Conservative Party Takes Back Row C

11/9/2010 Update - Answers to Quiz below!

With the third-highest vote total by party in the gubernatorial election, the Conservative Party of New York has retaken Row C on election ballots in the state.   It had held Row C -- the first line after the two major parties -- from the 1960's until about 10 years ago, when the Independence Party displaced it by Tom Golisano's third-place finish for Governor on the Independence line.

Interestingly, it's possible that the Independence Party, now just a sad and pointless remnant of Golisano's vanity races for governor, may have slipped to Row E, with the union-front "Working Families" party outpolling it to take Row D.

Position on the New York ballot is determined by vote total by party in the most recent election for governor.

QUIZ:

1. Who was the candidate for Governor who put the Conservative Party on Row C for the first time?

2. What was the name of the party the Conservatives bumped from Row C that year?

3. What was the year?

4. Bonus Question: What was the famous name of the candidate whose party was bounced from Row C to Row D?

No Googling!   This is a test of your chops as a hardened political junkie.   Answers tomorrow.

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Update - 11/9/2010

ANSWERS:

1. Who was the candidate for Governor who put the Conservative Party on Row C for the first time?

Paul Adams, professor of history at Roberts Wesleyan College

2. What was the name of the party the Conservatives bumped from Row C that year?

The Liberal Party

3. What was the year?

1966

4. Bonus Question: What was the famous name of the candidate whose party was bounced from Row C to Row D?

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.

Congratulations to our winner, whose prize is Philbrick's voice on his home answering machine!