Qualified New York Parties

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In New York State, to qualify for automatic ballot access, a party must have received at least 50,000 votes in the previous gubernatorial election. They need not run their own candidate, they can nominate a different party's nominee, and if 50,000 voters vote for that candidate on their party line, they have qualified. In addition to determining whether they automatically qualify for the next 4 years, this also determines the order on the ballot.

In the 2006 election, 5 parties received at least 50,000 votes, and qualified. They only nominated 2 candidates between them.

In the 2002 election, 3 qualified parties failed to re-qualify. One of these, the Liberal Party, dates back to 1944, and became dormant as a result of this.

In the 1994 election, the Democratic Party received the most votes, and so qualified to be first on the ballot for the next 4 years, even though their candidate, incumbent Governor Mario Cuomo lost. George Pataki beat him because he received more votes combined over all of his party lines.

Parties that qualified from the 2006 New York gubernatorial election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Eliot Spitzer	2,740,864
	Republican	John Faso	1,105,681
	Independence	Eliot Spitzer	190,661
	Conservative	John Faso	168,654
	Working Families	Eliot Spitzer	155,184

Parties that qualified from the 2002 New York gubernatorial election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	George Pataki	2,085,407
	Democratic	Carl McCall	1,443,531
	Independence	B. Thomas Golisano	654,016
	Conservative	George Pataki	176,848
	Working Families	Carl McCall	90,533

Parties that qualified from the 1998 New York gubernatorial election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	George Pataki	2,223,264
	Democratic	Peter Vallone	1,518,992
	Independence	B. Thomas Golisano	364,056
	Conservative	George Pataki	348,727
	Liberal	Betsy McCaughey Ross	77,915
	Right to Life	Michael Reynolds	56,683
	Green	Al Lewis	52,533
	Working Families	Peter Vallone	51,325

Parties that qualified from the 1994 New York gubernatorial election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Mario Cuomo	2,272,903
	Republican	George Pataki	2,156,057
	Conservative	George Pataki	328,605
	Independence	B. Thomas Golisano	217,490
	Liberal	Mario Cuomo	92,001
	Right to Life	Robert T. Walsh	67,750
style="background-color: Template:Tax Cut Now Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" |	[[Tax Cut Now Party|Template:Tax Cut Now Party/meta/shortname]]	George Pataki	54,040