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1846 New York state election

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Field	Value
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
map_size	300px

Young Tie Wright 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.

Office	Whig ticket	Democratic ticket	Anti-Rent ticket	Liberty ticket	National Reform ticket	Native American ticket
Governor		John Young	198,878		Silas Wright	187,306		John Young
Lieutenant Governor	Hamilton Fish	187,613		Addison Gardiner	200,970		Addison Gardiner
Canal Commissioners	Charles Cook			John T. Hudson			John T. Hudson
		Thomas Clowes	197,851	Cornelius L. Allen	190,596		Thomas Clowes

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.

Notes

Sources

Result in Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York (1852; page 367)
The election in 1846, in 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)
The Result of N.Y. State Election: Its Causes and Consequences (extra edition of the Albany Atlas, December 1846, 22 pages)
Tickets in Miscellaneous Documents printed by order of the House of Representatives (pg. 43ff)

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