{"id":358639,"date":"2026-09-28T10:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/358639\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T10:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:18:08","slug":"all-about-the-numbers-tom-dinapolis-impact-on-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/358639\/","title":{"rendered":"All about the numbers: Tom DiNapoli\u2019s impact on New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom\u00a0DiNapoli is one of New York\u2019s 20 most influential politicians of the past 20 years. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityandstateny.com\/20th-anniversary\/2026\/09\/20-most-influential\/416254\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See the full list.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli isn\u2019t one of New York\u2019s outsized political personalities, but he\u2019s one of its institutions. The 72-year-old politician, who once made history as the state\u2019s youngest elected official, is now one of its most senior. Here\u2019s a rundown of the key numbers that illustrate his longevity, popularity and impact.<\/p>\n<p>DiNapoli\u2019s age when first elected (to the Mineola Board of Education): 18<\/p>\n<p>Years in the Assembly: 20<\/p>\n<p>Last time DiNapoli lost an election (for Nassau County executive, to Tom Suozzi): 2001<\/p>\n<p>Years as state comptroller: 19<\/p>\n<p>Votes for and against DiNapoli when state lawmakers elected him to succeed Alan Hevesi as state comptroller: 150-56<\/p>\n<p>Times DiNapoli has been elected comptroller by New York voters: 4<\/p>\n<p>His largest vote total in a state comptroller general election (in 2018): 4,027,886<\/p>\n<p>His smallest vote total in a state comptroller general election (in 2014): 2,223,057<\/p>\n<p>His smallest percentage point margin of victory in a state comptroller general election (in 2010, versus Harry Wilson): 4.5<\/p>\n<p>Percentage of the vote DiNapoli won in the three-way 2026 Democratic primary: 65.3<\/p>\n<p>Size of annual budget for the state comptroller\u2019s office in fiscal year 2027: $643.4 million<\/p>\n<p>Employees in the state comptroller\u2019s office: 2,800+<\/p>\n<p>Latest value of the New York State Common Retirement Fund, which DiNapoli\u2019s office oversees: $309.7 billion<\/p>\n<p>The Fund\u2019s value when DiNapoli took office: $145.7 billion<\/p>\n<p>Reports and audits released by DiNapoli\u2019s office in 2025: 404<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom\u00a0DiNapoli is one of New York\u2019s 20 most influential politicians of the past 20 years. See the full&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72903,9,11,10,49,51,50,2327,7159],"class_list":["post-358639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-20th-anniversary","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news-politics","tag-personality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}