1918 New York state election
Elections in New York State |
---|
The1918 New York state electionwas held on November 5, 1918, to elect thegovernor,thelieutenant governor,thesecretary state,thestate comptroller,theattorney general,thestate treasurerand thestate engineer,as well as all members of theNew York State Assemblyand theNew York State Senate.
History
[edit]This was the first state election followingwomen's suffrage.
The primaries were held on September 3.
Republican primary
[edit]Office | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Governor | Charles S. Whitman | 295,471 | Merton E. Lewis | 118,879 | ||
Lieutenant Governor | Edward Schoeneck | 226,530 | William M. Bennett | 97,902 | Seth G. Heacock | 51,648 |
Secretary of State | Francis M. Hugo | 354,066 | (unopposed) | |||
Comptroller | Eugene M. Travis | 245,494 | Samuel Frazer | 93,308 | John Kissel | 25,829 |
Attorney General | Charles D. Newton | 214,835 | Alfred L. Becker | 143,371 | ||
Treasurer | James L. Wells | 199,361 | Theodore T. Baylor | 146,998 | ||
State Engineer | Frank M. Williams | 342,571 | (unopposed) |
Democratic primary
[edit]Office | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Governor | Alfred E. Smith | 199,752 | William Church Osborn | 32,761 |
Lieutenant Governor | Harry C. Walker | 208,107 | (unopposed) | |
Secretary of State | Franklin E. Bard | 205,304 | (unopposed) | |
Comptroller | Bird S. Coler | 206,040 | (unopposed) | |
Attorney General | Charles Morschauser | 199,471 | (unopposed) | |
Treasurer | Jacob G. Cohen | 196,169 | (unopposed) | |
State Engineer | Dwight B. LaDu | 200,116 | (unopposed) |
Prohibition primary
[edit]The Prohibition state conference in July had designated State Chairman Olin S. Bishop to run in the primary for Governor, but on August 31 the enrolled party members received a circular from Bishop urging them to vote for the incumbent Republican Governor Charles S. Whitman bywriting his name in the ballot.The friends of the incumbent Republican Comptroller Eugene M. Travis gathered enough signatures to put him on the Prohibition primary ballot, and the regular candidate Claude V. Stowell also urged the party members to vote for Travis.[1]
Office | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Governor | Charles S. Whitman | 5,855 | Olin S. Bishop | 5,621 |
Lieutenant Governor | Mamie W. Colvin | 9,302 | (unopposed) | |
Secretary of State | Ella L. McCarthy | 9,254 | (unopposed) | |
Comptroller | Eugene M. Travis | 8,266 | Claude V. Stowell[2] | 2,878 |
Attorney General | Clarence Z. Spriggs | 9,295 | (unopposed) | |
Treasurer | George B. Humphrey | 9,455 | (unopposed) | |
State Engineer | David B. Passage | 9,189 | (unopposed) |
Socialist primary
[edit]All Socialist primary candidates won without opposition.
Office | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Governor | Charles W. Ervin | 9,687 | (unopposed) | |
Lieutenant Governor | Ella Reeve Bloor | 9,271 | (unopposed) | |
Secretary of State | Jessie W. Hughan | 9,347 | (unopposed) | |
Comptroller | James C. Sheahan | 7,366 | (unopposed) | |
Attorney General | Hezekiah D. Wilcox | 9,139 | (unopposed) | |
Treasurer | Charles W. Noonan | 9,166 | (unopposed) | |
State Engineer | Raymond Wilcox | 9,150 | (unopposed) |
Result
[edit]The Democratic candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor were elected with the remainder of the Republican ticket.
The incumbents Whitman and Schoeneck were defeated. The incumbents Hugo, Travis, Wells and Williams were re-elected.
Office | Democraticticket | Republicanticket | Socialistticket | Prohibitionticket | Socialist Laborticket | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Governor | Alfred E. Smith | 1,009,936 | Charles S. Whitman | 956,034 | Charles W. Ervin[3] | 121,705 | Charles S. Whitman | 38,794 | Olive M. Johnson | 5,183 |
Lieutenant Governor | Harry C. Walker | 965,471 | Edward Schoeneck | 930,066 | Ella Reeve Bloor | 130,206 | Mamie W. Colvin | 48,142 | August Gillhaus | 5,605 |
Secretary of State | Franklin E. Bard | 886,306 | Francis M. Hugo | 1,005,426 | Jessie W. Hughan | 134,520 | Ella L. McCarthy | 40,072 | Edmund Moonelis[4] | 5,405 |
Comptroller | Bird S. Coler | 909,255 | Eugene M. Travis | 1,007,483 | James C. Sheahan | 136,680 | Eugene M. Travis | Charles E. Berns[5] | 5,996 | |
Attorney General | Charles Morschauser | 878,300 | Charles D. Newton | 990,863 | Hezekiah D. Wilcox[6] | 136,992 | Clarence Z. Spriggs[7] | 43,229 | John Donahue | 6,929 |
Treasurer | Jacob G. Cohen | 839,777 | James L. Wells | 1,028,752 | Charles W. Noonan[8] | 137,823 | George B. Humphrey | 44,606 | Nadina Kavinoky | 5,268 |
State Engineer | Dwight B. LaDu | 865,573 | Frank M. Williams | 991,521 | Raymond Wilcox | 138,566 | David B. Passage | 40,628 | Joseph Galotta | 5,667 |
Obs.:
- "Blank, void and scattering" votes: 61,052 (Governor)
- The number for Travis is total on Republican and Prohibition tickets. The votes given for Governor were used to define the ballot access, and are given separately.[9]
Notes
[edit]- ^DRY' MEN GIVE AID TO WHITMANin NYT on September 1, 1918
- ^Claude V. Stowell, ofCorning,also ran for Comptroller in 1916
- ^Charles Wesley Ervin, ofJamaica, Queens
- ^Edmund Moonelis, ran also in 1912 and 1914
- ^Charles E. Berns, ran also in 1914
- ^Hezekiah D. Wilcox, ofElmira,ran also for the Court of Appeals in 1916 and 1917
- ^Clarence Z. Spriggs, ofSyracuse,ran also for Lieutenant Governor in 1916
- ^Charles W. Noonan, ran also for Comptroller in 1914 and 1916
- ^The total number of votes for Whitman, given by the NYT as "995,094" is more than the total of the separate votes stated here, given by theNew York Red Bookfor Republican and Prohibition tickets, because it was possible to vote for any candidate writing the name in the "no-party" column. To define the winner of the election, all votes were counted; to define ballot access, only the votes received on the party's ticket.
Sources
[edit]- Early primary returns:WHITMAN NAMED TO FIGHT SMITH FOR GOVERNORSHIPin NYT on September 4, 1918
- Primary results:WHITMAN'S VOTE 295,471in NYT on September 13, 1918
- Result in Westchester County:WHITMAN GAINS ONE VOTE IN THIS CITYin NYT on November 14, 1918
- Soldiers' vote in New York City:SOLDIERS ADD 7,419 TO SMITH PLURALITYin NYT on December 18, 1918
- Result:SMITH IS SWORN IN AS GOVERNORin NYT on December 31, 1918
- Vote totals taken from The New York Red Book 1919