The 1930 New York state election was held on November 4, 1930, to elect the

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, the lieutenant governor, the state comptroller, the attorney general and a 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 Communist state convention met on May 25, and nominated for Governor William Z. Foster who was at the time in jail. The

Socialist Socialism is a left-wing economic philosophy and movement encompassing a range of economic systems characterized by the dominance of social ownership of the means of production as opposed to private ownership. As a term, it describes the ...

state convention met on July 20 at

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, and nominated again Louis Waldman for governor. After the enactment of

Prohibition Prohibition is the act or practice of forbidding something by law; more particularly the term refers to the banning of the manufacture, storage (whether in barrels or in bottles), transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol ...

, the Prohibition Party had seemingly lost its reason to exist. The party had polled less than 10,000 votes and lost its automatic

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, and had not run in 1924. In 1926, the Prohibitionists got on the ballot by filing petitions and campaigned for "Independent Republican" Cristman who was nominated for U.S. Senator by the "dry" faction of the Republican Party. Their own candidate for governor had polled only a little more than 20,000 votes, not enough to get ballot access, but the openly "wet" incumbent Senator Wadsworth had been defeated. At the same time a referendum was supported by about 90% of the voters to recommend to Congress to change the

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. The Prohibitionist had not run a ticket in 1928, but now, alarmed by the massive growth of the movement against Prohibition, they emerged again under the name of

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, trying to stem the tide. Twenty representatives of "dry" organizations met at the headquarters of the

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and nominated Dr. Robert Paris Carroll, a Syracuse University professor, for governor without any running mates. The

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state convention met on September 28 at

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, and nominated

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Charles H. Tuttle for governor. The Democratic state convention met on September 30 at Syracuse, New York, and re-nominated the incumbent governor, Franklin D. Roosevelt."Roosevelt Nominated by Acclamation"
''The New York Times''. October 1, 1930

Result

The whole Democratic ticket was elected in a landslide. The incumbents Roosevelt, Lehman, Tremaine and Pound were re-elected. The Democratic, Republican and Socialist parties maintained automatic

, the Law Preservation Party attained it, the Socialist Labor Party did not re-attain it, and the Communist Party did not attain it.

Notes

Vote Totals-New York Red Book 1931

History

Result

Notes

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