1882 New York gubernatorial election explained

Election Name:1882 New York gubernatorial election
Country:New York
Type:presidential
Ongoing:no
Previous Election:1879 New York state election
Previous Year:1879
Next Election:1885 New York state election
Next Year:1885
Election Date:November 7, 1882
Image1:Grover Cleveland - NARA - 518139 (cropped).jpg
Nominee1:Grover Cleveland
Party1:Democratic Party (United States)
Popular Vote1:535,318
Percentage1:58.5%
Nominee2:Charles J. Folger
Party2:Republican Party (United States)
Popular Vote2:342,464
Percentage2:37.4%
Governor
Before Election:Alonzo B. Cornell
Before Party:Republican Party (United States)
After Election:Grover Cleveland
After Party:Democratic Party (United States)

The 1882 New York gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1882.

Republican incumbent Alonzo B. Cornell ran for re-election to a second term in office, but was defeated for the Republican nomination by Charles J. Folger, the Secretary of the Treasury under President Chester A. Arthur. Folger's nomination was a victory for President Arthur and the Stalwart faction of the state party, but he was badly defeated in the general election by the mayor of Buffalo, Grover Cleveland.

Republican nomination

Candidates

Convention

The Republican state convention met on September 20 at Saratoga Springs. The Half-Breed faction led by Governor Alonzo B. Cornell opposed the Stalwart faction led by former U.S. Senators Roscoe Conkling and Thomas C. Platt, in league with railroad magnate Jay Gould.

The State Committee met at 9 o'clock at Congress Hall and elected Edward M. Madden, a Half-Breed, to be temporary chairman of the convention (vote Madden (St.) 18, Edmund L. Pitts (H.-B.) 14). The convention opened at half past 10 at Town Hall. The roll was called by John W. Vrooman, the Clerk of the New York State Senate. When Madden was proposed for temporary chairman, the Half-Breeds objected and proposed Pitts, and a vote was taken. Madden received 251, Pitts 243, showing an almost evenly divided convention with a slight Stalwart majority. U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Charles J. Folger (St.) was nominated for governor on the second ballot (first ballot: Folger 223, Cornell [incumbent] 180, James W. Wadsworth 69, John H. Starin 19, John C. Robinson 6; second ballot: Folger 257, Cornell 222, Wadsworth 18).[1] [2] [3]

Democratic nomination

The Democratic state convention met on September 22 at Shakespeare Hall in Syracuse, New York. The Tammany delegates were admitted again, and the rift in the Party was bridged over.[4] Grover Cleveland was nominated for Governor.

General election

Candidates

Results

Results by county

County
ClevelandFolgerHopkinsHowe
Albany20,12665.30%10,30933.45%0.00%3851.25%
Allegany3,77940.06%3,71839.41%1,58616.81%3503.71%
Broome5,06048.43%4,95547.42%3253.11%1091.04%
Cattaraugus5,27947.12%4,68141.78%7816.97%4624.12%
Cayuga5,85951.33%4,40638.60%6986.11%4523.96%
Chautauqua6,20750.85%4,80339.35%8286.78%3693.02%
Chemung5,33658.36%3,07933.67%780.85%6517.12%
Chenango4,25846.15%3,91342.41%5746.22%4825.22%
Clinton3,56044.81%4,31854.35%180.23%490.62%
Columbia6,70364.27%3,60734.59%920.88%270.26%
Cortland3,01146.90%2,98646.51%3795.90%440.69%
Delaware4,59648.37%4,33145.58%3343.52%2402.53%
Dutchess8,87553.27%7,32143.94%4072.44%580.35%
Erie23,74857.37%16,40839.64%1,0462.53%1900.46%
Essex2,15040.78%2,95155.97%240.46%1472.79%
Franklin2,29441.80%3,07456.01%250.46%951.73%
Fulton3,44850.48%3,01144.08%3274.79%450.66%
Genesee3,51851.26%2,89842.23%3955.76%520.76%
Greene4,48158.07%2,80836.39%2733.54%1542.00%
Hamilton40753.20%32041.83%283.66%101.31%
Herkimer5,13154.08%3,70139.01%6256.59%300.32%
Jefferson7,19056.86%4,48335.45%9257.32%470.37%
Kings65,63668.86%26,14827.43%2,5482.67%9831.03%
Lewis3,78759.26%2,44738.29%1452.27%110.17%
Livingston3,96648.59%3,65044.72%4135.06%1331.63%
Madison4,32850.27%3,51240.79%6487.53%1211.41%
Monroe13,14350.95%11,05642.86%1,3645.29%2340.91%
Montgomery5,37456.77%3,92741.49%1021.08%630.67%
New York124,91471.45%47,78527.33%5840.33%1,5370.88%
Niagara5,88459.84%3,25633.11%6386.49%550.56%
Oneida13,67358.05%8,74137.11%9133.88%2280.97%
Onondaga11,56348.70%11,62948.97%5222.20%310.13%
Ontario5,27250.88%4,67545.12%2952.85%1201.16%
Orange8,87455.05%6,54140.57%5533.43%1530.95%
Orleans3,11949.99%2,54940.86%5438.70%280.45%
Oswego6,75748.32%6,37645.59%5033.60%3482.49%
Otsego5,84851.66%4,73041.78%6775.98%650.57%
Putnam1,69147.69%1,82551.47%300.85%0.00%
Queens8,66668.11%3,69829.06%2001.57%1601.26%
Rensselaer13,71456.36%10,46843.02%0.00%1510.62%
Richmond4,37067.98%2,01231.30%360.56%100.16%
Rockland2,77163.88%1,47333.96%892.05%50.12%
Saratoga6,22748.84%6,18548.51%3042.38%340.27%
Schenectady2,83650.26%2,60446.15%1572.78%460.82%
Schoharie4,92468.11%2,07628.72%1742.41%550.76%
Schuyler2,15548.59%2,15148.50%591.33%701.58%
Seneca3,51056.51%2,55541.14%1061.71%400.64%
St. Lawrence5,22035.23%9,30462.79%2791.88%150.10%
Steuben8,99751.94%6,57737.97%1,2767.37%4732.73%
Suffolk5,28755.73%3,81540.21%3313.49%540.57%
Sullivan3,45155.43%2,26636.40%1191.91%3906.26%
Tioga3,58347.97%3,14342.08%3694.94%3745.01%
Tompkins3,61951.04%2,69037.94%3244.57%4586.46%
Ulster8,47055.33%6,14040.11%6554.28%420.27%
Warren2,67747.36%2,56045.29%761.34%3396.00%
Washington4,19040.57%5,92957.40%1511.46%590.57%
Wayne4,29645.52%4,25145.04%5415.73%3503.71%
Westchester11,47863.96%6,00533.46%3141.75%1480.82%
Wyoming2,90949.25%2,12035.90%85914.54%180.30%
Yates2,07342.95%2,50151.82%1182.45%1342.78%

Notes

  1. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1882/09/21/102788223.pdf END OF A GREAT STRUGGLE; CHARLES J. FOLGER NOMINATED FOR GOVERNOR
  2. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1882/09/22/102929726.pdf COMPLETING THE TICKET; THE CANDIDATES SUBMITTED TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
  3. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1882/10/11/102792500.pdf THE TICKET COMPLETED; HOWARD CARROLL FOR CONGRESSMAN AT LARGE
  4. https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E04EED61430E433A25750C2A96F9C94639FD7CF CLOSING THE WORK
  5. Prof. Alphonso A. Hopkins, of Monroe County, ran also for comptroller in 1875, and Secretary of State in 1879
  6. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1882/07/20/103419538.pdf THE GREENBACK PARTY.; NOMINATIONS OF THE NEW-YORK CONVENTION
  7. Epenetus Howe (born 1835), "a wealthy farmer", of Speedsville, Tompkins County, ran also for secretary of state in 1881; assemblyman 1894 and 1895

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