The Elections for New York State Comptroller are held every four years. The next one scheduled election will take place November 2010. The current New York State Comptroller

New York State Comptroller

The New York State Comptroller is a state cabinet officer of the U.S. state of New York. The duties of the comptroller include auditing government operations and operating the state's retirement system.-History:...

 is Thomas DiNapoli

Thomas DiNapoli

Thomas P. DiNapoli is the 54th Comptroller of the state of New York. He is a former state assemblyman in New York, who was appointed as New York State Comptroller on February 7, 2007. He was formerly the Chairman of the Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee. DiNapoli is a Democrat from...

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2002

The 2002 election was held on November 5. New York City Comptroller Alan Hevesi defeated former Assembly Minority Leader John Faso

John Faso

John Faso was the Republican nominee for Governor of New York in 2006, and was defeated by Democratic nominee Eliot Spitzer in the largest defeat for a Republican gubernatorial candidate in the state's history. This followed his loss to Alan Hevesi four years earlier in his run for State Comptroller...

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Year
2002	Alan Hevesi Alan Hevesi Alan G. Hevesi is a Democratic politician whoserved as a New York State Assemblyman from 1971 to 1993, as Comptroller of the City of New York from 1994 to 2001, and as State Comptroller for the State of New York from 2003 to 2006... Democrat Liberal Working Families 2,095,913 50.41%	John Faso Republican Independence Conservative 1,933,104 46.50%	Garifalia Christea Right to Life New York State Right to Life Party The New York State Right to Life Party was founded to oppose the legalization of abortion in New York in 1970. The party first made the state ballot in the 1978 gubernatorial election, where its candidate Mary Jane Tobin won 130,000 votes... 61,464 1.48%	Howie Hawkins Howie Hawkins Howie Hawkins is an American politician and activist with the Green Party of the United States and Socialist Party USA. He co-founded the anti-nuclear Clamshell Alliance in 1976 and the Green Party in the United States in 1984. He was New York's Green Party candidate for the U.S. Senate in the... Green 47,771 1.15%	James Eisert Libertarian 19,235 0.46%

4,690,714 ballots have been cast on that election. Out of them, 533,227 were declared blank, void or missing.

1998

The 1998 election was held on November 3. Democratic incumbent Carl McCall

Carl McCall

Herman Carl McCall is a former Comptroller of New York State and was the Democratic candidate for state governor in 2002. He is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for numerous corporations. He received a B.A. degree from Dartmouth...

 defeated Republican challenger Bruce Blakeman by a wide margin:

Year
1998	H. Carl McCall Democrat Independence Liberal Working Families 2,862,903 64.75%	Bruce A. Blakeman Republican Conservative 1,423,086 32.19%	Douglas H. Harknett Right to Life 70,397 1.59%	Dean Venezia Marijuana Reform Marijuana Reform Party The Marijuana Reform Party is a progressive minor political party in the U.S. state of New York dedicated to the legalization of cannabis... 39,423 0.89%	Howie Hawkins Green 15,133 0.34%	Robert M. Goodman Libertarian 10,310 0.23%

4,985,514 ballots have been cast on that election. Out of them, 564,262 were declared blank, void or missing.

1994

The 1994 election was held on November 8. Carl McCall had been appointed by the legislature to fill the remaining year of the term held by outgoing Comptroller Edward Regan. London had previously been the Conservative Party's candidate for Governor in 1990 and was offered the Comptroller spot according to many as a compromise between the Conservatives and Republicans:

Year
1994	H. Carl McCall Democrat Liberal 2,404,404 51.80%	Herbert I. London Herbert London -Early life:He was born in Brooklyn, New York circa 1939 and attended Columbia University, graduating in 1960. Standing 6'5", he was drafted by the Syracuse Nationals of the National Basketball League, but did not play for them because of injuries. He was a social studies secondary school teacher... Republican Conservative/Tax Cut Now Right to Life 2,155,759 46.44%	Laureen A. Oliver Laureen Oliver Laureen Oliver is an US politician who co-founded the New York State Independence Party.-Career:In 1992 Oliver Co-Founded the New York State Independence Party with B. Thomas Golisano. Prior to the Independence Party Oliver served as the Monroe County Chairwoman of United We Stand America.Oliver... Independence Fusion 53,801 1.16%	Richard L. Geyer Libertarian 17,986 0.39%	Brock Satter Socialist Workers Party 10,078 0.22%

See also

• Politics of New York
  Politics of New York
  The Politics of New York State tend to be more liberal than in most of the United States, with in recent decades a solid majority of Democratic voters, concentrated in New York City and some of its suburbs, and in the cities of Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany...
  
  
• New York gubernatorial elections
• New York Attorney General elections