Opinion
Argued October 25, 1983
Decided October 27, 1983
Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Third Judicial Department, CON. G. CHOLAKIS, J.
Thomas J. Spargo for appellants-respondents.
Robert G. Lyman, County Attorney ( William J. Conboy, II, of counsel), for Albany County Board of Elections, respondent-appellant.
James E. Long for Joan M. Byrne and others, respondents-appellants.
MEMORANDUM.
The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, without costs.
Petitioners, not being members of the political party whose certificates of nomination naming certain persons as candidates for various town offices at the next general election are being challenged, do not have standing to object to those candidacies (see Matter of Wydler v Cristenfeld, 35 N.Y.2d 719; Matter of Menendez v McNab, 83 A.D.2d 893, mot for lv to app den 54 N.Y.2d 769; Election Law, § 16-102).
Chief Judge COOKE and Judges JASEN, JONES, WACHTLER, MEYER, SIMONS and KAYE concur.
Order affirmed, without costs, in a memorandum.