1981 New York City mayoral election
The New York City mayoral election of 1981 occurred on Tuesday, November 3, 1981, with Democratic incumbent Mayor Ed Koch being re-elected to a second term by a landslide margin.
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Koch, a Democrat, also received the endorsement of and ran on the Republican Party ballot line.
Koch received an overwhelming 74.64% of the vote citywide. Koch also swept all five boroughs by landslide margins, breaking 60% of the vote in Manhattan and breaking 70% of the vote in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens and Staten Island.[1]
Koch's closest competitor was the short-lived New York Unity Party nominee Frank J. Barbaro, who received 13.31%.
Finishing in a distant third and fourth were the Conservative Party nominee, John A. Esposito, who received 4.92%, and Liberal Party nominee, Mary T. Codd, who received 3.41%.
Koch defeated his nearest competitor by a landslide 61.35% Democratic margin of victory and was sworn into his second term in January 1982.
Results
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| Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Staten Island | Total | ||
| Democratic – Republican | Edward I. Koch | 189,631 | 132,421 | 261,292 | 275,812 | 53,466 | 912,622 |
| Unity | Frank J. Barbaro | 56,702 | 22,074 | 48,812 | 31,225 | 3,906 | 162,719 |
| Liberal | Mary Codd | 14,228 | 5,902 | 7,958 | 8,795 | 4,835 | 41,718 |
| Conservative | John Esposito | 6,682 | 7,634 | 15,388 | 26,515 | 3,881 | 60,100 |
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Koch had 738,288 Democratic votes and 174,334 Republican votes. Others = 45,485. Jeronimo Dominguez – Right to Life – 32,790 2.7%; Judith Jones – Libertarian – 6,902 0.6%; Wells Todd – Socialist Workers – 5,793 0.5% Koch won the Democratic Primary with 347,351 votes (59.8%), defeating Barbaro who had 209,369 votes (36.0%) and Melvin Klenetsky who had 24,352 votes (4.2%). Koch also won the Republican Primary, defeating Esposito by 44,724 to 22,354.
References
- "New York City Mayoral Election 1981". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 7 April 2014.