Election Name: | 1822 New York gubernatorial election |
Country: | New York |
Flag Year: | 1778 |
Type: | Presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1820 New York gubernatorial election |
Previous Year: | 1820 |
Next Election: | 1824 New York gubernatorial election |
Next Year: | 1824 |
Election Date: | November 4–6, 1822 |
Image1: | JosephCYates.jpg |
Nominee1: | Joseph C. Yates |
Party1: | Democratic-Republican Party |
Popular Vote1: | 128,493 |
Percentage1: | 97.79% |
Nominee2: | Solomon Southwick |
Party2: | Independent |
Popular Vote2: | 2,910 |
Percentage2: | 2.21% |
Governor | |
Before Election: | DeWitt Clinton |
Before Party: | Democratic-Republican |
After Election: | Joseph C. Yates |
After Party: | Democratic-Republican |
The 1822 New York state election was held from November 4 to 6, 1822, to elect the governor and the lieutenant governor, as well as all members of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly.
The Democratic-Republican Party nominated State Supreme Court Justice Joseph C. Yates. The anti-Clintonian faction nominated former U.S. representative and state assemblyman Erastus Root for Lieutenant Governor. The Clintonian faction nominated Henry Huntington for Lieutenant Governor.
Newspaper publisher Solomon Southwick ran as an independent.
Result: The Tribune Almanac 1841