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Incumbent Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul took office on August 24, 2021, upon the resignation of Andrew Cuomo, and was elected to a full term in her own right in 2022 with 53.2% of the vote, the closest New York gubernatorial election since 1994. Hochul announced her intention to run for re-election in July 2024. [1]
[2] [3] The family struggled financially during Hochul's early years and for a time lived in a trailer near a steel plant. [2] By the time Hochul was in college, however, her father was working for the information technology company he later headed. [2] Her family is Irish Catholic. [4]
The Constitution of New York has provided since 1777 for the election of a lieutenant governor of New York, who also acts as president of the State Senate, to the same term (keeping the same term lengths as the governor throughout all the constitutional revisions). Originally, in the event of the death, resignation or impeachment of the ...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) on Tuesday called for the Electoral College to be abolished, arguing the system is outdated. “We, the people, forming a more perfect union, and I strongly believe ...
Humbug, Hochul once again declared on legislation that would require public posting of information about contracts the state enters during states of emergency. Legislative Scrooge: Hochul doles ...
As a chorus of top Democrats demanded New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s resignation over sexual harassment allegations last week, the woman who would succeed him if he stepped down did what she's ...
An 1874 amendment extended the term of office back to three years, [12] but the 1894 constitution again reduced it to two years. [13] The most recent New York Constitution of 1938 extended the term to the current four years. [14] There is no limit to the number of consecutive terms a governor may serve.
Hochul won the city of New York with 69.8% to 30.2%, the latter being the highest vote percentage for a Republican since 2002. Zeldin carried the state outside of the Five Boroughs 54.1% to 45.9% and carried the 52 counties of Upstate (the counties outside of the New York metropolitan area–the Five Boroughs, Long Island , and Putnam ...