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Ballotpedia provides comprehensive coverage of elections in the 100 largest cities in America by population and the largest counties that overlap those cities. This encompasses all city, county, judicial, school district, and special district offices appearing on the ballot within those cities.

This page includes the following resources:

* The county governments covered by Ballotpedia in New York
* A list and map of counties in New York
* An overview of local elections in New York
* An overview of the initiative process in New York

## Contents

* 1 Counties
* 1.1 County government
* 1.2 Full list of counties
* 1.3 Map of counties
* 2 Elections
* 2.1 2024
* 2.2 2023
* 2.3 2022
* 2.4 2021
* 2.5 2020
* 2.6 2019
* 2.7 2018
* 2.8 2017
* 2.9 2016
* 2.10 2015
* 3 Initiative process availability
* 3.1 Cities
* 3.2 Counties
* 4 See also
* 5 External links
* 6 Footnotes

## Counties[edit]

### County government[edit]

Click the links below for information about the county governments in Ballotpedia's coverage scope:

* Government of Bronx County
* Government of Erie County
* Government of Kings County
* Government of New York County
* Government of Queens County
* Government of Richmond County

### Full list of counties[edit]

According to a 2022 study from the U.S. Census Bureau, this state's local governments consist of 57 counties, 1,525 cities, towns, and villages, and 1,189 special districts. Five counties—Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, and Richmond—are classified as active consolidated governments.[1]

The following table defaults to displaying only 25 counties at a time. To change the number of counties displayed, use the drop-down menu above the upper left-hand corner of the table. You can also use the search bar above the upper-right corner of the table to look up a specific county.

County

Allegany
Bronx
Broome
Cattaraugus
Cayuga
Chautauqua
Chemung
Chenango
Clinton
Columbia
Cortland
Delaware
Dutchess
Erie
Essex
Franklin
Fulton
Genesee
Greene
Hamilton
Herkimer
Jefferson
Kings
Lewis
Livingston
Madison
Monroe
Montgomery
Nassau
New York
Niagara
Oneida
Onondaga
Ontario
Orange
Orleans
Oswego
Otsego
Putnam
Queens
Rensselaer
Richmond
Rockland
Saratoga
Schenectady
Schoharie
Schuyler
Seneca
St. Lawrence
Steuben
Suffolk
Sullivan
Tioga
Tompkins
Ulster
Warren
Washington
Wayne
Westchester
Wyoming
Yates
Albany

### Map of counties[edit]

Counties in blue on the map below are part of Ballotpedia's county coverage scope:

## Elections[edit]

Click the links below for information about the elections held in each municipality. Please note that this is not a comprehensive list of municipalities that held elections each year in this state; click here to learn more about Ballotpedia's local government coverage scope.

### 2024[edit]

See also: United States municipal elections, 2024 and School board elections, 2024

* Albany, New York
* Buffalo, New York
* Bronx County, New York
* Erie County, New York
* Kings County, New York
* New York County, New York
* Queens County, New York

### 2023[edit]

See also: United States municipal elections, 2023 and School board elections, 2023

* Buffalo, New York
* New York, New York
* Bronx County, New York
* Erie County, New York
* Kings County, New York
* New York County, New York
* Queens County, New York
* Richmond County, New York
* New York school board elections

### 2022[edit]

See also: United States municipal elections, 2022 and School board elections, 2022

* Buffalo, New York
* Bronx County, New York
* Erie County, New York
* Kings County, New York
* New York County, New York
* Queens County, New York
* Richmond County, New York
* New York school board elections

### 2021[edit]

See also: United States municipal elections, 2021 and School board elections, 2021

* Bronx County, New York
* Erie County, New York
* Kings County, New York
* New York County, New York
* Queens County, New York
* Richmond County, New York
* Albany, New York
* Buffalo, New York
* New York, New York
* New York school board elections

### 2020[edit]

See also: United States municipal elections, 2020 and School board elections, 2020

* Bronx County, New York
* Erie County, New York
* Kings County, New York
* New York County, New York
* Queens County, New York
* Richmond County, New York
* New York, New York
* New York school board elections

Past elections

* Click here for past election information

### 2019[edit]

See also: United States municipal elections, 2019 and School board elections, 2019
* Bronx County, New York
* Erie County, New York
* Kings County, New York
* New York County, New York
* Queens County, New York
* Richmond County, New York
* Buffalo, New York
* New York, New York
* New York school board elections

### 2018[edit]

See also: United States municipal elections, 2018 and School board elections, 2018
* Erie County, New York
* Buffalo, New York
* New York, New York

### 2017[edit]

See also: United States municipal elections, 2017 and School board elections, 2017
* Bronx County, New York
* Erie County, New York
* Kings County, New York
* New York County, New York
* Queens County, New York
* Richmond County, New York
* Buffalo, New York
* New York City, New York
* New York school board elections

### 2016[edit]

See also: United States municipal elections, 2016 and School board elections, 2016
* New York, New York
* New York school board elections

### 2015[edit]

See also: United States municipal elections, 2015 and School board elections, 2015
* Buffalo, New York
* New York school board elections

## Initiative process availability[edit]

See also: Laws governing local ballot measures in New York

### Cities[edit]

All of New York's 62 cities have charter amendment by initiative under state law.[2][3]

### Counties[edit]

Suffolk County has an initiative process authorized by a special state law. Also, five counties are under the jurisdiction of New York City. As such residents of these counties enjoy an initiative process at the city level.[4][3]

## See also[edit]

New York | Municipal government | Other local coverage

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## External links[edit]

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* New York municipal code library
* New York state government website

## Footnotes[edit]

1. ↑ U.S. Census Bureau, "2022 Census of Governments – Organization," accessed October 16, 2023
2. ↑ New York Department of State, "Revising City Charters in New York State," June 1998 (Reprinted 2015)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ballotpedia, "Types & #s of local government by state," September 2012
4. ↑ Suffolk County, "Administrative Code, Article VII," accessed October 27, 2012

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