2001 New York City mayoral election

The 2001 New York City mayoral election was held on November 6, 2001. Incumbent Republican mayor Rudy Giuliani could not run again due to term limits. As Democrats outnumbered Republicans by a five-to-one margin in the city, it was widely believed that a Democrat would succeed him in City Hall. Businessman Michael Bloomberg, a lifelong Democrat, changed his party affiliation to run as a Republican. Mark Green narrowly defeated Fernando Ferrer in the Democratic primary, surviving a contest that divided the party and consumed the vast majority of the Green campaign's financial resources. After a campaign largely overshadowed by the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Bloomberg won the general election with 50 % of the vote to Green's 47 %. Democrats flipped the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn from the previous election. This is one of two mayoral elections where the winning candidate carried a minority of the boroughs, the other being the 1969 election.

Infobox

Registered

3,715,022

Turnout

1,520,443 40 % (0 pp)

Nominee

Michael Bloomberg

Party

Republican

Alliance

Independence

Popular vote

744,757

Percentage

50 %

Tables

2001 Republican mayoral primary · Republican primary › Results

Total votes

Party

Total votes

Party

66,531

Candidate

100 %

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Michael Bloomberg	48,055	72 %
	Republican	Herman Badillo	18,476	27 %
Total votes			66,531	100 %

· Republican primary › Results › By borough

Republican primary, September 25, 2001
		Manhattan	The Bronx	Brooklyn	Queens	Staten Island	Total
	Michael Bloomberg	10,959	3,230	10,168	14,543	9,155	48,055 72 %
	Herman Badillo	4,161	1,838	4,153	5,700	2,624	18,476 27 %
							66,531

2001 New York City mayoral election Democratic primary debate · Democratic primary › Debate

Key: P Participant A Absent N Not invited I Invited W Withdrawn

No.

Key: P Participant A Absent N Not invited I Invited W Withdrawn

Fernando Ferrer

No.

Fernando Ferrer

Date

Mark Green

Host

Alan Hevesi

Moderator

George Spitz

Link

Peter Vallone, Sr.

No.

Date

Aug. 28, 2001

Host

New York City Campaign Finance Board Newsday, WNYC, WPIX

Moderator

Kaity Tong

Link

YouTube

Democratic

No.	Date	Host	Moderator	Link	Democratic	Democratic	Democratic	Democratic	Democratic
Key: P Participant A Absent N Not invited I Invited W Withdrawn
					Fernando Ferrer	Mark Green	Alan Hevesi	George Spitz	Peter Vallone, Sr.
1	Aug. 28, 2001	New York City Campaign Finance Board Newsday, WNYC, WPIX	Kaity Tong	YouTube	P	P	P	P	P

· Democratic primary › Results

Democratic primary, September 25, 2001
		Manhattan	The Bronx	Brooklyn	Queens	Staten Island	Total
	Fernando Ferrer	60,839	86,571	77,516	49,441	5,084	279,451 35 %
	Mark Green	83,856	26,125	77,805	49,692	5,704	243,182 30 %
	Peter Vallone, Sr.	25,296	18,268	51,210	48,576	11,842	155,192 19 %
	Alan Hevesi	32,925	6,066	25,110	27,163	3,504	94,768 12 %
	George N. Spitz	1,558	1,264	2,923	2,489	283	8,517 1 %
							785,365

· Democratic primary › Run-off

Democratic primary run-off, October 11, 2001
		Manhattan	The Bronx	Brooklyn	Queens	Staten Island	Total
	Mark Green	131,438	38,256	120,781	94,342	18,183	403,000 51 %
	Fernando Ferrer	86,579	106,086	109,831	77,330	7,193	387,019 48 %
							790,019

References

The primary began on September 11, but was halted due to the September 11 attacks. The official results here are for the
The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/14/us/after-attacks-election-primary-rescheduled-for-sept-25-with-runoff-if-necessary.html
"Board of Elections in the City of New York - Elections Results"
https://web.archive.org/web/20100106085915/http://www.vote.nyc.ny.us/results.html
The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/12/nyregion/12MAYO.html
"WCBS NEWSRADIO 880 - Mark Green Cleared of Wrongdoing"
https://web.archive.org/web/20070928020558/http://www.wcbs880.com/pages/59844.php?contentType=4&contentId=175972
"Village voice > news > Mark Green, You Can't Hide by Peter Noel"
https://web.archive.org/web/20080227012719/http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0142,noel,29155,5.html
Nagourney, Adam. "Bloomberg Puts Eggs In a Basket: Giuliani's", The New York Times, October 28, 2001. Accessed December
https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9907E6DF1630F93BA15753C1A9679C8B63
ABC News
https://web.archive.org/web/20200304020945/https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=1289253
"Got Milk? Campaign"
http://marketing-case-studies.blogspot.com/2008/04/got-milk-campaign.html
" New York's difficult year", The Economist, September 12, 2002. Accessed December 31, 2007.
https://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1328844
The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/27/nyregion/posing-with-satmars-green-steps-into-a-sectarian-thicket.html