1916 New York state election

The 1916 New York state election was held on November 7, 1916, to elect the governor, the lieutenant governor, the Secretary of State, the state comptroller, the attorney general, the state treasurer, the state engineer, a U.S. Senator, the chief judge and an associate judge of the New York Court of Appeals, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate.

History

The primaries were held on September 19.

Result

The whole Republican ticket was elected.
The incumbents Whitman, Schoeneck, Hugo, Travis, Woodbury, Wells and Williams were re-elected.
The Republican, Democratic, Socialist and Prohibition parties maintained automatic ballot access ; the Independence League, Progressive and American parties lost it; and the Socialist Labor Party did not re-attain it.
36 Republicans and 15 Democrats were elected to the New York State Senate, to sit in the 140th and 141st New York State Legislatures.
99 Republicans, 49 Democrats and 2 Socialists were elected to the New York State Assembly, to sit in the 140th New York State Legislature.
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Numbers are total votes on all tickets for candidates who ran on more than one ticket, except for Whitman. The votes received for governor were used to determine ballot access.