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New York state election, 1962

New York gubernatorial election, 1962
New York (state)
← 1958 November 6, 1962 1966 →
  NelsonRockefeller.png Robert Morgenthau at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.jpg
Candidate Nelson Rockefeller Robert M. Morgenthau
Party Republican Democratic
Running mate Malcolm Wilson John J. Burns
Popular vote 3,081,587 2,552,418
Percentage 53.08% 43.97%

New York gubernatorial election 1962 map.svg
County results

Governor before election

Nelson Rockefeller
Republican

Elected Governor

Nelson Rockefeller
Republican


Nelson Rockefeller
Republican

Nelson Rockefeller
Republican

The 1962 New York state election was held on November 6, 1962, to elect the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, the State Comptroller, the Attorney General, a judge of the New York Court of Appeals and a U.S. Senator, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate.

Judge Charles W. Froessel would reach the constitutional age limit of 70 years at the end of the year.

The Socialist Labor state convention met on April 1, and nominated again the same ticket as in 1958, headed by Eric Hass for Governor

The Democratic state convention met from September 16 to 18 at Syracuse, New York, and nominated U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Robert M. Morgenthau for Governor on the second ballot. They also nominated Mayor of Binghamton John J. Burns for Lieutenant Governor;Manhattan Borough President Edward R. Dudley for Attorney General; James B. Donovan for the U.S. Senate; and re-nominated the incumbent Comptroller Arthur Levitt.


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