New York City mayoral election, 1957

New York City mayoral election, 1957

November 5, 1957

Candidate Robert F. Wagner, Jr. Robert K. Christenberry Party Democratic Republican Alliance Liberal - Popular vote 1,509,775 585,768 Percentage 69.23% 26.86%

Results by Borough   Wagner—70-80%   Wagner—60-70%

Mayor before election Robert F. Wagner, Jr. Democratic Elected Mayor Robert F. Wagner, Jr. Democratic

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

1957	party	Manhattan	The Bronx	Brooklyn	Queens	Richmond [Staten Is.]	Total	%
Robert F. Wagner, Jr.	Democratic - Liberal - Fusion	316,203	316,299	494,078	341,212	40,983	1,508,775	69.2%
		73.8%	76.6%	75.1%	64.1%	64.7%
Robert Christenberry	Republican	112,173	96,726	163,427	191,061	22,381	585,768	26.9%
		26.2%	23.4%	24.9%	35.9%	35.3%
subtotal		428,376	413,025	657,505	532,273	63,364	2,094,543	96.1%
others							85,355	3.9%
T O T A L							2,179,878

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%