 345,718 D+1.5
Erie 85,360 29.0% 130,377 44.4% 78,229 293,966 R+15.3
Westchester 82,099 32.5% 140,329 55.6% 30,010 252,438 R+23.1
Monroe 58,334 25.0% 81,110 34.8% 93,755 233,199 Others
Bronx 121,050 63.7% 58,600 30.8% 10,324 189,974 D+32.9
Onondaga 39,110 26.9% 74,694 51.4% 31,501 145,305 R+24.5
Albany 45,748 40.9% 45,804 40.9% 20,392 111,944 R+0.1
Richmond 18,239 20.9% 59,656 68.4% 9,300 87,195 R+47.5
Orange 17,866 20.7% 53,950 62.4% 14,575 86,391 R+41.8
Rockland 22,054 26.1% 53,025 62.7% 9,545 84,624 R+36.6
Dutchess 18,606 24.5% 44,289 58.3% 13,130 76,025 R+33.8
Saratoga 16,881 24.0% 38,797 55.2% 14,653 70,331 R+31.2
Oneida 13,719 19.6% 40,186 57.4% 16,133 70,038 R+37.8
Niagara 12,966 19.9% 32,005 49.2% 20,052 65,023 R+29.3
Broome 12,956 20.1% 32,399 50.2% 19,199 64,554 R+30.1
Ulster 15,567 27.1% 29,801 51.9% 12,080 57,448 R+24.8
Rensselaer 15,491 28.5% 27,120 50.0% 11,652 54,263 R+21.4
Schenectady 14,378 28.7% 24,201 48.2% 11,599 50,178 R+19.6
Chautauqua 8,323 22.0% 22,869 60.5% 6,618 37,810 R+38.5
Ontario 5,512 16.5% 15,480 46.4% 12,365 33,357 R+29.9
Oswego 6,826 21.3% 17,393 54.2% 7,867 32,086 R+32.9
St. Lawrence 6,234 20.7% 19,635 65.2% 4,229 30,098 R+44.5
Putnam 4,284 15.1% 19,998 70.4% 4,133 28,415 R+55.3
Wayne 4,171 15.1% 12,553 45.6% 10,811 27,535 R+30.4
Steuben 3,419 12.5% 17,523 63.9% 6,472 27,414 R+51.4
Tompkins 10,887 39.7% 10,995 40.1% 5,507 27,389 R+0.4
Jefferson 3,897 14.8% 17,616 66.8% 4,847 26,360 R+52.0
Chemung 4,619 18.0% 16,398 64.1% 4,583 25,600 R+46.0
Cayuga 5,417 21.8% 14,203 57.0% 5,282 24,902 R+35.3
Clinton 3,505 15.4% 17,113 75.3% 2,094 22,712 R+59.9
Columbia 6,454 28.7% 11,995 53.3% 4,051 22,500 R+24.6
Cattaraugus 4,302 19.8% 12,400 57.2% 4,971 21,673 R+37.4
Warren 4,831 23.5% 11,964 58.3% 3,740 20,535 R+34.7
Sullivan 4,949 24.7% 11,279 56.4% 3,769 19,997 R+31.7
Livingston 3,651 18.3% 8,757 43.8% 7,578 19,986 R+25.5
Madison 4,206 21.4% 10,393 52.8% 5,084 19,683 R+31.4
Herkimer 3,178 16.2% 11,834 60.3% 4,617 19,629 R+44.1
Genesee 2,553 14.2% 9,588 53.3% 5,856 17,997 R+39.1
Otsego 4,109 23.3% 9,846 55.9% 3,668 17,623 R+32.6
Washington 3,767 22.4% 9,491 56.5% 3,541 16,799 R+34.1
Montgomery 3,346 20.2% 9,285 55.9% 3,974 16,605 R+35.8
Tioga 2,396 15.1% 9,561 60.3% 3,887 15,844 R+45.2
Greene 3,281 20.8% 9,363 59.3% 3,156 15,800 R+38.5
Fulton 3,055 19.4% 9,012 57.3% 3,668 15,735 R+37.9
Delaware 2,878 19.3% 9,139 61.3% 2,895 14,912 R+42.0
Chenango 2,529 17.7% 8,676 60.8% 3,074 14,279 R+43.0
Cortland 3,522 24.8% 7,851 55.3% 2,832 14,205 R+30.5
Essex 1,794 12.9% 10,550 75.9% 1,563 13,907 R+63.0
Allegany 2,042 15.4% 8,134 61.3% 3,096 13,272 R+45.9
Wyoming 2,034 16.1% 6,931 54.8% 3,690 12,655 R+38.7
Franklin 2,009 16.8% 8,628 72.2% 1,306 11,943 R+55.4
Orleans 1,568 14.1% 5,426 48.9% 4,098 11,092 R+34.8
Schoharie 2,296 21.8% 5,731 54.3% 2,520 10,547 R+32.6
Seneca 1,986 18.9% 5,969 56.8% 2,561 10,516 R+37.9
Lewis 1,370 15.3% 5,823 65.1% 1,757 8,950 R+49.8
Yates 1,319 18.6% 3,781 53.2% 2,004 7,104 R+34.7
Schuyler 1,043 18.0% 3,535 60.9% 1,224 5,802 R+43.0
Hamilton 550 19.3% 1,740 61.1% 559 2,849 R+41.8

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