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2006 New York governor election

Eliot Spitzer (Democrat) beat John Faso (Republican) in New York in 2006, 69.6% to 28.7%, a margin of 40.8 points and 1,812,374 votes.

New York changed party: in 2002 it went Republican, for George Pataki.

Democrats led in 58 of the 62 counties and Republicans in 4. The largest, Nassau, cast 361,368 votes and went to the Democrat by 31.0 points. The closest was Allegany, where 7 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

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Eliot Spitzer won	Democratic	3,086,709	69.6%
John Faso	Republican	1,274,335	28.7%
All other candidates		76,176	1.7%
Total		4,437,220

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
Nassau	234,452 64.9%	122,567 33.9%	4,349	361,368	D+31.0
New York	313,396 87.8%	34,438 9.6%	9,148	356,982	D+78.1
Suffolk	223,453 63.3%	124,571 35.3%	5,247	353,271	D+28.0
Kings	287,262 85.8%	40,199 12.0%	7,157	334,618	D+73.8
Queens	251,070 82.1%	50,284 16.4%	4,460	305,814	D+65.7
Erie	177,926 63.9%	95,819 34.4%	4,812	278,557	D+29.5
Westchester	177,246 69.0%	75,083 29.2%	4,434	256,763	D+39.8
Monroe	149,683 65.6%	75,014 32.9%	3,391	228,088	D+32.7
Bronx	146,941 88.8%	16,118 9.7%	2,459	165,518	D+79.0
Onondaga	104,649 68.6%	45,280 29.7%	2,665	152,594	D+38.9
Albany	80,210 73.6%	26,848 24.7%	1,854	108,912	D+49.0
Orange	56,770 64.4%	29,994 34.0%	1,387	88,151	D+30.4
Richmond	51,257 62.7%	29,348 35.9%	1,107	81,712	D+26.8
Dutchess	50,682 62.2%	29,095 35.7%	1,670	81,447	D+26.5
Saratoga	50,236 62.3%	29,266 36.3%	1,155	80,657	D+26.0
Rockland	49,524 62.3%	28,857 36.3%	1,159	79,540	D+26.0
Oneida	44,743 63.0%	25,332 35.7%	962	71,037	D+27.3
Niagara	37,477 59.2%	25,060 39.6%	817	63,354	D+19.6
Broome	40,683 64.9%	20,944 33.4%	1,059	62,686	D+31.5
Ulster	40,841 68.0%	17,315 28.8%	1,867	60,023	D+39.2
Rensselaer	35,970 66.5%	17,207 31.8%	881	54,058	D+34.7
Schenectady	33,949 67.1%	15,839 31.3%	791	50,579	D+35.8
Chautauqua	19,690 53.4%	16,610 45.0%	578	36,878	D+8.4
Ontario	20,199 59.6%	13,207 39.0%	477	33,883	D+20.6
Oswego	19,975 62.5%	11,342 35.5%	640	31,957	D+27.0
Putnam	17,542 58.5%	11,871 39.6%	594	30,007	D+18.9
Tompkins	21,213 72.8%	7,117 24.4%	794	29,124	D+48.4
St. Lawrence	18,887 67.3%	8,744 31.1%	453	28,084	D+36.1
Steuben	14,794 52.7%	12,858 45.8%	427	28,079	D+6.9
Cayuga	17,449 65.2%	8,900 33.2%	429	26,778	D+31.9
Chemung	16,341 62.3%	9,501 36.2%	370	26,212	D+26.1
Wayne	13,992 53.8%	11,651 44.8%	388	26,031	D+9.0
Jefferson	15,648 63.3%	8,721 35.3%	355	24,724	D+28.0
Columbia	14,182 58.6%	9,647 39.8%	382	24,211	D+18.7
Clinton	14,922 65.0%	7,659 33.3%	388	22,969	D+31.6
Warren	13,923 61.0%	8,457 37.1%	426	22,806	D+24.0
Cattaraugus	10,981 49.5%	10,803 48.7%	418	22,202	D+0.8
Madison	13,470 62.6%	7,696 35.8%	359	21,525	D+26.8
Livingston	11,068 55.6%	8,448 42.4%	388	19,904	D+13.2
Sullivan	13,205 67.1%	6,060 30.8%	410	19,675	D+36.3
Herkimer	11,410 59.0%	7,611 39.4%	307	19,328	D+19.7
Otsego	11,467 61.7%	6,681 36.0%	425	18,573	D+25.8
Genesee	9,038 49.4%	8,979 49.1%	286	18,303	D+0.3
Washington	10,822 59.5%	7,024 38.6%	340	18,186	D+20.9
Greene	8,458 49.8%	8,206 48.4%	303	16,967	D+1.5
Tioga	8,743 55.2%	6,841 43.2%	242	15,826	D+12.0
Chenango	8,521 57.1%	6,028 40.4%	365	14,914	D+16.7
Fulton	8,753 59.2%	5,840 39.5%	203	14,796	D+19.7
Cortland	9,180 62.2%	5,287 35.8%	283	14,750	D+26.4
Delaware	8,041 55.4%	6,173 42.5%	307	14,521	D+12.9
Montgomery	8,699 62.5%	4,995 35.9%	218	13,912	D+26.6
Allegany	6,568 49.0%	6,575 49.0%	266	13,409	R+0.1
Wyoming	5,950 46.5%	6,659 52.0%	189	12,798	R+5.5
Essex	7,366 57.8%	5,161 40.5%	210	12,737	D+17.3
Franklin	7,635 63.6%	4,188 34.9%	179	12,002	D+28.7
Schoharie	5,529 50.7%	5,181 47.5%	187	10,897	D+3.2
Orleans	5,241 48.6%	5,331 49.5%	202	10,774	R+0.8
Seneca	6,511 63.1%	3,623 35.1%	178	10,312	D+28.0
Yates	4,283 56.9%	3,126 41.6%	113	7,522	D+15.4
Lewis	4,059 55.6%	3,139 43.0%	100	7,298	D+12.6
Schuyler	3,317 55.8%	2,514 42.3%	115	5,946	D+13.5
Hamilton	1,217 45.6%	1,403 52.5%	51	2,671	R+7.0

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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