New York City mayoral elections
The Mayor of the City of New York is
elected in early November every four years
and takes office at the beginning of the fol-
lowing year. The City which elects the Mayor
as her chief executive consists of The Five
Boroughs (Manhattan, The Bronx, Brooklyn,
Queens and Staten Island) which consolid-
ated to form "Greater" New York on January
1, 1898.
The consolidated City’s
first Mayor,
Robert A. Van Wyck, was elected with other
municipal officers in November 1897. Mayor-
al Elections had previously been held since
1834 by the City of Brooklyn and the smaller,
unconsolidated City of New York (Manhattan,
later expanded into the Bronx).
The current mayor of New York, now com-
pleting his second term,
is Michael R.
Bloomberg (elected in 2001 and 2005). The
next mayoral election will be held in Novem-
ber 2009 for the term beginning on January
1, 2010.
Overview
Scope of this article
The vast bulk of this page’s contents is stat-
istical: the main results, city-wide and by bor-
ough, of each of the 31 elections to the May-
oralty of the City of New York since Greater
New York was consolidated from The Five
Boroughs in 1897-1898.
For many years, but not all, there are also
results for minor candidates and for the dif-
ferent parties nominating the same major
candidate. (Because minor parties’ votes are
not uniformly available, totals and thus per-
centages can be slightly inconsistent, either
between different elections or between indi-
vidual boroughs and the whole City in the
same election.)
There are brief comments about some of
the elections, and separate articles have been
written for those of 1917, 1977, 1997, 2001,
2005 and 2009. Different elections are com-
pared in many of the individual notes, in two
summary tables and in one specialized table.
New York City’s Mayoral elections have
been marked by an interplay of factors that
are magnified by the sheer size of the popula-
tion. There was a history of a large socialist
vote, there is a history of tension between
’regular’ and ’ref