In 1998 the state elected a maverick third-party governor, a former wrestler, Jesse Ventura.
Two women are the major parties' nominees for lieutenant governor, and women, including a third-party candidate for governor, will also be on the November ballot in four other statewide races.
In his first serious attacks on Gov. George E. Pataki during this campaign, Tom Golisano, a third-party candidate for governor, unveiled three new ads yesterday.
Eric J. Ostermeier of the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota said it was the highest number of states with prominent third-party candidates for governor since the Great Depression, aside from the tumultuous season of 1994.
Mr. Connor stepped down after a group of Democratic senators rebelled against him, accusing him of assisting Tom Golisano, a third-party candidate for governor, over H. Carl McCall, the Democratic candidate.
The American Indian advocate Russell Means went to court to try to get on the ballot as a third-party candidate for governor, arguing that his felony conviction for a 1975 courthouse riot in South Dakota should not disqualify him.
Barraging the airwaves with ads, Tom Golisano, the billionaire making a third-party run for governor, reported today that his campaign spent $12 million in the last four weeks, a record pace for a statewide campaign.
But in yesterday's debate, it was the third-party candidates for governor who did not take H. Carl McCall seriously when he made a campaign promise that could actually be tested before the election.
As Tom Golisano took his third-party candidacy for governor into the heart of New York's most terminally depressed region, he could not have picked a much more appropriate place to have dinner today.
On the day before the elections, she could find time to record only one final robocall of more than 25 she made throughout the campaign cycle — this one for Tom Tancredo, a third-party candidate for governor of Colorado whose strident remarks about illegal immigration made him a "destructive" force according to the Tea Party leader Dick Armey.
