Election results, New York Attorney General

2010

The 2010 election was held on November 2, 2010. Eric Schneiderman was elected to replace incumbent Andrew Cuomo

Andrew Cuomo

Andrew Mark Cuomo is the 56th and current Governor of New York, having assumed office on January 1, 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the 64th New York State Attorney General, and was the 11th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development...

who successfully ran for governor.

2006

The 2006 election was held on November 7. Andrew Cuomo was elected to replace incumbent Eliot Spitzer

Eliot Spitzer

Eliot Laurence Spitzer is an American lawyer, former Democratic Party politician, and political commentator. He was the co-host of In the Arena, a talk-show and punditry forum broadcast on CNN until CNN cancelled his show in July of 2011...

who successfully ran for governor.

Year
2006	Andrew Cuomo Andrew Cuomo Andrew Mark Cuomo is the 56th and current Governor of New York, having assumed office on January 1, 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the 64th New York State Attorney General, and was the 11th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development... Democrat Working Families Working Families Party The Working Families Party is a minor political party in the United States founded in New York in 1998. There are "sister" parties to the New York WFP in Connecticut, Massachusetts, South Carolina, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Oregon, but there is as yet no national WFP... 2,509.311 58.31%	Jeanine Pirro Jeanine Pirro Jeanine Ferris Pirro is a former prosecutor, judge, and elected official from the state of New York, who is currently a legal analyst and television personality. A Republican from Westchester County, Pirro served as a county court judge before serving as the elected District Attorney of... Republican Independence Independence Party of New York The Independence Party is an affiliate in the U.S. state of New York of the Independence Party of America. The party was founded in 1991 by Dr. Gordon Black, Tom Golisano, and Laureen Oliver from Rochester, New York, and acquired ballot status in 1994... Conservative 1,692,580 39.33%	Rachel Treichler Green Green Party (United States) The Green Party of the United States is a nationally recognized political party which officially formed in 1991. It is a voluntary association of state green parties. Prior to national formation, many state affiliates had already formed and were recognized by other state parties... 61,849 1.44%	Christopher B. Garvey Libertarian Libertarian Party (United States) The Libertarian Party is the third largest and fastest growing political party in the United States. The political platform of the Libertarian Party reflects its brand of libertarianism, favoring minimally regulated, laissez-faire markets, strong civil liberties, minimally regulated migration... 29,413 0.68%	Martin Koppel Socialist Workers Socialist Workers Party (United States) The Socialist Workers Party is a far-left political organization in the United States. The group places a priority on "solidarity work" to aid strikes and is strongly supportive of Cuba... 10.197 0.24%

4,701,065 ballots were cast. Out of them, 397,715 were declared blank, void or missing.

2002

The 2002 election was held on November 5. Democratic incumbent Eliot Spitzer was reelected by a wide margin:

Year
2002	Eliot L. Spitzer Democrat Independence Liberal Liberal Party of New York The Liberal Party of New York is a minor American political party that has been active only in the state of New York. Its platform supports a standard set of social liberal policies: it supports right to abortion, increased spending on education, and universal health care.As of 2007, the Liberal... Working Families 2,744,302 66.42%	Dora Irizarry Dora Irizarry Dora L. Irizarry is a Federal Judge in New York. She was born in San Sebastian, Puerto Rico, on January 26, 1955, and was raised in the Bronx in New York City. She attended the Bronx High School of Science and went on to graduate from Yale University in 1976 and Columbia University Law School in... Republican Conservative 1,234,899 29.89%	John J. Broderick Right to Life New York State Right to Life Party The New York State Right to Life Party was founded to oppose the legalization of abortion in New York in 1970. The party first made the state ballot in the 1978 gubernatorial election, where its candidate Mary Jane Tobin won 130,000 votes... 78,268 1.89%	Mary Jo Long Green 50,755 1.23%	Daniel A. Counti, Jr. Libertarian 23,213 0.56%

4,690,536 ballots were cast. Out of them, 559,099 were declared blank, void or missing.

1998

The 1998 election was held on November 3. Democratic challenger Eliot Spitzer narrowly unseated one-term Republican incumbent Dennis Vacco :

Year
1998	Eliot L. Spitzer Democrat Liberal 2,084,948 48.20%	Dennis C. Vacco Dennis Vacco Dennis C. Vacco is an American lawyer and politician. He graduated a B.A. from Colgate University in 1974, a J.D... Republican Conservative 2,059,762 47.62%	Catherine Abate Independence 81,439 1.88%	Robert W. Dapelo Right to Life 60,399 1.40%	Daniel A. Conti, Jr. Libertarian 19,864 0.46%	Johann L. Moore Green 18,984 0.44%

4,985,474 ballots were cast. Out of them, 660,078 were declared blank, void or missing.

1994

The 1994 election was held on November 8. Republican Dennis Vacco won an open seat in a close election, as Robert Abrams, the Democratic incubent, decided not to seek reelection.

Year
1994	Dennis C. Vacco Republican Conservative 2,294,528 49.28%	Karen Burstein Karen Burstein Karen Burstein is a politician and former judge from New York. She was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for New York State Attorney General in 1994.-Biography:... Democrat Liberal 2,206,188 47.38%	Alfred I. Skidmore Right to Life 85,649 1.84%	James M. Hartman Independence Fusion 37,500 0.81%	Daniel A. Conti Libertarian 19,202 0.41%	Nancy H. Rosenstock Socialist Workers 13,416 0.29%

5,325,323 ballots were cast. Out of them, 668,840 were declared blank, void or missing.

Past elections

Year
1990	Robert Abrams Robert Abrams Robert Abrams is an American lawyer and politician.-Life and career:He graduated from Columbia College and the New York University School of Law. He is considered a member of the reform wing of the Democratic Party.Abrams was a member of the New York State Assembly representing the Bronx from 1966... Democrat 2,404,791 62.73%	Bernard C. Smith Republican 1,229,318 32.07%	Robert F. Nolan Right to Life 136,880 3.57%	Margaret Fries Libertarian 22,602 0.59%	Fred Newman New Alliance New Alliance Party The New Alliance Party was an American political party formed in New York City in 1979. Its immediate precursor was an umbrella organization known as the Labor Community Alliance for Change, whose member groups included the coalition of Grass Roots Women and the New York City Unemployed and... 22,437 0.59%	Natalie Harris Socialist Workers 17,272 0.45%

Year
1986	Robert Abrams Democrat 2,548,386 65.13%	Peter T. King Peter T. King Peter T. "Pete" King is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1993. He is a member of the Republican Party. King's central Long Island district includes parts of Nassau and Suffolk counties.... Republican 1,344,344 34.36%	Michael A. Hardy New Alliance 20,100 0.51%

Year
1982	Robert Abrams Democrat 3,056,950 64.44%	Frances A. Sciafani Republican 1,560,474 32.90%	Kevin P. McGovern Right to Life 101,357 2.14%	Dolores Grande Libertarian 24,925 0.53%

Year
1978	Robert Abrams Democrat 2,352,484 53.78%	Michael Roth Republican 1,973,490 45.12%	Dolores Grande Libertarian 17,381 0.40%	Jeffrey Reeves Communist Communist Party USA The Communist Party USA is a Marxist political party in the United States, established in 1919. It has a long, complex history that is closely related to the histories of similar communist parties worldwide and the U.S. labor movement.... 15,655 0.36%	Raymond H. Markey, Jr. Socialist Workers 15,072 0.35%

Year
1974	Louis Lefkowitz Louis Lefkowitz Louis J. Lefkowitz was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:... Republican 2,624,637 51.63%	Robert Abrams Democrat 2,189,654 43.07%	Edward F. Campbell Conservative Conservative Party of New York The Conservative Party of New York State is an American political party active in the state of New York. It is not part of any nationwide party, nor is it affiliated with the American Conservative Party, which it predates by over 40 years.... 232,631 4.58%	Raymond H. Markey, Jr. Socialist Workers 12,283 0.24%	Raymond H. Martino Labor U.S. Labor Party The U.S. Labor Party was a political party formed in 1973 by the National Caucus of Labor Committees . It served as a vehicle for Lyndon LaRouche to run for President of the United States in 1976, but it also sponsored many candidates for local offices and Congressional and Senate seats between... 10,161 0.20%	Leland W. Schubert Libertarian 8,092 0.16%	Michael Zagarell Communist 6,424 0.13%

Year
1970	Louis Lefkowitz Republican 3,213,834 58.18%	Adam Walinsky Democrat 1,886,631 34.15%	Leo Kesselring Conservative 409,169 7.41%	Miguel Padilla, Jr. Socialist Workers 14,306 0.26%

Year
1966	Louis Lefkowitz Republican 3,062,355 53.57%	Frank A. Sedita Frank A. Sedita Frank Albert Sedita was Mayor of the City of Buffalo, New York, serving 1958–1961 and 1966–1973. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on June 20, 1907. The family moved to Buffalo in 1911, and when he was 10, Sedita began work by hawking newspapers and shining shoes around the downtown area... Democrat 2,033,981 35.58%	Mason L. Hampton Conservative 322,693 5.65%	Simeon Golar Liberal Liberal Party of New York The Liberal Party of New York is a minor American political party that has been active only in the state of New York. Its platform supports a standard set of social liberal policies: it supports right to abortion, increased spending on education, and universal health care.As of 2007, the Liberal... 284,813 4.98%	Paul B. Boutelle Socialist Workers 12,333 0.22%

Year
1962	Louis Lefkowitz Republican 3,111,072 55.16%	Edward R. Dudley Edward R. Dudley Edward Richard Dudley was the first African-American to hold the rank of Ambassador of the United States, serving as Ambassador to Liberia from 1949 to 1953.... Democrat 2,408,653 42.71%	Frederick S. Dennin Conservative 99,464 1.76%	Leroy McRae Socialist Workers 21,086 0.37%

Year
1958	Louis Lefkowitz Republican 2,915,657 52.24%	Peter J. Crotty Democrat 2,353,374 42.16%	Edward Goodell Liberal 280,655 5.03%	Scott K. Gray, Jr. Socialist Socialist Party of America The Socialist Party of America was a multi-tendency democratic-socialist political party in the United States, formed in 1901 by a merger between the three-year-old Social Democratic Party of America and disaffected elements of the Socialist Labor Party which had split from the main organization... 31,746 0.57%

Year
1954	Jacob K. Javits Jacob K. Javits Jacob Koppel "Jack" Javits was a politician who served as United States Senator from New York from 1957 to 1981. A liberal Republican, he was originally allied with Governor Nelson Rockefeller, fellow U.S... Republican 2,603,858 51.23%	Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. Democrat 2,430,959 47.82%	George W. Fish American Labor American Labor Party The American Labor Party was a political party in the United States established in 1936 which was active almost exclusively in the state of New York. The organization was founded by labor leaders and former members of the Socialist Party who had established themselves as the Social Democratic... 44,287 0.87%	Catherine Gratta Socialist Workers 4,059 0.08%

Year
1950	Nathaniel Goldstein Republican 2,524,134 50.69%	Francis J. D'Amanda Democrat 2,229,921 44.78%	Frank Scheiner American Labor 212,990 4.28%	Arthur Preis Socialist Workers 12,392 0.25%

Year
1946	Nathaniel Goldstein Republican 2,629,561 55.38%	Anthony J. DiGiovanna Democrat 2,023,257 42.61%	Benjamin J. Davis, Jr. Communist 95,798 2.02%

Year
1942	Nathaniel Goldstein Republican 1,911,747 50.22%	Henry Epstein Democrat 1,520,415 39.94%	Alexander Kahn American Labor 335,369 8.81%	Joseph G. Glass Socialist 31,957 0.84%	Eric Hass Socialist Labor Socialist Labor Party of America The Socialist Labor Party of America , established in 1876 as the Workingmen's Party, is the oldest socialist political party in the United States and the second oldest socialist party in the world. Originally known as the Workingmen's Party of America, the party changed its name in 1877 and has... 7,570 0.20%

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