New York City mayoral election, 1993

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New York City mayoral election, 1993
New York City
1989 ?
November 3, 1993
? 1997
Rudy Giuliani.jpg
David dinkins.jpg
Candidate
Rudy Giuliani David Dinkins
Party Republican
Democratic
Alliance
Liberal Popular vote
930,236 876,869
Percentage
50.9% 48.0%
NYC Mayoral Election 1993 Results by Borough.svg
Results by Borough
Dinkins 60-70%
Dinkins 50-60%
Giuliani 60-70%
Giuliani 80-90%
Mayor before election
David Dinkins
Democratic
Elected Mayor
Rudy Giuliani
Republican
Elections in New York
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State government[show]
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The New York City mayoral election of 1993 occurred on Tuesday, November 2, 1993
, with Republican nominee U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Ru
dolph Giuliani narrowly defeating incumbent Democratic mayor David Dinkins.[1] T
hey also faced several third-party candidates.
The election was a re-match between the same two candidates from 1989, when Dink
ins had narrowly defeated Giuliani to win the mayoralty.
Contents [hide]
1 History
2 Candidates
3 Results
4 References
History[edit]
Dinkins had narrowly defeated Giuliani in the previous election. As in his unsuc
cessful 1989 campaign, Giuliani also ran on the Liberal Party ballot, while the
Conservative Party line was held by activist George Marlin.[2] The city was suff
ering from a spike in unemployment associated with a nationwide recession, and w
ith a rise in local unemployment rates from 6.7% in 1989 to 11.1% in 1992.[3] Gi
uliani promised to focus the police department on shutting down petty crimes and
nuisances as a way of restoring the quality of life:
It's the street tax paid to drunks and panhandlers. It's the squeegee men shakin
g down the motorist waiting at a light. It's the trash storms, the swirling mass
of garbage left by peddlers and panhandlers, and open-air drug bazaars on uncle

an streets.[4]
Under Dinkins' Safe Streets, Safe Cities program, crime in New York City decreas
ed more dramatically and more rapidly, both in terms of actual numbers and perce
ntage, than at any time in modern New York City history.[5] The rates of most cr
imes, including all categories of violent crime, made consecutive declines durin
g the last 36 months of Dinkins' four-year term, ending a 30-year upward spiral
and initiating a trend of falling rates that continued beyond his term. Despite
the actual abating of crime, Dinkins was hurt by the perception that crime was o
ut of control during his administration.[6][7][8]
Dinkins and Giuliani never debated during the campaign, unable to agree on how t
o approach a debate.[2][9]
Jimmy McMillan, the founder of the Rent Is Too Damn High Party, made his first r
un for political office in this election. In the course of his campaign, McMilla
n was at one point tied to a tree and doused with gasoline;[10] he would later c
limb the Brooklyn Bridge and refuse to come down from it unless television stati
ons broadcast his message.[11] He was ultimately disqualified from the ballot fo
r coming 300 petition signatures short of the 7,500 needed to qualify for the ge
neral election ballot.
Dinkins was endorsed by The New York Times and Newsday,[12] while Giuliani was e
ndorsed by the New York Post and, in a key switch from 1989, the New York Daily
News.[13] Dinkins earned 48.3 percent of the vote, down from 51 percent in 1989.
[14] Although he was a moderate with a substantial history of building coalition
s and supporting Jewish causes,[15] one factor in Dinkins' loss was his perceive
d indifference to the plight of the Jewish community during the Crown Heights ri
ot. Another was a strong turnout for Giuliani in Staten Island; a referendum on
Staten Island's secession from New York City was placed on the ballot that year
by Governor Mario Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Dinkins defeated Giu
liani handily in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, but Giuliani's margin in th
e other two boroughs was large enough to win the election. Giuliani won by a mar
gin of 53,367 votes. He became the first Republican elected Mayor of New York Ci
ty since John Lindsay in 1965.[16]
Candidates[edit]
Rudy Giuliani- Republican Party (WON)
David Dinkins (incumbent)- Democratic Party
George J. Marlin- Conservative Party
Results[edit]
General Election
Manhattan
The Bronx
Brooklyn
Queens
change in Giuliani margin
+ 21,433
+ 16,428
+ 26,517
+ 100,447
Giuliani
Dinkins, 1989
97,600
47,080
Giuliani
Dinkins, 1993
76,167
+ 53,367
Republican - Liberal
Rudolph W. Giuliani
166,357
115,416 930,236
Democratic
David N. Dinkins
242,524 162,995
876,869
Conservative - Right to Life
George J. Marlin
15,926
1,889,003
References[edit]

Staten Island Total

+ 8,256 + 27,786
72,471

39,071

+ 94,

64,215

11,285

+ 111

98,780 258,058 291,625

269,343 180,527 21,507

Jump up ^ Purdum, Todd S. (November 3, 1993). "Giuliani ousts Dinkins by a thin

margin ...". The New York Times.
^ Jump up to: a b "Q&A: George Marlin", The New York Sun, March 21, 2007; access
ed June 24, 2007
Jump up ^ New York State Department of Labor statistics,"Workforce industry data
". Retrieved November 18, 2006.
Jump up ^ "NYC crime rate cut with penalties", BCHeights.com, November 3, 2005
Jump up ^ A Mayor's Life: Governing New York's Gorgeous Mosaic by David N. Dinki
ns with Peter Knobler
Jump up ^ Barrett, Wayne (June 25, 2001). "Giuliani's Legacy: Taking Credit For
Things He Didn't Do". Gotham Gazette. Retrieved November 15, 2007.
Jump up ^ Langan, Patrick A.; Matthew R. Durose (December 2003). "The Remarkable
Drop in Crime in New York City" (PDF). International Conference on Crime. Retri
eved November 15, 2007. According to NYPD statistics, crime in New York City too
k a downturn starting around 1990 that continued for many years, shattering all
the city s old records for consecutive-year declines in crime rates.
Jump up ^ Powell, Michael (October 25, 2009). "Another Look at the Dinkins Admin
istration, and Not by Giuliani". The New York Times. Retrieved October 26, 2009.
Jump up ^ Katharine Q. Seeley "In G.O.P. Debate Today, Which Tack for Giuliani?"
, The New York Times, May 3, 2007. Accessed March 31, 2008.
Jump up ^ Parente, Michele (1993-06-25). "A Political Attack? Would-be mayor tie
d to tree." New York Newsday.
Jump up ^ Raftery, Tom and Miguel Garcilazo (1993-10-27). OWNER OF THE FLYEST HA
IR ON EARTH "'Rambo' jams up B'klyn Bridge." New York Daily News.
Jump up ^ "Why Dinkins Lost", Newsday, November 4, 1993
Jump up ^ In an Endorsement, a Search for Signals NY Times, November 1, 1993
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margin ...". The New York Times.
Jump up ^ "Archives Main Page". Blackpressusa.com. November 11, 1989. Retrieved
September 23, 2011.[dead link]
Jump up ^ "Elected Mayors of New York City". NYC.gov. Archived from the original
on October 12, 2007. Retrieved October 26, 2007.
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