2006 New York Attorney General election

2006 New York Attorney General election
	County results; Cuomo: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90%; Pirro: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70%
Attorney General before election; Eliot Spitzer; Democratic	Elected Attorney General ; Andrew Cuomo; Democratic

The 2006 New York Attorney General election took place on November 7, 2006. Democrat Andrew Cuomo was elected to replace Eliot Spitzer (who became Governor) as the Attorney General of New York.

Democratic primary

Source	Date	Andrew Cuomo	Mark Green	Sean Patrick Maloney
Actual Primary	September 12, 2006	53%	33%	10%
Carolco	September 10, 2006	47%	33%	20%
Green Papers	September 9, 2006	47%	35%	18%
Green Papers	September 8, 2006	50%	29%	21%
Green Papers	September 7, 2006	52%	31%	17%
Green Papers	September 6, 2006	51%	33%	16%
Qunnipiac	September 5, 2006	53%	31%	18%

Source	Date	Andrew Cuomo	Mark Green	Charlie King	Sean Patrick Maloney
Quinnipiac	September 3, 2006	40%	23%	16%	11%
Quinnipiac	August 29, 2006	42%	26%	14%	8%
Quinnipiac	August 5, 2006	49%	21%	9%	6%
Quinnipiac	July 22, 2006	57%	19%	5%	3%

Source	Date	Andrew Cuomo (D)	Jeanine Pirro (R)
Marist [1] Archived 2006-11-14 at the Wayback Machine	November 3, 2006	58%	37%
Green Papers	September 9, 2006	53%	47%
Green Papers	September 7, 2006	54%	46%
Quinnipiac	September 5, 2006	58%	42%
Quinnipiac	September 3, 2006	55%	45%
Quinnipiac	August 29, 2006	58%	42%
Quinnipiac	August 5, 2006	61%	37%
Quinnipiac	July 22, 2006	66%	30%

Democratic primary results^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Andrew Cuomo	404,086	53.52%
	Democratic	Mark Green	244,554	32.39%
	Democratic	Sean Patrick Maloney	70,106	9.29%
	Democratic	Charlie King	36,262	4.80%
Majority			159,532	21.13%
Turnout			755,008	15.59%

Republican primary results
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Jeanine Pirro	Unopposed	100%

Rachel Treichler, lawyer and previous Green Party candidate for the New York State Assembly and the U.S. House of Representatives

General election results^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Andrew Cuomo	2,509,311	58.31%
	Republican	Jeanine Pirro	1,692,580	39.33%
	Green	Rachel Treichler	61,849	1.44%
	Libertarian	Christopher B. Garvey	29,413	0.68%
	Socialist Workers	Martin Koppel	10,197	0.24%
Total votes			4,303,350	100%
	Democratic hold