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1848 New York state election

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Field	Value
election_name	1848 New York gubernatorial election
country	New York
flag_year	1778
type	Presidential
ongoing	no
previous_election	1846 New York gubernatorial election
previous_year	1846
next_election	1850 New York gubernatorial election
next_year	1850
election_date	November 7, 1848
image1	[[File:Hamilton Fish Brady Edited.jpg	x150px]]
nominee1	Hamilton Fish
party1	Whig Party (United States)
popular_vote1	218,776
percentage1	47.6%
image2	[[File:John A. Dix, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left, in civilian dress, with long hair Crop.jpg	x150px]]
nominee2	John Adams Dix
party2	Free Soil Party
colour2	87A96B
popular_vote2	122,889
percentage2	26.7%
image3	[[File:Walworth reuben large.jpg	x150px]]
nominee3	Reuben H. Walworth
party3	Democratic Party (United States)
popular_vote3	116,907
percentage3	25.4%
map_image	1848 New York gubernatorial election results map by county.svg
map_size	350px
map_caption	County results
Fish:
Dix:
Walworth:
title	Governor
before_election	John Young
before_party	Whig Party (United States)
after_election	Hamilton Fish
after_party	Whig Party (United States)

Fish:
Dix:
Walworth:

The 1848 New York state election took place on November 7, 1848, to elect the governor, the lieutenant governor, a Canal Commissioner and an Inspector of State Prisons, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly.

History

The Hunker state convention met on September 5 in Syracuse. Walworth and O'Conor were nominated on the first ballot. The vote for governor was 98 for Walworth, 23 for Zadock Pratt, and 3 for Greene C. Bronson. The vote for lieutenant governor was 83 for O'Conor, 16 for Clinton, 6 for Nathan Dayton, 5 for Baldwin and 3 scattering.

The Whig state convention met on September 13 in Utica. Fish was nominated for governor on the first ballot with 76 votes for him, 28 votes for Joshua A. Spencer, and only 20 votes for the incumbent John Young.

The Barnburner Free Soil state convention was held on September 13 and 14 at the Court House in Utica. Dix and Gates were nominated by acclamation. The Liberty state convention also met on the same day in the same city, and after passing resolutions, the delegates walked to the Court House and sat with the Free Soil convention as honorary members.

Result

Due to the split of the Democratic Party, the whole Whig state ticket was elected.

106 Whigs, 15 Free Soilers and 7 Hunkers were elected to the New York State Assembly of the 72nd New York State Legislature.

Office	Dem.-Barnburner/Free Soil ticket	Dem.-Hunker ticket	Liberty ticket
Governor	Hamilton Fish	218,776	John Adams Dix	122,889
Lieutenant Governor	George Washington Patterson	222,970	Seth Merrill Gates	113,667
Canal Commissioner	Charles Cook		Charles Augustus Wheaton
Inspector of State Prisons	Alexander H. Wells		William P. Angel

Notes

Sources

Result for Gov. and Lt. Gov. in Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York (1852; page 367)

References

[https://books.google.com/books?id=aPpWAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA162 ''Niles' National Register''] September 13, 1848 Vol. LXXIV No. 1911 (p. 162)
[https://books.google.com/books?id=aPpWAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA191 ''Niles' National Register''] September 20, 1848 Vol. LXXIV No. 1912 (p. 191)

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