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The1932 New York state election was held on November 8, 1932, to elect thegovernor, thelieutenant governor, thestate comptroller, theattorney general, thechief judge,[1] aU.S. Senator and twoU.S. Representatives-at-large, as well as all members of theNew York State Assembly and theNew York State Senate.
By a re-apportionment in 1932, the state of New York received two more seats in theU.S. House of Representatives, but instead of redistricting the congressional districts, the additional congressmen were elected at-large on the state ticket until the election of 1944.
TheSocialist Labor state convention met on April 29, a day before the party's national convention, in New York City, and nominated Aaron M. Orange for governor; and Emil F. Teichert for lieutenant governor.[2]
TheCommunist state convention met on June 19 atSchenectady, New York, and nominatedIsrael Amter for governor; and Henry Shepard, a "Harlem Negro", for Lieutenant Governor[3]
TheSocialist state convention met on July 3 atUtica, New York, and nominated Louis Waldman for the third time to run for governor; andFrank R. Crosswaith for lieutenant governor.[4] Crosswaith however declined, instead running for Congress in Harlem, and Charles W. Noonan was substituted on the ticket.[5]
TheLaw Preservation state convention met on October 3 atSyracuse, New York and nominated the Rev. Dr. John F. Vichert, ofRochester, a professor of practical theology atColgate Divinity School, for governor; H. Westlake Coons for lieutenant governor; Ralph H. Culley, ofRochester, for attorney general; Francis A. Walters, ofRome, for comptroller; and Dr. D. Leigh Colvin for U.S. Senator. At first Vichert declined,[6] but a few days later changed his mind.[7]
TheRepublican state convention met on October 4 atBuffalo, New York, and nominated Colonel William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan for governor; and AssistantU.S. Secretary of War F. Trubee Davison for lieutenant governor;Mayor of Rochester, New York Charles S. Owen for comptroller; Moses G. Hubbard, ofUtica, for attorney general; George Z. Medalie for the U.S. Senate; and the incumbent[8] Chief Judge Cuthbert W. Pound to succeed himself.[9]
TheDemocratic state convention met on October 4 atAlbany, New York, and nominated Lieutenant Governor Herbert H. Lehman for governor to succeed Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt who had been nominated forU.S. President; M. William Bray for lieutenant governor; and re-nominated the other incumbent state officers, among them the Republican Chief Judge Cuthbert W. Pound.[10]
The whole Democratic ticket was elected in another landslide.
The incumbents Tremaine, Bennett, Pound and Wagner were re-elected. The incumbent Governor Roosevelt was elected President of the United States, defeating incumbent PresidentHerbert Hoover.
| Office | Democratic ticket | Republican ticket | Socialist ticket | Law Preservation ticket | Communist ticket | Socialist Labor ticket | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governor | Herbert H. Lehman | 2,659,519 | William J. Donovan | 1,812,080 | Louis Waldman | 102,959 | John F. Vichert | 83,452 | Israel Amter | 26,407 | Aaron M. Orange[11] | 7,233 |
| Lieutenant Governor | M. William Bray | 2,469,371 | F. Trubee Davison | 1,806,941 | Charles W. Noonan[12] | 141,401 | H. Westlake Coons[13] | 71,862 | Henry Shepard[14] | 29,080 | Emil F. Teichert[15] | 9,913 |
| Comptroller | Morris S. Tremaine | 2,468,228 | Charles S. Owen | 1,771,104 | Elizabeth C. Roth[16] | 153,299 | Francis A. Watters | 68,947 | Rose Wortis | 29,558 | John E. DeLee | 10,394 |
| Attorney General | John J. Bennett Jr. | 2,472,739 | Moses G. Hubbard | 1,764,549 | William Karlin | 155,174 | Ralph H. Culley | 68,030 | J. Louis Engdahl | 29,737 | Simeon Bickwheat | 10,224 |
| Chief Judge | Cuthbert W. Pound | Cuthbert W. Pound | 4,183,939 | Jacob Panken | 193,409 | George E. Powers | 31,076 | |||||
| U.S. Senator | Robert F. Wagner | 2,532,905 | George Z. Medalie | 1,751,186 | Charles Solomon | 143,282 | D. Leigh Colvin | 74,611 | William Weinstone | 29,052 | Jeremiah D. Crowley[17] | 10,328 |
| U.S. Representative-at-large | Elmer E. Studley | 2,363,627 | Nicholas H. Pinto | 1,756,343 | G. August Gerber | 166,781 | Elizabeth A. Smart | 74,436 | Jacob Berlin[18] | 12,546 | ||
| U.S. Representative-at-large | John Fitzgibbons | 2,333,787 | Sherman J. Lowell | 1,740,325 | Fred Sander[19] | 163,648 | J. Elmer Cates | 68,622 | O. Martin Olson[20] | 11,623 | ||
Results-New York Red Book 1933