The mayor of New York City is elected in early November every four years, in the year immediately following a United States presidential election year, and takes office at the beginning of the following year. The city, which elects the mayor as its chief executive, consists of the five boroughs (Manhattan, The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island), which consolidated to form "Greater" New York on January 1, 1898.
The consolidated city's first mayor, Robert A. Van Wyck, was elected with other municipal officers in November 1897. Mayoral elections previously had been held since 1834 by the City of Brooklyn and the smaller, unconsolidated City of New York (Manhattan, later expanded into the Bronx).
Eric Adams took office 12:01 AM on January 1, 2022, at a private swearing-in, followed by a public ceremony later in the day. He is the second Black mayor in the history of the city. He follows Bill de Blasio, who served two consecutive terms after being elected in 2013 and for a second term in 2017.
Direct elections to the mayoralty of the unconsolidated City of New York began in 1834 for a term of one year, extended to two years after 1849. The 1897 Charter of the consolidated City stipulated that the mayor was to be elected for a single four-year term. In 1901, the term halved to two years, with no restrictions on reelection. In 1905, the term was extended to four years once again. (Mayors Fiorello La Guardia, Robert F. Wagner Jr. and Ed Koch were later able to serve for twelve years each.)[1] In 1993, the voters approved a two-term (eight-year) limit, and reconfirmed this limit when the issue was submitted to referendum in 1996. In 2008, the New York City Council voted to change the two-term limit to three terms (without submitting the issue to the voters). Legal challenges to the Council's action were rejected by Federal courts in January and April, 2009.[2] However, in 2010, yet another referendum, reverting the limit to two terms, passed overwhelmingly.[3]
| 1834 | 1 year | (no limit) | (unlimited) | all from Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence to Caleb S. Woodhull | |
| 1849 | 2 years | (no limit) | (unlimited) | all from Ambrose Kingsland to William L. Strong 2 | |
| 1897 | 4 years | Robert A. Van Wyck | |||
| 1901 | 2 years | (no limit) | (unlimited) | Seth Low and George B. McClellan Jr.3 | |
| 1905 | 4 years | (no limit) | (unlimited) | all from George B. McClellan Jr.3 to David Dinkins 4 | |
| 1993 | 4 years | Rudy Giuliani 5 | |||
| 2008 | 4 years | Michael Bloomberg 6 only 7 | |||
| 2010 | 4 years | Bill de Blasio and his successors 7 | |||
Mayors John T. Hoffman (1866–68, elected Governor 1868), William Havemeyer (1845–46, 1848–49, and 1873–74), William Jay Gaynor (1910–13), Jimmy Walker (1926–32), and William O'Dwyer (1946–50) failed to complete the final terms to which they were elected. The uncompleted mayoral terms of Hoffman, Walker, and O'Dwyer were added to the other offices elected in (respectively) 1868, 1932, and 1950 [those three elections are listed as "special" in the table below because they occurred before the next regularly scheduled ''mayoral'' election; the "regular" mayoral elections of 1874 and 1913, on the other hand, were held on the same day that they would have happened had the mayoralty not become vacant.]
| Dec. 1868 (special) | A. Oakey Hall (D) | |||||
| Nov. 1874 (regular) | William H. Wickham (D) | |||||
| Nov. 1913 (regular) | John P. Mitchel (Fusion) | |||||
| Nov. 1932 (special) | John P. O'Brien (D) | |||||
| Nov. 1950 (special) | Vincent Impellitteri (Experience) | |||||
† Became acting mayor as the president of the board of aldermen or (in 1950) city council.
(D) = (Democratic)
(R) = (Republican)
This chart has several purposes. One is to provide ordinary readers with simple, basic information from a very detailed page. Another is to provide a handy index for those looking for a particular candidate or campaign. (Just click on the year, the candidate's name, or the party name or abbreviation for more details.)
A slightly more sophisticated purpose is to sketch out on one screen the flow of votes across parties and candidates, as affected by fusion, splitting, cross-endorsement and the emergence of new movements or personalities.
Votes in thousands for principal candidates only, generally those winning more than 4.0% (1/25) of the total vote. (Therefore, low votes may not be shown in a particular year for an otherwise significant party, such as Socialist or Conservative. For some of the lesser left-wing candidates before 1945, see below.) Total vote includes that for all candidates and parties, major and minor.
Winner in bold-face in a colored box. Sitting mayor (elected or acting) at the time of the election in italics.
To determine the meaning of abbreviations, click the link or check the list below this table. (Different first names, initials and nicknames may be used for the same person purely to fit the available space.)
Abbreviations used in this table: Fu. or Fus = Fusion, Ind. = Independent, Ind Fu. = Independent Fusion (1989), Independence or Indep'ce = Independence Party of New York, L or Lib. = Liberal Party of New York, Cons. = Conservative Party of New York, ALP = American Labor Party, Soc. = Socialist Party of America, Jeff'n D = The Democracy of Thomas Jefferson (Henry George, 1897), Civic All'ce = Civic Alliance (Hearst 1909), Exp = Experience party (Impellitteri's label for his independent campaign in 1950), Jobs & Educ. = Independent Jobs & Education party (Bloomberg's personal label sharing a ballot line with Independence Party in 2009)
See the table above for more information about the candidates and parties involved. Blue indicates a candidate endorsed by the Democratic Party; pink one endorsed by the Republicans; and buff (or beige) one endorsed by neither party. (Darker shades indicate where a borough voted for a candidate who lost the citywide vote.) In 1981, Ed Koch ran on the tickets of both the Democrats and the Republicans.
Click a year to see the table or tables for that particular election (# indicates a link devoted to one specific election rather than to a set of two to six.)
Although separate boroughs since 1898, the Bronx and Manhattan shared New York County and reported elections together until the separate Bronx County was formed in April 1912 and started her separate existence on January 1, 1914. The borough of Richmond changed its name to Staten Island in 1975, although the co-extensive Richmond County still retains that name.
| borough | Manhattan and The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Richmond [S.I.] | City of New York | ||
| county | |||||||
| 1897 | Van Wyck 48% | Van Wyck 40% | Van Wyck 41% | Van Wyck 44% | Van Wyck 45% | ||
| 1901 | Low 49% | Low 55% | Shepard 49% | Low 52% | Low 51% | ||
| 1903 | McClellan 56% | McClellan 49% | McClellan 56% | Low 48% | McClellan 53% | ||
| 1905 | McClellan 42% | Hearst 39% | Hearst 39% | McClellan 44% | McClellan 38% | ||
| 1909 | Gaynor 43% | Gaynor 42% | Gaynor 38% | Gaynor 47% | Gaynor 42% | ||
| borough | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Richmond [S.I.] | City of New York | |
| county | |||||||
| 1913 | Mitchel | Mitchel | Mitchel 60% | Mitchel 60% | Mitchel 54% | Mitchel 57% | |
| Hylan 46% | Hylan 43% | Hylan 47% | Hylan 52% | Hylan 58% | Hylan 47% | ||
| Hylan 63% | Hylan 68% | Hylan 62% | Hylan 69% | Hylan 71% | Hylan 64% | ||
| Walker 70% | Walker 72% | Walker 61% | Walker 63% | Walker 67% | Walker 66% | ||
| Walker 64% | Walker 63% | Walker 58% | Walker 62% | Walker 58% | Walker 61% | ||
| O'Brien 61% | O'Brien 52% | O'Brien 51% | O'Brien 48% | O'Brien 54% | O'Brien 53% | ||
| La Guardia 38% | La Guardia 39% | La Guardia 44% | La Guardia 39% | La Guardia 44% | La Guardia 40% | ||
| La Guardia 58% | La Guardia 62% | La Guardia 63% | La Guardia 55% | La Guardia 56% | La Guardia 60% | ||
| La Guardia 56% | La Guardia 58% | La Guardia 55% | O'Dwyer 60% | O'Dwyer 60% | La Guardia 52% | ||
| O'Dwyer 56% | O'Dwyer 55% | O'Dwyer 57% | O'Dwyer 61% | O'Dwyer 66% | O'Dwyer 55% | ||
| O'Dwyer 45% | O'Dwyer 49% | O'Dwyer 49% | O'Dwyer 53% | O'Dwyer 65% | O'Dwyer 48% | ||
| Impellitteri 40% | Pecora 42% | Pecora 41% | Impellitteri 55% | Impellitteri 60% | Impellitteri 44% | ||
| Wagner 48% | Wagner 46% | Wagner 47% | Wagner 41% | Wagner 52% | Wagner 46% | ||
| Wagner 74% | Wagner 77% | Wagner 75% | Wagner 64% | Wagner 65% | Wagner 68% | ||
| Wagner 56% | Wagner 56% | Wagner 53% | Wagner 46% | Lefkowitz 42% | Wagner 50.1% | ||
| Lindsay 56% | Beame 47% | Beame 47% | Lindsay 47% | Lindsay 46% | Lindsay 43% | ||
| Lindsay 67% | Procaccino 41% | Procaccino 42% | Lindsay 36% | Marchi 62% | Lindsay 41% | ||
| Beame 49% | Beame 57% | Beame 63% | Beame 57% | Beame 47% | Beame 57% | ||
| borough | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Staten Island | City of New York | |
| county | |||||||
| Koch | Koch | Koch | Cuomo | Cuomo | Koch 52% | ||
| Koch | Koch | Koch | Koch | Koch | Koch 75% | ||
| Koch | Koch | Koch | Koch | Koch | Koch 78% | ||
| Dinkins | Dinkins | Dinkins | Giuliani | Giuliani | Dinkins 48% | ||
| Dinkins | Dinkins | Dinkins | Giuliani | Giuliani | Giuliani 49% | ||
| Giuliani | Messinger | Giuliani | Giuliani | Giuliani | Giuliani 55% | ||
| Green 52% | Green 55% | Green 52% | Bloomberg 55% | Bloomberg 77% | Bloomberg 50.3% | ||
| Bloomberg 60% | Ferrer 60% | Bloomberg 58% | Bloomberg 64% | Bloomberg 77% | Bloomberg 58.4% | ||
| Bloomberg 56% | Thompson 61% | Thompson 52% | Bloomberg 54% | Bloomberg 66% | Bloomberg 50.7% | ||
| de Blasio 71.7% | de Blasio 86.1% | de Blasio 77.5% | de Blasio 70.3% | Lhota 52.8% | de Blasio 73.2% | ||
| de Blasio 72.0% | de Blasio 79.9% | de Blasio 72.7% | de Blasio 61.0% | Malliotakis 70.6% | de Blasio 66.5% | ||
| Adams 80.4% | Adams 76% | Adams 70.8% | Adams 59.8% | Sliwa 66.4% | Adams 67% | ||
Although it was not uncommon for a candidate to carry all five boroughs in the same election, variations in voting patterns are noticeable. Since it started reporting separate returns in 1913, the Bronx has supported a Republican only three times (Fiorello La Guardia in 1933, 1937, and 1941). Manhattan has opposed only two successful candidates (Giuliani in 1993 and Bloomberg in 2001). On the other hand, in the 15 elections since 1961 that were contested between Democratic and Republican candidates (i.e. excluding 1981, when Ed Koch was endorsed by both parties), Staten Island has voted for only two Democratic candidates, Abe Beame in 1973 and Koch in 1985. Prior to this, it had only voted Republican three times (in 1903, 1933, and 1937). Queens has voted for only three Republicans until 1961 (in 1903, 1933, and 1937), but since 1961 it voted for the winner all but twice (in 1977 and 1989). Brooklyn has backed a Republican twice since 1945 (in 1997 and 2005). 1985 was the last election in which any candidate swept all five boroughs.
One pattern, stretching back well before consolidation and lasting into the 1960s, is the conflict between, on one side, Tammany Hall, the Democratic political organization largely built on political patronage with a consequent deep skepticism about Civil Service, the merit system of assigning government jobs, and competitive bidding for city contracts, and on the other hand, its various opponents, including Republicans, businessmen opposed to taxation or extorted bribes, middle-class reformers and labor union activists.
Until the election of Fiorello H. La Guardia in 1933, it was almost never possible to unite the disparate anti-Tammany elements in a coalition strong enough to prevail for more than one election. (This was not only for negative reasons: Tammany could listen to and satisfy some of its opponents' needs, and could on occasion run candidates of undoubted quality, such as Abram Hewitt to oppose Henry George's United Labor Party in 1886.[7]) In the reported words of the Tammany leader George Washington Plunkitt, reformers were only "mornin' glories —- looked lovely in the mornin' and withered up in a short time, while the regular machines went on flourishin' forever, like fine old oaks.".[8]
Quite apart from Tammany Hall itself, both Republicans and left-wing reform parties have always had to deal with the overwhelmingly Democratic sympathies of New York City's voters. Neither the various Socialist and labor parties nor the Republicans were ever strong enough to elect a Mayor alone without the support, or at least the benign non-hostility, of other parties and independents.
The local term for uniting several constituencies or movements against Tammany was Fusion, which usually required the Republicans to abstain from competing with a non-Republican reform candidate (as in the elections of Seth Low in 1901 and John P. Mitchel in 1913). Later the unusual ability of New York candidates to combine (fuse) votes from several different parties allowed Republicans and Democrats to run their own reform candidates on third party lines, such as "Fusion", American Labor, Liberal, Conservative and Independence. In fact, no Republican has ever been elected Mayor of consolidated New York without the support of at least one other significant party, from LaGuardia to the ex-Democrat Michael Bloomberg.
Even when a candidate could not gain another party's support, they often found it expedient to create a separate line or party name for independent voters to support him, such as "Recovery" (Joseph V. McKee in 1933), "Anticommunist" (Jeremiah T. Mahoney in 1937), "Experience" (Vincent Impellitteri in 1950) or "Brotherhood" (Robert F. Wagner Jr. in 1961). In 1965, Rep. John Lindsay (R-Liberal) won votes on the "Independent Citizens" line, while his opponent Comptroller Abe Beame (D) won additional votes for "Civil Service Fusion".
Although granting or withholding endorsement was an effective tool for a minor party to influence a candidate's policies and actions, it could sometimes lead to counter-pressure from those who felt that candidates were being swayed too far in the wrong direction. This was one of the main reasons for founding the Conservative Party of New York in 1962 by those upset at the liberalism of Republican Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller and (later) Lindsay, against whose 1965 Mayoral campaign the Conservatives ran William F. Buckley, Jr.
More recently, there has been a trend of reformers working not through third parties (such as the now-dormant Liberals) but through Reform Democratic clubs, leading to lively internal contests such as the 1989 Democratic primary where David Dinkins unseated incumbent Mayor Ed Koch who started his own political career in a Reform Democratic Club.[9] On the other side, however, dissatisfied conservatives have created their own new parties outside the Republican Party, such as the New York State Right to Life Party and the Independence Party of New York.
See main article: 2021 New York City mayoral election. Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams of the Democratic Party defeated Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa, who ran on the Republican and Independent lines by a margin of 441,416 votes or 66.99% against 27.76%. Notable third party candidates included teacher Cathy Rojas of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (2.49%/27,982 votes) and retired police officer Bill Pepitone of the Conservative Party (1.12%/12,575 votes). However, this was ultimately a fairly partisan election by New York City standards with 94% of voters voting on the Democratic and Republican lines. This was likely due to the absence of the Working Families Party from the ballot, who elected not to endorse a candidate and the standalone candidacy of the Conservative Party, who typically garner votes by endorsing the Republican candidate.
See main article: 2017 New York City mayoral election. Bill de Blasio, the incumbent mayor, won re-election to a second term, on Democratic and Working Families Party lines, over challengers Nicole Malliotakis on the Republican and Conservative party lines, Sal Albanese on the Reform Party line, Akeem Browder on the Green Party line, independent candidates Mike Tolkin and Bo Dietl, and Libertarian Party candidate Aaron Commey.
See main article: 2013 New York City mayoral election. The principal candidates were Joe Lhota on the Republican and Conservative lines, Bill de Blasio on the Democratic and Working Families lines, and some independents. Bill de Blasio won the election in a landslide
Democratic primary election, Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Bill de Blasio, the city's elected Public Advocate, won 40.8% of the total Democratic primary vote and, by exceeding 40.0%, avoided an October 1 primary runoff with Bill Thompson, who won the second-highest number of primary votes, or 26.1%. (In 2009, Thompson had won the Democratic primary only to lose a close general election to Mayor Michael Bloomberg.) Christine Quinn, the Speaker of the New York City Council, came in third, with 15.7%, while none of the other candidates, including City Comptroller John Liu and former Congressman Anthony Weiner, won as much as 10%. De Blasio carried all five boroughs and Thompson came in second in every borough except Manhattan, where he finished third behind Quinn.
From the Board of Elections in the City of New York, September 27, 2013 [10]
| 2013 Democratic primary | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Staten Island | Total | % | |
| Bill de Blasio | 81,197 | 36,896 | 104,703 | 52,190 | 7,358 | 282,344 | ||
| 40.9% | 38.1% | 46.4% | 35.0% | 34.3% | 40.8% | |||
| Bill Thompson | 42,720 | 31,617 | 61,471 | 38,162 | 6,871 | 180,841 | ||
| 21.5% | 32.7% | 27.2% | 25.6% | 32.1% | 26.1% | |||
| Christine C. Quinn | 52,102 | 10,392 | 23,007 | 19,847 | 3,545 | 108,893 | ||
| 26.3% | 10.7% | 10.2% | 13.3% | 16.5% | 15.7% | |||
| John C. Liu | 10,191 | 4,753 | 13,927 | 16,977 | 1,438 | 47,286 | ||
| 5.1% | 4.9% | 6.2% | 11.4% | 6.7% | 6.8% | |||
| Anthony D. Weiner | 6,858 | 5,726 | 10,950 | 9,438 | 1,220 | 34,192 | ||
| 3.5% | 5.9% | 4.8% | 6.3% | 5.7% | 4.9% | |||
| Erick J. Salgado | 2,296 | 3,855 | 5,793 | 3,735 | 235 | 15,914 | 2.3% | |
| Randy Credico | 1,588 | 2,301 | 2,351 | 5,129 | 161 | 11,530 | 1.7% | |
| Sal F. Albanese | 821 | 581 | 2,346 | 1,648 | 447 | 5,843 | 0.8% | |
| Neil V. Grimaldi | 634 | 640 | 1,108 | 2,157 | 138 | 4,677 | 0.7% | |
| All write-ins | 50 | 18 | 172 | 21 | 20 | 281 | 0.04% | |
| T O T A L | 198,458 | 96,780 | 225,829 | 149,305 | 21,434 | 691,801 | 100.0% | |
| Borough percentage of city-wide Democratic vote | 29% | 14% | 33% | 22% | 3% | 100% |
Republican primary election, Tuesday, September 10, 2013
In the Republican primary, Joe Lhota, a former deputy mayor and former chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority carried every borough but Staten Island, which was won by John Catsimatidis, a businessman, publisher and property developer. Catsimatidis, in losing, won nearly as large a percentage of his own party's vote (40.69%) as the Democratic winner, Bill de Blasio won of his (40.81%). The 61,111 valid votes cast in the Republican primary were less than one-eleventh of the 691,801 cast in the Democratic one held on the same day in the same polling places.
From the Board of Elections in the City of New York, September 27, 2013 [11]
| 2013 Republican primary | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Staten Island | Total | % | |
| Joe Lhota | 9,211 | 1,860 | 6,995 | 8,758 | 5,412 | 32,236 | 52.7% | |
| 70.5% | 52.9% | 47.6% | 51.0% | 42.8% | ||||
| John Catsimatidis | 3,139 | 1,281 | 6,723 | 6,945 | 6,776 | 24,864 | 40.7% | |
| 24.0% | 36.4% | 45.7% | 40.5% | 53.5% | ||||
| George McDonald | 683 | 369 | 940 | 1,456 | 451 | 3,899 | 6.4% | |
| 5.2% | 10.5% | 6.4% | 8.5% | 3.6% | ||||
| All write-in votes | 34 | 8 | 42 | 9 | 19 | 112 | 0.2% | |
| T O T A L | 13,067 | 3,518 | 14,700 | 17,168 | 12,658 | bgcolor=khaki | 61,111 | 100.0% |
| Borough percentage of city-wide Republican vote | 21% | 6% | 24% | 28% | 21% | 100% |
See main article: 2009 New York City mayoral election.
The principal candidates were Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an independent running for the third time on the Republican and Independence Party lines, and New York City Comptroller Bill Thompson, running for the Democratic and Working Families Parties. Bloomberg had enjoyed pluralities of about 9% to 16% in most independent published pre-election polls and on Tuesday, November 3, he won his third term with 50.7% of votes over Thompson's 46%.
Other candidates included:[12]
General election, Tuesday, November 3, 2009
| 2009 general election | Party | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Staten Island | Total | % | |
| Bloomberg's margin over Mark Green (2001) | – 22,777 | – 21,683 | – 28,182 | + 46,904 | + 61,227 | + 35,489 | + 2.4% | ||
| change in Bloomberg's margin of victory, 2001–2005 | + 98,973 | – 19,634 | + 97,622 | + 48,125 | – 10,705 | + 214,381 | + 17.0% | ||
| Bloomberg's margin over Fernando Ferrer (2005) | + 76,196 | – 41,317 | + 69,440 | + 95,029 | + 50,522 | + 249,870 | + 19.4% | ||
| change in Bloomberg's margin of victory, 2005–2009 | – 35,010 | + 6,268 | – 91,392 | – 59,742 | – 19,397 | – 199,273 | – 15.0% | ||
| Bloomberg's margin over Bill Thompson (2009) | + 41,186 | – 35,049 | – 21,952 | + 35,287 | + 31,125 | + 50,597 | + 4.4% | ||
| net change in Bloomberg's margin, 2001–2009 | + 63,963 | – 13,366 | + 6,230 | – 11,617 | – 30,102 | + 15,108 | + 2.0% | ||
| Michael Bloomberg | Republican | 102,903 | 42,066 | 117,706 | 126,569 | 46,149 | 435,393 | 37.7% | |
| 35.9% | 29.0% | 34.6% | 42.3% | 55.4% | |||||
| Independence/Jobs and Education | 56,934 | 11,730 | 36,033 | 36,364 | 9,012 | 150,073 | 13.0% | ||
| 19.9% | 8.1% | 10.6% | 12.2% | 10.8% | |||||
| Total | 159,837 | 53,796 | 153,739 | 162,933 | 55,161 | 585,466 | 50.7% | ||
| 55.8% | 37.0% | 45.1% | 54.5% | 66.2% | |||||
| Bill Thompson | Democratic | 110,975 | 86,899 | 163,230 | 122,935 | 22,956 | 506,995 | 43.9% | |
| 38.7% | 59.8% | 47.9% | 41.1% | 27.5% | |||||
| Working Families | 7,676 | 1,946 | 12,461 | 4,711 | 1,080 | 27,874 | 2.4% | ||
| 2.7% | 1.3% | 3.7% | 1.6% | 1.3% | |||||
| Total | 118,651 | 88,845 | 175,691 | 127,646 | 24,036 | 534,869 | 46.3% | ||
| 41.4% | 61.2% | 51.6% | 42.7% | 28.8% | |||||
| Stephen Christopher | Conservative | 2,217 | 1,480 | 5,690 | 5,267 | 3,359 | 18,013 | 1.6% | |
| 0.8% | 1.0% | 1.7% | 1.8% | 4.0% | |||||
| Green | 3,083 | 434 | 3,338 | 1,680 | 367 | 8,902 | 0.8% | ||
| 1.1% | 0.3% | 1.0% | 0.6% | 0.4% | |||||
| Jimmy McMillan | Rent Is Too High | 823 | 217 | 764 | 404 | 124 | 2,332 | 0.2% | |
| Francisca Villar | Socialism and Liberation | 674 | 253 | 577 | 420 | 72 | 1,996 | 0.2% | |
| Joseph Dobrian | Libertarian | 556 | 104 | 413 | 388 | 155 | 1,616 | 0.1% | |
| Dan Fein | Socialist Workers | 493 | 120 | 376 | 263 | 59 | 1,311 | 0.1% | |
| Write-ins † | 100 | 30 | 77 | 60 | 30 | 297 | .03% | ||
| Total recorded votes | 286,434 | 145,279 | 340,665 | 299,061 | 83,363 | bgcolor=khaki | 1,154,802 | 100.00% | |
| unrecorded ballots | 5,172 | 3,659 | 6,645 | 6,254 | 1,525 | 23,255 | |||
| Total ballots cast | 291,606 | 148,938 | 347,310 | 305,315 | 84,888 | 1,178,057 | |||
| † The three candidates who received more than seven write-in votes each were C. Montgomery Burns (Homer Simpson's fictional boss), 27; City Councilman Tony Avella (who lost the Democratic mayoral primary), 13; and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani (Republican), 11. | |||||||||
| Source: Board of Elections in the City of New York, November 24, 2009[13] | |||||||||
Democratic primary, Tuesday, September 15, 2009
From the Board of Elections in the City of New York, September 26, 2009 [14]
| 2009 Democratic primary | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Staten Island | Total | % | ||
| Bill Thompson | 70,881 | 31,950 | 75,519 | 49,063 | 7,484 | 234,897 | 71.0% | ||
| 73.7% | 73.5% | 73.9% | 63.2% | 67.0% | |||||
| Tony Avella | 18,213 | 7,754 | 17,945 | 22,903 | 2,959 | 69,774 | 21.1% | ||
| 18.9% | 17.8% | 17.6% | 29.5% | 26.5% | |||||
| Roland Rogers | 6,975 | 3,751 | 8,612 | 5,553 | 700 | 25,591 | 7.7% | ||
| 7.3% | 8.6% | 8.4% | 7.2% | 6.3% | |||||
| all write-in votes | 127 | 10 | 153 | 81 | 26 | 397 | 0.1% | ||
| 0.1% | 0.02% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.2% | |||||
| T O T A L | 96,196 | 43,465 | 102,229 | 77,600 | 11,169 | bgcolor=khaki | 330,659 |
Tony Avella represents a Queens district on the New York City Council. Out of the nearly 400 write-in votes, almost half or 184 (representing about one Democratic voter in 2,000) were some form or spelling of Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
See main article: 2005 New York City mayoral election.
In 2005, Mayor Bloomberg won every borough but The Bronx (of which his Democratic opponent was the former Borough President) against a Democratic Party split by a divisive primary, in contrast to his first victory in 2001, when Bloomberg carried only Queens and Staten Island.
| 2005 | Party | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Staten Island | Total | % | |
| change in Bloomberg's margin of victory, 2001–2005 | + 98,973 | – 19,634 | + 97,622 | + 48,125 | – 10,705 | + 214,381 | + 17.0% | ||
| Bloomberg's margin over Mark Green (2001) | – 22,777 | – 21,683 | – 28,182 | + 46,904 | + 61,227 | + 35,489 | + 2.4% | ||
| Bloomberg's margin over Ferrer (2005) | + 76,196 | – 41,317 | + 69,440 | + 95,029 | + 50,522 | + 249,870 | + 19.4% | ||
| Michael Bloomberg | Republican/Liberal | 171,593 | 69,577 | 189,581 | 184,426 | 63,267 | 678,444 | 52.6% | |
| 52.6% | 35.3% | 52.7% | 57.9% | 71.5% | |||||
| Independence | 25,416 | 6,840 | 20,141 | 17,689 | 4,559 | 74,645 | 5.8% | ||
| 7.8% | 3.5% | 5.6% | 5.6% | 5.2% | |||||
| Total | 197,010 | 76,417 | 209,723 | 202,116 | 67,827 | 753,089 | 58.4% | ||
| 60.4% | 38.8% | 58.2% | 63.5% | 76.7% | |||||
| Fernando Ferrer | Democratic | 120,813 | 117,734 | 140,282 | 107,086 | 17,304 | 503,219 | 39.0% | |
| 37.0% | 59.8% | 39.0% | 33.6% | 19.6% | |||||
| Thomas V. Ognibene | Conservative | 1,729 | 1,185 | 3,573 | 5,645 | 2,498 | 14,630 | 1.1% | |
| Anthony Gronowicz | Green | 3,195 | 466 | 3,112 | 1,285 | 239 | 8,297 | 0.6% | |
| Jimmy McMillan | Rent Is Too Damn High | 1,369 | 474 | 1,293 | 799 | 176 | 4,111 | 0.3% | |
| Audrey Silk | Libertarian | 991 | 234 | 841 | 617 | 205 | 2,888 | 0.2% | |
| Socialist Workers | 758 | 231 | 766 | 384 | 117 | 2,256 | 0.2% | ||
| Seth A Blum | Education | 322 | 131 | 382 | 264 | 77 | 1,176 | 0.1% | |
| Write-ins | 109 | 1 | 90 | 57 | 12 | 269 | .02% | ||
| TOTAL | 326,295 | 196,873 | 360,061 | 318,252 | 88,454 | 1,289,935 | |||
See main article: 2001 New York City mayoral election.
The 2001 mayoral election was held on Tuesday, November 6.
Republican incumbent Rudy Giuliani could not run again due to term limits. As Democrats outnumber Republicans by 5 to 1 in the city, it was widely believed that a Democrat would succeed him in City Hall. However, billionaire Michael Bloomberg, a lifelong Democrat, changed his party affiliation a few months before the election in order to avoid a crowded primary, and ran as a Republican. The Democratic primary was meant to be held on September 11 but was postponed due to the September 11 attacks; it was instead held on September 25. The primary opened the way to a bitter run-off between the Bronx-born Puerto Rican Fernando Ferrer, and Mark Green, a non-Hispanic who attacked Ferrer's close ties to Rev. Al Sharpton, leaving the party divided along racial lines.
Bloomberg spent $74 million on his election campaign, which was a record amount at the time for a non-presidential election (Bloomberg would break his own record in 2005). http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=1289253 Thanks also in part to active support from Giuliani, whose approval ratings shot up after the September 11 attacks, Bloomberg won a very close general election.
| 2001 general election | Party | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Staten Island | Total | % | |
| Bloomberg's margin over Green | – 22,777 | – 21,683 | – 28,182 | + 46,904 | + 61,227 | + 35,489 | + 2.4% | ||
| Michael Bloomberg | Republican | 162,096 | 72,551 | 174,053 | 196,241 | 80,725 | 685,666 | 46.3% | |
| Independence | 17,701 | 8,046 | 14,987 | 14,191 | 4,166 | 59,091 | 4.0% | ||
| Total | 179,797 | 80,597 | 189,040 | 210,432 | 84,891 | 744,757 | 50.3% | ||
| 46.1% | 43.1% | 45.7% | 55.3% | 77.1% | |||||
| Mark Green | Democratic | 193,372 | 97,087 | 206,005 | 157,897 | 22,356 | 676,717 | 45.7% | |
| Working Families | 9,202 | 5,193 | 11,217 | 5,631 | 1,308 | 32,551 | 2.2% | ||
| Total | 202,574 | 102,280 | 217,222 | 163,528 | 23,664 | 709,268 | 47.9% | ||
| 52.0% | 54.7% | 52.5% | 43.0% | 21.5% | |||||
| Alan G. Hevesi | Liberal | 2,684 | 847 | 2,124 | 1,886 | 486 | 8,027 | 0.5% | |
| Better Schools | 416 | 772 | 628 | 407 | 81 | 2,304 | 0.2% | ||
| Total | 3,100 | 1,619 | 2,752 | 2,293 | 567 | 10,331 | 0.7% | ||
| Julia Willebrand | Green | 2,241 | 670 | 2,456 | 1,579 | 209 | 7,155 | 0.5% | |
| Terrance M. Gray | Conservative | 507 | 642 | 844 | 1,219 | 365 | 3,577 | 0.2% | |
| Thomas K. Leighton | Marijuana Reform | 791 | 529 | 680 | 418 | 145 | 2,563 | 0.2% | |
| Kenny Kramer | Libertarian | 368 | 296 | 338 | 306 | 100 | 1,408 | 0.1% | |
| Bernhard H. Goetz | Fusion | 203 | 201 | 333 | 253 | 59 | 1,049 | 0.1% | |
| Kenneth B. Golding | American Dream | 96 | 112 | 163 | 81 | 22 | 474 | .03% | |
| scattered votes | 114 | 57 | 26 | 106 | 29 | 332 | .02% | ||
| TOTAL RECORDED VOTE | 389,791 | 187,003 | 413,854 | 380,215 | 110,051 | 1,480,914 | (100.0%) | ||
| (unrecorded votes) | 9,186 | 6,125 | 12,097 | 10,285 | 1,836 | 39,529 | |||
| Total vote | 398,977 | 193,128 | 425,951 | 390,500 | 111,887 | 1,520,443 | |||
See main article: 1997 New York City mayoral election.
| 1997 general election | Party | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Staten Island | Total | % | |
| Rudy Giuliani | Republican-Liberal | 171,080 | 84,440 | 207,277 | 234,851 | 86,167 | 783,815 | 57.7% | |
| 50.9% | 43.6% | 53.3% | 64.6% | 78.6% | |||||
| Ruth Messinger | 149,009 | 104,787 | 165,699 | 115,175 | 14,665 | 549,335 | 40.5% | ||
| 47.1% | 54.8% | 44.7% | 33.7% | 17.9% | |||||
| All others | 5,696 | 2,773 | 7,062 | 5,764 | 3,003 | 24,398 | 1.9% | ||
| 1.7% | 1.4% | 1.9% | 1.6% | 2.9% | |||||
| 325,785 | 192,000 | 380,038 | 355,790 | 103,835 | 1,357,448 | 100% | |||
Notes:Giuliani vote was 748,277 Republican and 35,538 Liberal.Other vote was Sal Albanese -Independence-14,316 1.1%; Peter Gaffney-Right to Life-5,304 0.5%; Olga Rodriguez-Socialist Workers-3,753 0.3%; Dominick Fusco-Fusion- 632; Scattered 293
The vote was: Messenger-165,377 40.2%; Sharpton-131,848 32.0%; Albanese-86,485 21.0%; Eric Melendez-17,633 4.3%; Roland Rogers-10,086 2.5%
| ||||||||||||Giuliani vote included 867,767 Republican and 62,469 Liberal. Marlin vote included 9,433 Conservative and 6,493 Right to Life.In addition, there were 2,229 votes for J. Brennan-Libertarian; 2,061 votes for M. Bockman - Socialist Workers and 117 Scattered votes.
Dinkins won Democratic Primary with 336,285 votes to 126,449 for Roy Innis and 35,492 for Eric Melendez
| ||||||||||||||Giuliani vote was 815,387 Republican and 55,077 Liberal.
Other vote was 1,732 Lenora Fulani-New Alliance; 1,671-James Harris-Socialist Workers; 1,118 Warren Raum-Libertarian; 435 Mazelis-Workers League.|}Giuliani won the Republican Primary, defeating Ron Lauder 77,150 (67.0%) to 37,960 (33.0%)
The Koch vote include 862,226 Democratic and 6,034 Independent votes. The McGrath vote was 79,508 Republican and 22,160 Conservative.Other vote was: Yehuda Levin - Right to Life - 14,517; Lenora Fulani - New Alliance - 7,597;Jarvis Tyner - People Before Profits - 3,370; Andrea Gonzalez - Socialist Workers - 1,677; Gilbert DiLucia - Coalition - 1,135; Marjorie Stanberg - Spartacist - 1,101; Scattered - 9
Koch won the Democratic Primary: Koch-436,151 64.0%; Bellamy - 127,690 18.7%; Denny Farrell - 89,845 13.2%; DiLucia - 11, 627 1.7%; Fred Newman - 8,584 1.2%;Judah Rubenstein - 8,057 1.2%
Koch had 738,288 Democratic votes and 174,334 Republican votes.Others = 45,485. Jeronimo Dominguez - Right to Life - 32,790 2.7%; Judith Jones - Libertarian - 6,902 0.6%; Wells Todd - Socialist Workers - 5,793 0.5%Koch won the Democratic Primary with 347,351 votes (59.8%), defeating Barbaro who had 209,369 votes (36.0%) and Melvin Klenetsky who had 24,352 votes (4.2%). Koch also won the Republican Primary, defeating Esposito by 44,724 to 22,354.
See main article: 1977 New York City mayoral election.
In his 2005 book Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bronx Is Burning, historian Jonathan Mahler argues that the New York City blackout of 1977, with its accompanying rioting, enabled the law-and-order advocate Ed Koch to beat out his more left-wing opponents, including incumbent mayor Abe Beame, in the 1977 election.
Other vote was: Kenneth F. Newcombe - Communist - 5,300; Catarino Garza - Socialist Workers - 3,294; Vito Battista - United Taxpayers Party - 2,119; Louis Wein - Independent - 1,127; William Lawry - Free Libertarian - 1,068; Elijah Boyd - Labor - 873. Cuomo's total vote included 522,942 Liberal and 64,971 Neighborhood Government.
Runoff-Koch-433,002 55.0%; Cuomo-354,833 45.0% Total vote 787,835Manhattan-Koch-115,251 65.2%; Cuomo—61,570 34.8%Bronx-----Koch-69,612 55.7%; Cuomo—55,355 44.3%Brooklyn—Koch-131,271 53.8%; Cuomo—112,587 46.2%Queens----Koch-107,033 50.4%; Cuomo—105,522 49.6%Staten----Koch-9,835 33.1%; Cuomo—19,799 66.9%
Note that the eventual winner, Rep. Ed Koch, could not win a plurality in any of the Five Boroughs for the initial Democratic primary. Rep. Bella Abzug took Manhattan, Mayor Abe Beame Brooklyn, Rep. Herman Badillo the Bronx, and NY Sec. of State Mario Cuomo Queens & Staten Island. In the Democratic run-off with Cuomo, Koch took Queens and three other boroughs, leaving Cuomo with only Staten Island. In the general election, Cuomo kept Staten Island and won back Queens, but lost the other three boroughs (Manhattan, Brooklyn and The Bronx) to Koch.
In the Republican primary, Roy M. Goodman, a member of the New York State Senate, defeated Barry Farber, a radio commentator, by a vote of 41,131 to 31,078(57.0% to 43.0%). Farber, however, won the nomination of the Conservative Party of New York and won almost as many votes in the general election (57,437 or 4.0%) as Goodman did as the Republican nominee (58,606 or 4.1%).
Some figures and anecdotes courtesy James Trager's New York Chronology (HarperCollins: 2003). Other numbers are from The World Almanac and Book of Facts, then published by The New York World-Telegram (Scripps-Howard), for 1943 (page 412) and 1957 (page 299), and from The Encyclopedia of New York City (see Sources below).
Before 1975, the present Borough of Staten Island was formally known as The Borough of Richmond.
| 1973 general election | Party | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Richmond [Staten Is.] | Total | % | |
| Abraham Beame | 159,531 | 161,156 | 322,141 | 283,145 | 37,569 | 963,542 | 56.5% | ||
| 49.8% | 57.3% | 63.6% | 56.7% | 47.1% | |||||
| John Marchi | Republican -Integrity | 44,200 | 37,287 | 73,328 | 90,860 | 28,377 | 274,052 | 16.1% | |
| 13.8% | 13.3% | 14.5% | 18.2% | 35.6% | |||||
| Albert H. Blumenthal | Liberal - Good Government | 99,816 | 32,305 | 59,417 | 66,056 | 5,006 | 262,600 | 15.4% | |
| 31.2% | 11.5% | 11.7% | 13.2% | 6.3% | |||||
| Mario Biaggi | Conservative - Safe City | 16,662 | 50,440 | 51,391 | 59,691 | 8,793 | 186,977 | 11.0% | |
| 5.2% | 17.9% | 10.2% | 11.9% | 11.0% | |||||
| subtotal | 320,209 | 281,188 | 506,277 | 499,752 | 79,745 | 1,687,171 | 98.9 | ||
| others | 18,463 | 1.1% | |||||||
| 1,705,634 | |||||||||
note: All the candidates except Marchi had run in the Democratic primary. Candidates votes on their second ballot lines included above were: Beame-Civil Service & Fusion -67,277; Marchi-Integrity - 14,271; Blumenthal - Good Government - 29, 335; Biaggi - Safe City - 8,010. Other vote includes 8,818 Fran Youngstein - Free Libertarian Party; 3,601 Rasheed Storey - Communist; 2,282 Norman Oliver - Socialist Workers; 2,000 Anton Chaiken -Labor; 1,762 John Emanuel - Socialist Labor
| 1973 Democratic initial primary | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Richmond [Staten Is.] | Total | % |
| 46,519 | 42,537 | 98,121 | 74,223 | 9,021 | 270,421 | 34% | |
| 26% | 27% | 41% | 40% | 42% | |||
| Herman Badillo | 74,496 | 57,258 | 58,546 | 34,742 | 2,977 | 228,019 | 29% |
| -bgcolor=fdfdfd | 41% | 36% | 25% | 19% | 14% | ||
| Albert H. Blumenthal | 41,794 | 18,713 | 32,412 | 29,173 | 1,814 | 123,906 | 16% |
| 23% | 12% | 14% | 16% | 8% | |||
| Mario Biaggi | 18,218 | 39,893 | 48,952 | 45,949 | 7,775 | 160,787 | 21% |
| 10% | 25% | 21% | 25% | 36% | |||
| [100%] |
| 1973 Democratic run-off primary | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Richmond [Staten Is.] | Total | % | |
| 78,760 | 96,590 | 200,945 | 153,377 | 17,844 | 547,626 | 60.8% | ||
| 41% | 53% | 69% | 73% | 79% | ||||
| Herman Badillo | 113,738 | 85,827 | 91,628 | 56,933 | 4,796 | 352,912 | 39.2% | |
| 59% | 47% | 32% | 27% | 21% | ||||
| T O T A L | 192,598 | 182,417 | 292,573 | 210,310 | 22,640 | 900.538 |
Note: In one of the most unusual primary seasons since the conglomeration of greater New York, the incumbent Mayor (Lindsay) and a former incumbent (Robert F. Wagner Jr.) both lost their parties' primaries. Procaccino won with less than 33% of the vote against four opponents, which inspired the use of runoffs in future primaries. In the general election, Lindsay carried Manhattan (the only borough he had carried in losing the Republican primary to Marchi, 107,000 to 113,000) as he did in 1965, but he was only 4,000 votes ahead of giving first place in Queens to Procaccino. Turnout dropped to 2.4 million from 2.6 million in 1965. (In the same election, Lindsay's 1965 opponent Abe Beame was easily returned to his old job of comptroller.)
The New York Mets' unlikely win in the 1969 World Series and Mayor Lindsay's participation in their postgame celebration may have given the Mayor a late public relations boost which contributed to his victory.[15] [16] [17]
| 1969 general election | Party | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Richmond [Staten Is.] | Total | % | |
| John Lindsay | Liberal - Independent | 328,564 | 161,953 | 256,046 | 249,330 | 16,740 | 1,012,633 | 42.4% | |
| 67.1% | 40.1% | 36.0% | 36.3% | 17.5% | |||||
| Mario Procaccino | Democratic - Civil Service Fusion | 99,460 | 165,647 | 301,324 | 245,783 | 19,558 | 831,772 | 34.8% | |
| 20.3% | 41.0% | 42.4% | 35.8% | 20.5% | |||||
| John Marchi | Republican - Conservative | 61,539 | 76,711 | 152,933 | 192,008 | 59,220 | 542,411 | 22.7% | |
| 12.6% | 19.0% | 21.5% | 27.9% | 62.0% | |||||
| 489,563 | 404,311 | 710,303 | 687,121 | 95,518 | 2,386,816 | 99.8% | |||
| Rasheed Storey | Communist | 4,018 | 0.2% | ||||||
| 2,390,834 | 100.0% | ||||||||
| 1965 general election | Party | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Richmond [Staten Is.] | Total | % | |
| John Lindsay | Republican - Liberal - Independent Citizens | 291,326 | 181,072 | 308,398 | 331,162 | 37,148 | 1,149,106 | 45.0% | |
| 55.8% | 39.5% | 40.0% | 47.1% | 45.8% | |||||
| Abraham Beame | Democratic - Civil Service Fusion | 193,230 | 213,980 | 365,360 | 250,662 | 23,467 | 1,046,699 | 41.0% | |
| 37.0% | 46.6% | 47.4% | 35.6% | 28.9% | |||||
| William F. Buckley Jr. | Conservative | 37,694 | 63,858 | 97,679 | 121,544 | 20,451 | 341,226 | 13.4% | |
| 7.2% | 13.9% | 12.7% | 17.3% | 25.2% | |||||
| 522,250 | 458,910 | 771,437 | 703,368 | 81,066 | 2,537,031 | 99.4% | |||
| others | 17,168 | 0.6% | |||||||
| 2,554,199 | |||||||||
Almost a quarter of Lindsay's vote (281,796) was on the Liberal Party line, while 63,590 of Beame's votes were on the Civil Service Fusion line. John Lindsay, a Republican Congressman from the "Silk-Stocking" District on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, carried Manhattan, Queens, and traditionally Republican Staten Island (Richmond), while Abe Beame, the city comptroller, carried The Bronx and his home borough of Brooklyn, both of which he had also won in the Democratic primary. However, while Beame had also carried Queens in the primary, he lost it to Lindsay in the general election.[18] (Five years later, Bill Buckley's brother James L. Buckley would win the 1970 New York state election for U.S. Senator on the Conservative Party line against divided opposition.) The Other vote was 11,104- Vito Battista - United Taxpayer Party; 3,977- Clifton DeBerry - Socialist Workers; 2,087 - Eric Haas - Socialist Labor
Mayor Wagner broke with the regular Democratic organization which had supported him in 1953 and 1957, defeating their candidate, Arthur Levitt, in the Democratic primary 61% to 39%. At the same time, after running successfully with Lawrence Gerosa for Comptroller in the previous two elections, Wagner chose to run instead with Abraham Beame in 1961. Gerosa ran against Wagner for mayor as the "real Democrat" on a pro-taxpayer platform. 211,000 of Wagner's 1,237,000 votes came on the Liberal Party line, and 55,000 on the purpose-built Brotherhood line.[19]
| 1961 general election | Party | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Richmond [Staten Is.] | Total | % | |
| Democratic - Liberal - Brotherhood | 265,015 | 255,528 | 396,539 | 290,194 | 30,145 | 1,237,421 | 51.03% | ||
| 55.6% | 55.8% | 52.7% | 45.8% | 41.0% | |||||
| Louis Lefkowitz | Republican - Nonpartisan - Civic Action | 174,471 | 134,964 | 251,258 | 243,836 | 31,162 | 835,691 | 34.46% | |
| 36.6% | 29.5% | 33.4% | 38.5% | 42.3% | |||||
| Lawrence E. Gerosa | Independent - Citizens' Party | 36,893 | 67,213 | 105,232 | 99,987 | 12,279 | 321,604 | 13.26% | |
| 7.7% | 14.7% | 14.0% | 15.8% | 16.7% | |||||
| subtotal | 476,379 | 457,705 | 753,029 | 634,017 | 73,586 | 2,394,716 | 98.75% | ||
| others | 30,269 | 1.25% | |||||||
| T O T A L | 2,424,985 | ||||||||
| 1961 Democratic primary | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Richmond [Staten Is.] | Total | % | |
| 122,607 | 78,626 | 136,440 | 102,845 | 15,498 | 456,016 | 60.9% | ||
| 65% | 62% | 57% | 62% | 60% | ||||
| 66,917 | 47,885 | 103,296 | 64,157 | 10,471 | 292,726 | 39.1% | ||
| 35% | 38% | 43% | 38% | 40% | ||||
| subtotal (for Wagner and Levitt only) | 189,524 | 126,511 | 239,736 | 167,002 | 25,969 | 748,742 | [100%] |
| 1957 | Party | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Richmond [Staten Is.] | Total | % | |
| Democratic - Liberal - Fusion | 316,203 | 316,299 | 495,078 | 341,212 | 40,983 | 1,509,775 | 69.2% | ||
| 73.8% | 76.6% | 75.1% | 64.1% | 64.7% | |||||
| Republican | 112,173 | 96,726 | 163,427 | 191,061 | 22,381 | 585,768 | 26.9% | ||
| 26.2% | 23.4% | 24.9% | 35.9% | 35.3% | |||||
| Vito P. Battista | United Taxpayers | 7,976 | 11,417 | 28,921 | 17,757 | 1,205 | 67,266 | 3.1% | |
| 2,179,878 | |||||||||
| 1953 | Party | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Richmond [Staten Is.] | Total | % |
| Robert F. Wagner Jr. | Democratic | 236,960 | 206,771 | 339,970 | 207,918 | 31,007 | 1,022,626 | 46.3% |
| 47.9% | 46.2% | 46.6% | 40.6% | 51.8% | ||||
| Harold Riegelman | Republican | 147,876 | 97,224 | 183,968 | 208,829 | 23,694 | 661,591 | 30.0% |
| 29.9% | 21.7% | 25.2% | 40.8% | 39.6% | ||||
| Rudolph Halley | Liberal | 76,884 | 112,825 | 162,275 | 73,192 | 3,514 | 428,690 | 19.4% |
| Independent | 7,648 | 9,853 | 13,264 | 7,356 | 295 | 38,416 | 1.7% | |
| Total | 84,532 | 122,678 | 175,539 | 80,548 | 3,809 | 467,106 | 21.1% | |
| 17.1% | 27.4% | 24.1% | 15.7% | 6.4% | ||||
| Clifford T. McAvoy | American Labor Party | 14,904 | 13,290 | 17,337 | 7,182 | 332 | 53,045 | 2.4% |
| 1950 | Party | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Richmond [Staten Is.] | Total | % | |
| Experience | 246,608 | 215,913 | 357,322 | 303,448 | 37,884 | 1,161,175 | 44.2% | ||
| 40.4% | 41.3% | 40.5% | 55.5% | 60.0% | |||||
| Ferdinand Pecora | Democratic | 166,240 | 157,537 | 271,670 | 104,734 | 11,177 | 711,358 | 27.1% | |
| Liberal | 48,370 | 59,717 | 90,576 | 24,489 | 841 | 223,993 | 8.5% | ||
| Total | 214,610 | 217,254 | 362,246 | 129,223 | 12,018 | 935,351 | 35.6% | ||
| 35.1% | 41.6% | 41.0% | 23.6% | 19.0% | |||||
| Edward Corsi | Republican | 102,575 | 54,796 | 113,392 | 99,225 | 12,384 | 382,372 | 14.6% | |
| 16.8% | 10.5% | 12.8% | 18.1% | 19.6% | |||||
| Paul Ross | American Labor Party | 47,201 | 34,575 | 49,999 | 14,904 | 899 | 147,578 | 5.6% | |
| T O T A L | 610,994 | 522,538 | 882,959 | 546,800 | 63,185 | 2,626,476 |
| 1949 | Party | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Richmond [Staten Is.] | Total | % | |
| 278,343 | 254,014 | 425,225 | 270,062 | 38,868 | 1,266,512 | 48.9% | |||
| 44.8% | 48.7% | 48.8% | 53.4% | 64.5% | |||||
| Republican - Liberal - Fusion | 219,430 | 185,248 | 332,433 | 200,552 | 18,406 | 956,069 | 36.9% | ||
| 35.3% | 35.5% | 38.2% | 39.7% | 30.6% | |||||
| 123,128 | 82,386 | 113,478 | 34,677 | 2,957 | 356,626 | 13.8% | |||
| 19.8% | 15.8% | 13.0% | 6.9% | 4.9% | |||||
| 620,901 | 521,648 | 871,136 | 505,291 | 60,231 | 2,579,207 | 99.6% | |||
| others | 12,477 | 0.4% | |||||||
| 2,591,684 | |||||||||
| 1945 | Party | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Richmond [Staten Is.] | Total | % | |
| 253,371 | 227,818 | 386,335 | 228,275 | 29,558 | 1,125,357 | 55.3% | |||
| 55.8% | 55.3% | 56.8% | 61.5% | 66.3% | |||||
| Republican - Liberal - Fusion | 100,591 | 95,582 | 161,119 | 65,240 | 9,069 | 431,601 | 21.2% | ||
| 22.2% | 23.2% | 23.6% | 17.6% | 21.8% | |||||
| No Deal | 100,064 | 88,404 | 136,262 | 77,687 | 5,931 | 408,348 | 20.6% | ||
| 22.0% | 21.5% | 19.9% | 20.9% | 13.3% | |||||
| 454,026 | 411,804 | 683,716 | 371,202 | 44,558 | 1,965,306 | 99.1% | |||
| others | 17,055 | 0.9% | |||||||
| 1,982,361 | |||||||||
As in 1937, more voters in every borough voted on the Democratic line than on any other single line; but this time (unlike 1937) the Democrat carried Queens and Staten Island over La Guardia, shrinking the Mayor's overall citywide percentage lead from 20% to 6%. As in 1937, La Guardia's overall margin of victory depended on the American Labor Party, which again won more votes than the Republicans in The Bronx. While the total vote and Republican vote were almost identical in 1937 and 1941, the ALP line lost 47,000 votes (2.4%), almost entirely from Manhattan (-18,000) and Brooklyn (-26,000), as the vote on La Guardia's other lines (Fusion, Progressive and United City) dropped from 187,000 (8.3%) to 86,000 (3.7%). The Democratic Party gained about 160,000 votes lost by La Guardia (and about 7½% of the total). In both Queens and Richmond (Staten Island), the swing was even greater: La Guardia lost over 15% of the total vote (and the Democrats gained over 15%) from 1937, as his lead there flipped from roughly 56%-44% to 39%-60%.
| 1941 | Party | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Richmond [Staten Is.] | Total | % | |
| change in La Guardia's margin of victory, 1937–1941 | – 21,481 | – 31,205 | –116,061 | –133,684 | – 19,160 | – 321,591 | – 14.5% | ||
| La Guardia's margin over Jeremiah Mahoney (1937) | + 91,989 | +105,517 | +207,869 | + 40,966 | + 7,533 | + 453,874 | + 20.3% | ||
| La Guardia's margin over O'Dwyer (1941) | + 70,508 | + 74,312 | + 91,808 | – 92,718 | – 11,627 | + 132,283 | + 5.8% | ||
| Fiorello H. La Guardia | Republican | 188,851 | 103,420 | 242,537 | 116,359 | 17,318 | 668,485 | 29.5% | |
| 35.6% | 22.9% | 30.5% | 27.1% | 30.7% | |||||
| American Labor Party | 81,642 | 135,900 | 174,601 | 39,693 | 3,538 | 435,374 | 19.2% | ||
| 15.4% | 30.1% | 21.9% | 9.3% | 6.3% | |||||
| City Fusion | 21,642 | 14,719 | 17,024 | 8,759 | 1,223 | 63,367 | 2.8% | ||
| United City | 6,090 | 5,568 | 5,694 | 1,770 | 170 | 19,292 | 0.9% | ||
| Total | 298,225 | 259,607 | 439,856 | 166,581 | 22,249 | 1,186,518 | 52.4% | ||
| 56.2% | 57.6% | 55.2% | 38.8% | 39.4% | |||||
| William O'Dwyer | Democratic | 227,717 | 185,295 | 348,048 | 259,299 | 33,876 | 1,054,235 | 46.6% | |
| 42.9% | 41.1% | 43.7% | 60.5% | 60.1% | |||||
| [20] George W. Hartmann | Socialist | 4,790 | 6,005 | 8,574 | 2,973 | 274 | 22,616 | 1.0% | |
| T O T A L | 530,732 | 450,907 | 796,478 | 428,853 | 56,399 | 2,263,369 | |||
| 1937 | Party | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Richmond [Staten Is.] | Total | % | |
| La Guardia's margin over Mahoney | + 91,989 | +105,517 | + 207,869 | + 40,966 | + 7,533 | + 453,874 | + 20.3% | ||
| Fiorello H. La Guardia | Republican | 181,518 | 96,468 | 228,313 | 144,433 | 23,879 | 674,611 | 30.2% | |
| 32.1% | 22.0% | 29.2% | 37.3% | 38.4% | |||||
| American Labor Party | 99,735 | 138,756 | 200,783 | 40,153 | 3,363 | 482,790 | 21.6% | ||
| 17.6% | 31.6% | 25.7% | 10.4% | 5.4% | |||||
| Fusion | 39,959 | 30,677 | 55,423 | 26,217 | 7,280 | 159,556 | 7.1% | ||
| 7.1% | 7.0% | 7.1% | 6.8% | 11.7% | |||||
| 7,783 | 6,421 | 9,997 | 3,136 | 336 | 27,673 | 1.2% | |||
| 328,995 | 272,322 | 494,516 | 213,939 | 34,858 | 1,344,630 | 60.2% | |||
| 58.1% | 62.0% | 63.3% | 55.3% | 56.1% | |||||
| [21] Jeremiah T. Mahoney | Democratic | 233,120 | 163,856 | 282,137 | 171,002 | 27,100 | 877,215 | 39.2% | |
| 41.2% | 37.3% | 36.1% | 44.2% | 43.6% | |||||
| Trades Union | 2,044 | 1,378 | 2,490 | 1,014 | 122 | 7,048 | 0.3% | ||
| Anti-Communist | 1,842 | 1,571 | 2,020 | 957 | 103 | 6,493 | 0.3% | ||
| 237,006 | 166,805 | 286,647 | 172,973 | 27,325 | 890,756 | 39.8% | |||
| 41.9% | 38.0% | 36.7% | 44.7% | 43.9% | |||||
| 566,001 | 439,127 | 781,163 | 386,912 | 62,183 | 2,235,386 | ||||
| 1933 | Party | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Richmond [Staten Is.] | Total | % | |
| Republican - Fusion | 203,479 | 151,669 | 331,920 | 154,369 | 27,085 | 868,522 | 40.4% | ||
| 38.4% | 38.8% | 44.4% | 39.3% | 43.7% | |||||
| Recovery | 123,707 | 131,280 | 194,558 | 141,296 | 18,212 | 609,053 | 28.3% | ||
| 23.3% | 33.6% | 26.0% | 36.0% | 29.4% | |||||
| John P. O'Brien | Democratic | 192,649 | 93,403 | 194,335 | 90,501 | 15,784 | 586,672 | 27.3% | |
| 36.3% | 23.9% | 26.0% | 23.0% | 25.4% | |||||
| Charles Solomon | Socialist | 10,525 | 14,758 | 26,941 | 6,669 | 953 | 59,846 | 3.0% | |
| Robert Minor | Communist | 5,143 | 8,674 | 10,802 | 1,248 | 177 | 26,044 | 1.3% | |
| T O T A L | 536,100 | 400,297 | 759,399 | 394,393 | 62,316 | 2,152,505 | |||
While opposed by Tammany Hall, McKee enjoyed the support of Democratic President (and former Governor) Franklin D. Roosevelt, who declared neutrality when his ally Mayor La Guardia was running for reelection in . (See Ed Flynn's comments about FDR's 1936 contribution to starting the American Labor Party in the below.) According to Michael Tomasky, La Guardia, who had lost the Republican Mayoral primary to Manhattan Borough President Henry Curran, did not enjoy the support of a united Republican Party when he won the party's nomination and lost the general election in, but was able to win over Republican organizational support in 1933.[22] The 1933 LaGuardia vote was 446,833 Republican and 421,689 City Fusion. The O'Brien vote was 570,937 Democratic and 15,735 Jeffersonian.There were also 1,778 votes for Henry Klein-Five Cent Fare & Taxpayers; 472 for Aaron Orange - Socialist Labor; and 118 for Adolph Silver - Independent Union.
In 1933, a year that might otherwise have favored the Socialist Party's chances, the New Deal began, Morris Hillquit died, Norman Thomas refused to run again for mayor, and the Socialist vote (previously as high as one-eighth to one-fifth of the total) collapsed irretrievably from a quarter of a million to sixty thousand (one-thirtieth of the total). Many supporters of Thomas's 1929 campaign defected (some, like Paul Blanshard, also leaving the Party) to support Fiorello La Guardia.[23] By the time of the next mayoral election in 1937, which the Socialist Party decided by internal referendum not to contest, many reformers and trade-unionists who wanted to support major-party progressives like La Guardia (R-ALP-Fusion), Gov. Herbert Lehman (D-ALP) and Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt (D-ALP) from outside the two-party structure backed the American Labor Party (ALP), the Social Democratic Federation and later the Liberal Party of New York.[24] After a disastrous gubernatorial campaign in 1938 (where Thomas and George Hartmann won only 25,000 votes out of over 4.7 million), the Socialist Party lost its separate line on the New York ballot, allowed its members to join the ALP, and indeed encouraged them to do so. In 1939, the Socialist Harry W. Laidler, a co-founder of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society and League for Industrial Democracy, was elected (with the help of proportional representation) to the New York City Council on the ALP's ticket, but lost its renomination two years later because of rivalry with the Communists.[25]
| year | Social-Democratic Party & Socialist Party of America | votes | % | Socialist Labor Party | votes | % | other left, labor & reform | votes | % | |
| 1897 | Lucien Sanial † | 14,467 | 2.8% | Henry George, Jefferson Dem. | 21,693 | 4.1% | ||||
| 1901 | Ben Hanford [SDP] | 9,834 | 1.7% | Benjamin F. Keinard | 6,213 | 1.1% | ||||
| 1903 | Charles Forman [SDP] | 16,956 | 2.9% | James Hunter | 5,205 | 0.9% | ||||
| 1905 | Algernon Lee | 11,817 | 2.0% | John Kinneally | 2,276 | 0.4% | W.R. Hearst, Muni. Own'ship | 224,989 | 37.2% | |
| 1909 | Joseph Cassidy | 11,768 | 2.0% | James Hunter | 1,256 | 0.2% | Wm R. Hearst, Civic Alliance | 154,187 | 25.9% | |
| 1913 | Charles Edward Russell | 32,057 | 5.1% | William Walters | 1,647 | 0.3% | ||||
| 1917 | Morris Hillquit | 145,332 | 21.7% | Edmund Seidel | 858 | 0.1% | George Wallace, Single Tax | 258 | 0.04% | |
| 1921 | Jacob Panken | 82,607 | 7.1% | John P. Quinn | 1,049 | 0.1% | Jerome De Hunt, Farmer-Lab. | 1,008 | 0.1% | |
| 1925 | Norman Thomas | 39,574 | 3.5% | Joseph Brandon | 1,643 | 0.1% | Warren Fisher, Progressive | 1,498 | 0.1% | |
| 1929 | Norman Thomas | 175,697 | 12.0% | Olive M. Johnson | 6,401 | 0.4% | Richard Enright, Square Deal | 5,965 | 0.4% | |
| 1932 | Morris Hillquit | 251,656 | 12.6% | Olive M. Johnson | 11,379 | 0.5% | Wm. Patterson, Communist | 24,014 | 1.2% | |
| 1933 | Charles Solomon | 59,846 | 3.0% | Robert Minor, Communist | 26,044 | 1.3% | ||||
| 1937 | [no candidate] | Emil Teichert | 2,367 | 0.1% | F. H. La Guardia, ALP line only | 482,790 | 21.6% | |||
| 1941 | George W. Hartmann | 22,616 | 1.0% | F. H. La Guardia, ALP line only | 435,374 | 19.2% | ||||
† In 1894 and in 1897, Lucien Sanial was the mayoral candidate of the Socialist Labor Party before both the SLP and the Social Democratic Party each split in two. In 1901, one faction of the SLP, led by Morris Hillquit, and one faction of the SDP, led by Eugene V. Debs, united to form the Socialist Party of America, which soon drew away many votes formerly cast for the SLP. For further details, see Hillquit's History of Socialism in the United States (1910) and Howard Quint's Forging of American Socialism (1964), both cited in the at the end of this article.
Totals after a court-ordered recount:
| Year | Candidate | Party | Total | percent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 (after recount) | ||||
| Independent/Write-in |
Joseph V. McKee, as the (popularly elected) President of the Board of Aldermen, became Acting Mayor upon the resignation of elected Mayor Jimmy Walker on September 1, 1932. McKee's write-in total is, in fact, the highest any New York City election would ever see. For the election after the next one, voting machines which would make write-in voting much more difficult were introduced. Machines of this basic design are still being used.
Lewis Humphrey Pounds was President of the Borough of Brooklyn from June 1913 to December 1917.[27]
This was the last of many campaigns for different offices by Morris Hillquit, a co-founder of the Socialist Party of America, who died in 1933. Hillquit had won over 21% of the vote for mayor in 1917.
| 1932 (before recount) | Party | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Richmond [Staten Is.] | Total | % | |
| John P. O'Brien | Democratic | 308,944 | 181,639 | 358,945 | 176,070 | 30,517 | 1,056,115 | 53.2% | |
| 60.0% | 50.2% | 50.1% | 47.6% | 54.1% | |||||
| Lewis H. Pounds | Republican | 116,729 | 48,366 | 157,152 | 105,068 | 16,586 | 443,901 | 22.0% | |
| 22.7% | 13.4% | 21.9% | 28.4% | 29.4% | |||||
| Morris Hillquit | Socialist | 40,011 | 68,980 | 113,622 | 24,981 | 2,293 | 249,887 | 12.4% | |
| 7.8% | 19.1% | 15.8% | 6.8% | 4.1% | |||||
| Joseph V. McKee | Independent (write-in) | 42,299 | 50,212 | 73,431 | 61,648 | 6,782 | 234,372 | 11.6% | |
| 8.2% | 13.9% | 10.2% | 16.7% | 12.0% | |||||
| T O T A L | 514,661 | 361,612 | 716,963 | 370,018 | 56,414 | 2,019,668 |
There were also 24,014 votes 1.2% for William Patterson - Communist and 11,379 0.5% for Olive Johnson - Socialist Labor
See main article: 1929 New York City mayoral election.
| 1929 | Party | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Richmond [Staten Is.] | Total | % | |
| Jimmy Walker | Democratic | 232,370 | 159,948 | 283,432 | 166,188 | 25,584 | 867,522 | 60.7% | |
| 63.8% | 62.9% | 57.7% | 61.7% | 60.7% | |||||
| Fiorello H. La Guardia | Republican | 91,944 | 52,646 | 132,095 | 75,911 | 15,079 | 367,675 | 25.7% | |
| 25.3% | 20.7% | 26.9% | 28.2% | 34.0% | |||||
| Norman Thomas | Socialist | 37,316 | 39,181 | 71,145 | 24,897 | 3,248 | 175,697 | 12.3% | |
| 10.3% | 15.4% | 14.5% | 9.2% | 7.3% | |||||
| Socialist Labor | 1,238 | 1,577 | 2,585 | 906 | 95 | 6,401 | 0.4% | ||
| Richard Edward Enright | Square Deal | 1,121 | 845 | 2,361 | 1,354 | 284 | 5,965 | 0.4% | |
| 363,989 | 254,197 | 491,618 | 269,256 | 44,290 | 1,423,260 | 99.6% | |||
| others | 6,125 | 0.4% | |||||||
| 1,429,385 | |||||||||
¶ Basic numbers for the elections of 1897 to 1925 come from The World Almanac and Book of Facts for 1929 and 1943. Percentages and borough totals calculated independently. (Because of some anomalies, not all columns and rows add precisely.) First names and informational links gathered from Wikipedia and several external sources, including the free public archive of The New York Times.
See main article: 1925 New York City mayoral election. Mayor Hylan, an ally of the newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst, was unseated in a venomous Democratic primary by "Gentleman" Jimmy Walker, the Democratic party leader in the New York State Senate, who had been recruited to oppose Hylan by Hearst's inveterate enemy, Democratic Governor Al Smith. After the death of Tammany Hall leader Charles F. Murphy in 1924, the regular Democratic organizations also split their allegiances, with Hylan receiving support from John McCooey, the leader in Brooklyn, and Walker from Ed Flynn of the Bronx. (Hearst had run for mayor on third-party tickets in 1905 and 1909, while Al Smith had lost a bid for the Democratic nomination for mayor in 1917, instead winning the presidency of the New York City Council as Hylan's running-mate.) [28]
| 1925 general election | Party | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Richmond [Staten Is.] | Total | % | |
| Jimmy Walker | Democratic | 247,079 | 131,226 | 244,029 | 103,629 | 22,724 | 748,687 | 65.8% | |
| 69.4% | 71.8% | 60.9% | 63.0% | 67.3% | |||||
| Republican | 98,617 | 39,615 | 139,060 | 58,478 | 10,794 | 346,564 | 30.5% | ||
| 27.7% | 21.7% | 34.7% | 35.6% | 32.0% | |||||
| Norman Thomas | Socialist | 9,482 | 11,133 | 16,809 | 1,943 | 207 | 39,574 | 3.5% | |
| Joseph Brandon | Socialist Labor | 388 | 488 | 591 | 155 | 21 | 1,643 | 0.1% | |
| Warren Fisher | Progressive | 387 | 262 | 528 | 284 | 37 | 1,498 | 0.1% | |
| TOTAL | 355,953 | 182,724 | 401,017 | 164,489 | 33,783 | 1,137,966 | |||
| 1925 Democratic primary | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Richmond [Staten Is.] | Total | % | |
| Jimmy Walker | 102,835 | 45,308 | 65,671 | 28,203 | 6,321 | 248,338 | 62% | |
| 79% | 68% | 52% | 47% | 34% | ||||
| John Francis Hylan | 27,802 | 21,228 | 60,814 | 32,163 | 12,197 | 154,204 | 38% | |
| 21% | 32% | 48% | 53% | 66% | ||||
| subtotal (for Walker and Hylan only) | 130,637 | 66,536 | 126,485 | 60,366 | 18,518 | 402,542 | [100%] |
| 1921 | Party | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Richmond [Staten Is.] | Total | % | |
| John Francis Hylan | Democratic | 261,452 | 118,235 | 260,143 | 87,676 | 22,741 | 750,247 | 64.2% | |
| 62.9% | 67.6% | 62.1% | 69.0% | 70.8% | |||||
| Henry H. Curran | Republican - Coalition | 124,253 | 34,919 | 128,259 | 36,415 | 9,000 | 332,846 | 28.5% | |
| 29.9% | 20.0% | 30.6% | 28.6% | 28.0% | |||||
| Jacob Panken | Socialist | 28,756 | 21,255 | 29,580 | 2,741 | 275 | 82,607 | 7.1% | |
| 6.9% | 12.2% | 7.1% | 2.2% | 0.9% | |||||
| Jerome T. De Hunt | Farmer Labor | 321 | 133 | 395 | 88 | 71 | 1,008 | 0.1% | |
| John P. Quinn | Socialist Labor | 316 | 244 | 346 | 123 | 20 | 1,049 | 0.1% | |
| George K. Hinds | Prohibition | 375 | 120 | 390 | 111 | 14 | 1,010 | 0.1% | |
| TOTAL | 415,473 | 174,906 | 419,113 | 127,154 | 32,121 | 1,168,767 |
| 1917 | Party | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Richmond [Staten Is.] | Total | % | |
| John Francis Hylan | Democratic | 113,728 | 41,546 | 114,487 | 35,399 | 8,850 | 314,010 | 46.6% | |
| 46.4% | 42.9% | 46.5% | 51.7% | 58.2% | |||||
| John Purroy Mitchel | 66,748 | 19,247 | 52,921 | 13,641 | 2,940 | 155,497 | 23.1% | ||
| 27.3% | 19.9% | 21.5% | 19.9% | 19.4% | |||||
| Morris Hillquit | Socialist | 51,176 | 30,374 | 48,880 | 13,477 | 1,425 | 145,332 | 21.6% | |
| 20.9% | 31.4% | 19.9% | 19.7% | 9.4% | |||||
| William M. Bennett | Republican | 13,230 | 5,576 | 29,748 | 5,916 | 1,968 | 56,438 | 8.4% | |
| 5.4% | 5.8% | 12.1% | 8.6% | 13.0% | |||||
| Subtotal | 244,882 | 96,743 | 246,036 | 68,433 | 15,183 | 671,277 | 99.7% | ||
| 897 | 0.1% | ||||||||
| Edmund Seidel | 858 | 0.1% | |||||||
| George Wallace | 268 | 0.04% | |||||||
| T O T A L | 673,300 | 100.0% | |||||||
See main article: 1917 New York City mayoral election.
The Fall 1917 election would have been exciting even had it occurred in peacetime. In September, the City held its first-ever primary elections for mayor. The sitting independent Mayor, John P. Mitchel, who had enjoyed Republican support under Fusion in 1913, narrowly lost the Republican primary to William Bennett, after mistakes and frauds led to a series of recounts. When negotiations between the parties failed, Mitchel ran alone as a Fusion candidate against Bennett, the Socialist Morris Hillquit and John F. Hylan, the regular Democrat supported by Tammany Hall and William Randolph Hearst.
However, the elections happened after the United States had declared war on April 6. Hillquit and the Socialist Party quickly and vigorously opposed the war, which Mitchel vigorously supported. Hillquit's anti-war position helped the Socialists win their highest-ever vote for mayor, but also led to vitriolic denunciations by many, including The New York Times and former President Theodore Roosevelt. Mitchel and Hillquit each won less than quarter of the vote, while Hylan, who had been non-committal about the war, won the election with less than half the vote. However, as in 1897, the numbers suggest that Tammany Hall might have won even against a unified opposition.
¶ The Bronx and Manhattan, although separate Boroughs since 1898, shared New York County and reported their votes together until Bronx County was formed in April 1912 and came into its separate existence on January 1, 1914.
[''[[World Almanac and Book of Facts|The World Almanac]] does not list separate returns for the two boroughs until 1917, but The Encyclopedia of New York City (see Sources) gives these major candidates' results for 1913:
| 1913 | Party | The Bronx and Manhattan | Brooklyn | Queens | Richmond [Staten Is.] | Total | % | |
| John Purroy Mitchel | Fusion | 178,224 | 137,074 | 34,279 | 8,604 | 358,181 | 57.1% | |
| 54.7% | 60.2% | 59.6% | 54.4% | |||||
| Edward E. McCall | Democratic | 129,113 | 77,826 | 20,097 | 6,883 | 233,919 | 37.3% | |
| 39.6% | 34.2% | 35.0% | 43.3% | |||||
| Charles Edward Russell | Socialist | 17,383 | 11,560 | 2,865 | 249 | 32,057 | 5.1% | |
| William Walters | Socialist Labor | 952 | 538 | 129 | 28 | 1,647 | 0.3% | |
| Norman Raymond | Prohibition | 412 | 587 | 118 | 96 | 1,213 | 0.2% | |
| TOTAL | 326,084 | 227,585 | 57,488 | 15,860 | 627,017 |
| 1909 | Party | The Bronx and Manhattan | Brooklyn | Queens | Richmond [Staten Is.] | Total | % | |
| William Jay Gaynor | 134,075 | 91,666 | 17,570 | 7,067 | 250,378 | 42.1% | ||
| 42.5% | 41.9% | 38.4% | 47.1% | |||||
| William Randolph Hearst | Civic Alliance | 87,155 | 49,040 | 15,186 | 2,806 | 154,187 | 25.9% | |
| 27.6% | 22.4% | 33.2% | 18.7% | |||||
| Otto T. Bannard | Republican - Fusion | 86,497 | 73,860 | 11,907 | 5,049 | 177,313 | 29.8% | |
| 27.4% | 33.8% | 26.0% | 33.6% | |||||
| Joseph Cassidy | Socialist | 6,811 | 3,874 | 1,004 | 79 | 11,768 | 2.0% | |
| James T. Hunter | Socialist Labor | 813 | 369 | 56 | 18 | 1,256 | 0.2% | |
| TOTAL | 315,351 | 218,809 | 45,723 | 15,019 | 594,902 | |||
| 1905 | Party | The Bronx and Manhattan | Brooklyn | Queens | Richmond [Staten Is.] | Total | % | |
| George B. McClellan Jr. | 140,264 | 68,788 | 13,228 | 6,127 | 228,407 | 37.8% | ||
| 41.6% | 31.4% | 37.6% | 44.1% | |||||
| William Randolph Hearst | Municipal Ownership League | 123,292 | 84,835 | 13,766 | 3,096 | 224,989 | 37.2% | |
| 36.6% | 38.8% | 39.2% | 22.3% | |||||
| [30] William Mills Ivins Sr. | Republican | 64,280 | 61,192 | 7,213 | 4,499 | 137,184 | 22.7% | |
| 19.1% | 28.0% | 20.5% | 32.4% | |||||
| Algernon Lee | Socialist | 7,466 | 3,387 | 847 | 117 | 11,817 | 2.0% | |
| John Kinneally | Socialist Labor | 1,485 | 657 | 95 | 39 | 2,276 | 0.4% | |
| TOTAL | 336,787 | 218,859 | 35,149 | 13,878 | 604,673 | |||
| 1903 | Party | The Bronx and Manhattan | Brooklyn | Queens | Richmond [Staten Is.] | Total | % | |
| George B. McClellan Jr. | Democratic | 188,681 | 102,569 | 17,074 | 6,458 | 314,782 | 53.4% | |
| 56.1% | 48.8% | 56.5% | 48.1% | |||||
| Seth Low | Fusion | 132,178 | 101,251 | 11,960 | 6,697 | 252,086 | 42.7% | |
| 39.3% | 48.2% | 39.6% | 49.9% | |||||
| Charles Forman | Social Democratic | 11,318 | 4,529 | 976 | 133 | 16,956 | 2.9% | |
| [31] James T. Hunter | Socialist Labor | 3,540 | 1,411 | 178 | 76 | 5,205 | 0.9% | |
| John McKee | Prohibition | 376 | 396 | 47 | 50 | 869 | 0.1% | |
| TOTAL | 336,093 | 210,156 | 30,235 | 13,414 | 589,898 | |||
| 1901 | Party | The Bronx and Manhattan | Brooklyn | Queens | Richmond [Staten Is.] | Total | % | |
| Edward M. Shepard | Democratic | 156,631 | 88,858 | 13,679 | 6,009 | 265,177 | 45.8% | |
| 47.4% | 42.7% | 49.4% | 46.1% | |||||
| Seth Low | Fusion | 162,298 | 114,625 | 13,118 | 6,772 | 296,813 | 51.2% | |
| 49.1% | 55.0% | 47.4% | 51.9% | |||||
| Benjamin Hanford | Social Democratic | 6,409 | 2,692 | 613 | 120 | 9,834 | 1.7% | |
| Benjamin F. Keinard | Socialist Labor | 4,323 | 1,638 | 181 | 71 | 6,213 | 1.1% | |
| Alfred L. Manierre | Prohibition | 617 | 501 | 74 | 72 | 1,264 | 0.2% | |
| TOTAL | 330,278 | 208,314 | 27,665 | 13,044 | 579,301 | |||
| 1897 | Party | The Bronx and Manhattan | Brooklyn | Queens | Richmond [Staten Is.] | Total | % | |
| Robert A. Van Wyck | Democratic | 143,666 | 76,185 | 9,275 | 4,871 | 233,997 | 44.7% | |
| 48.0% | 40.1% | 40.7% | 43.5% | |||||
| Seth Low | Citizens' Union | 77,210 | 65,656 | 5,876 | 2,798 | 151,540 | 28.9% | |
| 25.8% | 34.6% | 25.8% | 25.0% | |||||
| Benjamin F. Tracy | Republican | 55,834 | 37,611 | 5,639 | 2,779 | 101,863 | 19.5% | |
| 18.6% | 19.8% | 24.7% | 24.8% | |||||
| † Henry George | Jefferson Democracy | 13,076 | 6,938 | 1,096 | 583 | 21,693 | 4.1% | |
| Socialist Labor | 9,796 | 3,593 | 921 | 157 | 14,467 | 2.8% | ||
| TOTAL | 299,582 | 189,983 | 22,807 | 11,188 | 523,560 |
† Henry George, author of Progress and Poverty and proponent of the Single Tax on land, died (probably from the strain of campaign speeches) on October 29, four days before Election Day; his son was nominated to take his place representing "The Democracy of Thomas Jefferson".[32] [In 1886, George had been the United Labor Party's candidate for Mayor of the smaller City of New York, now the Borough of [[Manhattan]], winning 68,110 votes to 90,552 for the Democrat Abram Hewitt and 60,435 for the Republican Theodore Roosevelt, although George's supporters maintained that he had lost the election through fraud.] [33]
For Lucien Sanial, see the table notes under above (1933) and ALL THEY NEED IS VOTES; THREE CANDIDATES FOR MAYOR WHO WOULD MAKE A STIR. in The New York Times for Wednesday, November 4, 1894, page 19.
It appears from the percentages to be an open question whether the Republican Party's decision in 1897 not to support Seth Low's Fusion campaign caused his defeat by splitting the vote against Tammany Hall. Republicans withdrew in Low's favor in 1901 (when he won) and in 1903 (when he lost).
Many sources have been consulted and compared, but the most important ones are these: