Lieutenant Governor of New York

The **lieutenant governor of New York** is a constitutional office in the executive branch of the U.S. state of New York. It is the second highest-ranking official in the state government. The lieutenant governor ranks first in the gubernatorial line of succession and is also the officer of the legislative branch, president of the Senate and the presiding officer of the Senate.

Antonio Delgado is the current lieutenant governor of New York, in office since May 2022.

## Constitutional roles and duties

The lieutenant governor is the president of the Senate. The lieutenant governor has the power to preside over the Senate and has the authority exercise a **casting vote in a tie event**.

## Eligibility and requirements

Under the New York State Constitution, a person must:

• be at least 30 years old and a United States citizen

• a resident of the state of New York for a least five years

## Election process

The lieutenant governor is elected on a ticket with the governor as their running mate to a four-year term. The gubernatorial candidate or incumbent governor must have a majority of the popular vote in order to win the election.

## Line of succession

The lieutenant governor is first in the line of succession to become governor if the governor dies resigns, or is impeached from office.

## List of lieutenant governors of New York

||Portrait|colspan="2"|Lieutenant Governor|Term in office|Party|colspan="2"|Governor|||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|||style="background-color: "||Pierre Van Cortlandt|1777–1795|Democratic-Republican Party|style="background-color: "||George Clinton|||||||
|||style="background-color: "||Stephen Van Rensselaer|1795–1801|Federalist Party|style="background-color: "||John Jay|||||||
|||style="background-color: "||Jeremiah Van Rensselaer|1801–1804|Democratic-Republican Party|style="background-color: "||George Clinton|||||||
|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"||style="background-color: "||rowspan="2"|John Broome|rowspan="2"|July 1804 – August 8, 1810|rowspan="2"|Democratic-Republican Party|style="background-color: "||Morgan Lewis||
|style="background-color: "||style="background-color: "||rowspan="5"|Daniel Tompkins|||||||||||
|colspan="6"|_Office vacant August 8, 1810 – January 29, 1811_|style="background-color: "||||||||||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|–|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||style="background-color: "||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|John Tayler|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|January 29, 1811 – May 2, 1811|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Democratic-Republican Party|style="background-color: "||||
|||style="background-color: "||DeWitt Clinton|May 2, 1811 – July 1, 1813|Democratic-Republican Party|style="background-color: "|||||||||
|||style="background-color: "||John Tayler|July 1, 1813 – February 24, 1817|Democratic-Republican Party|style="background-color: "|||||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|–|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||style="background-color: "||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Philetus Swift|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|February 24, 1817 – June 30, 1817|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Democratic-Republican Party|style="background-color: "||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|John Tayler (Acting)|
|||style="background-color: "||John Tayler|July 1, 1817 – December 31, 1822|Democratic-Republican Party|style="background-color: "||DeWitt Clinton|||||||
|||style="background-color: "||Erastus Root|January 1, 1823 – December 31, 1823|Democratic-Republican Party|style="background-color: "||Joseph C. Yates|||||||
|||style="background-color: "||James Tallmadge Jr.|January 1, 1825 – December 31, 1826|Democratic-Republican Party|style="background-color: "||rowspan="2"|DeWitt Clinton||||||
|||style="background-color: "||Nathaniel Pitcher|January 1, 1827 – February 10, 1828|Democratic-Republican Party|style="background-color: "|||||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|–|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||style="background-color: "||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Peter R. Livingston|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|February 11, 1828 – October 17, 1828|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Democratic-Republican Party|style="background-color: "||rowspan="2"|Nathaniel Pitcher|
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|–|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||style="background-color: "||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Charles Dayan|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|October 17, 1828 – December 31, 1828|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Democratic-Republican Party|style="background-color: "||||
|||style="background-color: "||Enos T. Throop|January 1, 1829 – March 12, 1829|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "||Martin Van Buren|||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|–|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||style="background-color: "||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Charles Stebbins|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|1829–1829|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "||rowspan="3"|Enos T. Throop|
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|–|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||style="background-color: "||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|William M. Oliver|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|1830–1830|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "||||
|||style="background-color: "||Edward P. Livingston|1831–1832|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "|||||||||
|||style="background-color: "||John Tracy|January 1, 1831 – December 31, 1838|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "||William L. Marcy|||||||
|||style="background-color: "||Luther Bradish|January 1, 1839 – December 31, 1842|Whig Party|style="background-color: "||William H. Seward|||||||
|||style="background-color: "||Daniel S. Dickinson|January 1, 1843 – December 31, 1844|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "||William C. Bouck|||||||
|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"||style="background-color: "||rowspan="2"|Addison Gardiner|rowspan="2"|January 1, 1845 – July 5, 1847|rowspan="2"|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "||Silas Wright||
|style="background-color: "||style="background-color: "||rowspan="3"|John Young|||||||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|–|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||style="background-color: "||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Albert Lester|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|July 5, 1847 – December 31, 1847|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Whig Party|style="background-color: "||||
|||style="background-color: "||Hamilton Fish|January 1, 1848 – December 31, 1848|Whig Party|style="background-color: "|||||||||
|||style="background-color: "||George W. Patterson|January 1, 1849 – December 31, 1850|Whig Party|style="background-color: "||Hamilton Fish|||||||
|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"||style="background-color: "||rowspan="2"|Sanford E. Church|rowspan="2"|January 1, 1851 – December 31, 1854|rowspan="2"|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "||Washington Hunt||
|style="background-color: "||style="background-color: "||Horatio Seymour||||||||||||
|||style="background-color: "||Henry J. Raymond|January 1, 1855 – December 31, 1856|Whig Party|style="background-color: "||Myron H. Clark|||||||
|||style="background-color: "||Henry R. Selden|January 1, 1857 – December 31, 1858|Republican Party|style="background-color: "||John A. King|||||||
|||style="background-color: "||Robert Campbell|January 1, 1859 – December 31, 1862|Republican Party|style="background-color: "||Edwin D. Morgan|||||||
|||style="background-color: "||David R. Floyd-Jones|January 1, 1863 – December 31, 1864|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "||Horatio Seymour|||||||
|||style="background-color: "||Thomas G. Alvord|January 1, 1865 – December 31, 1866|Union Party|style="background-color: "||rowspan="2"|Reuben Fenton||||||
|||style="background-color: "||Stewart L. Woodford|January 1, 1867 – December 31, 1868|Union Party|style="background-color: "|||||||||
|||style="background-color: "||Allen C. Beach|January 1, 1869 – December 31, 1872|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "||John T. Hoffman|||||||
|||style="background-color: "||John C. Robinson|January 1, 1873 – December 31, 1874|Republican Party|style="background-color: "||John A. Dix|||||||
|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"||style="background-color: "||rowspan="2"|William Dorsheimer|rowspan="2"|January 1, 1875 – December 31, 1879|rowspan="2"|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "||Samuel Tilden||
|style="background-color: "||style="background-color: "||Lucius Robinson||||||||||||
|||style="background-color: "||George G. Hoskins|January 1, 1880 – December 31, 1882|Republican Party|style="background-color: "||Alonzo B. Cornell|||||||
|||style="background-color: "||David B. Hill|January 1, 1883 – January 6, 1885|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "||Grover Cleveland|||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|–|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||style="background-color: "||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Dennis McCarthy|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|January 6, 1885 – December 31, 1885|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Republican Party|style="background-color: "||rowspan="2"|David B. Hill|
|||style="background-color: "||Edward F. Jones|January 1, 1886 – December 31, 1891|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "|||||||||
|||style="background-color: "||William F. Sheehan|January 1, 1892 – December 31, 1894|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "||Roswell P. Flower|||||||
|||style="background-color: "||Charles T. Saxton|January 1, 1895 – December 31, 1896|Republican Party|style="background-color: "||Levi P. Morton|||||||
|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"||style="background-color: "||rowspan="3"|Timothy L. Woodruff|rowspan="3"|January 1, 1897 – December 31, 1902|rowspan="3"|Republican Party|style="background-color: "||Frank S. Black||
|style="background-color: "||style="background-color: "||Theodore Roosevelt||||||||||||
|style="background-color: "||style="background-color: "||rowspan="2"|Benjamin Odell|||||||||||
|||style="background-color: "||Frank W. Higgins|January 1, 1903 – December 31, 1904|Republican Party|style="background-color: "|||||||||
|||style="background-color: "||Matthew L. Bruce|January 1, 1905 – December 5, 1906|Republican Party|style="background-color: "||rowspan="2"|Frank W. Higgins||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|–|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||style="background-color: "||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|John Raines|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|December 5, 1906 – December 31, 1906|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Republican Party|style="background-color: "||||
|||style="background-color: "||Lewis S. Chanler|January 1, 1907 – December 31, 1908|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "||rowspan="2"|Charles Evans Hughes||||||
|||style="background-color: "||Horace White|January 1, 1909 – October 6, 1910|Republican Party|style="background-color: "|||||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|–|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||style="background-color: "||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|George H. Cobb|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|October 6, 1910 – December 31, 1910|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Republican Party|style="background-color: "||Horace White||
|||style="background-color: "||Thomas F. Conway|January 1, 1911 – December 31, 1912|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "||John A. Dix|||||||
|||style="background-color: "||Martin H. Glynn|January 1, 1913 – October 17, 1913|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "||William Sulzer|||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|–|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||style="background-color: "||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Robert F. Wagner|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|October 17, 1913 – December 31, 1914|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "||Martin H. Glynn||
|||style="background-color: "||Edward Schoeneck|January 1, 1915 – December 31, 1918|Republican Party|style="background-color: "||Charles S. Whitman|||||||
|||style="background-color: "||Harry C. Walker|January 1, 1919 – December 31, 1920|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "||Al Smith|||||||
|||style="background-color: "||Jeremiah Wood|January 1, 1921 – September 26, 1922|Republican Party|style="background-color: "||rowspan="2"|Nathan L. Miller||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|–|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||style="background-color: "||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Clayton R. Lusk|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|September 26, 1922 – December 31, 1922|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Republican Party|style="background-color: "||||
|||style="background-color: "||George R. Lunn|January 1, 1923 – December 31, 1924|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "||rowspan="3"|Al Smith||||||
|||style="background-color: "||Seymour Lowman|January 1, 1925 – December 31, 1926|Republican Party|style="background-color: "|||||||||
|||style="background-color: "||Edwin Corning|January 1, 1927 – December 31, 1928|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "|||||||||
|||style="background-color: "||Herbert H. Lehman|January 1, 1929 – December 31, 1932|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "||Franklin D. Roosevelt|||||||
|||style="background-color: "||M. William Bray|January 1, 1933 – December 31, 1938|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "||rowspan="2"|Herbert H. Lehman||||||
|||style="background-color: "||Charles Poletti|January 1, 1939 – December 3, 1942|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "|||||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|–|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||style="background-color: "||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Joe R. Hanley|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|December 3, 1942 – December 31, 1942|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Republican Party|style="background-color: "||Charles Poletti||
|||style="background-color: "||Thomas W. Wallace|January 1, 1943 – November 2, 1943|Republican Party|style="background-color: "||rowspan="5"|Thomas E. Dewey||||||
|||style="background-color: "||Joe R. Hanley|November 2, 1943 – December 31, 1950|Republican Party|style="background-color: "|||||||||
|||style="background-color: "||Frank C. Moore|January 1, 1950 – September 30, 1953|Republican Party|style="background-color: "|||||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|–|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||style="background-color: "||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Arthur H. Wicks|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|September 30, 1953 – November 18, 1953|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Republican Party|style="background-color: "||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|–|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||style="background-color: "||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Walter J. Mahoney|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|November 18, 1953 – December 31, 1954|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Republican Party|style="background-color: "||||
|||style="background-color: "||George DeLuca|January 1, 1955 – December 31, 1958|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "||W. Averell Harriman|||||||
|||style="background-color: "||Malcolm Wilson|January 1, 1959 – December 18, 1973|Republican Party|style="background-color: "||Nelson Rockefeller|||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|–|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||style="background-color: "||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Warren M. Anderson|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|December 18, 1973 – December 31, 1974|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Republican Party|style="background-color: "||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Malcolm Wilson|
|||style="background-color: "||Mary Anne Krupsak|January 1, 1975 – December 31, 1978|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "||rowspan="2"|Hugh Carey||||||
|||style="background-color: "||Mario Cuomo|January 1, 1979 – December 31, 1982|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "|||||||||
|||style="background-color: "||Alfred DelBello|January 1, 1983 – February 1, 1985|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "||rowspan="3"|Mario Cuomo||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|–|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||style="background-color: "||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Warren M. Anderson|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|February 1, 1985 – December 31, 1986|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Republican Party|style="background-color: "||||
|||style="background-color: "||Stan Lundine|January 1, 1987 – December 31, 1994|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "|||||||||
|||style="background-color: "||Betsy McCaughey Ross|January 1, 1995 – December 31, 1998|Republican Party|style="background-color: "||rowspan="2"|George Pataki||||||
|||style="background-color: "||Mary Donohue|January 1, 1999 – December 31, 2006|Republican Party|style="background-color: "|||||||||
|||style="background-color: "||David Paterson|January 1, 2007 – March 17, 2008|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "||Eliot Spitzer|||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|–|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||style="background-color: "||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Joseph Bruno|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|March 17, 2008 – June 24, 2008|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Republican Party|style="background-color: "||rowspan="6"|David Paterson|
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|–|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||style="background-color: "||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Dean Skelos|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|June 24, 2008 – December 31, 2008|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Republican Party|style="background-color: "||||
|colspan="7"|_Office vacant January 1, 2009 – January 7, 2009_|||||||||||||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|–|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||style="background-color: "||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Malcolm Smith|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|January 7, 2009 – June 8, 2009|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "||||
|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|–|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"||style="background-color: "||bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Pedro Espada|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|June 8, 2009 – July 8, 2009|bgcolor="#E6E6AA"|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "||||
|||style="background-color: "||Richard Ravitch|July 8, 2009 – December 31, 2010|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "|||||||||
|||style="background-color: "||Robert Duffy|January 1, 2011 – December 31, 2014|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "||rowspan="2"|Andrew Cuomo||||||
|||style="background-color: "||Kathy Hochul|January 1, 2015 – August 23, 2021|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "|||||||||
|||style="background-color: "||Brian Benjamin|September 9, 2021 – April 12, 2022|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "||rowspan="2"|Kathy Hochul||||||
|||style="background-color: "||Antonio Delgado|May 25, 2022 – Incumbent|Democratic Party|style="background-color: "|||||||||

## Infobox (official post)

- **post**: Lieutenant Governor
- **body**: New York
- **flag**: Flag of New York.svg
- **flagsize**: 130px
- **insignia**: Seal of New York (state).svg
- **flagcaption**: Flag of the State of New York
- **insigniacaption**: Seal of the State of New York
- **image**: LG Antonio Delgado Portrait.jpg
- **incumbent**: Antonio Delgado
- **incumbentsince**: May 25, 2022
- **style**: Lieutenant Governor
The Honorable
His Excellency
- **appointer**: Primary Election
Governor of New York
- **termlength**: Four years, no term limit
- **constituting instrument**: Constitution of New York, New York Constitution of 1777
- **succession**: First
(gubernatorial line of succession)
- **salary**: $210,000 (2020)
- **website**: [https://www.governor.ny.gov/about-lieutenant-governor governor.ny.gov]
- **inaugural**: Pierre Van Cortlandt
- **department**: New York State Senate
Government of New York State
- **seat**: Albany, New York
- **insigniasize**: 100px