1822-1846
Gubernatorial elections under the State Constitution of 1821. The term was two years. Until 1840, elections were held during three days beginning on the first Monday in November, and since 1841, until today, all regular elections have been held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. The elected candidate takes office on January 1 of the following calendar year.
1846 General election results
| Governor candidate |
Running Mate |
Party |
Popular Vote |
| John Young |
Hamilton Fish (Whig)
Addison Gardiner (Anti-Rent) |
Whig,
Anti-Rent |
198,878 |
(49.07%) |
| Silas Wright |
Addison Gardiner |
Democratic |
187,306 |
(46.21%) |
| Henry Bradley |
William Lawrence Chaplin |
Liberty,
National Reform |
12,844 |
(3.17%) |
| Ogden Edwards |
George Folsom |
Native American |
6,305 |
(1.56%) |
- Result Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York (1852)
1844 General election results
| Governor candidate |
Running Mate |
Party |
Popular Vote |
| Silas Wright |
Addison Gardiner |
Democratic |
241,090 |
(49.48%) |
| Millard Fillmore |
Samuel J. Wilkin |
Whig |
231,057 |
(47.42%) |
| Alvan Stewart |
Charles O. Shepard |
Liberty |
15,136 |
(3.11%) |
1842 General election results
| Governor candidate |
Running Mate |
Party |
Popular Vote |
| William C. Bouck |
Daniel S. Dickinson |
Democratic |
208,072 |
(51.83%) |
| Luther Bradish |
Gabriel Furman |
Whig |
186,091 |
(46.36%) |
| Alvan Stewart |
Charles O. Shepard |
Liberty |
7,263 |
(1.81%) |
1840 General election results
| Governor candidate |
Running Mate |
Party |
Popular Vote |
| William H. Seward |
Luther Bradish |
Whig |
222,011 |
(50.29%) |
| William C. Bouck |
Daniel S. Dickinson |
Democratic |
216,808 |
(49.11%) |
| Gerrit Smith |
Charles O. Shepard |
Liberty |
2,662 |
(0.60%) |
1838 General election results
| Governor candidate |
Running Mate |
Party |
Popular Vote |
| William H. Seward |
Luther Bradish |
Whig |
192,882 |
(51.39%) |
| William L. Marcy |
John Tracy |
Democratic |
182,461 |
(48.61%) |
1836 General election results
| Governor candidate |
Running Mate |
Party |
Popular Vote |
| William L. Marcy |
John Tracy |
Democratic |
166,122 |
(54.24%) |
| Jesse Buel |
Gamaliel H. Barstow |
Whig |
136,648 |
(44.62%) |
| Isaac S. Smith |
Moses Jaques |
Equal Rights |
3,496 |
(1.14%) |
- Result Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York (1852) (giving wrong number of votes for Smith, "2496" is a typo)
- see also The History of the Loco-foco, Or Equal Rights Party: Its Movements, Conventions and Proceedings by Fitzwilliam Byrdsall (Clement & Packard, 1842)
1834 General election results
| Governor candidate |
Running Mate |
Party |
Popular Vote |
| William L. Marcy |
John Tracy |
Democratic |
181,905 |
(51.84%) |
| William H. Seward |
Silas M. Stilwell |
Whig |
168,969 |
(48.16%) |
1832 General election results
| Governor candidate |
Running Mate |
Party |
Popular Vote |
| William L. Marcy |
John Tracy |
Democratic |
166,410 |
(51.51%) |
| Francis Granger |
Samuel Stevens |
Anti-Masonic,
National Republican |
156,672 |
(48.49%) |
1830 General election results
| Governor candidate |
Running Mate |
Party |
Popular Vote |
| Enos T. Throop |
Edward Philip Livingston |
Democratic |
128,842 |
(51.22%) |
| Francis Granger |
Samuel Stevens |
Anti-Masonic,
National Republican |
120,361 |
(47.85%) |
| Ezekiel Williams |
Isaac S. Smith |
Workingmen's |
2,332 |
(0.93%) |
1828 General election results
| Governor candidate |
Running Mate |
Party |
Popular Vote |
| Martin Van Buren |
Enos T. Throop |
Democratic |
136,794 |
(49.46%) |
| Smith Thompson |
Francis Granger |
National Republican |
106,444 |
(38.49%) |
| Solomon Southwick |
John Crary |
Anti-Masonic |
33,345 |
(12.06%) |
1826 General election results
| Governor candidate |
Running Mate |
Party |
Popular Vote |
| DeWitt Clinton |
Henry Huntington |
Democratic-Republican (Clintonian) |
99,785 |
(50.93%) |
| William B. Rochester |
Nathaniel Pitcher |
Democratic-Republican (Bucktails) |
96,135 |
(49.07%) |
1824 General election results
| Governor candidate |
Running Mate |
Party |
Popular Vote |
| DeWitt Clinton |
James Tallmadge, Jr. |
People's |
103,452 |
(54.29%) |
| Samuel Young |
Erastus Root |
Democratic-Republican |
87,093 |
(45.71%) |
1822 General election results
| Governor candidate |
Running Mate |
Party |
Popular Vote |
| Joseph C. Yates |
Erastus Root (Bucktails),
Henry Huntingto (Clintonian) |
Democratic-Republican |
128,293 |
(97.78%) |
| Solomon Southwick |
(none) |
Independent |
2,913 |
(2.22%) |
- Result: The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year 1823 by Andrew Kippis, William Godwin, George Robinson, G. G. and J. Robinson (Paternoster Row, London, England, 1824)