As of 2023[update], this is the last time a Republican was elected Attorney General of New York.

Attorney General Robert Abrams ran for United States Senate in 1992 but narrowly lost to incumbent Republican Al D'Amato.

Abrams announced his resignation from the office of attorney general on September 8, 1993, to take effect on December 31.

The New York State Legislature appointed G. Oliver Koppel, an Assemblyman from the Bronx, to fill the office of Attorney General until a successor was elected at the regularly scheduled 1994 election.

[1] In the final month of the campaign, Staten Island Borough President Guy Molinari publicly remarked that Burstein would be unqualified for office because she was a lesbian.