In the 1932 New York Mayoral election, Morris Hillquit’s last, he and the Socialist Party received 249,887 votes, or 12.37%. This was the best result for the SP since their 1917 high point when Hillquit won 21.6% of the city’s vote. William L. Patterson ran for the Communist Party and won 24,014 votes, or 1.19%. and Olive M. Johnson, Socialist Labor Party leader and editor of the Weekly People, got 11,379 votes, or 0.56%.

The City for the People! Municipal Platform of the Socialist Party Mayoralty Election. Published by the Socialist Party of New York City, 1932.

Contents: For Mayor Morris Hillquit, Neglect of the Unemployed, Graft, Our Municipal Program, Slum Elimination, The City for the People.

PDF of pamphlet: https://archive.org/download/TheCityForThePeopleMunicipalPlatformOfTheSocialistPartyMayoralty/NYmayor_text.pdf