The Socialist state convention met on July 27 at Finnish Hall (at Fifth Avenue/Twelfth Street) in New York City.

[1] The initially frontrunner for the Republican party was assembly speaker H. Edmund Machold, who quickly ruled himself out of the election.

Almost the whole Republican ticket was elected, only the incumbent Democratic Governor Smith managed to stay in office.

She remained the only one for fifty years, until Mary Anne Krupsak was elected lieutenant governor in 1974.

The duties of the Treasurer were transferred to the Comptroller, those of the State Engineer to the Superintendent of Public Works which has been always an appointive office.