The New York state election, 1965, was held on November 2. The only statewide elective office up for election was a seat on the New York Court of Appeals.
Three of the five women members of the previous legislature-Assemblywomen Shirley Chisholm (Dem.), a preschool teacher of Brooklyn; Constance E. Cook (Rep.), a lawyer of Ithaca; and Dorothy H. Rose (Dem.), a high-school teacher and librarian of Angola-were re-elected.