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The1934 New York State Election was held on November 6, 1934, to elect thegovernor, thelieutenant governor, thestate comptroller, theattorney general, aU.S. Senator, twoU.S. Representatives-at-large, thechief judge[1] and two associate judges[2] of theNew York Court of Appeals, as well as all members of theNew York State Assembly and theNew York State Senate.
TheCommunist State Committee met on August 28, and nominatedIsrael Amter for governor.[3]
TheSocialist state convention met on July 1 at New York City, and nominatedCharles Solomon for governor; and Norman Thomas for the U.S. Senate.[4]
TheDemocratic state convention met on September 27 atBuffalo, New York, and re-nominated the incumbents Lehman, Bray, Tremaine, Bennett, Loughran and Copeland; and completed the ticket endorsing two Republicans: Associate Judge Frederick E. Crane for Chief Judge and Supreme Court Justice Edward R. Finch for the Court of Appeals.[5]
TheRepublican state convention met on September 28 atRochester, New York, and nominated New York City Park CommissionerRobert Moses for Governor on the third ballot after a struggle with theMacy faction, defeatingSamuel Seabury andSeabury C. Mastick. Also nominated were Fred J. Douglas for Lieutenant Governor, Wilson R. Campbell, ofSteuben County, for Comptroller, William T. Powers, ofBrooklyn, for Attorney General, E. Harold Cluett for the U.S. Senate, Frederick E. Crane for Chief Judge, the incumbent[6] Democrat John T. Loughran to succeed himself, and Charles B. Sears for the Court of Appeals, thus dropping fellow Republican Edward R. Finch who had been nominated by the Democrats in a common cross-endorsement deal for judicial officers.[7]
The "Recovery Party" filed a petition to nominate state officers on October 9, 1934. The ticket was headed by Ex-Mayor of New YorkJohn F. Hylan for Governor.[8] The ticket was not allowed on the ballot because of numerous forged signatures and thus not meeting the legal requirements.[9] Hylan did receive 15,208 write-in votes in New York City according to NYC Board of Elections records, but these were included in the state total of blank, void and scattering votes (141,700).
The "Constitutional Party" nominated Colonel Henry Breckinridge, a Democrat who opposed PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policy, for the U.S. Senate, and used the "Pine Tree of Liberty" as its emblem on the ballot.
The whole Democratic ticket was elected in the third landslide in a row.
The incumbents Lehman, Bray, Tremaine, Bennett, Loughran and Copeland were re-elected.
The Law Preservation Party lost its automaticballot access and disappeared.
| Office | Democratic ticket | Republican ticket | Socialist ticket | Communist ticket | Constitutional ticket | Law Preservation ticket | Socialist Labor ticket | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governor | Herbert H. Lehman | 2,201,729 | Robert Moses | 1,393,638 | Charles Solomon | 126,580 | Israel Amter | 45,878 | (none) | William F. Varney | 20,449 | Aaron M. Orange[10] | 7,225 | |
| Lieutenant Governor | M. William Bray | 2,078,177 | Fred J. Douglas | 1,419,577 | Herman Kobbe | 133,387 | Williana J. Burroughs | 48,709 | (none) | James F. Luckey | 17,393 | Emil F. Teichert[11] | 7,226 | |
| Comptroller | Morris S. Tremaine | 2,066,118 | Wilson R. Campbell | 1,402,295 | Fred Sander | 136,632 | Rose Wortis | 48,577 | (none) | Fred C. Foster | 17,133 | O. Martin Olson | 7,551 | |
| Attorney General | John J. Bennett Jr. | 2,072,504 | William T. Powers | 1,399,025 | William Karlin | 137,403 | Fred Briehl | 49,696 | (none) | Joseph S. Robinson | 17,872 | Simeon Bickwheat[12] | 7,081 | |
| Chief Judge | Frederick E. Crane | 3,422,854 | Frederick E. Crane | Jacob Hillquit | 153,194 | Richard B. Moore | 50,608 | (none) | Frederick E. Crane | |||||
| Judge of the Court of Appeals | John T. Loughran | 3,349,738 | John T. Loughran | Darwin J. Meserole[13] | 135,856 | Gertrude Welsh | 55,664 | (none) | John T. Loughran | |||||
| Judge of the Court of Appeals | Edward R. Finch | 1,977,863 | Charles B. Sears | 1,405,688 | Julian H. Weiss | 150,470 | (none) | David E. Hartshorn | 19,922 | |||||
| U.S. Senator | Royal S. Copeland | 2,046,377 | E. Harold Cluett | 1,363,440 | Norman Thomas | 194,952 | Max Bedacht | 45,396 | Henry Breckinridge | 24,241 | William Sheafe Chase | 16,769 | Olive M. Johnson | 6,622 |
| U.S. Representative-at-large | Matthew J. Merritt | 1,952,939 | William B. Groat Jr.[14] | 1,387,460 | Charles W. Noonan[15] | 141,799 | Henry Shepard[16] | 48,851 | (none) | William E. Barron | 16,770 | Jeremiah D. Crowley[17] | 7,529 | |
| U.S. Representative-at-large | Caroline O'Day | 1,978,680 | Natalie F. Couch[18] | 1,417,271 | August Claessens | 138,878 | Emanuel Levin | 47,812 | (none) | Dorothy Frooks | 19,853 | Jacob Berlin[19] | 6,701 | |
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