1965 New York City mayoral election

1965 New York City mayoral election
	Results by Borough Beame—40–50% Lindsay—50–60% Lindsay—40–50%
Mayor before election; Robert F. Wagner, Jr.; Democratic	Elected Mayor ; John Lindsay; Republican

The 1965 New York City mayoral election occurred on Tuesday, November 2, 1965, with Republican Congressman John Lindsay 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%.^[1]

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 Liberal and Civil Service ballot line respectively.

Lindsay won a decisive majority in Manhattan, while winning comfortable plurality victories in Queens and Staten Island. Beame won pluralities in the Bronx and Brooklyn.

Linsday was sworn into office in January 1966, replacing outgoing Democratic Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr.. Whilst 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 1993.

Results[]

1965 General Election	party	Manhattan	The Bronx	Brooklyn	Queens	Richmond [Staten Is.]	Total	%
John V. Lindsay	Republican - Liberal - Independent Citizens	291,326	181,072	308,398	331,162	37,148	1,149,106	45.0%
John V. Lindsay	Republican - Liberal - Independent Citizens	55.8%	39.5%	40.0%	47.1%	45.8%	1,149,106	45.0%
Abraham Beame	Democratic - Civil Service Fusion	193,230	213,980	365,360	250,662	23,467	1,046,699	41.0%
Abraham Beame	Democratic - Civil Service Fusion	37.0%	46.6%	47.4%	35.6%	28.9%	1,046,699	41.0%
William F. Buckley, Jr.	Conservative	37,694	63,858	97,679	121,544	20,451	341,226	13.4%
William F. Buckley, Jr.	Conservative	7.2%	13.9%	12.7%	17.3%	25.2%	341,226	13.4%
subtotal		522,250	458,910	771,437	703,368	81,066	2,537,031	99.4%
others							17,168	0.6%
T O T A L							2,554,199

Almost a quarter of Lindsay's vote (281,796) was on the Liberal Party line, while 63,590 of Beame's votes were on the Civil Service Fusion line. John Lindsay, a Republican Congressman from the "Silk-Stocking" District on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, carried Manhattan, Queens, and traditionally Republican Staten Island (Richmond), while Abe Beame, the City Comptroller, carried The Bronx and his home borough of Brooklyn, 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.^[2] (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


	Manhattan	The Bronx	Brooklyn	Queens	Staten Island	Total
Abraham D. Beame	53,386	66,064	128,146	82,601	6,148	336,345
Paul R. Screvane	66,444	54,260	79,485	63,680	7,512	271,381
William F. Ryan	48,744	16,632	24,588	22,570	1,204	113,738
Paul O'Dwyer	6,771	5,976	8,332	6,895	697	28,675
						750,139

References[]

^ "New York City Mayoral Election 1965". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
^ Page 41 of the 1966 World Almanac & Book of Facts and page 69 of Cannato's The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and His Struggle to Save New York

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