The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of New York:
- Governor
- Lieutenant Governor
- Secretary of State
- Attorney General
- State Comptroller
- Treasurer
The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
- State Senate
- State Assembly
- State delegation to the United States Senate
- State delegation to the United States House of Representatives and also see New York's congressional districts
For years in which a United States presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.
The parties are as follows: American (A), Anti-Administration (AA), American Labor (AL) Conservative (C), Constitutional Union (CU), Democratic (D), Democratic-Republican (DR), Federalist (F), Independence (I), Jacksonian Democratic (JD), no party (N), National Republican (NR), National Union (NU), People's Party (P), Pro-Administration (PA), Republican (R), Whig (W), Working Families (WF), and a tie or coalition within a group of elected officials.
Year | Executive offices | State Legislature | United States Congress | Electoral College votes | ||||||||
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Governor | Lieutenant Governor | Secretary of State | Attorney General | Comptroller | Treasurer | State Senate | State Assembly | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House | ||
1777 | George Clinton (N) | Pierre Van Cortlandt (N) | None | Egbert Benson | Comfort Sands | |||||||
1778 | John Morrin Scott | |||||||||||
1779 | ||||||||||||
1780 | ||||||||||||
1781 | ||||||||||||
1782 | Peter T. Curtenius | |||||||||||
1783 | ||||||||||||
1784 | Lewis Allaire Scott | |||||||||||
1785 | ||||||||||||
1786 | ||||||||||||
1787 | George Clinton (AA) | Pierre Van Cortlandt (AA) | ||||||||||
1788 | Richard Varick (PA) | |||||||||||
1789 | Phillip Schuyler (PA) | Rufus King (PA) | 3AA, 3PA | none | ||||||||
1790 | Aaron Burr (AA) | |||||||||||
1791 | Aaron Burr (AA) | 4PA, 2AA | ||||||||||
1792 | George Clinton (DR) | Pierre Van Cortlandt (DR) | Morgan Lewis (DR) | George Washington (N) and George Clinton (DR) | ||||||||
1793 | Nathaniel Lawrence | 7PA, 3AA | ||||||||||
1794 | ||||||||||||
1795 | John Jay (F) | Stephen Van Rensselaer III (F) | 5DR, 5F | |||||||||
1796 | Josiah Ogden Hoffman, Sr. (F) | John Laurance (F) | John Adams and Thomas Pinckney (F) | |||||||||
1797 | Samuel Jones | Phillip Schuyler (F) | 6F, 4DR | |||||||||
1798 | Daniel Hale (F) | John Sloss Hobart (F) | ||||||||||
William North (F) | ||||||||||||
1799 | James Waston (F) | 6DR, 4F | ||||||||||
1800 | John Vernon Henry (F) | Gouvernor Morris (F) | John Armstrong, Jr. (DR) | Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr (DR) | ||||||||
1801 | George Clinton (DR) | Jeremiah Van Rensselaer (DR) | Thomas Tillotson (DR) | 7DR, 3F | ||||||||
1802 | Ambrose Spencer (DR) | Elisha Jenkins (DR) | DeWitt Clinton (DR) | |||||||||
1803 | Theodorus Bailey (DR) | 12DR, 5F | ||||||||||
John Armstrong, Jr. (DR) | ||||||||||||
1804 | Morgan Lewis (DR) | John Broome (DR) | John Woodworth (DR) | Thomas Jefferson and George Clinton (DR) | ||||||||
John Armstrong, Jr. (DR) | John Smith (DR) | |||||||||||
1805 | Samuel L. Mitchill (DR) | 15DR, 2F | ||||||||||
1806 | Elisha Jenkins (DR) | Archibald McIntyre (DR) | ||||||||||
1807 | Daniel D. Tompkins (DR) | Thomas Tillotson (DR) | ||||||||||
1808 | Elisha Jenkins (DR) | Matthias B. Hildreth (DR) | 13 James Madison and George Clinton (DR); 3 George Clinton and James Madison (DR); 3 George Clinton and James Monroe (DR) | |||||||||
1809 | Obadiah German (DR) | 10DR, 7F | ||||||||||
1810 | Daniel Hale (F) | Abraham Van Vechten (F) | ||||||||||
1811 | John Tayler (DR) | Matthias B. Hildreth (DR) | 12DR, 5F | |||||||||
DeWitt Clinton (DR) | Elisha Jenkins (DR) | |||||||||||
1812 | Thomas Addis Emmet (DR) | DeWitt Clinton and Jared Ingersoll (F) | ||||||||||
1813 | John Tayler (DR) | Jacob R. Van Rensselaer (F) | Abraham Van Vechten (F) | Rufus King (F) | ||||||||
1814 | ||||||||||||
1815 | Peter Buell Porter (DR) | Martin Van Buren (DR) | Nathan Sanford (DR) | |||||||||
1816 | Robert L. Tillotson | James Monroe and Daniel D. Tompkins (DR) | ||||||||||
1817 | John Tayler (DR) | Philetus Swift (DR) | Charles D. Cooper (DR) | |||||||||
DeWitt Clinton (DR) | John Tayler (DR) | |||||||||||
1818 | John Van Ness Yates (DR) | |||||||||||
1819 | Thomas Jackson Oakley (F) | |||||||||||
1820 | ||||||||||||
1821 | Samuel A. Talcott (DR) | John Savage (DR) | Martin Van Buren (DR) | |||||||||
1822 | ||||||||||||
1823 | Joseph C. Yates (DR) | Erastus Root (DR) | William L. Marcy (DR) | |||||||||
1824 | 26 John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun (DR); 5 William Crawford and Nathaniel Macon (DR); 4 Henry Clay and Nathan Sanford (DR); 1 Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun (DR) John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun (DR) |
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1825 | DeWitt Clinton (P) | James Tallmadge, Jr. (P) | ||||||||||
1826 | Azariah Cutting Flagg (DR) | Nathan Sanford (NR) | ||||||||||
1827 | Nathaniel Pitcher (DR) | |||||||||||
1828 | Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun (D) | |||||||||||
Nathaniel Pitcher (DR) | Peter R. Livingston (DR) | |||||||||||
Charles Dayan (DR) | ||||||||||||
1829 | Martin Van Buren (JD) | Enos T. Throop (JD) | Silas Wright (D) | Charles E. Dudley (D) | ||||||||
Enos T. Throop (JD) | Charles Stebbins (JD) | Greene C. Bronson (D) | ||||||||||
1830 | William M. Oliver (JD) | |||||||||||
1831 | Edward Philip Livingston (JD) | William L. Marcy (D) | ||||||||||
1832 | Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren (D) | |||||||||||
1833 | William L. Marcy (D) | John Tracy (D) | John Adams Dix (D) | Azariah Cutting Flagg (D) | Nathaniel P. Tallmadge (JD) | Silas Wright (D) | ||||||
1834 | ||||||||||||
1835 | ||||||||||||
1836 | Samuel Beardsley (D) | Martin Van Buren and Richard Johnson (D) | ||||||||||
1837 | ||||||||||||
1838 | ||||||||||||
1839 | William H. Seward (W) | Luther Bradish (W) | John Canfield Spencer (W) | Willis Hall (W) | Bates Cooke (W) | Nathaniel P. Tallmadge (D) | ||||||
1840 | William H. Harrison and John Tyler (W) | |||||||||||
1841 | Archibald Campbell | John A. Collier (W) | ||||||||||
1842 | Samuel Young (D) | George P. Barker (D) | Azariah Cutting Flagg (D) | |||||||||
1843 | William C. Bouck (D) | Daniel S. Dickinson (D) | ||||||||||
1844 | James K. Polk and George M. Dallas (D) | |||||||||||
Henry A. Foster (D) | ||||||||||||
1845 | Silas Wright (D) | Addison Gardiner (D) | Nathaniel S. Benton (D) | John Van Buren (D) | Daniel S. Dickinson (D) | John Adams Dix (D) | ||||||
1846 | ||||||||||||
1847 | John Young (W) | |||||||||||
1848 | Hamilton Fish (W) | Christopher Morgan (W) | Ambrose L. Jordan (W) | Millard Fillmore (W) | Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore (W) | |||||||
1849 | Hamilton Fish (W) | George Washington Patterson (W) | William H. Seward (W) | |||||||||
1850 | Levi S. Chatfield (D) | Washington Hunt (W) | ||||||||||
1851 | Washington Hunt (W) | Sanford E. Church (D) | Philo C. Fuller (W) | Hamilton Fish (W) | ||||||||
1852 | Henry S. Randall (D) | John C. Wright (D) | Franklin Pierce and William King (D) | |||||||||
1853 | Horatio Seymour (D) | |||||||||||
Gardner Stow (W) | ||||||||||||
1854 | Elias Warner Leavenworth (W) | Ogden Hoffman (W) | James M. Cook (W) | |||||||||
1855 | Myron H. Clark (W) | Henry Jarvis Raymond (W) | William H. Seward (R) | |||||||||
1856 | Joel T. Headley (A) | Stephen B. Cushing (A) | Lorenzo Burrows (A) | John C. Frémont and William L. Dayton (R) | ||||||||
1857 | John Alsop King (R) | Henry R. Selden (R) | Preston King (R) | |||||||||
1858 | Gideon J. Tucker (D) | Lyman Tremain (D) | Sanford E. Church (D) | |||||||||
1859 | Edwin D. Morgan (R) | Robert Campbell (R) | ||||||||||
1860 | David R. Floyd-Jones (D) | Charles G. Myers (R) | Robert Denniston (R) | Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin (R) | ||||||||
1861 | Ira Harris (R) | |||||||||||
1862 | Horatio Ballard (NU) | Daniel S. Dickinson (NU) | Lucius Robinson (NU) | |||||||||
1863 | Horatio Seymour (CU) | David R. Floyd-Jones (CU) | Edwin D. Morgan (R) | |||||||||
1864 | Chauncey Depew (NU) | John Cochrane (NU) | Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson (NU) | |||||||||
1865 | Reuben Fenton (NU) | Thomas G. Alvord (NU) | ||||||||||
1866 | Francis C. Barlow (R) | John H. Martindale (R) | Thomas Hillhouse (R) | Joseph Howland (R) | ||||||||
1867 | Reuben Fenton (R) | Stewart L. Woodford (R) | Roscoe Conkling (R) | |||||||||
1868 | Homer Augustus Nelson (D) | Marshall B. Champlain (D) | William F. Allen (D) | Wheeler H. Bristol (D) | Horatio Seymour and Francis Blair, Jr. (D) | |||||||
1869 | John Thompson Hoffman (D) | Allen C. Beach (D) | Reuben Fenton (R) | |||||||||
1870 | Asher P. Nichols (D) | |||||||||||
1871 | ||||||||||||
1872 | G. Hilton Scribner (R) | Francis C. Barlow (R) | Nelson K. Hopkins (R) | Thomas Raines (R) | Ulysses Grant and Henry Wilson (R) | |||||||
1873 | John Adams Dix (R) | John C. Robinson (R) | ||||||||||
1874 | Diedrich Willers, Jr. (D) | Daniel Pratt (D) | Abraham Lansing (D) | |||||||||
1875 | Samuel J. Tilden (D) | William Dorsheimer (D) | Thomas Raines (D) | Francis Kernan (D) | ||||||||
1876 | John Bigelow (D) | Charles S. Fairchild (D) | Lucius Robinson (D) | Charles N. Ross (D) | Samuel Tilden and Thomas Hendricks (D) | |||||||
1877 | Lucius Robinson (D) | Frederic P. Olcott (D) | ||||||||||
1878 | Allen C. Beach (D) | Augustus Schoonmaker, Jr. (D) | James Mackin (D) | |||||||||
1879 | ||||||||||||
1880 | Alonzo B. Cornell (R) | George Gilbert Hoskins (R) | Joseph Bradford Carr (R) | Hamilton Ward, Sr. (R) | James Wolcott Wadsworth (R) | Nathan D. Wendell (R) | James Garfield and Chester Arthur (R) | |||||
1881 | Thomas C. Platt (R) | |||||||||||
Warner Miller (R) | Elbridge G. Lapham (R) | |||||||||||
1882 | Leslie W. Russell (R) | Ira Davenport (R) | Robert A. Maxwell (R) | |||||||||
1883 | Grover Cleveland (D) | David B. Hill (D) | ||||||||||
1884 | Denis O'Brien (D) | Alfred C. Chapin (D) | Grover Cleveland and Thomas Hendricks (D) | |||||||||
1885 | David B. Hill (D) | Dennis McCarthy | William M. Evarts (R) | |||||||||
1886 | Edward F. Jones (D) | Frederick Cook (D) | Lawrence J. Fitzgerald (D) | |||||||||
1887 | Frank Hiscock (R) | |||||||||||
1888 | Charles F. Tabor (D) | Edward Wemple (D) | Benjamin Harrison and Levi Morton (R) | |||||||||
1889 | ||||||||||||
1890 | Frank Rice (D) | Elliott Danforth (D) | ||||||||||
1891 | ||||||||||||
1892 | Roswell P. Flower (D) | William F. Sheehan (D) | Simon W. Rosendale (D) | Frank Campbell (D) | David B. Hill (D) | Grover Cleveland and Adlai E. Stevenson I (D) | ||||||
1893 | Edward Murphy, Jr. (D) | |||||||||||
1894 | John Palmer (R) | Theodore E. Hancock (R) | James A. Roberts (R) | Addison B. Colvin (R) | ||||||||
1895 | Levi P. Morton (R) | Charles T. Saxton (R) | ||||||||||
1896 | William McKinley and Garret Hobart (R) | |||||||||||
1897 | Frank S. Black | Timothy L. Woodruff (R) | Thomas C. Platt (R) | |||||||||
1898 | ||||||||||||
1899 | Theodore Roosevelt (R) | John T. McDonough (R) | John C. Davies (R) | William J. Morgan (R) | John P. Jaeckel (R) | Chauncey Depew (R) | ||||||
1900 | Theodore P. Gilman (R) | William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt (R) | ||||||||||
1901 | Benjamin Barker Odell, Jr. (R) | Erastus C. Knight (R) | ||||||||||
1902 | Nathan Lewis Miller (R) | |||||||||||
1903 | Frank W. Higgins (R) | John F. O'Brien (R) | John Cunneen (D) | Otto Kelsey (R) | John G. Wickser (R) | |||||||
1904 | Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Fairbanks (R) | |||||||||||
1905 | Frank W. Higgins (R) | M. Linn Bruce (R) | Julius M. Mayer (R) | John G. Wallenmeier, Jr. (R) | ||||||||
1906 | John Raines (R) | William C. Wilson (R) | ||||||||||
1907 | Charles Evans Hughes (R) | Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler (D) | John S. Whalen (D) | William S. Jackson (D) | Martin H. Glynn (D) | Julius Hauser (D) | ||||||
1908 | William H. Taft and James S. Sherman (R) | |||||||||||
1909 | Horace White (R) | Samuel S. Koenig (R) | Edward R. O'Malley (R) | Charles H. Gaus (R) | Thomas B. Dunn(R) | Elihu Root (R) | ||||||
Otto Kelsey (R) | ||||||||||||
1910 | Horace White (R) | George H. Cobb (R) | Clark Williams (R) | |||||||||
1911 | John Alden Dix (D) | Thomas F. Conway (D) | Edward Lazansky (D) | Thomas Carmody (D) | William Sohmer (D) | John J. Kennedy (D) | James A. O'Gorman (D) | |||||
1912 | Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall (D) | |||||||||||
1913 | William Sulzer (D) | | Martin H. Glynn (D) | | Mitchell May (D) | |||||||||
1914 | Martin H. Glynn (D) | Robert F. Wagner (D)| | James A. Parsons (D) | Homer D. Call (P/D) | ||||||||
1915 | Charles S. Whitman (R) | Edward Schoeneck (R) | Francis Hugo (R) | Egburt E. Woodbury (R) | Eugene M. Travis (R) | James L. Wells (R) | James W. Wadsworth, Jr. (R) | |||||
1916 | Charles Evans Hughes and Charles W. Fairbanks (R) | |||||||||||
1917 | Merton E. Lewis (R) | William M. Calder (R) | ||||||||||
1918 | ||||||||||||
1919 | Alfred E. Smith (D) | Harry C. Walker (D) | Charles D. Newton (R) | |||||||||
1920 | Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge (R) | |||||||||||
1921 | Nathan L. Miller (R) | Jeremiah Wood (R) | John J. Lyons (R) | James A. Wendell (R) | N. Monroe Marshall (R) | |||||||
1922 | William J. Maier (R) | |||||||||||
1923 | Alfred E. Smith (D) | George R. Lunn (D) | James A. Hamilton (D) | Carl Sherman (D) | James W. Fleming (D) | George K. Shuler (D) | Royal S. Copeland (D) | |||||
1924 | Calvin Coolidge and Charles G. Dawes (R) | |||||||||||
1925 | Seymour Lowman (R) | Florence E. S. Knapp (R) | Albert Ottinger (R) | Vincent B. Murphy (R) | Lewis H. Pounds (R) | |||||||
1926 | ||||||||||||
1927 | Edwin Corning (D) | Appointed Position | Morris S. Tremaine (D) | Office Eliminated | Robert F. Wagner (D) | |||||||
1928 | Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis (R) | |||||||||||
1929 | Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) | Herbert H. Lehman (D) | Hamilton Ward, Jr. (R) | |||||||||
1930 | ||||||||||||
1931 | John J. Bennett, Jr. (D) | |||||||||||
1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and John N. Garner (D) | |||||||||||
1933 | Herbert H. Lehman (D) | M. William Bray (D) | ||||||||||
1934 | ||||||||||||
1935 | ||||||||||||
1936 | ||||||||||||
1937 | ||||||||||||
1938 | James M. Mead (D) | |||||||||||
1939 | Charles Poletti (D) | |||||||||||
1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry A. Wallace (D) | |||||||||||
1941 | Harry D. Yates (D) | |||||||||||
1942 | Charles Poletti (D) | Joe R. Hanley (R) | Joseph V. O'Leary (AL) | |||||||||
1943 | Thomas E. Dewey (R) | Thomas W. Wallace (R) | Nathaniel L. Goldstein (R) | Frank C. Moore (R) | ||||||||
1944 | Joe R. Hanley (R) | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S Truman (D) | ||||||||||
1945 | ||||||||||||
1946 | ||||||||||||
1947 | Irving Ives (R) | |||||||||||
1948 | Thomas E. Dewey and Earl Warren (R) | |||||||||||
1949 | John Foster Dulles (R) | |||||||||||
1950 | Herbert H. Lehman (D) | |||||||||||
1951 | Frank C. Moore (R) | J. Raymond McGovern (R) | ||||||||||
1952 | Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon (R) | |||||||||||
1953 | Arthur H. Wicks (R) | |||||||||||
1954 | Walter J. Mahoney (R) | |||||||||||
1955 | W. Averell Harriman (D) | George DeLuca (D) | Jacob K. Javits (R) | Arthur Levitt, Sr. (D) | ||||||||
1956 | ||||||||||||
1957 | Louis Lefkowitz (R) | Jacob K. Javits (R) | ||||||||||
1958 | ||||||||||||
1959 | Nelson Rockefeller (R) | Malcolm Wilson (R) | Kenneth Keating (R) | |||||||||
1960 | John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson (D) | |||||||||||
1961 | ||||||||||||
1962 | ||||||||||||
1963 | ||||||||||||
1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert H. Humphrey (D) | |||||||||||
1965 | Robert F. Kennedy (D) | |||||||||||
1966 | ||||||||||||
1967 | ||||||||||||
1968 | D | Hubert H. Humphrey and Edmund Muskie (D) | ||||||||||
1969 | Charles E. Goodell (R) | D 26-15 | ||||||||||
1970 | D 26-15 | |||||||||||
1971 | James L. Buckley (C) | D 25-16 | ||||||||||
1972 | D 25-16 | Richard M. Nixon and Spiro T. Agnew (R) | ||||||||||
1973 | D 22-17 | |||||||||||
Malcolm Wilson (R) | Warren M. Anderson (R) | |||||||||||
1974 | D 22-17 | |||||||||||
1975 | Hugh Carey (D) | Mary Anne Krupsak (D) | D 27-12 | |||||||||
1976 | D 27-12 | Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale (D) | ||||||||||
1977 | Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D) | D 28-11 | ||||||||||
1978 | D 27-12 | |||||||||||
1979 | Mario Cuomo (D) | Robert Abrams (D) | Edward Regan (R) | 26D, 13R | ||||||||
1980 | Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush (R) | |||||||||||
1981 | Al D'Amato (R) | 22D, 17R | ||||||||||
1982 | ||||||||||||
1983 | Mario Cuomo (D) | Alfred DelBello (D) | 20D, 14R | |||||||||
1984 | ||||||||||||
1985 | 19D, 15R | |||||||||||
1986 | Warren M. Anderson (R) | |||||||||||
1987 | Stan Lundine (D) | 20D, 14R | ||||||||||
1988 | Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen (D) | |||||||||||
1989 | 21D, 13R | |||||||||||
1990 | ||||||||||||
1991 | ||||||||||||
1992 | Bill Clinton and Al Gore (D) | |||||||||||
1993 | 18D, 13R | |||||||||||
1994 | G. Oliver Koppell (D) | Carl McCall (D) | ||||||||||
1995 | George Pataki (R) | Betsy McCaughey Ross (R) | Dennis Vacco (R) | 17D, 14R | ||||||||
1996 | ||||||||||||
1997 | 18D, 13R | |||||||||||
1998 | ||||||||||||
1999 | Mary Donohue (R) | Eliot Spitzer (D) | Chuck Schumer (D) | 19D, 12R | ||||||||
2000 | Al Gore and Joe Lieberman (D) | |||||||||||
2001 | Hillary Rodham Clinton (D) | |||||||||||
2002 | ||||||||||||
2003 | Alan Hevesi (D) | 19D, 10R | ||||||||||
2004 | John Kerry and John Edwards (D) | |||||||||||
2005 | 34R, 27D | 104D, 46R | 20D, 9R | |||||||||
2006 | 103D, 41R | |||||||||||
2007 | Eliot Spitzer (D) | David Paterson (D) | Andrew Cuomo (D) | Thomas DiNapoli (D) | 33R, 29D | 106D, 42R, 1I, 1WF | 23D, 6R | |||||
2008 | Barack Obama and Joe Biden (D) | |||||||||||
David Paterson (D) | Joseph Bruno (R) | 32R, 30D | ||||||||||
Dean Skelos (R) | ||||||||||||
2009 | Malcolm Smith (D) | 32D, 30R | 107D, 41R, 1I, 1WF | Kirsten Gillibrand (D) | 26D, 3R | |||||||
Pedro Espada, Jr. (D) | 30R, 32D | |||||||||||
Richard Ravitch (D) | 32D, 30R | |||||||||||
2011 | Andrew Cuomo (D) | Robert Duffy (D) | Eric Schneiderman (D) | 32R, 30D | 99D, 51R | 21D, 8R | ||||||
2012 | ||||||||||||
2013 | 105D, 44R | |||||||||||
Year | Governor | Lieutenant Governor | Secretary of State | Attorney General | Comptroller | Treasurer | State Senate | State Assembly | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House | Electoral College votes |
Executive offices | State Legislature | United States Congress |
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