1,509,775 585,768 Start date November 5, 1957 | 69.23% 26.86% | |
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Winner Robert F Wagner Jr | ||
The New York City mayoral election of 1957 occurred on Tuesday, November 5, 1957, with incumbent Democratic Mayor Robert F. Wagner, Jr. going on to decisively win a re-election victory for a second term in office.
Wagner easily defeated the Republican nominee, Hotel Astor manager Robert K. Christenberry.
The popular incumbent, supported by the powerful Tammany Hall political machine, easily secured a decisive re-election victory.
Wagner received 69.23% of the vote to Christenberry's 26.86%, a landslide Democratic victory margin of 42.37%.
In a distant third was the United Taxpayers candidate Vito P. Battista, who received 3.08% of the vote.
Wagner swept all five boroughs, breaking 60% of the vote in Queens and Staten Island, and breaking 70% of the vote in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx.
Wagner was also the nominee of the Liberal Party, and additionally ran on the City Fusion ballot line.
Wagner would be sworn into his second term in January 1958.
Results
The Wagner-Christenberry campaign has left us one of the great campaign anecdotes: Christenberry was railing against Wagner's police department for not doing enough to fight corruption and vice, so the cops raided Christenberry's illegal casino in the basement of the hotel he was manager of. Other vote was: Vito Battista - United Taxpayer's Party - 67,266 3.1%; Joyce Cowley - Socialist Workers - 13,453 0.6%; Eric Haas - Socialist Labor- 4,611 0.2%