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1856 United States presidential election in New York

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The 1856 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 4, 1856, as part of the 1856 United States presidential election. Voters chose 35 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

1856 United States presidential election in New York
← 1852 November 4, 1856 1860 →
Turnout89.9%[1] Increase 5.2 pp
 
Nominee John C. Frémont James Buchanan Millard Fillmore
Party Republican Democratic American
Home state California Pennsylvania New York
Running mate William L. Dayton John C. Breckinridge Andrew J. Donelson
Electoral vote 35 0 0
Popular vote 276,004 195,878 124,604
Percentage 46.27% 32.84% 20.89%
County Results
President before election

Franklin Pierce
Democratic

Elected President

James Buchanan
Democratic

New York was won by California Senator John C. Frémont (R–California), running with former Senator William L. Dayton (New Jersey), with 46.27 percent of the popular vote, against Senator James Buchanan (D–Pennsylvania), running with Representative and future presidential candidate in the 1860 presidential election John C. Breckinridge, with 32.84 percent of the popular vote and the 13th president of the United States Millard Fillmore (American[a]–New York), running with the 2nd U.S. Ambassador to Germany Andrew Jackson Donelson, with 20.89 percent of the popular vote.[2]

James Buchanan went on to win the presidential election but this election would end the Democratic Party's support from New York which they won five out of seven times since 1828. A Democrat would not win New York until Horatio Seymour's narrow victory in 1868. Frémont, the first presidential nominee of the newly formed Republican Party, would be the first of just three Republicans ever to carry the state without winning the presidency, the other two being Charles Evans Hughes in 1916 and Thomas E. Dewey in 1948 (both New Yorkers).

It was also the first time since voting for DeWitt Clinton in 1812 that New York backed a losing presidential candidate. This remains the only presidential election in history where New York voted Republican while neighboring Pennsylvania voted Democratic. Although New York would vote more Republican than Pennsylvania in the Republican landslides of 1952, 1956, and 1984.

Results

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1856 United States presidential election in New York[3]
Party Candidate Running mate Popular vote Electoral vote
Count % Count %
Republican John C. Frémont of California William L. Dayton of New Jersey 276,004 46.27% 35 100.00%
Democratic James Buchanan of Pennsylvania John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky 195,878 32.84% 0 0.00%
Know Nothing Millard Fillmore of New York Andrew Jackson Donelson of Tennessee 124,604 20.89% 0 0.00%
Total 596,486 100.00% 35 100.00%

Results by county

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County John Charles Frémont
Republican 		James Buchanan
Democratic 		Millard Fillmore
American 		Margin Total votes cast[4]
# % # % # % # %
Albany 5,016 27.76% 7,751 42.90% 5,300 29.34% 2,451[b] 13.57% 18,067
Allegany 6,545 72.39% 1,640 18.14% 856 9.47% 4,905 54.25% 9,041
Broome 4,297 59.73% 2,106 29.27% 791 11.00% 2,191 30.46% 7,194
Cattaraugus 5,166 65.25% 1,773 22.39% 978 12.35% 3,393 42.86% 7,917
Cayuga 7,035 65.28% 1,818 16.87% 1,923 17.85% 5,112[c] 47.43% 10,776
Chautauqua 7,037 64.55% 1,847 16.94% 2,017 18.50% 5,020[c] 46.05% 10,901
Chemung 2,664 51.04% 1,789 34.28% 766 14.68% 875 16.76% 5,219
Chenango 5,458 61.09% 2,406 26.93% 1,070 11.98% 3,052 34.16% 8,934
Clinton 2,659 43.56% 2,134 34.96% 1,311 21.48% 525 8.60% 6,104
Columbia 3,818 43.29% 3,020 34.24% 1,981 22.46% 798 9.05% 8,819
Cortland 3,596 66.53% 1,181 21.85% 628 11.62% 2,415 44.68% 5,405
Delaware 4,367 51.48% 2,107 24.84% 2,009 23.68% 2,260 26.64% 8,483
Dutchess 5,512 47.67% 4,039 34.93% 2,013 17.41% 1,473 12.74% 11,564
Erie 6,902 34.58% 7,536 37.76% 5,520 27.66% -634 -3.18% 19,958
Essex 2,904 57.70% 1,173 23.31% 956 18.99% 1,731 34.39% 5,033
Franklin 1,469 34.86% 1,600 37.97% 1,145 27.17% -131 -3.11% 4,214
Fulton 2,593 51.85% 1,374 27.47% 1,034 20.68% 1,219 24.38% 5,001
Genesee 3,620 58.82% 1,434 23.30% 1,100 17.87% 2,186 35.52% 6,154
Greene 2,164 35.81% 2,346 38.82% 1,533 25.37% -182 -3.01% 6,043
Hamilton 149 28.88% 250 48.45% 117 22.67% -101 -19.57% 516
Herkimer 5,074 63.79% 1,650 20.74% 1,230 15.46% 3,424 43.05% 7,954
Jefferson 8,249 64.43% 3,496 27.31% 1,058 8.26% 4,753 37.12% 12,803
Kings 7,846 25.58% 14,174 46.22% 8,647 28.20% 5,527[b] 18.02% 30,667
Lewis 3,124 67.10% 1,114 23.93% 418 8.98% 2,010 43.17% 4,656
Livingston 3,597 49.76% 1,652 22.86% 1,979 27.38% 1,618[c] 22.38% 7,228
Madison 6,312 69.84% 1,861 20.59% 865 9.57% 4,451 49.25% 9,038
Monroe 7,584 49.45% 4,683 30.53% 3,070 20.02% 2,901 18.92% 15,337
Montgomery 3,076 49.03% 1,485 23.67% 1,713 27.30% 1,363[c] 21.73% 6,274
New York 17,771 22.32% 41,913 52.65% 19,922 25.03% 21,991[b] 27.62% 79,606
Niagara 3,906 50.37% 1,864 24.04% 1,985 25.60% 1,921[c] 24.77% 7,755
Oneida 11,174 58.32% 6,386 33.33% 1,601 8.36% 4,788 24.99% 19,161
Onondaga 10,071 62.86% 4,227 26.38% 1,724 10.76% 5,844 36.48% 16,022
Ontario 4,551 54.29% 1,642 19.59% 2,189 26.12% 2,362[c] 28.17% 8,382
Orange 4,274 41.12% 3,948 37.98% 2,172 20.90% 326 3.14% 10,394
Orleans 3,088 55.62% 1,052 18.95% 1,412 25.43% 1,676[c] 30.19% 5,552
Oswego 8,246 62.93% 3,683 28.11% 1,175 8.97% 4,563 34.82% 13,104
Otsego 6,373 56.92% 3,595 32.11% 1,229 10.98% 2,778 24.81% 11,197
Putnam 963 37.94% 1,096 43.18% 479 18.87% -133 -5.24% 2,538
Queens 1,886 27.73% 2,394 35.20% 2,521 37.07% -127[b] -1.87% 6,801
Rensselaer 5,153 36.50% 4,415 31.28% 4,548 32.22% 605[c] 4.28% 14,116
Richmond 736 22.77% 1,550 47.96% 946 29.27% 604[b] 18.69% 3,232
Rockland 668 21.34% 1,526 48.74% 937 29.93% 589[b] 18.81% 3,131
St. Lawrence 9,698 74.71% 1,950 15.02% 1,332 10.26% 7,748 59.69% 12,980
Saratoga 4,524 47.37% 2,446 25.61% 2,581 27.02% 1,943[c] 20.35% 9,551
Schenectady 1,714 46.15% 787 21.19% 1,213 32.66% 501[c] 13.49% 3,714
Schoharie 2,376 34.72% 2,837 41.46% 1,630 23.82% -461 -6.74% 6,843
Schuyler 2,542 63.81% 981 24.62% 461 11.57% 1,561 39.19% 3,984
Seneca 2,163 42.81% 1,625 32.16% 1,265 25.03% 538 10.65% 5,053
Steuben 7,270 58.06% 3,217 25.69% 2,034 16.24% 4,053 32.37% 12,521
Suffolk 2,393 37.29% 2,045 31.86% 1,980 30.85% 348 5.43% 6,418
Sullivan 1,690 31.83% 1,583 29.81% 2,037 38.36% -347[c] -6.53% 5,310
Tioga 3,331 56.27% 2,154 36.39% 435 7.35% 1,177 19.88% 5,920
Tompkins 4,019 58.09% 1,430 20.67% 1,470 21.25% 2,549[c] 36.84% 6,919
Ulster 2,932 25.14% 4,030 34.55% 4,703 40.32% -673[b] -5.77% 11,665
Warren 2,202 55.85% 1,006 25.51% 735 18.64% 1,196 30.34% 3,943
Washington 5,174 59.79% 1,632 18.86% 1,848 21.35% 3,326[c] 38.44% 8,654
Wayne 5,776 62.63% 1,999 21.67% 1,448 15.70% 3,777 40.96% 9,223
Westchester 4,450 35.06% 4,600 36.25% 3,641 28.69% -150 -1.19% 12,691
Wyoming 4,066 62.10% 1,911 29.18% 571 8.72% 2,155 32.92% 6,548
Yates 2,994 70.28% 915 21.48% 351 8.24% 2,079 48.80% 4,260
Totals 276,007 46.27% 195,878 32.84% 124,603 20.89% 80,129 13.43% 596,488

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ In New York Fillmore and Donelson ran under the official name of American Party.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g In this county where Frémont ran third behind Buchanan and Fillmore, margin given is Buchanan vote minus Fillmore vote and percentage margin Buchanan percentage minus Fillmore percentage.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m In this county where Buchanan ran third behind both Frémont and Fillmore, margin given is Frémont vote minus Fillmore vote and percentage margin Frémont percentage minus Fillmore percentage.

References

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  1. ^ Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, part 2, p. 1072.
  2. ^ "1856 Presidential Election Results New York".
  3. ^ "1856 Presidential General Election Results - New York".
  4. ^ "County Project (WIP)". Google Docs. Retrieved November 17, 2021.
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