The Cuomo family

A father and son who each served three terms, and then sought a fourth, as governor of New York.
New York · Governor
Combined career popular votes
18,587,945
Members on the ballot
2
Combined W–L
6–1
Years on the ballot
1982–2018

Mario Cuomo was elected governor of New York three times and was, for years, the Democratic Party’s most sought-after presidential prospect. His son Andrew Cuomo won the same office three times a generation later, making the Cuomos a rare father-son pair to each lead the nation’s fourth-largest state.

The Cuomo family members, ranked by career popular votes
MemberOfficesYearsCareer popular votesRecord
Andrew CuomoDGovernor2010–20188,615,69630
Mario CuomoDGovernor1982–19949,972,24931

How this is measured

Combined career popular votes are summed across the 2 family members we track, each counted once across every presidential, U.S. Senate, governor, and U.S. House election in our data. Family membership is hand-curated and verified against primary sources, never matched by surname alone, so unrelated namesakes are never folded in. A vote for a presidential ticket counts for both the president and the vice-presidential candidate, matching how each profile reports its own totals.

Compiled by PolitiFinder · published June 14, 2026 · sources: Data & sources.