1846 New York state election
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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1846 New York gubernatorial election
| country = New York
| flag_year = 1778
| type = Presidential
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 1844 New York state election
| previous_year = 1844
| next_election = 1848 New York state election
| next_year = 1848
| election_date = November 3, 1846
| image_size= x150px
| image1 = New York Governor John Young.jpg
| nominee1 = John Young
| party1 = Whig Party (United States)
| alliance1 = Anti-Rent
| popular_vote1 = 198,878
| percentage1 = 49.07%
| image2 = SilasWright.png
| nominee2 = Silas Wright
| party2 = Democratic Party (United States)
| popular_vote2 = 187,306
| percentage2 = 46.21%
| title = Governor
| before_election = Silas Wright
| before_party = Democratic Party (United States)
| after_election = John Young
| after_party = Whig Party (United States)
| map_image = File:1846 New York gubernatorial election results map by county.svg
| map_caption = County Results
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Young
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Tie
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Wright
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The 1846 New York state election was held on November 3, 1846, to elect the governor, the lieutenant governor and two Canal Commissioners, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly and eight members of the New York State Senate.
History
At the Whig state convention, Young was nominated for governor on the third ballot with 76 votes against 45 for Millard Fillmore who had been the unsuccessful Whig candidate at the previous gubernatorial election in 1844.
Results
The Democratic and the Whig parties being of almost equal strength at the time, the cross-endorsed Anti-Rent ticket was elected. The incumbent governor Wright was defeated. The incumbent lieutenant governor Gardiner was re-elected.
At the same time, the voters adopted the New York State Constitution of 1846, so that the elected Canal Commissioners could not take office for their elected term. Both Hudson and Clowes eventually took office by appointment to fill vacancies.
Five Whigs and three Democrats were elected for the session of 1847 to the New York State Senate. Under the Constitution of 1821, every year 8 of the 32 senators were elected to a four-year term. These 8 now elected, and the 24 remaining state senators, were legislated out of office by the Constitution of 1846, their term ending on December 31, 1847.
72 Whigs and 56 Democrats were elected to the New York State Assembly of the 70th New York State Legislature, of whom 6 Whigs and 4 Democrats were elected with Anti-Rent endorsement.
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|+ 1846 state election results | |
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! Office ! colspan="2" {{Party shading/Whig}} | Whig ticket ! colspan="2" {{Party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic ticket ! colspan="2" {{Party shading/Independent}} | Anti-Rent ticket ! colspan="2" {{Party shading/Independent}} | Liberty ticket ! colspan="2" {{Party shading/Independent}} | National Reform ticket ! colspan="2" {{Party shading/Know Nothing}} | Native American ticket | |
| Governor
| {{Party shading/Whig}} |John Young | align="right" | 198,878 | Silas Wright
| align="right" | 187,306 | {{Party shading/Independent}} |John Young | align="right" | |Henry Bradley | align="right" | 12,844 |Henry Bradley | align="right" | | align="right" | 6,305 |
| Lieutenant Governor
| align="right" | 187,613 | {{Party shading/Democratic}} |Addison Gardiner | align="right" | 200,970 | {{Party shading/Independent}} |Addison Gardiner | align="right" | |align="right" | 13,901 | align="right" | |align="right" | 6,133 | |
| Canal Commissioners
| align="right" | | {{Party shading/Democratic}} |John T. Hudson | align="right" | | {{Party shading/Independent}} |John T. Hudson | |James Sperry | | | |Robert C. Russell | | |
| | {{Party shading/Whig}} |Thomas Clowes
| align="right" | 197,851 |Cornelius L. Allen | align="right" | 190,596 | {{Party shading/Independent}} |Thomas Clowes | |John Thomas | | | |James Silsbee | |
Obs.: The number of votes is the total of Whig and Anti-Rent votes for Young and Clowes, the total of Democratic and Anti-Rent votes for Gardiner and Hudson, and the total of Liberty and National Reform votes for Bradley and Chaplin.
See also
Notes
Sources
- Result in [https://books.google.com/books?id=5SY1AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA367 Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York] (1852; page 367)
- The election in 1846, in [https://books.google.com/books?id=kbdoq5mOn6YC&pg=PA689 Political History of the State of New York from January 1, 1841, to January 1, 1847, Vol III, including The Life of Silas Wright] by Jabez Delano Hammond (L. W. Hall, Syracuse NY, 1849; page 689)
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=hNstAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1 The Result of N.Y. State Election: Its Causes and Consequences] (extra edition of the Albany Atlas, December 1846, 22 pages)
- Tickets in [https://books.google.com/books?id=xJ1UAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA44 Miscellaneous Documents printed by order of the House of Representatives] (pg. 43ff)
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