Mike McDermott
Template:Notability Template:Infobox person Michael McDermott is an American politician. He was the Libertarian Party candidate for Governor of New York state, in the election of 2014,[1][2] losing to Andrew Cuomo and falling very short of the 50,000 votes needed to maintain ballot access. The libertarian ticket dropped by 0.63% of all voters from the previous year and received less than a third of the votes from the last cycle despite being included in the only gubernatorial debate of 2014.[3]
According to his website, McDermott worked as a real estate broker and developer from 2001 to 2008.
Politics
In 2012, McDermott was the Libertarian candidate who sought election to the U.S. House to represent the 3rd Congressional District of New York. He was defeated by Steve Israel on November 6, 2012.
In 2014, McDermott was the Libertarian nominee for governor.
In 2016, he ran for U.S. House, but failed to get on the ballot.
Electoral history
| Gubernatorial election in New York, 2014 [4] | |||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Running mate | Votes | Percentage | Swing | ||
| Democratic | Andrew Cuomo | 1,811,672 | 47.08% |  9.44%
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| Working Families | Andrew Cuomo | 126,244 | 3.22% | 0.13%
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| Independence | Andrew Cuomo | 77,762 | 2.02% | 1.15%
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| Women's Equality | Andrew Cuomo | 53,802 | 1.41% | N/A | |||
| Total | Andrew Cuomo | Kathy Hochul | 2,069,480 | 54.19% | 8.86%
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| Republican | Rob Astorino | 1,234,951 | 32.59% |  4.65%
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| Conservative | Rob Astorino | 250,634 | 6.60% | 1.57%
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| Stop-Common-Core | Rob Astorino | 51,294 | 1.39% | N/A | |||
| Total | Rob Astorino | Christopher Moss | 1,536,879 | 40.24% | 6.71%
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| Green | Howie Hawkins | Brian Jones | 184,419 | 4.86% | 3.56%
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| Libertarian | Michael McDermott | Chris Edes | 16,967 | 0.42% | 0.63%
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| Sapient | Steven Cohn | Bobby Kumar Kalotee | 4,963 | 0.13% | N/A | ||
| Scattering | 6,378 | 0.19% | 0.09%
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| Majority | 480,605 | 13.26% | 16.74%
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| Totals | 3,930,310 | 100.00% | |||||
| Democratic Hold | |||||||
References
- ↑ Klepper, David (2014-10-22). "NY governor hopefuls debate economy, leadership". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on October 27, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141027092826/http://www.sfgate.com/business/energy/article/4-candidates-for-NY-governor-to-debate-5838930.php. Retrieved 2014-10-27.
- ↑ Filler, Lane (2014-10-14). "Filler: Want big ideas? Listen to Howie Hawkins and Michael McDermott". Newsday. http://www.newsday.com/opinion/columnists/lane-filler/want-big-ideas-listen-to-howie-hawkins-and-michael-mcdermott-lane-filler-1.9502996. Retrieved 2014-10-27.
- ↑ http://news.wbfo.org/post/video-candidates-square-sole-gubernatorial-debate
- ↑ "NYS Board of Elections Unofficial Election Night Results". http://nyenr.elections.state.ny.us/. Retrieved 17 December 2014.