New York State Election, 1851 - Results

Results

Six out of eight state offices were won by the Democrats, the most important ones by margins of a few hundred votes out of about 400,000 cast. The incumbent Chatfield was re-elected. The incumbents Seymour, Foot and Wells were defeated.

Six Democrats and four Whigs were elected to the district benches of the New York State Supreme Court.

1851 state election results
Office Democratic ticket Whig ticket
Secretary of State Henry S. Randall 199,426 James C. Forsyth 198,582
Comptroller John C. Wright 200,790 George W. Patterson 200,532
Attorney General Levi S. Chatfield 200,205 Daniel Ullmann 199,973
Treasurer Benjamin Welch, Jr. 200,465 James M. Cook 200,693
State Engineer William J. McAlpine 203,032 Hezekiah C. Seymour 199,301
Judge of the Court of Appeals Alexander S. Johnson 201,144 Samuel Alfred Foot 197,823
Canal Commissioner Horace Wheaton 200,231 Henry Fitzhugh 201,147
Inspector of State Prisons Henry Storms 202,801 Alexander H. Wells 198,578

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