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1861 New York state election

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The 1861 New York state election was held on November 5, 1861, to elect the Secretary of State, the State Comptroller, the New York State Attorney General, the State Treasurer, the State Engineer, a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, two Canal Commissioners and an Inspector of State Prisons, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate.

History

The "Independent People's" state convention met on September 10 at Syracuse, New York with the intention to nominate a ticket which would be endorsed by the Republican state convention which was due to meet at the same city on the following day. The convention was dominated by the old Hunkers/Hard faction of the Democratic Party (which had supported John C. Breckinridge for the Presidency the year before, and had been reduced to a small minority at the 1860 New York state election) and the Greeley Republicans.

The Republican state convention met on September 11 at Syracuse, New York and endorsed the Independent People's ticket with the exception of Frederick A. Tallmadge. The Republicans preferred the incumbent Canal Commissioner Benjamin F. Bruce to be re-nominated.

Results

The whole jointly nominated part of the "Union" ticket was elected, only the Democratic candidate for short-term Canal Commissioner William W. Wright was elected due to the split of the "Union" ticket.

The incumbents Floyd-Jones, Richmond, Comstock and Bruce were defeated.

22 Republicans and 10 Democrats were elected to a two-year term (1862–63) in the New York State Senate.

The New York State Assembly of 1862 was almost evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats, most of whom had been elected on the "Union" ticket. There was a small majority of Republicans.

Office	Independent People's ticket	Republican ticket	Democratic ticket
Secretary of State		Horatio Ballard	297,428	Horatio Ballard
Comptroller		Lucius Robinson	296,855	Lucius Robinson
Attorney General		Daniel S. Dickinson	295,609	Daniel S. Dickinson
Treasurer		William B. Lewis	296,709	William B. Lewis
State Engineer		William B. Taylor	294,422	William B. Taylor
Judge of the Court of Appeals		William B. Wright	276,901	William B. Wright
Canal Commissioner (full term)		Franklin A. Alberger	295,960	Franklin A. Alberger
Canal Commissioner
(short term)	Frederick A. Tallmadge	106,721	Benjamin F. Bruce
Inspector of State Prisons		Abraham B. Tappen	297,126	Abraham B. Tappen

Sources

Result in The Tribune Almanac 1862
The Union ticket: http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1861/september/lincoln-slave-order.htm in Harper's Weekly, September 28, 1861, pg. 611
The tickets: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1861/11/05/89698351.pdf in NYT on November 5, 1861 (giving "Low" instead of Lord)

Notes

References

[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1861/09/10/355626482.pdf ''STATE POLITICS - INDEPENDENT PEOPLE'S CONVENTION''] in NYT on September 10, 1861
Many were elected on the "Union" ticket.
later known as the [[War Democrats]]
The Independent People's ticket was almost completely endorsed by the Republicans, which then became known as the "Union" ticket, although the tickets had different names for the short-term Canal Commissioner.
total votes on "Union" ticket for Ballard, Robinson, Dickinson, Lewis, Taylor, William B. Wright, Alberger and Tappen
To fill the vacancy caused by the death of [[Samuel H. Barnes]], a commissioner was elected to a two-year term.

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