2018 New York gubernatorial election

New York gubernatorial election, 2018

November 6, 2018
Turnout	50.0% 16.8pp
x150px x150px Nominee Andrew Cuomo Marc Molinaro Party Democratic Republican Alliance Parties Independence Women's Equality Working Families Parties Conservative Reform Running mate Kathy Hochul Julie Killian Popular vote 3,635,340 2,207,602 Percentage 59.6% 36.2%
350px County Results Cuomo:      40-50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90% Molinaro:      30–40%      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%
Governor before election Andrew Cuomo Democratic Elected Governor Andrew Cuomo Democratic

The 2018 New York gubernatorial election occurred on November 6, 2018. Incumbent Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo won re-election to a third term, defeating Republican Marc Molinaro and several minor party candidates. Cuomo received 59.6% of the vote.

Cuomo defeated actress and activist Cynthia Nixon in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. Cuomo's running mate, Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul, outpolled New York City Councillor Jumaane Williams in the Democratic primary. Democratic candidates Cuomo and Hochul also ran on the ballot lines of the Independence Party and the Women's Equality Party; after Nixon and Williams withdrew from the race in October, Cuomo and Hochul received the nomination of the Working Families Party as well.

Dutchess County Executive and former New York State Assemblymember Marcus Molinaro was the Republican, Conservative, and Reform Party candidate. Molinaro's running mate was former Rye City Councilmember Julie Killian. Third-party gubernatorial candidates appearing on the general election ballot included Howie Hawkins, repeat candidate for the Green Party; former Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, running on the newly-created Serve America Movement line; and Larry Sharpe of the Libertarian Party, who was the runner-up in the 2016 Libertarian primary contest for Vice President of the United States.

Background

Incumbent Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo decided to seek re-election in 2014 to a second term in office. Governor Cuomo defeated Zephyr Teachout in a primary election, 63% to 33%, and went on to defeat the Republican nominee, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, 54% to 40%, in the general election.

New York gubernatorial elections operate on a split primary system: governor and lieutenant governor candidates in each party run in separate primary elections. In the general election, candidates are chosen as unified governor/lieutenant governor tickets. New York recognizes electoral fusion; candidates can count the votes they receive on all party lines toward their overall vote total, but only if the governor and lieutenant governor match on all of the parties.

The results of the gubernatorial election also determine ballot access and ballot order. A party's gubernatorial candidate must receive 50,000 votes or more for that party to obtain automatic ballot status in New York for the following four years.

The last Republican to win a gubernatorial election in New York was George Pataki in 2002.

Democratic primary

On November 15, 2016, incumbent Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his intention to seek a third term in office. On May 23, 2018, incumbent Governor Andrew Cuomo secured the nomination of the Democratic Party at the state convention after winning support from more than 95% of the state delegates. No other candidates qualified for the primary ballot at the convention, as they all failed to meet the required 25% delegate threshold. Actress and activist Cynthia Nixon sought to petition her way onto the Democratic primary ballot. By July 12, Nixon had obtained 65,000 petition signatures, which is more than four times the 15,000 required to force a primary election.

Candidates

Nominee

• Andrew Cuomo, incumbent Governor of New York

Lost nomination

• Cynthia Nixon, actress and activist

Withdrew

• Randy Credico, perennial candidate (endorsed Nixon)
• Terry Gipson, former State Senator

Declined

• Preet Bharara, former U.S Attorney for the Southern District of New York
• Byron Brown, Mayor of Buffalo and chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee
• Hillary Clinton, 67th United States Secretary of State; former U.S. Senator from New York; former First Lady of the United States; 2008 Democratic presidential candidate; Democratic nominee for President in 2016 (endorsed Cuomo)
• Thomas DiNapoli, Comptroller of New York (running for reelection)
• Kirsten Gillibrand, current U.S. Senator from New York (running for reelection; endorsed Cuomo)
• Stephanie Miner, former Mayor of Syracuse (declined to seek Democratic Party nomination, running as an independent on the Serve America Movement ticket)
• Eric Schneiderman, Attorney General of New York (resigned from public office May 7, 2018 following accusations of domestic violence)
• Zephyr Teachout, law professor at Fordham University, candidate for governor in 2014 and nominee for NY-19 in 2016 (endorsed Nixon; running for Attorney General)
• Jumaane Williams, member of the New York City Council (endorsed Nixon; running for lieutenant governor)

Endorsements

Cynthia Nixon (defeated)

Local and state politicians (current and former) Tom Abinanti, Assemblyman Carmen Yulin Cruz, current Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico Terry Gipson, former State Senator Andrew Hevesi, Assemblyman Melissa Mark-Viverito, former Speaker of the New York City Council, former New York City Council member for the 8th district Carlos Menchaca, New York City Council member for the 38th District Antonio Reynoso, New York City Council member for the 34th District Brad Lander, New York City Council member for the 39th District Jimmy Van Bramer, New York City Council member for the 26th District Jumaane Williams, New York City Council member for the 45th District Individuals Cardi B, rapper Kristin Davis, actress El-P, rapper, record producer, and record executive Ashley Feinberg, journalist, humorist, and senior writer at HuffPost Jesse Tyler Ferguson, actor Shaun King, activist and journalist Kerri Evelyn Harris, candidate for DE-SN and activist Nomiki Konst, reporter for The Young Turks Kyle Kulinski, host of Secular Talk Bertha Lewis, activist, president of The Black Institute, former CEO of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, and founding co-chair of the Working Families Party Bill McKibben, environmentalist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, nominee for NY-14, educator, political organizer and former congressional staffer Rosie O'Donnell, comedian and television personality Sarah Jessica Parker, actress Diane Ravitch, research professor at New York University Richard Schiff, actor Amy Schumer, comedian Julia Salazar, candidate for New York State Senate District 18 T.I., rapper and actor Zephyr Teachout, law professor at Fordham University, candidate for Attorney General in 2018, candidate for governor in 2014 and nominee for NY-19 in 2016 (served as Campaign Treasurer) Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks Richard Stallman, president of the Free Software Foundation Organizations 350 Action Citizen Action Daily Kos Democracy for America Progressive Change Campaign Committee Make the Road Action New York Communities for Change Our Revolution Working Families Party Justice Democrats Indivisible Brooklyn Ithaca Democratic Socialists of America NYC Democratic Socialists Trans United Fund Media The Nation

Polling

Poll source	Date(s) administered	Sample size	Margin of error	Andrew Cuomo	Cynthia Nixon	Other	Undecided
Siena College	September 4–7, 2018	509	± 4.3%	63%	22%	4%	11%
Siena College	July 22–26, 2018	630	± 3.9%	60%	29%	1%	10%
Quinnipiac University	July 12–16, 2018	415	± 6.2%	59%	23%	2%	15%
Zogby Analytics	June 27 – July 3, 2018	–	–	63%	22%	–	15%
Siena College	June 4–7, 2018	–	–	61%	26%	0%	11%
Quinnipiac University	April 26 – May 1, 2018	473	± 5.7%	50%	28%	–	22%
Siena College	April 8–12, 2018	–	–	58%	27%	5%	11%
Marist College	April 3–9, 2018	364	± 6.0%	68%	21%	–	11%
Remington (R-Big Dog Strategies)	April 7–8, 2018	2,038	± 2.2%	60%	20%	–	19%
Siena College	March 11–16, 2018	363	± 4.0%	66%	19%	1%	9%

Results

On September 13, 2018, Cuomo soundly defeated Nixon in the Democratic gubernatorial primary.

Democratic primary results
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Andrew Cuomo (incumbent)	978,168	65.6%
	Democratic	Cynthia Nixon	512,585	34.4%
Total votes			1,490,753	100%

Debates and forums

• Hofstra University - August 29, 2018 - WCBS-TV

Nominee

• Kathy Hochul, incumbent Lieutenant Governor of New York

Lost nomination

• Jumaane Williams, New York City Councillor

Results

Kathy Hochul defeated New York City Councillor Jumaane Williams in the Democratic primary.

Democratic primary results
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Kathy Hochul (incumbent)	733,591	53.3%
	Democratic	Jumaane Williams	641,633	46.7%
Total votes			1,375,224	100%

Republican primary

On May 23, 2018, the party unanimously nominated Marcus Molinaro as its candidate for Governor of New York at its state convention. No challengers attempted to petition onto the primary ballot, so no Republican primary took place. Deputy Senate Majority Leader John A. DeFrancisco ran for the Republican nomination, but withdrew his candidacy on April 25, 2018 after party leaders, who had initially given their support, flipped their support to Molinaro.

Governor

Candidates

Nominee

• Marcus Molinaro, Dutchess County Executive and former member of the New York State Assembly
  • Running mate: Julie Killian, former Rye City Councilwoman and state senate nominee

Withdrew

• John A. DeFrancisco, Deputy Majority Leader of the New York State Senate
• Joel Giambra, former Erie County Executive (withdrew from the Republican primary March 1, 2018)
• Joe Holland, former commissioner of the New York Department of Housing and Community Renewal (running for Attorney General)
• Brian Kolb, Minority Leader of the New York State Assembly

Declined

• Rob Astorino, former Westchester County Executive and Republican nominee for governor in 2014
• John P. Cahill, former commissioner of the New York Department of Environmental Conservation; former chief of staff to Governor George Pataki; Republican nominee for attorney general in 2014
• John J. Flanagan, Majority Leader of the New York State Senate
• Chris Gibson, former U.S. Representative
• Carl Paladino, former member of the Buffalo Public Schools Board of Education and nominee for governor in 2010
• Donald Trump Jr., businessman and son of U.S. President Donald Trump
• Harry Wilson, businessman and nominee for State Comptroller in 2010

Endorsements

John DeFrancisco (withdrew)

Federal politicians John Katko, U.S. Representative State Legislators Fred Akshar, New York State Senator George Amedore, New York State Senator John Bonacic, New York State Senator Phil Boyle, New York State Senator Tom Croci, New York State Senator John J. Flanagan, Majority Leader of the New York State Senate Rich Funke, New York State Senator Patrick M. Gallivan, New York State Senator Joseph Griffo, New York State Senator Bill Larkin, New York State Senator Kathy Marchione, New York State Senator Rob Ortt, New York State Senator Mike Ranzenhofer, New York State Senator Patty Ritchie, New York State Senator Joseph Robach, New York State Senator Sue Serino, New York State Senator James Seward, New York State Senator Jim Tedisco, New York State Senator Cathy Young, New York State Senator Municipal leaders Jacqueline Izzo, Mayor of Rome Todd A. Rouse, former Mayor of Canastota and Chairman of the Madison County Republican Committee Municipal legislator Rodney Strange, Chemung County Legislator and Chairman of the Chemung County Republican Committee Organizations Albany County Republican Committee Broome County Republican Committee Cattaraugus County Republican Committee Chenango County Republican Committee Delaware County Republican Committee Jefferson County Republican Committee Lewis County Republican Committee Madison County Republican Committee Montgomery County Republican Committee Niagara County Republican Committee Oneida County Republican Committee Onondaga County Conservative Committee Onondaga County Republican Committee Tioga County Republican Committee

Brian Kolb (withdrew)

State legislators Ronald Castorina, New York State Assemblyman and Chairman of the Richmond County Republican Committee Nicole Malliotakis, New York State Assemblywoman and 2017 Republican nominee for Mayor of New York City Bob Oaks, New York State Assemblyman and Chairman of the Wayne County Republican Committee Municipal leaders Bill Reilich, Town Supervisor of Greece, former New York State Assemblyman and Chairman of the Monroe County Republican Committee Organizations Allegany County Republican Committee Clinton County Republican Committee Livingston County Republican Committee Monroe County Republican Committee Ontario County Republican Committee Richmond County Republican Committee Seneca County Republican Committee Schuyler County Republican Committee Steuben County Republican Committee Wayne County Republican Committee Yates County Republican Committee

Third-party candidates and independent candidates

Third parties with automatic ballot access

In addition to the Democratic and Republican Parties, six other political parties will have automatic ballot access; all six have chosen to exercise it. In order of ballot appearance, those parties are:

• Conservative Party of New York State: On April 13, 2018, in what Party Chairman Michael R. Long termed a "not very easy" decision, the Conservative Party Executive Committee selected Marcus Molinaro over Deputy Senate Majority Leader John A. DeFrancisco as its gubernatorial endorsee.
  • Nominee: Marcus Molinaro
• Green Party of New York: On April 12, 2018, Howie Hawkins, after initially implying after the 2014 election that he would not seek the office again, launched his third consecutive campaign for the position, his 21st campaign for public office.
  • Nominee: Howie Hawkins, party co-founder and perennial candidate
    • Running mate: Jia Lee, United Federation of Teachers chapter leader and public school teacher
• Working Families Party: On April 14, 2018, by a 91-8 margin, the Working Families Party endorsed Cynthia Nixon as its gubernatorial candidate, with Jumaane Williams as her running mate. The endorsement came after the labor unions that formed part of Cuomo's political machine, who were able to force the party to nominate Cuomo instead of Zephyr Teachout in 2014, withdrew from the party, and Cuomo declined to seek the party's line. On September 13, 2018, after being defeated by Cuomo in the Democratic primary, Nixon declined to say whether she would continue to run for governor on the Working Families Party line. On October 3, the Working Families Party offered Cuomo and Hochul their party's ballot line. Cuomo and Hochul accepted that offer on October 5.
  • Nominee: Andrew Cuomo (replacing the withdrawn Cynthia Nixon)
    • Running mate: Kathy Hochul (replacing the withdrawn Jumaane Williams)
• Independence Party of New York: On December 23, 2017, the Party endorsed incumbent Governor Andrew Cuomo for the third consecutive election cycle.
  • Nominee: Andrew Cuomo
• Women's Equality Party: The party endorsed Cuomo for re-election, as the party remains allied with the Cuomo campaign.
  • Nominee: Andrew Cuomo
• Reform Party of New York State: On May 19, after the party's executive committee deadlocked between Marcus Molinaro and Joel Giambra in April, delegates at the Reform Party state convention nominated Republican frontrunner Molinaro as their candidate for governor.
  • Nominee: Marcus Molinaro

Independent candidates and third parties without automatic ballot access

Any candidate not among the eight qualified New York political parties (Democratic, Republican, Conservative, Green, Working Families, Independence, Women's Equality and Reform, respectively) was required to submit petitions to gain ballot access. Such candidates did not face primary elections. Third parties whose respective gubernatorial candidates received at least 50,000 votes in the general election secured automatic ballot access in all state and federal elections through the 2022 elections.

Libertarian Party

File:Larry Sharpe portrait.jpg

Business consultant and runner-up in the 2016 Libertarian Party Vice Presidential Primary Larry Sharpe is running on the Libertarian Party line

On July 12, 2017, Larry Sharpe, business consultant and runner-up in the 2016 Libertarian Party vice presidential primary, officially announced that he would run for Governor of New York in 2018. Sharpe was the first person to announce his candidacy to run against incumbent Governor Andrew Cuomo. On August 19, 2018, the Libertarian Party announced it had collected over 30,000 signatures to place its ticket onto the November ballot. Sharpe's petitions survived a petition challenge.

• Nominee: Larry Sharpe, business consultant and runner-up in the 2016 Libertarian Party vice presidential primary
  • Running mate: Andrew Hollister, candidate for Rochester City Council in 2017

Serve America Movement

On June 18, 2018, former Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, after expressing informal interest in the Working Families and Reform nominations, entered the gubernatorial race as a third-party candidate. Miner "plans to run under the banner of an upstart new group, the Serve America Movement, which calls itself SAM (coincidentally sharing Miner's initials), formed by people disaffected by the existing party structure after the 2016 elections. She will be the group’s first candidate." Miner circulated designating petitions to create a SAM Party in New York, and on August 21, her campaign announced that it had submitted over 40,000 petition signatures. Miner's submitted petitions far exceeded the 15,000 required to qualify for the November ballot. Persons tied to the Cuomo campaign, after reviewing the petitions, failed to find enough specific objections to challenge their validity.

• Nominee: Stephanie Miner, former state Democratic Party chairwoman and former mayor of Syracuse
  • Running mate: Michael Volpe, mayor of Pelham

Rent Is Too Damn High Party (disqualified)

Jimmy McMillan, the party's founder and figurehead indicated on the party Web site that he would make another attempt at the office. He submitted petitions on August 21, 2018 with himself as the gubernatorial nominee and Christialle Felix as his running mate. When the ballot order was released, McMillan and the Rent Is Too Damn High Party had been disqualified and removed from the ballot.

Primary election

Fundraising

Campaign finance reports as of October 10, 2018
Candidate	Amount raised
Andrew Cuomo	$13,778,685.04
Marcus Molinaro	$1,914,828.14
Larry Sharpe	$449,515.19
Stephanie Miner	$725,060.93
Howie Hawkins	$189,918.94
Source: New York State Board of Elections

General election

Debates

Host network	Date	Link(s)	Participants
			Andrew Cuomo (D)	Marcus Molinaro (R)	Larry Sharpe (L)	Howie Hawkins (G)	Stephanie Miner (SAM)
WCBS-TV	October 23, 2018		Participant	Participant	Non-invitee	Non-invitee	Non-invitee
College of St. Rose	November 1, 2018		Absentee	Participant	Participant	Participant	Participant

Endorsements

Andrew Cuomo (D)

U.S. Cabinet members and Cabinet-level officials Joe Biden, 47th Vice President of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton, 67th United States Secretary of State, 2008 Democratic presidential candidate and 2016 Democratic nominee for President Tom Perez, 26th United States Secretary of Labor, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee N.Y. Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul, N.Y. Lieutenant Governor (D-NY) U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. Senator (D-NY) Chuck Schumer, U.S. Senator and Senate Minority Leader (D-NY) U.S. Representatives Nancy Pelosi, U.S. Representative (D-CA-12) José E. Serrano, U.S. Representative (D-NY-15) Nydia Velázquez, U.S. Representative (D-NY-7) Local and state politicians Corey Johnson, Speaker of the New York City Council Marcos Crespo, Assemblymember, Chair of the Bronx County Democratic Committee Organizations 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East Human Rights Campaign National Organization for Women - New York New York State Democratic Committee United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1500 Planned Parenthood Empire State Acts NYS AFL-CIO Civil Service Employees Association Stonewall Democrats Public Employees Federation Citizens Union Media Buffalo News editorial New York Times editoral board team Individuals Nicki Minaj, rapper

Marcus Molinaro (R)

U.S. Governors George Pataki, Governor of New York (former) Chris Sununu, Governor of New Hampshire U.S. Representatives Chris Gibson, former U.S. Representative (R-NY-19) Peter King, U.S. Representative (R-NY-2) Elise Stefanik, U.S. Representative (R-NY-21) State Legislators James Seward, State Senator Brian Kolb, State Assemblyman (Minority Leader) Gary Finch, State Assemblyman Nicole Malliotakis, State Assemblywoman County officials Steven McLaughlin, Rensselaer County Executive Anthony Picente, Oneida County Executive Individuals Ann Barcher, former Town of Poughkeepsie Supervisor (Democrat) Joe Borelli, New York City Councilman Steve Forbes, businessman Joseph Mondello, U.S. Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago, Former Chairman of the Nassau County Republican Committee Eric Ulrich, New York City Councilman Organizations New York Veteran Police Association Associated Builders and Contractors Law Enforcement Medal of Honor Committee New York City Fire Marshals Benevolent Association Allegany County Republican Committee Chemung County Republican Committee (previously endorsed John DeFrancisco) Clinton County Republican Committee Erie County Republican Committee Franklin County Republican Committee Manhattan Republican Committee Monroe County Republican Committee Otsego County Republican Committee Putnam County Republican Committee Queens Republican Committee Schuyler County Republican Committee Seneca County Republican Committee Suffolk County Republican Committee Sullivan County Republican Committee (previously endorsed John DeFrancisco) Ulster County Republican Committee Washington County Republican Committee Yates County Republican Committee Newspapers The Post-Star Jewish Voice The Citizen The Daily Gazette New York Post editorial board Watertown Daily Times The Post-Standard

Larry Sharpe (L)

U.S. Governors Gary Johnson, former Governor of New Mexico and Libertarian Party presidential nominee in 2012 and 2016 William Weld, former Governor of Massachusetts and Libertarian Party vice-presidential nominee in 2016 U.S. municipal legislators William Brooke Harris, Republican Allegany County legislator Other politicians Craig Bowden, 2018 Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate from Utah Joseph Byrne, Trustee on the Valley Central School District Board of Education Michelle Darnell, 2017 Libertarian candidate for Washington State Representative Dale Kerns, 2018 Libertarian candidate for Pennsylvania Senator Kash Jackson, Navy veteran and activist, Libertarian nominee for Illinois Governor 2018 Michael McDermott, 2014 Libertarian nominee for Governor of New York Austin Petersen, 2018 Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Missouri and 2016 Libertarian candidate for President of the United States Stevan Porter, 2018 Libertarian candidate for Virginia's 11th congressional district James Tosone, 2018 Libertarian nominee for United States Congress, New Jersey District 5 James Rosenbeck, chairman of the Libertarian Party of New York Nickolas Wildstar, 2018 Libertarian candidate for Governor of California Individuals Glenn Beck, conservative political commentator and radio host at TheBlaze Shannon Joy, WYSL radio host Joanne Nosuchinsky, 2013 Miss New York USA and co-host of Mornin'!!! with Bill Schulz Evan Roberts, sports radio talk personality and co-host of Joe & Evan Joe Rogan, stand-up comedian, mixed martial arts color commentator, podcast host, and businessman Dave Rubin, political commentator and talk show host, creator and host of The Rubin Report Bill Schulz, journalist, television personality and host of Mornin'!!! with Bill Schulz Katherine Timpf, comedian, reporter and Fox News television personality Bob Confer, columnist for the Lockport Union-Sun & Journal and the Niagara Gazette Jeremy Frankel, writer for The Daily Wire John Stossel, author, journalist and libertarian news commentator Matt Welch, journalist at Reason Eric July, anarcho-capitalist and lead singer of rap rock group Backwordz Gerald Walker, hip-hop musician Aron Price, professional golfer Matthew Kolken, immigration lawyer and elected member of the AILA Board of Directors Organizations 71Republic Libertarian Youth Caucus Marijuana Reform Party of New York state Monroe County Libertarian Party Onondaga County Libertarian Party Otsego County Libertarian Party

Howie Hawkins (G)
Local politicians (former) Jill Stein, physician, activist, former local politician, Green Party's presidential nominee in the 2012 and 2016 elections and candidate for governor of Massachusetts in 2002 and 2010. Individuals Jimmy Dore, stand-up comedian and political commentator for hosting The Jimmy Dore Show and co-hosting The Aggressive Progressives on Young Turks

Stephanie Miner (SAM)
Newspapers Adirondack Daily Enterprise

Predictions

Source	Ranking	As of
The Cook Political Report	Solid D	August 30, 2018
The Washington Post	Safe D	October 16, 2018
FiveThirtyEight	Solid D	October 17, 2018
Rothenberg Political Report	Solid D	August 31, 2018
Sabato's Crystal Ball	Safe D	August 29, 2018
Real Clear Politics	Safe D	October 9, 2018
Daily Kos	Safe D	August 13, 2018
Fox News	Likely D	October 9, 2018
Politico	Solid D	October 9, 2018
Governing	Likely D	October 2, 2018

Notes

Polling

Poll source	Date(s) administered	Sample size	Margin of error	Andrew Cuomo (D)	Marcus Molinaro (R)	Stephanie Miner (SAM)	Howie Hawkins (G)	Larry Sharpe (L)	Other	Undecided
Research Co.	November 1–3, 2018	450	± 4.6%	54%	37%	–	–	–	3%	6%
Siena College	October 28 – November 1, 2018	641	± 3.9%	49%	36%	2%	2%	3%	0%	7%
Quinnipiac University	October 10–16, 2018	852	± 4.4%	58%	35%	–	–	–	2%	5%
Gravis Marketing (L-Sharpe)	October 4–8, 2018	783	± 3.5%	48%	25%	8%	6%	13%	–	–
Siena College	September 20–27, 2018	701	± 3.9%	56%	38%	–	–	–	0%	4%
Liberty Opinion Research (R-Reform Party)	August 29–30, 2018	2,783	± 1.9%	46%	43%	–	–	–	–	11%
Quinnipiac University	July 12–16, 2018	934	± 4.1%	57%	31%	–	–	–	0%	8%
Zogby Analytics	June 27 – July 3, 2018	708	± 3.7%	50%	27%	10%	4%	–	–	9%
				49%	27%	11%	–	–	–	12%
				52%	32%	–	–	–	–	15%
Siena College	June 4–7, 2018	745	± 3.7%	56%	37%	–	–	–	1%	5%
Quinnipiac University	April 26 – May 1, 2018	1,076	± 3.7%	57%	26%	–	–	–	2%	12%
Siena College	April 8–12, 2018	692	± 4.3%	57%	31%	–	–	–	0%	9%
Siena College	March 11–16, 2018	772	± 4.0%	57%	29%	–	–	–	0%	11%

Results

New York gubernatorial election, 2018

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Andrew Cuomo	3,424,416	56.16%	+8.64%
	Working Families	Andrew Cuomo	114,478	1.88%	-1.43%
	Independence	Andrew Cuomo	68,713	1.13%	-0.91%
	Women's Equality	Andrew Cuomo	27,733	0.45%	-0.96%
	Total	Andrew Cuomo/Kathy Hochul (incumbent)	3,635,340	59.62%	+5.43%
	Republican	Marcus Molinaro	1,926,485	31.60%	-0.79%
	Conservative	Marcus Molinaro	253,624	4.16%	-2.41%
style="background-color: Template:Reform Party of New York State/meta/color; width: 5px;" |	[[Reform Party of New York State|Template:Reform Party of New York State/meta/shortname]]	Marcus Molinaro	27,493	0.45%	N/A
	Total	Marcus Molinaro/Julie Killian	2,207,602	36.21%	-4.10%
	Green Party	Howie Hawkins/Jia Lee	103,946	1.70%	-3.14%
	Libertarian	Larry Sharpe/Andrew Hollister	95,033	1.56%	+1.12%
style="background-color: Template:Serve America Movement/meta/color; width: 5px;" |	[[Serve America Movement|Template:Serve America Movement/meta/shortname]]	Stephanie Miner/Michael Volpe	55,441	0.91%	N/A
Total votes			6,097,362	100.0%	N/A
	Democratic hold

Aftermath

Howie Hawkins retained ballot access for the Green Party for four more years (albeit falling to Line E while the Working Families line rose to Line D).

Stephanie Miner narrowly surpassed the 50,000-vote threshold to allow the Serve America Movement ballot access, on Line H.

The Libertarian Party of New York achieved ballot access with Larry Sharpe's 90,816 votes, the first time in the over 40-year history of the party that it has achieved the feat despite several previous efforts; Sharpe performed most strongly in the rural counties upstate, finishing with over 10% of the vote in Schuyler County and at or near 5% in most others.

The Women's Equality Party and Reform Party of New York both lost automatic ballot access by failing to receive 50,000 votes for the candidates on their lines, respectively Cuomo and Molinaro.

External links

• Candidates at Vote Smart
• Candidates at Ballotpedia

Official campaign websites

• Andrew Cuomo (D, I, WEP, WF) for Governor
• Howie Hawkins (G) for Governor
• Stephanie Miner (SAM) for Governor
• Marc Molinaro (R, C, REF) for Governor
• Larry Sharpe (L) for Governor