Everybody counts if they'll hold that oath. This page fills in as we find the real, sourced answer — never with a guess. A blank means we haven't found it yet, not that it doesn't matter.
The idea behind this page, in the words that started it:
"Everybody counts in this site if they will hold that Oath of Office — what if somebody did not know they could vote for them because I want it to show we the people what we can do when we can see?"
So this page doesn't tell you who to vote for. It shows you who's actually running, what they've actually said and filed, and the same numbers for everyone in the race — side by side, sourced, no label on top of it. You draw the conclusion. We just make sure you can see it.
Real, fixed dates from New York's own State Board of Elections — not a reminder we made up, a countdown against the actual deadline. Counting down in your own device's clock, local time.
Source: New York State Board of Elections, Registration and Voting Deadlines and its official 2026 Election Deadlines poster (PDF). New York is a received-by state for registration, not a postmark state — mailing it on Oct 24 is too late. A mail ballot itself is different: it must be postmarked or returned in person by Nov 3, and a postmarked one has to reach your county board by Nov 10.
Five official, government-run links. Not us, not a party, not a PAC — the actual agencies that run elections.
Six boxes. Check them as you actually do them — not as a promise, a record. Nothing here is saved on our end; the whole checklist lives in the link itself, so it only goes where you send it.
Check a few boxes, then copy the link — the checked state travels with the URL itself, so pasting it to someone else, or bookmarking it, brings the same boxes back checked. The download is a plain text file, nothing sent anywhere.
Two names. Four party lines. In New York those are not the same number, and the difference is a real mechanism worth understanding before you look at the ballot.
New York allows fusion voting — most states don't. One candidate can be nominated by more than one party and appear on more than one line of the same ballot. Votes cast on every line that candidate holds are added together for that candidate. So a New Yorker who wants to back Hochul but not the Democratic Party can vote for her on the Working Families line, and a voter who wants Blakeman but not the Republican Party can vote for him on the Conservative line — and in both cases the vote still counts for that candidate. It also means the minor party's own survival is on the line: New York ties a party's continued ballot access to how many votes it draws on its own line. If you're used to one name appearing exactly once on a ballot, this is a genuinely different system, not a quirk of formatting.
Both nominees were unopposed in their own June 23, 2026 primary. Every field below is sourced. A blank stays a blank until we find the real number.
| Candidate | Ballot lines | Current / former office | Running mate | June 23, 2026 primary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kathy Hochul Incumbent, seeking a second full term |
Democratic Working Families |
Governor of New York (2021–present). Became governor Aug 24, 2021 when Andrew Cuomo resigned; elected to a full term in 2022 | Adrienne Adams (former Speaker, New York City Council) | Unopposed |
| Bruce Blakeman | Republican Conservative |
Nassau County Executive (2022–present) | Todd Hood (Madison County Sheriff) | Unopposed |
| Campaign money for this race — not yet pulled. New York statewide races file with the New York State Board of Elections' own disclosure system, not the FEC. Logged, not built yet. | ||||
Sources: New York State Board of Elections, Certification for the June 23, 2026 Primary Election (official) · 2026 New York gubernatorial election, Wikipedia · Ballotpedia, New York gubernatorial election, 2026
The Board of Elections certification is the authority on who is actually on a ballot. Wikipedia and Ballotpedia are used here for biography and running-mate cross-references, and are named so you can see exactly which claim rests on which source.
Why both primaries were uncontested — the record, not a theory: Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik ended her campaign for governor in December 2025. Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado ended his Democratic primary challenge to Hochul on February 10, 2026. Two withdrawals, four months apart, are the reason a state of 20 million people had no contested primary for its top job. That's the sequence, dated — make of it what you will.
Checklist item four, answered for New York: there is no U.S. Senate race in New York in 2026. Chuck Schumer was re-elected in 2022 and is next up in 2028; Kirsten Gillibrand was re-elected in 2024 and is next up in 2030. If you were looking for a Senate contest on your ballot this year, that's why you won't find one — not an omission on our end.
Governor is not the only statewide job New York fills this November. Two more are on the same ballot, both with long-serving incumbents being challenged.
Same election, same day, same ballot — and usually a fraction of the coverage.
| Office | Candidate | Party | Current / former office |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attorney General | Letitia James | Democratic | New York Attorney General (2019–present) |
| Saritha Komatireddy | Republican | Attorney; former U.S. Supreme Court clerk | |
| Comptroller | Thomas DiNapoli | Democratic | New York State Comptroller (2007–present) |
| Joseph Hernandez | Republican | Entrepreneur; biotech investor |
Sources: 2026 New York Attorney General election, Wikipedia · 2026 New York State Comptroller election, Wikipedia · ballot access certified by the New York State Board of Elections
These two rows are cross-referenced encyclopedia entries, not a certified canvass we pulled ourselves — a weaker source than the Governor table above, and labeled that way on purpose rather than presented as equally solid.
20,002,427 people. That's New York's population in the U.S. Census Bureau's Vintage 2025 estimate, as of July 1, 2025 — the most recent official estimate on file here. Every deadline on this page applies to all of them at once, which is part of why a nine-day early voting window matters more here than the raw number of days suggests.
Five U.S. presidents were born in New York: Martin Van Buren (Kinderhook), Millard Fillmore (Locke), Theodore Roosevelt (New York City), Franklin D. Roosevelt (Hyde Park), and Donald Trump (Queens).
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 population estimate (July 1, 2025), via the state population compilation · Presidents by home state. Both come from this site's own state_facts.json, the same curated file behind the state panels on the Money Board — facts get added there one at a time, with a source, or not at all.
Named, not built yet: New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Pennsylvania — New York's five neighbors, shown as dashed pills at the top of this page rather than as links that go nowhere. The 2026 deadline data for all five is already on disk and sourced in data/election_deadlines_2026.json; what isn't built yet is each state's races page. That's the next batch, and the dashed pill is the honest way to show a plan instead of pretending the map is finished.
In the meantime: this site does already track real, sourced money for New York's federal delegation — a different set of people and a different filer (FEC, not the state board) than the races above, so the two aren't mixed together here. See who's #PAC_FUNDED and who's #HIGH_PAC_SHARE → Or meet the whole federal delegation directly on the map →
Beta. Ten states built so far. Every number here is dated and linked to where it came from. A blank means we haven't found the real answer yet — we don't fill it with a guess to make the page look finished.
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