New York Gubernatorial Elections - 1876-1891

1876-1891

Gubernatorial elections under the State Constitution of 1846, amended in 1874. The term was three years.

1891 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Roswell P. Flower William F. Sheehan Democratic 582,893 (50.13%)
Jacob S. Fassett John W. Vrooman Republican 534,956 (46.00%)
Joseph W. Bruce George W. Hallock (d. 1895) Prohibition 30,353 (2.61%)
Daniel DeLeon Frank Gesser Socialist Labor 14,651 (1.26%)
1888 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
David B. Hill Edward F. Jones Democratic 650,464 (49.45%)
Warner Miller Stephen Van Rensselaer Cruger (Republican),
John H. Blakeney (United Labor);
Republican,
United Labor Party
631,293 (48.00%)
W. Martin Jones George F. Powell Prohibition 30,215 (2.30%)
J. Edward Hall Christian Pattberg Socialist Labor 3,348 (0.25%)
1885 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
David B. Hill Edward F. Jones Democratic 501,465 (48.93%)
Ira Davenport Joseph Bradford Carr Republican 490,331 (47.85%)
Henry Clay Bascom W. Jennings Demorest Prohibition 30,867 (3.01%)
George O. Jones Lyman W. Gage National Greenback-Labor 2,130 (0.21%)
1882 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Grover Cleveland David B. Hill Democratic 535,318 (58.47%)
Charles J. Folger B. Platt Carpenter Republican 342,464 (37.41%)
Alphonso A. Hopkins William H. Boole Prohibition 25,783 (2.82%)
Epenetus Howe James Allen National Greenback-Labor 11,974 (1.31%)
1879 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Alonzo B. Cornell George Gilbert Hoskins Republican 418,567
Lucius Robinson Clarkson N. Potter Democratic 375,790
John Kelly Clarkson N. Potter (Tammany Hall),
John M. Wieting (Working Men),
Robert W. Hume (Jeffersonian Democratic)
Tammany Hall,
Working Men,
Jeffersonian Democratic
77,566
Harris Lewis John M. Wieting Greenback-Labor 20,286
John W. Mears James H. Bronson Prohibition 4,437
Caleb Pink Osborne Ward Socialist Labor
  • The tickets: in NYT on November 3, 1879
1876 General election results
Governor candidate Running Mate Party Popular Vote
Lucius Robinson William Dorsheimer Democratic 519,831 (51.97%)
Edwin D. Morgan Sherman S. Rogers Republican 489,371 (48.26%)
William J. Groo Albert F. Brown Prohibition 3,412 (0.34%)
Richard Montgomery Griffin Thomas Armstrong Greenback 1,436 (0.14%)
  • The tickets: in NYT on November 2, 1876
  • The Greenback convention: in NYT on September 27, 1876

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