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1924 New York state election

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Field	Value
election_name	1924 New York gubernatorial election
country	New York
type	presidential
ongoing	no
previous_election	1922 New York state election
previous_year	1922
next_election	1926 New York state election
next_year	1926
election_date	November 4, 1924
image_size	x150px
image1	Unsuccessful 1928.jpg
nominee1	Al Smith
party1	Democratic Party (United States)
popular_vote1	1,627,111
percentage1	49.96%
image2	LC-DIG-ggbain-37582.jpg
nominee2	Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
party2	Republican Party (United States)
popular_vote2	1,518,552
percentage2	46.63%
map_image	1924 New York gubernatorial election results map by county.svg
map_size	300px
map_caption	County results

title	Governor
before_election	Al Smith
before_party	Democratic Party (United States)
after_election	Al Smith
after_party	Democratic Party (United States)

Smith:

Roosevelt:

The 1924 New York state election was held on November 4, 1924, to elect the governor, the lieutenant governor, the Secretary of State, the state comptroller, the attorney general, the state treasurer and the state engineer, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate.

History

The Socialist state convention met on July 27 at Finnish Hall (at Fifth Avenue/Twelfth Street) in New York City. They nominated Rev. Norman Thomas for Governor and Charles Solomon for lieutenant governor.

The initially frontrunner for the Republican party was assembly speaker H. Edmund Machold, who quickly ruled himself out of the election. The Republican state convention met on September 25 in Rochester, New York. Theodore Roosevelt Jr., was nominated for governor on the first ballot.

The Democratic state convention met on September 25 in Syracuse, New York, and re-nominated all incumbent state officers.

Result

Almost the whole Republican ticket was elected, only the incumbent Democratic Governor Smith managed to stay in office.

The incumbent Smith was re-elected. The incumbents Lunn, Hamilton, Fleming, Sherman, Shuler and LaDu were defeated.

The Democratic, Republican and Socialist parties maintained automatic ballot access (necessary 25,000 votes for governor), the Socialist Labor Party did not re-attain it, and the Workers Party did not attain it.

Florence E. S. Knapp was the first woman elected to a statewide office in New York. She remained the only one for fifty years, until Mary Anne Krupsak was elected lieutenant governor in 1974.

Office	Democratic ticket	Republican ticket	Socialist ticket	Workers ticket	Socialist Labor ticket
Governor		Alfred E. Smith	1,627,111	Theodore Roosevelt Jr.	1,518,552	Norman Thomas
Lieutenant Governor	George R. Lunn	1,430,321		Seymour Lowman	1,526,849	Charles Solomon
Secretary of State	James A. Hamilton	1,397,804		Florence E. S. Knapp	1,530.763	Frank R. Crosswaith
Comptroller	James W. Fleming	1,362,092		Vincent B. Murphy	1,524,670	Theresa B. Wiley
Attorney General	Carl Sherman	1,362,585		Albert Ottinger	1,541,166	Louis Waldman
Treasurer	George K. Shuler	1,325,695		Lewis H. Pounds	1,568,965	John H. VandenBosch
State Engineer	Dwight B. LaDu	1,296,954		Roy G. Finch	1,568,965	Vladimir Karapetoff

This was the last election of a Secretary of State, a Treasurer and a State Engineer. The Secretary of State has been appointive since January 1927, the other two offices were abolished. The duties of the Treasurer were transferred to the Comptroller, those of the State Engineer to the Superintendent of Public Works which has been always an appointive office.

Notes

References

Sources

New York State Red Book 1925
Madaras, Lawrence H. “THEODORE ROOSEVELT, JR. VERSUS AL SMITH: THE NEW YORK GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION OF 1924.” New York History 47, no. 4 (1966): 372–90. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23162551.

References

[https://www.nytimes.com/1924/07/28/archives/socialists-name-thomas-as-head-of-state-ticket-former-assistant.html "Socialists Name Thomas as Head of State Ticket"]. ''The New York Times''. July 28, 1924. {{subscription required
Madaras, Lawerence H.. (October 1966). "THEODORE ROOSEVELT, JR. VERSUS AL SMITH: THE NEW YORK GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION OF 1924". New York History.
[https://www.nytimes.com/1924/09/26/archives/roosevelt-wins-easily-he-is-chosen-on-the-first-ballot-with-60.html "Roosevelt Wins Easily"]. ''The New York Times''. September 26, 1924. {{subscription required

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