New York gubernatorial election, 1966

November 8, 1966



Candidate	Nelson Rockefeller	Frank D. O'Connor
Party	Republican	Democratic
Running mate	Malcolm Wilson	Howard J. Samuels
Popular vote	2,690,626	2,298,363
Percentage	44.61%	38.11%


Candidate	Paul L. Adams	Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr.
Party	Conservative	Liberal
Popular vote	510,023	507,234
Percentage	8.46%	8.41%

Governor before election

Nelson Rockefeller
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Elected Governor

Nelson Rockefeller
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The 1966 New York gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1966 to elect the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of New York.

Contested Nominations 1
- Conservative 1.1
- Democratic 1.2
- Liberal 1.3
Results 2
- Results by County 2.1
References 3

Contested Nominations

Conservative

Conservative Party convention results^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Paul L. Adams	239	74.92%
	Conservative	Donald H. Serrell	68	21.32%
	Conservative	John J. O'Leary	12	3.76%
Totals			319	100.00%

Democratic

Democratic Party Convention results^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Frank D. O'Connor	569	80.60%
	Democratic	Howard J. Samuels	137	19.41%
Totals			706	100.00%

Liberal

Liberal Party Convention results^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr.	209	82.28%
	Liberal	James L. Farmer, Jr.	33	12.99%
		Abstaining	12	4.72%
Totals			254	100.00%

Results

New York gubernatorial election, 1990
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Nelson Rockefeller	2,690,626	44.61%	-8.47%
	Democratic	Frank D. O'Connor	2,298,363	38.11%	-5.86%
	Conservative	Paul L. Adams	510,023	8.46%	+6.02%
	Liberal	Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr.	507,234	8.41%	+4.23%
	Socialist Labor	Milton Herder	12,730	0.21%	+0.04%
	Socialist Workers	Judith White	12,506	0.21%	-0.13%
Majority			392,263	6.50%	-2.62%
Turnout			6,031,482
	Republican hold

Results by County

County	Rockefeller%	Rockefeller#	O'Connor%	O'Connor#	Adams%	Adams#	Roosevelt%	Roosevelt#	Herder%	Herder#	White%	White#	Total
Albany	47.93%	64,002	46.20%	61,690	1.87%	2,492	3.90%	5,202	0.08%	102	0.04%	53	133,541
Allegany	60.48%	8,649	23.63%	3,380	5.39%	771	10.22%	1,462	0.15%	21	0.13%	18	14,301
Bronx	35.20%	154,349	45.55%	199,719	9.11%	39,926	9.72%	42,622	0.14%	612	0.29%	1,256	438,484
Broome	51.14%	38,304	34.55%	25,880	4.79%	3,589	9.30%	6,962	0.17%	126	0.05%	37	74,898
Cattaraugus	48.43%	13,228	34.52%	9,429	5.55%	1,517	11.27%	3,078	0.16%	45	0.05%	15	27,312
Cayuga	39.10%	11,593	40.59%	12,035	13.14%	3,896	6.86%	2,033	0.28%	84	0.02%	7	29,648
Work In Progress Below This Line
Chautauqua	59.41%	22,869	21.62%	8,323	14.93%	5,747	0.89%	341	0.44%	170	0.94%	360	38,493
Chemung	62.79%	16,398	17.69%	4,619	15.39%	4,018	0.83%	216	0.70%	183	0.64%	166	26,116
Chenango	59.50%	8,676	17.34%	2,529	17.81%	2,597	0.79%	115	1.54%	225	0.94%	137	14,582
Clinton	72.36%	17,113	14.82%	2,529	6.55%	1,550	0.64%	151	0.61%	145	1.05%	248	23,650
Columbia	52.06%	11,995	28.01%	6,454	13.42%	3,091	0.69%	160	1.97%	454	1.50%	346	23,040
Cortland	54.33%	7,851	24.37%	3,522	16.56%	2,393	0.80%	116	1.44%	208	0.80%	115	14,450
Delaware	58.99%	9,139	18.58%	2,878	14.98%	2,320	0.86%	134	1.42%	220	1.43%	221	15,492
Dutchess	57.26%	44,289	24.05%	18,606	13.80%	10,671	1.31%	1,015	0.94%	729	0.92%	715	77,348
Erie	43.18%	130,377	28.27%	85,360	22.75%	68,702	1.59%	4,791	0.61%	1,831	0.96%	2,905	301,929
Essex	71.84%	10,550	12.22%	1,794	8.06%	1,183	0.70%	103	0.74%	108	1.15%	169	14,686
Franklin	68.37%	8,628	15.92%	2,009	7.87%	993	0.83%	105	0.68%	86	0.97%	122	12,619
Fulton	56.09%	9,012	19.01%	3,055	20.54%	3,301	0.91%	146	0.38%	61	1.00%	160	16,067
Genesee	52.23%	9,588	13.91%	2,553	29.43%	5,402	1.21%	223	0.44%	81	0.82%	150	18,358
Greene	57.90%	9,363	20.29%	3,281	16.23%	2,625	1.15%	186	0.80%	129	1.34%	216	16,170
Hamilton	59.86%	1,740	18.92%	550	16.62%	483	1.10%	32	0.28%	8	1.24%	36	2,907
Herkimer	59.86%	11,834	15.80%	3,178	20.58%	4,140	0.92%	186	0.48%	97	0.96%	194	20,113
Jefferson	65.18%	17,616	14.42%	3,897	16.33%	4,414	0.66%	179	0.30%	82	0.64%	172	27,027
Kings (Brooklyn)	34.60%	141,846	56.12%	230,040	4.10%	16,787	0.40%	1,655	1.38%	5,674	0.21%	875	409,909
Lewis	62.30%	5,823	14.66%	1,370	16.71%	1,562	0.92%	86	0.29%	27	0.88%	82	9,347
Livingston	43.10%	8,757	17.97%	3,651	34.77%	7,066	0.82%	167	0.69%	140	1.01%	205	20,320
Madison	51.87%	10,393	20.99%	4,206	22.43%	4,493	1.18%	236	0.82%	164	0.95%	191	20,035
Monroe	34.27%	81,110	24.65%	58,334	37.17%	87,967	0.77%	1,820	0.81%	1,929	0.86%	2,039	236,691
Montgomery	52.64%	9,285	18.97%	3,346	20.26%	3,573	0.87%	153	0.37%	65	1.04%	183	17,640
Nassau	60.56%	232,785	25.98%	99,865	9.33%	35,860	1.45%	5,574	0.37%	1,572	0.74%	2,855	384,408
New York (Manhattan)	32.53%	117,863	55.78%	202,101	5.45%	19,743	0.25%	916	2.05%	7,415	1.40%	5,054	362,277
Niagara	47.65%	32,005	19.30%	12,966	27.21%	18,278	1.36%	916	0.31%	210	0.96%	648	67,165
Oneida	56.14%	40,186	19.17%	13,719	19.94%	14,274	1.31%	940	0.35%	251	0.93%	668	71,580
Onondaga	50.47%	74,694	26.43%	39,110	18.56%	27,459	0.92%	1,366	0.84%	1,239	0.97%	1,437	147,986
Ontario	45.38%	15,480	16.16%	5,512	33.65%	11,478	0.72%	247	0.87%	297	1.01%	343	34,111
Orange	61.22%	53,950	20.27%	17,866	13.52%	11,914	1.42%	1,251	0.79%	695	0.81%	715	88,121
Orleans	48.15%	5,426	13.92%	1,568	34.34%	3,869	0.88%	99	0.41%	46	0.75%	84	11,268
Oswego	52.97%	17,393	20.79%	6,826	21.66%	7,111	0.86%	284	0.45%	147	0.99%	325	32,836
Otsego	54.40%	9,846	22.70%	4,109	15.60%	2,824	0.97%	175	1.95%	353	1.75%	316	18,099
Putnam	69.50%	19,998	14.79%	4,284	11.11%	3,217	1.24%	359	0.83%	240	1.09%	317	28,961
Queens	43.74%	155,599	45.18%	160,746	6.06%	21,556	0.90%	3,219	0.68%	2,402	0.62%	2,196	355,756
Rensselaer	48.91%	27,120	27.94%	15,491	17.87%	9,908	1.08%	601	0.92%	512	1.14%	631	55,447
Richmond (Staten Island)	67.06%	59,656	20.50%	18,239	8.52%	7,583	0.81%	722	0.46%	409	0.66%	586	88,958
Rockland	61.26%	53,025	25.48%	22,054	8.73%	7,557	0.75%	649	0.68%	589	0.87%	750	86,551
St. Lawrence	62.64%	19,365	19.89%	6,234	11.55%	3,621	0.53%	166	0.46%	145	0.95%	297	31,348
Saratoga	54.21%	38,797	23.59%	16,881	17.39%	12,448	0.92%	659	1.03%	735	1.13%	811	71,567
Schenectady	46.96%	24,201	27.90%	14,378	19.63%	10,116	1.06%	546	0.80%	410	1.02%	527	51,537
Schoharie	53.11%	5,731	21.28%	2,296	19.84%	2,141	1.12%	121	1.01%	109	1.38%	149	10,791
Schuyler	58.93%	3,535	17.39%	1,043	16.49%	989	0.95%	57	2.02%	121	0.95%	57	5,999
Seneca	55.65%	5,969	18.52%	1,986	21.16%	2,270	0.74%	79	0.76%	81	1.22%	131	10,726
Steuben	62.26%	17,523	12.15%	3,419	20.33%	5,721	1.03%	290	0.82%	232	0.81%	229	28,147
Suffolk	57.79%	209,361	22.85%	82,776	14.16%	51,288	1.54%	5,589	0.55%	1,978	0.89%	3,216	362,280
Sullivan	54.89%	11,279	24.09%	4,949	15.25%	3,133	1.10%	226	0.83%	170	1.17%	240	20,548
Tioga	59.54%	9,561	14.92%	2,396	21.54%	3,459	0.82%	131	1.07%	172	0.78%	125	16,059
Tompkins	39.00%	10,995	38.62%	10,887	11.84%	3,338	0.53%	150	5.03%	1,418	2.13%	601	28,192
Ulster	50.88%	29,801	26.58%	15,567	15.72%	9,205	0.87%	511	2.25%	1,318	1.79%	1,046	58,572
Warren	56.75%	11,964	22.91%	4,831	15.09%	3,182	0.89%	188	0.68%	143	1.08%	227	21,083
Washington	55.23%	9,491	21.92%	3,767	17.53%	3,012	0.93%	160	0.88%	152	1.26%	217	17,183
Wayne	45.00%	12,553	14.95%	4,171	36.45%	10,169	0.89%	248	0.54%	152	0.87%	242	27,898
Westchester	54.37%	140,329	31.81%	82,099	8.95%	23,113	0.85%	2,200	0.77%	1,982	1.05%	2,715	258,104
Wyoming	53.57%	6,931	15.72%	2,034	25.50%	3,299	1.84%	238	0.32%	41	0.87%	112	12,938
Yates	52.26%	3,781	18.23%	1,319	24.44%	1,768	1.04%	75	1.06%	77	1.16%	84	7,235
Totals	49.40%	2,262,255	33.50%	1,534,064	14.28%	654,016	0.97%	44,195	0.91%	41,797	0.93%	42,751	4,579,078

References

^ http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=232651
^ http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=748979
^ http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=226627

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References

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