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1916 New York state election

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Field	Value
election_name	1916 New York gubernatorial election
country	New York
type	presidential
ongoing	no
previous_election	1914 New York state election
previous_year	1914
next_election	1918 New York gubernatorial election
next_year	1918
election_date	November 7, 1916
image_size	x150px
image1	File:Portrait of Charles S. Whitman.jpg
nominee1	Charles S. Whitman
party1	Republican Party (United States)
alliance1	American
Independence
Progressive
popular_vote1	850,020
percentage1	52.31%
image2	File:Judge Samuel Seabury.jpg
nominee2	Samuel Seabury
party2	Democratic Party (United States)
popular_vote2	686,862
percentage2	42.27%
map_image	1916 New York gubernatorial election results map by county.svg
map_size	300px
map_caption	County results

title	Governor
before_election	Charles S. Whitman
before_party	Republican Party (United States)
after_election	Charles S. Whitman
after_party	Republican Party (United States)

Independence Progressive

Whitman: Seabury: The 1916 New York state election was held on November 7, 1916, to elect the governor, the lieutenant governor, the Secretary of State, the state comptroller, the attorney general, the state treasurer, the state engineer, a U.S. Senator, the chief judge and an associate judge of the New York Court of Appeals, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate.

History

The primaries were held on September 19.

Republican primary

Office
Governor
Lieutenant Governor
Secretary of State
Comptroller
Attorney General
Treasurer
State Engineer
Chief Judge
Judge of the Court of Appeals
U.S. Senator

Democratic primary

Office
Governor
Lieutenant Governor
Secretary of State
Comptroller
Attorney General
Treasurer
State Engineer
Chief Judge
Judge of the Court of Appeals
U.S. Senator

Progressive primary

Office
Governor
Lieutenant Governor
Secretary of State
Comptroller
Attorney General
Treasurer
State Engineer
Chief Judge
Judge of the Court of Appeals
U.S. Senator

Independence League primary

Office
Governor
Lieutenant Governor
Secretary of State
Comptroller
Attorney General
Treasurer
State Engineer
Chief Judge
Judge of the Court of Appeals
U.S. Senator

American Party primary

Office
Governor
Lieutenant Governor
Secretary of State
Comptroller
Attorney General
Treasurer
State Engineer
Chief Judge
Judge of the Court of Appeals
U.S. Senator

Result

The whole Republican ticket was elected.

The incumbents Whitman, Schoeneck, Hugo, Travis, Woodbury, Wells and Williams were re-elected.

The Republican, Democratic, Socialist and Prohibition parties maintained automatic ballot access (necessary 10,000 votes); the Independence League, Progressive and American parties lost it; and the Socialist Labor Party did not re-attain it.

36 Republicans and 15 Democrats were elected to the New York State Senate, to sit in the 140th and 141st New York State Legislatures (1917–1918).

99 Republicans, 49 Democrats and 2 Socialists were elected to the New York State Assembly, to sit in the 140th New York State Legislature (1917).

Office	Democratic ticket	Socialist ticket	Prohibition ticket	Progressive ticket	Independence League ticket	Socialist Labor ticket	American ticket
Governor	Charles S. Whitman	835,820		Samuel Seabury	686,862	Algernon Lee	62,560	Charles E. Welch	21,773
Lieutenant Governor	Edward Schoeneck	812,646	Thomas J. Kreuzer	638,894	Stephen J. Mahoney	60,402	Clarence Z. Spriggs	34,295
Secretary of State	Francis M. Hugo	840,554	Frank M. Stage	619,284	Pauline M. Newman	63,318	Neil D. Cranmer	23,340
Comptroller	Eugene M. Travis	833,361	Joseph W. Masters	618,759	Charles W. Noonan	62,904	George A. Norton	22,335
Attorney General	Egburt E. Woodbury	819,269	William W. Farley	619,695	S. John Block	63,391	Claude W. Stowell	21,059
Treasurer	James L. Wells	841,710	Maurice S. Cohen	592,569	Eugene Wood	62,575	William J. Richardson	22,229
State Engineer	Frank M. Williams	814,794	Henry R. Beebe	619,493	George H. Warner	64,347	William B. Timbrell	20,873
Chief Judge	Frank H. Hiscock	822,995	Almet F. Jenks	605,528	Louis B. Boudin	63,996	Erwin J. Baldwin	24,007
Judge of the Court of Appeals	Cuthbert W. Pound		John T. Norton		Hezekiah D. Wilcox		Coleridge A. Hart
U.S. Senator	William M. Calder	839,314	William F. McCombs	605,933	Joseph D. Cannon	61,167	D. Leigh Colvin	19,302

Obs.:

Numbers are total votes on all tickets for candidates who ran on more than one ticket, except for Whitman. The votes received for governor were used to determine ballot access.

References

Sources

Names on primary ballot: CANDIDATES RUSH TO FILE PETITIONS in NYT on August 23, 1916
Candidates in the primaries: PROGRESSIVE VOTE FACTOR IN PRIMARIES in NYT on September 17, 1916
Early returns of the primaries: Nominees Chosen at the Primaries in NYT on September 20, 1916
Primary results: CALDER BEAT BACON 9,007 in NYT on September 27, 1916
Sketches of Hiscock and Jenks: FOR CHIEF JUDGE OF THE COURT OF APPEALS in NYT on October 14, 1916
Early returns: WHITMAN BEATS SEABURY; CALDER CHOSEN SENATOR in NYT on November 8, 1916, Vote totals from New York Red Book 1917

References

to succeed [[Willard Bartlett]] who had reached the constitutional age limit
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of [[William E. Werner]]
Charles E. Welch, grape juice manufacturer, of [[Westfield, New York. Westfield]], ran for Lieutenant Governor in 1914
Jeremiah D. Crowley, of [[Marcellus, New York. Marcellus]], ran also for State Engineer in 1910, and for Lieutenant Governor in 1912 and 1914
Stephen J. Mahoney, ran also in 1914
Boris Reinstein, ran also in 1904
Neil D. Cranmer, ran also for Comptroller in 1914
John Hall, ran also for Attorney General in 1908 and 1914, and for Governor in 1912
Charles W. Noonan, ran also in 1914
Anthony Houtenbrink, ran also for Treasurer in 1914
S. John Block, ran also for the Court of Appeals in 1908
Robert H. Elder, ran also in 1914
William A. DeFord, Assistant Attorney General, ran also in 1908
Erwin A. Archer, ran also for U.S. Senator in 1914
Lewis F. Alrutz, ran also for Attorney General in 1910
Coleridge Allen Hart (b. July 11, 1852 [[Peekskill, New York. Peekskill]]), lawyer, of [[Brooklyn]], ran also for Attorney General in 1889, and for the Court of Appeals in 1907, 1908 and 1914
"Our Campaigns - NY US Senate - AMER Primary Race - Sep 19, 1916".

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