David Paterson has served in several elected positions, including the New York State Senate and as Lieutenant Governor of New York.

As a running mate to Eliot Spitzer, Paterson scored a landslide victory in the 2006 election with 69% of the vote. It was the largest margin of victory in a gubernatorial race in New York history, and the second-largest for any statewide race in New York history. The only larger victory was Chuck Schumer's 71% victory in his successful reelection bid for the U.S. Senate two years earlier. Spitzer carried all but three counties in the state.

David Paterson at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival
Statewide tickets on which Paterson has run
YearPartyGovernorLieutenant GovernorComptrollerAttorney GeneralU.S. Senate
2006 DemocraticEliot SpitzerDavid PatersonAlan HevesiAndrew CuomoHillary Clinton
2006 IndependenceEliot SpitzerDavid PatersonAlan HevesiJeanine PirroHillary Rodham Clinton
2006 Working FamiliesEliot SpitzerDavid PatersonAlan HevesiAndrew CuomoHillary Rodham Clinton

2006

2006 New York gubernatorial election[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Eliot Spitzer
David Paterson		 2,882,524 69.0%
Republican John Faso
C. Scott Vanderhoef		 1,217,516 29.2%
Green Malachy McCourt
Alison Duncan		 40,729 1.0%

2004

Election results, New York State Senate, 30th District, 2004[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic David Paterson (I) 79,494 93.1%
Republican Alphonzo Mosley 5,945 6.9%

2002

Election results, New York State Senate, 30th District, 2002[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic David Paterson (I) 49,852 91.8%
Republican Alphonzo Mosley 3,887 7.2%

2000

Election results, New York State Senate, 29th District, 2000[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic David Paterson (I) 77,853 96.0%
Republican Alphonzo Mosley 3,252 4.0%
  • Mosley also ran on the Reform Party line.
  • Paterson also ran on the Liberal and Working Families party lines.

1998

Election results, New York State Senate, 29th District, 1998[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic David Paterson (I) 52,344 96.5%
Republican Zelda S. Owens 1,908 3.5%
  • Paterson also ran on the Liberal party line.

1996

Election results, New York State Senate, 29th District, 1996[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic David Paterson (I) 55,849 97.0%
Independence Alphonzo Mosley 1,864 3.0%
  • Paterson also ran on the Liberal party line.

1994

Election results, New York State Senate, 29th District, 1994
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic David Paterson (I)

1993

New York City Public Advocate, 1993 – Democratic Primary
Candidate Votes  % ±
✓ Consumer Affairs Commissioner Mark Green 45
Harlem State Senator David Paterson 19
Bronx City Councilwoman Susan D. Alter 14
Bronx State Assemblyman Roberto Ramirez 12
Brooklyn State Senator Donald Halperin 8
Transit PBA President Ronald W. Reale 2
Turnout

1992

Election results, New York State Senate, 29th District, 1992
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic David Paterson (I)
Republican John L. Wood

1990

Election results, New York State Senate, 29th District, 1990
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic David Paterson (I)

1988

Election results, New York State Senate, 29th District, 1988[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic David Paterson (I) 67,961 90.3%
Republican Ernest Mabry 6,588 8.7%
Conservative John T. Gatto 787 1.0%
  • Paterson also ran on the Liberal party line.

1986

Election results, New York State Senate, 29th District, 1986
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic David Paterson (I)
Liberal Galen Kirkland
New York State Senate, 29th District, 1986 – Democratic Primary[10]
Candidate Votes  % ±
✓ David Paterson (I)
Tenant Activist Galen Kirkland
Community Board Member Philip H. P. Reed
  • Kirkland also held the Liberal Party designation.[11]

1985

Special election results, New York State Senate, 29th District, 1985[12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic David Paterson (I) 22,284 69.4%
Liberal Galen Kirkland 6,126 19.1%
Republican Joseph Holland 3,266 10.2%
Conservative John T. Gatto 422 1.3%
New York State Senate, 29th District Special Election, 1985 – Democratic Nominating convention[13]
Candidate Votes  % ±
✓ David Paterson 376 58%
Tenant Activist Galen Kirkland 272 42%

2010 governor's race polling

In February 2010, then Governor David Paterson, announced he would not run for a full term in 2010.

Poll source Dates administered David Paterson Andrew Cuomo
Siena Poll January 10–14, 2010 21% 59%
Quinnipiac December 7–13, 2009 23% 60%
Rasmussen Reports July 14, 2009 27% 61%
Qunnipiac May 5–11, 2009 17% 62%
Qunnipiac April 1–5, 2009 18% 61%
Siena Poll March 13–16, 2009 17% 67%
Marist Poll February 25–26, 2009 26% 62%
Siena Poll February 16–18, 2009 27% 53%
Quinnipiac February 10–15, 2009 23% 55%
Siena Poll January 20–23, 2009 35% 33%
Siena Poll December 8–11, 2008 49% 26%
Siena Poll November 10–13, 2008 53% 25%
Siena Poll July 7–10, 2008 51% 21%
Siena Poll May 12–15, 2008 42% 29%
Siena Poll April 12–15, 2008 35% 30%

Works

Further reading

  • John C. Walker,The Harlem Fox: J. Raymond Jones at Tammany 1920:1970, New York: State University New York Press, 1989.
  • David N. Dinkins, A Mayor's Life: Governing New York's Gorgeous Mosaic, PublicAffairs Books, 2013
  • Rangel, Charles B.; Wynter, Leon (2007). And I Haven't Had a Bad Day Since: From the Streets of Harlem to the Halls of Congress. New York:
  • Baker Motley, Constance Equal Justice Under The Law: An Autobiography, New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998.
  • Howell, Ron Boss of Black Brooklyn: The Life and Times of Bertram L. Baker Fordham University Press Bronx, New York 2018

References

  1. ↑ "NYS Board of Elections Governor Election Returns Nov. 7 2006". New York State Board of Elections. Retrieved March 28, 2008.
  2. ↑ "NYS Board of Elections - Senate Vote - Nov 2., 2004 Archived August 23, 2012, at the Wayback Machine". New York State Board of Elections. Retrieved March 28, 2008.
  3. ↑ "NYS Board of Elections - Senate Vote - Nov 2., 2002 Archived August 23, 2012, at the Wayback Machine". New York State Board of Elections. Retrieved March 28, 2008.
  4. ↑ "NYS Board of Elections - Senate Vote - Nov 2., 2000 Archived August 23, 2012, at the Wayback Machine". New York State Board of Elections. Retrieved March 28, 2008.
  5. ↑ "NYS Board of Elections - Senate Vote - Nov 2., 1998". New York State Board of Elections. Retrieved March 28, 2008.
  6. ↑ "Results of Voting in New York Races for the State Legislature and the Courts". The New York Times. November 7, 1996.
  7. ↑ Hicks, Jonathan P. "THE 1993 ELECTIONS: Public Advocate; Green Breezes in Rematch From Primary". The New York Times. November 3, 1993.
  8. ↑ "Mark Green for Public Advocate". The New York Times. September 5, 1993.
  9. ↑ "THE ELECTIONS; New York State Senate". The New York Times. November 10, 1988.
  10. ↑ "PRIMARIES AND CANDIDATES". The New York Times. September 8, 1986. Late City Final Edition, Section B, Page 4, Column 5.
  11. ↑ Schmalz, Jeffrey. "43 LEGISLATIVE CONTESTS ARE ON PRIMARY BALLOTS". The New York Times. September 8, 1986.
  12. ↑ "THE '85 ELECTIONS; ELECTION RESULTS IN VOTING TUESDAY IN CITY AND ON LONG ISLAND; VOTE TOTALS FOR THE ELECTIONS HELD IN NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY". The New York Times. November 7, 1985. Late City Final Edition, Section B, Page 6, Column 1.
  13. ↑ "Ex-Prosecutor Is Nominated For a Manhattan Senate Seat". The New York Times. September 16, 1985.
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