2001 New York City mayoral election

none January 2025 September 2023 2001 New York City mayoral election New York City presidential no 1997 New York City mayoral election 1997 2005 New York City mayoral election 2005 November 6, 2001 File:Michael Bloomberg 2005.jpg Michael Bloomberg Republican Party (United States) 744,757 50.3% File:Mark Green 2 by David Shankbone (cropped).jpg Mark Green Democratic Party (United States) 709,268 47.9% 250px Borough results 250px State Assembly results 1 250px Bloomberg: #e27f7f 50–60% #D75D5D 60–70% #d72f30 70–80% #C21B18 80–90%Green: #A5B0FF 40–50% #7996e2 50–60% #6674DE 60–70% #584CDE 70–80% #3933E5 80–90% Mayor Rudy Giuliani Republican Party (United States) Michael Bloomberg Republican Party (United States) 1,520,44340.93% (0.84 pp) 3,715,022 Independence Working Families The 2001 New York City mayoral election was held on November 6, 2001. Incumbent Republican mayor Rudy Giuliani could not run again due to term limits. As Democrats outnumbered Republicans by a five-to-one margin in the city, it was widely believed that a Democrat would succeed him in City Hall. Businessman Michael Bloomberg, a lifelong Democrat, changed his party affiliation to run as a Republican. Mark Green narrowly defeated Fernando Ferrer in the Democratic primary,nb "9/11 delay" The primary began on September 11, but was halted due to the September 11 attacks. The official results here are for the rescheduled primary held two weeks later. surviving a contest that divided the party and consumed the vast majority of the Green campaign's financial resources. After a campaign largely overshadowed by the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Bloomberg won the general election with 50.3% of the vote to Green's 47.9%. Democrats flipped the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn from the previous election. Background The primaries were scheduled for September 11, but the September 11 attacks caused them to be postponed to September 25 (votes cast on September 11 were not counted), and the runoff was on October 11.AFTER THE ATTACKS: THE ELECTION; Primary Rescheduled for Sept. 25, With Runoff, if Necessary, Set for Oct. 11 The New York Times September 14, 2001 https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/14/us/after-attacks-election-primary-rescheduled-for-sept-25-with-runoff-if-necessary.html Nagourney Adam http://www.vote.nyc.ny.us/results.html Board of Elections in the City of New York - Elections Results 2010-01-09 2010-01-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20100106085915/http://www.vote.nyc.ny.us/results.html dead https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/12/nyregion/12MAYO.html Green Defeats Ferrer in N.Y. Mayor Runoff The New York Times October 12, 2001 Nagourney Adam Republican primary Candidates Michael Bloomberg, billionaire businessman Herman Badillo, former Democratic U.S. Representative from The Bronx (1971–1977) Results 2001 Republican mayoral primary Michael Bloomberg Republican Party (United States) 48,055 72.3% Herman Badillo Republican Party (United States) 18,476 27.7% 66,531 100.00% By borough Republican primary, September 25, 2001nb "9/11 delay" FFCCCC Michael Bloomberg 10,959 3,230 10,168 14,543 9,155 48,05572.3% Herman Badillo 4,161 1,838 4,153 5,700 2,624 18,47627.7% 66,531 Democratic primary Candidates Fernando Ferrer, Borough President of The Bronx Mark Green, New York City Public Advocate Alan Hevesi, New York City Comptroller George Spitz Peter Vallone, Sr., New York City Council Speaker and Councilman Declined Al Sharpton, Baptist minister, activist, founder of National Action Network and candidate in 1997 Campaign Late in the primary, Green was roundly criticized for actions of supporters that were construed as racist, involving literature with New York Post caricatures of Ferrer and Al Sharpton distributed in white enclaves of Brooklyn and Staten Island. Green said he had nothing to do with the dissemination of the literature. An investigation by the Brooklyn District Attorney concluded that Green "had no knowledge of these events, and that when he learned of them, he repeatedly denounced the distribution of this literature and sought to find out who had engaged in it".http://www.wcbs880.com/pages/59844.php?contentType=4&contentId=175972 WCBS NEWSRADIO 880 - Mark Green Cleared of Wrongdoing 2008-10-31 https://web.archive.org/web/20070928020558/http://www.wcbs880.com/pages/59844.php?contentType=4&contentId=175972 2007-09-28 dead Nevertheless, the incident is thought to have diminished minority turnout in the general election and helped Bloomberg win in an overwhelmingly Democratic city. (Village Voice columnist Peter Noel wrote that Green "may have replaced [Giuliani] as the most hated white man in the African American community",http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0142,noel,29155,5.html Village voice > news > Mark Green, You Can't Hide by Peter Noel 2008-10-31 2008-02-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20080227012719/http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0142,noel,29155,5.html dead an ironic twist for someone who had been so popular in that community for so long.) Green made a controversial decision during the primary runoff to support Giuliani's unprecedented attempt to extend his own mayoral term in the name of the emergency of 9/11. Ferrer opposed Giuliani's ultimately unsuccessful attempt at term extension, and accused Green of being rolled over by Giuliani.February 2021 Debate + 2001 New York City mayoral election Democratic primary debate No. Number Date Host Moderator Link Democratic Democratic Democratic Democratic DemocraticKey:black #90ff90  P  Participant  black #FFFFDD  A  Absent  black #ff9090  N  Not invited  black #CCFFCC  I  Invited #f0e68c W Withdrawn Fernando Ferrer Mark Green Alan Hevesi George Spitz Peter Vallone, Sr.1 Aug. 28, 2001 New York City Campaign Finance BoardNewsday, WNYC, WPIX Kaity Tong YouTube P P P P P Results center NYC Mayoral Election 2001 Democratic Primary Results by Borough.svg x250px Results by borough 2001 New York City mayoral Democratic primary by State Assembly district.svg x250px Results by State Assembly district Green: #DFEEFF 20–30% #BDD3FF 30–40% #A5B0FF 40–50%Ferrer: #D7F4D7 30–40% #AFE9AF 40–50% #73D873 50–60% #42CA42 60–70% #30A630 70–80%Vallone: #FFCCAA 30–40% #FFB380 40–50% #FF9955 50–60% Democratic primary, September 25, 2001nb "9/11 delay" 99CCFF Fernando Ferrer 60,839 86,571 77,516 49,441 5,084 279,45135.5% Mark Green 83,856 26,125 77,805 49,692 5,704 243,18230.9% Peter Vallone, Sr. 25,296 18,268 51,210 48,576 11,842 155,19219.7% Alan Hevesi 32,925 6,066 25,110 27,163 3,504 94,76812.0% George N. Spitz 1,558 1,264 2,923 2,489 283 8,5171.8% 785,365 Green clearly led among Manhattan's Democrats, Ferrer among The Bronx's, and Vallone among Staten Island's. Ferrer and Green were evenly matched in Brooklyn, while all three candidates were essentially tied in Queens. Run-off Democratic primary run-off, October 11, 2001 99CCFF Mark Green 131,438 38,256 120,781 94,342 18,183 403,000 51.1% Fernando Ferrer 86,579 106,086 109,831 77,330 7,193 387,019 48.9% 790,019 General election Candidates Michael Bloomberg (Republican) Bernie Goetz (Fusion) Kenneth B. Golding (American Dream) Mark Green (Democratic, Working Families) Terrance M. Gray (Conservative) Alan Hevesi (Liberal) Thomas K. Leighton (Marijuana Reform) Kenny Kramer (Libertarian) Julia Willebrand (Green) Campaign Rudy Giuliani, who was riding high approval ratings following the 9/11 attacks, endorsed Bloomberg.Nagourney, Adam. "Bloomberg Puts Eggs In a Basket: Giuliani's", The New York Times, October 28, 2001. Accessed December 31, 2007. "Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's decision to endorse Michael R. Bloomberg at City Hall yesterday provides Mr. Bloomberg with perhaps his greatest hope for victory as he moves into the final days of what his supporters describe as a troubled campaign." Unlike his cash-poor Democratic rival, who had just emerged from an expensive primary and expected to rely on traditionally reliable free media coverage that never materialized, Bloomberg continued to spend $74 million on TV ads and direct mail in the weeks after the attacks, a record amount at the time for a non-presidential election (Bloomberg broke this record in 2005).https://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=1289253 Costly Campaigns November 8, 2005 ABC News https://web.archive.org/web/20200304020945/https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=1289253 2020-03-04http://marketing-case-studies.blogspot.com/2008/04/got-milk-campaign.html Got Milk? Campaign April 21, 2008 The Economist wrote: "The billionaire businessman [Bloomberg] is usually seen as one of the post-September 11th winners (if such a word can be so used): He would probably have lost the mayoralty to Mark Green, a leftish Democrat, had the terrorist strike not happened. Yet, it is also worth noting that his election probably spared New York City a turbulent period of score-settling over Rudy Giuliani's legacy."" New York's difficult year", The Economist, September 12, 2002. Accessed December 31, 2007. Green posed on the steps of City Hall with Hasidic Jewish leaders, and issued a statement that "leaders from the Satmar congregations of New York City, the largest of the three major Hasidic groups in the city with some 100,000 followers" supported his campaign. But many of the Satmars at that photo op led an upstate Satmar community ineligible to vote in New York City and were also "at odds with the Satmar establishment" based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, whose leaders were in Europe at the time and unaware that Green had claimed their endorsement. Barry Dan 2001-07-27 Posing With Satmars, Green Steps Into a Sectarian Thicket https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/27/nyregion/posing-with-satmars-green-steps-into-a-sectarian-thicket.html The New York Times New York, NY 2020-02-04 The election was also notable for two non-politician semi-celebrities running on third-party tickets: Bernhard Goetz, who had achieved fame in 1984 as the "subway vigilante" for shooting four young men who tried to rob him, on the Fusion Party ticket; and Kenny Kramer, the inspiration for the character Cosmo Kramer on the TV show Seinfeld, on the Libertarian Party ticket. Debate + 2001 New York City mayoral election debate No. Number Date Host Moderator Link Republican DemocraticKey:black #90ff90  P  Participant  black #FFFFDD  A  Absent  black #ff9090  N  Not invited  black #CCFFCC  I  Invited #f0e68c W Withdrawn Michael Bloomberg Mark Green1 Nov. 1, 2001 League of Women Voters of New York CityNew York City Campaign Finance BoardWABC-TVWNYC-FM Diana Williams C-SPAN P P Results Bloomberg won a close election, with 744,757 votes. He lost in three of the five boroughs but received enough votes in Staten Island and Queens to prevail. Under New York's electoral fusion rules, candidates were allowed to run representing multiple parties. General election Michael Bloomberg Republican-Independence 179,797 80,597 189,040 210,432 84,891 744,757 Mark Green Democratic-Working Families 202,574 102,280 217,222 163,528 23,664 709,268 Alan Hevesi Liberal-Better Schools 3,100 1,619 2,752 2,293 567 10,331 Julia Willebrand Green 2,241 670 2,456 1,579 209 7,155 Terrance M. Gray Conservative 507 642 844 1,219 365 3,577 Thomas K. Leighton Marijuana Reform Party 791 529 680 418 145 2,563 Kenny Kramer Libertarian 368 296 338 306 100 1,408 Bernhard H. Goetz Fusion 203 201 333 253 59 1,049 Kenneth B. Golding American Dream 96 112 163 81 22 474 1,480,582 Notes nb References Mayoral election Category:2001 New York (state) elections Category:2001 United States mayoral elections Category:November 2001 in the United States 2001 Category:Aftermath of the September 11 attacks Category:Michael Bloomberg