1924 New York state election

none February 2026 1924 New York gubernatorial election New York presidential no 1922 New York state election 1922 1926 New York state election 1926 November 4, 1924 150x150px Unsuccessful 1928.jpg Al Smith Democratic Party (United States) 1,627,111 49.96% LC-DIG-ggbain-37582.jpg Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Republican Party (United States) 1,518,552 46.63% 1924 New York gubernatorial election results map by county.svg 300px County results Smith: #7996e2 50–60% #6674de 60–70% #584cde 70–80% Roosevelt: #e27f7f 50–60% #d75d5d 60–70% #d72f30 70–80% Governor Al Smith Democratic Party (United States) Al Smith Democratic Party (United States) June 2016 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."Socialists Name Thomas as Head of State Ticket". The New York Times. July 28, 1924. The initially frontrunner for the Republican party was assembly speaker H. Edmund Machold, who quickly ruled himself out of the election.Madaras Lawerence H. October 1966 THEODORE ROOSEVELT, JR. VERSUS AL SMITH: THE NEW YORK GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION OF 1924 https://www.jstor.org/stable/23162551 New York History 47 4 376–377 The Republican state convention met on September 25 in Rochester, New York. Theodore Roosevelt Jr., was nominated for governor on the first ballot."Roosevelt Wins Easily". The New York Times. September 26, 1924. 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. + 1924 state election results Office Democratic ticket Republican ticket Socialist ticket Workers ticket Socialist Labor ticketGovernorAlfred E. Smith 1,627,111Theodore Roosevelt Jr. 1,518,552Norman Thomas 99,854James P. Cannon 6,395Frank E. PassannoFrank E. Passanno, of Troy, ran also for attorney general in 1904; for lieutenant governor in 1906 and 1908; and for governor in 1910 4,931Lieutenant GovernorGeorge R. Lunn 1,430,321 Seymour Lowman 1,526,849Charles Solomon 126,679Franklin P. Brill 8,925Milton Weinberger 8,377Secretary of StateJames A. Hamilton 1,397,804Florence E. S. Knapp 1,530,763Frank R. Crosswaith 136,278Lilly Lore 9,983Frank Gorney Jr. 7,930ComptrollerJames W. Fleming 1,362,092Vincent B. Murphy 1,524,670Theresa B. WileyTheresa B. Wiley, of Schenectady, ran also for lieutenant governor in 1922 142,312Abraham Epstein 16,866 Attorney GeneralCarl Sherman 1,362,585Albert Ottinger 1,541,166Louis Waldman 140,424Arthur S. Leeds 9,502 Joseph Brandon 8,111TreasurerGeorge K. Shuler 1,325,695Lewis H. Pounds 1,568,965John H. VandenBosch 134,039Edward Lindgren 9,826John E. DeLeeJohn E. DeLee, ran also for comptroller in 1920; and for lieutenant governor in 1922 8,747State EngineerDwight B. LaDu 1,296,954Roy G. Finch 1,568,965Vladimir Karapetoff 138,182Richard J. Verhagen 9,567Simeon BickwheatSimeon Bickwheat, ran also in 1922 7,934 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. See also New York gubernatorial elections 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. 1924 Category:1924 New York (state) elections Category:November 1924 in the United States