1993 New York City mayoral election

none January 2025 September 2023 1993 New York City mayoral election New York City presidential no 1989 New York City mayoral election 1989 1997 New York City mayoral election 1997 November 2, 1993 File:Rudolph Giuliani, D.A., NYC (06) ( close cropped).jpg Rudy Giuliani Republican Party (United States) 903,114 50.62% File:David Dinkins 1986 cropped 3x4.jpg David Dinkins Democratic Party (United States) 858,868 48.14% 250px Borough results 250px State Assembly district results 1 250px Giuliani: #E27F7F 50–60% #D75D5D 60–70% #D72F30 70–80% #aa0000 80–90%Dinkins: #7996E2 50–60% #6674DE 60–70% #584CDE 70–80% #3933E5 80–90% #0D0596 >90% Mayor David Dinkins Democratic Party (United States) Rudy Giuliani Republican Party (United States) 1,898,43757.50% (2.17 pp) 3,301,683 Liberal The 1993 New York City mayoral election was held on Tuesday, November 2. Incumbent Mayor David Dinkins ran for re-election to a second term, but lost in a rematch with Republican Rudy Giuliani.https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE4DF153EF930A35752C1A965958260&pagewanted=2 The New York Times Todd S. Purdum Giuliani ousts Dinkins by a thin margin ... November 3, 1993 This was the first time since 1965 that a Republican won a mayoral election in New York City. Democrats would not win a mayoral election again until 2013. Background 1989 New York City mayoral election Crown Heights riot Patrolmen's Benevolent Association Riot Dinkins had narrowly defeated Giuliani in the previous election. By 1993, the city was suffering from a spike in unemployment associated with a nationwide recession, and with a rise in local unemployment rates from 6.7% in 1989 to 11.1% in 1992.New York State Department of Labor statistics,http://www.labor.state.ny.us/workforceindustrydata/apps.asp?reg=nys&app=laus Workforce industry data November 18, 2006 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20051019081613/http://www.labor.state.ny.us/workforceindustrydata/apps.asp?reg=nys&app=laus October 19, 2005 Although crime rates had begun to fall during the Dinkins administration,* Gary M. Klass, Just Plain Data Analysis: Finding, Presenting, and Interpreting Social Science Data (2d ed.), pp. 52–53. Randol Contreras, The Stickup Kids, Race, Drugs, Violence, and the American Dream (University of California Press, 2012), p. 110. Dinkins suffered badly from a perception that crime and racial tension was uncontrolled in the city, following events such as the January 1990 Family Red Apple boycott and 1991 Crown Heights riot.John H. Mollenkopf, A Phoenix in the Ashes: The Rise and Fall of the Koch Coalition in New York City Politics (Princeton University Press, 1994), p. 218 (Afterword).Lorch Donatella 31 December 1990 Record Year for Killings Jolts Officials in New York The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/31/nyregion/record-year-for-killings-jolts-officials-in-new-york.html In 1992, Giuliani was a key speaker at a Patrolmen's Benevolent Association rally opposing Dinkins, in which Giuliani said "The reason the morale of the police department of the City of New York is so low is one reason and one reason alone: David Dinkins!" The rally quickly devolved into a riot, with nearly 4,000 off-duty police officers storming the City Hall and blocking traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge.Nahmias, Laura October 4, 2021 White Riot In 1992, thousands of furious, drunken cops descended on City Hall — and changed New York history https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/10/the-forgotten-city-hall-riot.html January 21, 2022 The New Yorker Democratic primary Candidates David Dinkins, incumbent mayor since 1990 Roy Innis, national director of the Congress on Racial Equality Eric Ruano-MelendezMitchell Alison 1993-09-13 Mayoral Race Is Overshadowed In New York Primary Tomorrow en-US The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/13/nyregion/mayoral-race-is-overshadowed-in-new-york-primary-tomorrow.html 2023-05-18 0362-4331 Withdrew Herman Badillo, former U.S. Representative and Borough President of the Bronx (endorsed Rudy Giuliani, ran for Comptroller) Andrew J. Stein, President of the New York City Council (ran for Public Advocate) Campaign Herman Badillo ran a short-lived campaign for mayor, his sixth in seven elections, but dropped out on May 13 citing poor fundraising. He ran instead for New York City Comptroller on Rudy Giuliani's fusion ticket.Purdum Todd S. 1993-05-14 BADILLO DROPS OUT OF RACE FOR MAYOR WITH SPARSE FUNDS https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/14/nyregion/badillo-drops-out-of-race-for-mayor-with-sparse-funds.html 2025-01-13 The New York Times en-US 0362-4331 After Stein withdrew, the primary largely became an afterthought; Innis and Ruano-Melendez were unfamiliar to most voters, and the mayoral primary became an afterthought relative to the Comptroller and Public Advocate races, where Giuliani allies (Badillo and Susan Alter, respectively) who had already secured the Republican and Liberal endorsements ran against established Democrats in hopes of establishing a cross-party fusion ticket. The looming presence of Giuliani also led Dinkins to focus on the general election before the primary had concluded. Innis, who had expressed conservative positions on the issues and criticized Dinkins for his handling of the Crown Heights riots, nevertheless chose to run as a Democrat, arguing, "the Democratic Party is the only game in town. It's unfortunate that we have a corrupt one-party, one ideology system in New York City, and I'd like to change that. But being a Democrat doesn't mean you have to be a fool."May 2023 During his own campaign, Innis also appeared at fundraising events for the Republican candidate Rudolph Giuliani.May 2023 Dinkins did criticize Innis directly for giving Idi Amin lifetime membership in CORE and defending Amin's admiration of Adolf Hitler by stating he did not believe Hitler was unkind to "black folks". Innis responded that the attacks by Dinkins were "McCarthyism". Results Innis received just 25% of the vote but carried the borough of Staten Island. center 1993 New York City Democratic mayoral primary election results map by borough.svg x250px Results by borough 1993 New York City mayor Democratic primary by State Assembly district.svg x250px Results by State Assembly district Dinkins: #A5B0FF 40–50% #7996E2 50–60% #6674DE 60–70% #584CDE 70–80% #3933E5 80–90% #0D0596 >90%Innis: #7DDDDD 40–50% #51C2C2 50–60% #2AACAC 60–70% #009696 70–80% 1993 Democratic mayoral primaryTHE 1993 PRIMARY: Mayor; Dinkins Defeats 2 Opponents By 2-to-1 Margin in Primary Olmsted Larry 15 Sep 1993 The New York Times B10 David Dinkins (incumbent) Democratic Party (US) 346,181 67.61 Roy Innis Democratic Party (US) 129,872 25.36 Eric Ruano-Melendez Democratic Party (US) 35,969 7.02 512,022 100.0 Giuliani cited the result as a sign of Dinkins's vulnerability, saying, "The Mayor was devastated today. Less than 20 percent of the electorate even turned out to vote -- it's actually considerably better than we thought. This is a Democratic Mayor who can't even get his own people out to vote." General election Candidates Rudy Giuliani, former U.S. Attorney and candidate in 1989 (Republican and Liberal) David Dinkins, incumbent mayor (Democratic) George J. Marlin (Conservative) Disqualified Jimmy McMillan, activist Jimmy McMillan, the founder of the Rent Is Too Damn High Party, made his first run for political office in this election. In the course of his campaign, McMillan was at one point tied to a tree and doused with gasoline.Parente, Michele (1993-06-25). "A Political Attack? Would-be mayor tied to tree." New York Newsday. He would later climb the Brooklyn Bridge and refuse to come down from it unless television stations broadcast his message.Raftery, Tom and Miguel Garcilazo (1993-10-27). OWNER OF THE FLYEST HAIR ON EARTH "'Rambo' jams up B'klyn Bridge." New York Daily News. He was ultimately disqualified from the ballot for coming 300 petition signatures short of the 7,500 needed to qualify for the general election ballot. Campaign As in his unsuccessful 1989 campaign, Giuliani also ran on the Liberal Party ballot, while the Conservative Party line was held by activist George Marlin."Q&A: George Marlin" https://web.archive.org/web/20080319040015/http://www.latestpolitics.com/article/17 2008-03-19, The New York Sun, March 21, 2007; accessed June 24, 2007 Citing broken windows theory, Giuliani promised to focus the police department on shutting down petty crimes and nuisances as a way of restoring the quality of life: It's the street tax paid to drunks and panhandlers. It's the squeegee men shaking down the motorist waiting at a light. It's the trash storms, the swirling mass of garbage left by peddlers and panhandlers, and open-air drug bazaars on unclean streets."NYC crime rate cut with penalties" https://archive.today/20120719120123/http://www.bcheights.com/media/storage/paper144/news/2005/11/03/Opinions/Nyc-Crime.Rate.Cut.With.Penalties-1044319.shtml?norewrite200604260245&sourcedomain=www.bcheights.com 2012-07-19 , BCHeights.com, November 3, 2005 Dinkins and Giuliani never debated during the campaign, unable to agree on how to approach a debate. Dinkins wanted to share the debate stage with third-party candidates, while Giuliani did not.Katharine Q. Seeley "In G.O.P. Debate Today, Which Tack for Giuliani?", The New York Times, May 3, 2007. Accessed March 31, 2008. Dinkins was endorsed by The New York Times and Newsday,"Why Dinkins Lost" https://web.archive.org/web/20120222170046/http://www.mitchellmoss.com/oped/93-11-04-nynewsday.html 2012-02-22, Newsday, November 4, 1993 while Giuliani was endorsed by the New York Post and, in a key switch from 1989, the New York Daily News.In an Endorsement, a Search for Signals NY Times, November 1, 1993 On election day, Giuliani's campaign hired off-duty cops, firefighters, and corrections officers to monitor polling places in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and The Bronx for cases of voter fraud.Dugger, Celia W. November 1, 1993 The 1993 Campaign: Polling Places; 2 Sides Seek More Police to Stymie Intimidation and Fraud at Polls https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/01/nyregion/1993-campaign-polling-places-2-sides-seek-more-police-stymie-intimidation-fraud.html January 25, 2022 The New York Times Despite objections from the Dinkins campaign, who claimed that the effort would intimidate Democratic voters, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly assigned an additional 52 police captains and 3,500 officers to monitor the city's polling places. In April 2023, Giuliani admitted to using a "dirty trick" in an effort to suppress voting by the city's Hispanic population.Yang Maya 2023-04-29 Giuliani admits using 'dirty trick' to suppress Hispanic vote in mayoral race en-GB The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/29/rudy-giuliani-hispanic-vote-suppression-new-york-election live 2023-04-29 https://web.archive.org/web/20230429173403/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/29/rudy-giuliani-hispanic-vote-suppression-new-york-election 2023-04-29 0261-3077 Giuliani claimed he spent $2,000,000 on a "Voter Integrity Committee", which distributed literature in the predominantly Hispanic neighborhood of East Harlem which told voters to bring their green cards and claimed that the Immigration and Naturalization Service was conducting deportations. Giuliani says that when then-Attorney General Janet Reno questioned the tactic, he responded by saying "What civil rights did we violate? They don't have civil rights! All we did was prevent people who can't vote from voting. Maybe we tricked them, but tricking is not a crime." He also stated that "in those days, we didn't have crazy prosecutors. Nowadays, they'll probably prosecute you for it ... and that's the way we kept down the Hispanic vote." Debate + 1993 New York City mayoral election debate No. Number Date Host Moderator Link Democratic Republican ConservativeKey:black #90ff90  P  Participant  black #FFFFDD  A  Absent  black #ff9090  N  Not invited  black #CCFFCC  I  Invited #f0e68c W Withdrawn David Dinkins Rudy Giuliani George Marlin1 Oct. 17, 1993 WNBC Gabe Pressman C-SPAN P A P Results Dinkins earned 48.3 percent of the vote, down from 51 percent in 1989. Although he was a moderate with a substantial history of building coalitions and supporting Jewish causes,http://www.blackpressusa.com/history/archive_essay.asp?NewsID=1538&Week=45 Archives Main Page Blackpressusa.com November 11, 1989 September 23, 2011 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110921161601/http://www.blackpressusa.com/history/archive_essay.asp?NewsID=1538&Week=45 September 21, 2011 one factor in Dinkins' loss was his perceived indifference to the plight of the Jewish community during the Crown Heights riot. Another was a strong turnout for Giuliani in Staten Island; a referendum on Staten Island's secession from New York City was placed on the ballot that year by Governor Mario Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Dinkins defeated Giuliani handily in Manhattan, the Bronx, and narrowly won Brooklyn. However, Giuliani's margin in the other two boroughs was large enough to win the election. Giuliani won by a margin of 53,367 votes. He became the first Republican elected Mayor of New York City since John Lindsay in 1965.http://www.nyc.gov/html/nyc100/html/classroom/hist_info/mayors.html Elected Mayors of New York City October 26, 2007 NYC.gov https://web.archive.org/web/20071012003808/http://nyc.gov/html/nyc100/html/classroom/hist_info/mayors.html October 12, 2007 1993 New York City mayoral electionThe Vote for Mayor and Comptroller by Assembly District The New York Times November 4, 1993 32 https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1993/11/04/issue.html subscription Republican Party (US) Rudy Giuliani Liberal Party of New York Rudy Giuliani Total Rudy Giuliani 903,114 50.62% Democratic Party (US) David Dinkins (incumbent) 858,868 48.14% Conservative Party of New York George Marlin New York State Right to Life Party George Marlin Total George Marlin 16,921 0.95% Bockman 2,608 0.15% Brennan 2,425 0.14% 1,783,937 100.00% General Election   change in Giuliani margin + 21,433 + 8,256 + 27,786 + 16,428 + 26,517 + 100,447   Giuliani – Dinkins, 1989 – 97,600 – 72,471 – 39,071 + 94,670 + 67,392 – 47,080   Giuliani – Dinkins, 1993 – 76,167 – 64,215 – 11,285 + 111,098 + 93,909 + 53,367 | |||||||||||| Rudolph W. Giuliani Republican - Liberal 166,357 98,780 258,058 291,625 115,416 930,236 David N. Dinkins Democratic 242,524 162,995 269,343 180,527 21,507 876,869 George J. Marlin Conservative - Right to Life 15,926 1,889,003 References 30em Mayoral election, 1993 New York City mayoral New York 1993 Category:November 1993 in the United States Category:Rudy Giuliani