
    In the Matter of Rudolph V. Stempel et al., Appellants-Respondents, v Albany County Board of Elections et al., Respondents-Appellants. In the Matter of Jane H. Springer et al., Appellants-Respondents, v Joan M. Byrne et al., Respondents-Appellants.
    Argued October 25, 1983;
    decided October 27, 1983
    
      APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
    
      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.
   OPINION OF THE COURT

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 NY2d 719; Matter of Menendez v McNab, 83 AD2d 893, mot for lv to app den 54 NY2d 769; Election Law, § 16-102).

Chief Judge Cooke and Judges Jasen, Jones, Wachtler, Meyer, Simons and Kaye concur.

Order affirmed, without costs, iri a memorandum.  