The 1965 New York City mayoral election occurred on Tuesday, November 2, 1965, with

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Congressman

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winning a close plurality victory over the Democratic candidate, New York City Comptroller Abraham Beame. Lindsay received 44.99% of the vote to Beame's 40.98%, a victory margin of 4.01%. Finishing in a distant third was the candidate of the recently formed Conservative Party, conservative author and commentator William F. Buckley Jr., who received 13.36% of the vote. Lindsay and Beame received the

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and Civil Service ballot line respectively. Lindsay won a decisive majority in

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, while winning comfortable plurality victories in

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and Staten Island. Beame won pluralities in the

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and

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. Linsday was sworn into office in January 1966, replacing outgoing Democratic Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. While Lindsay won the mayoralty four years later, he lost the Republican nomination to John J. Marchi. As a result, this was the last mayoral election that a Republican won until Rudy Giuliani's victory in

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Results

Almost a quarter of Lindsay's vote (281,796) was on the

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line, while 63,590 of Beame's votes were on the Civil Service Fusion line.

, a Republican Congressman from the Upper East Side of Manhattan, carried

, and traditionally Republican Staten Island (Richmond), while Abe Beame, the City Comptroller, carried

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and his home borough of

, both of which he had also won in the Democratic primary. However, while Beame had also carried Queens in the primary, he lost it to Lindsay in the general election.Page 41 of the 1966 ''World Almanac & Book of Facts'' and page 69 of Cannato'
''The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and His Struggle to Save New York''
/ref> (Five years later, Bill Buckley's brother James L. Buckley won the 1970 New York state election for U.S. Senator on the Conservative Party line against divided opposition.) The Other vote was 11,104- Vito Battista - United Taxpayer Party; 3,977- Clifton DeBerry - Socialist Workers; 2,087 - Eric Haas - Socialist Labor

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