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.
2006
2004
- Mosley also ran on the Conservative line.
2002
- Mosley also ran on the Conservative and Independence party lines.
- Paterson also ran on the Liberal and Working Families party lines.
2000
- Mosley also ran on the Reform Party line.
- Paterson also ran on the Liberal and Working Families party lines.
1998
- Paterson also ran on the Liberal party line.
1996
- Paterson also ran on the Liberal party line.
1994
1993
- Alter also held the Republican and Liberal party designations
- Reale also held the Conservative party designation
- Percentages from THE 1993 PRIMARY: Public Advocate; Green Scores Big Victory Over His Five Opponents in The New York Times on September 15, 1993
1992
1990
1988
- Paterson also ran on the Liberal party line.
1986
- Kirkland also held the Liberal Party designation.
1985
2010 governor's race polling
In February 2010, then Governor David Paterson, announced he would not run for a full term in 2010.
Works
- Paterson, David Black, Blind, & In Charge: A Story of Visionary Leadership and Overcoming Adversity. New York, New York, 2020
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
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