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1852 United States presidential election in New York

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1852 United States presidential election in New York

← 1848 November 2, 1852 1856 →
Turnout84.7%[1] Increase 5.1 pp
 
Nominee Franklin Pierce Winfield Scott
Party Democratic Whig
Home state New Hampshire New Jersey
Running mate William R. King William A. Graham
Electoral vote 35 0
Popular vote 262,083 234,882
Percentage 50.13% 44.93%

County Results

President before election

Millard Fillmore
Whig

Elected President

Franklin Pierce
Democratic

The 1852 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 2, 1852, as part of the 1852 United States presidential election. Voters chose 35 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

New York voted for the Democratic candidate, Franklin Pierce, over the Whig Party candidate, Winfield Scott. Pierce won the state by a margin of 5.21%. Abolitionist Free Soil party candidate John Hale took 4.85% of the vote. William Goodell of the Liberty party, another smaller abolitionist party, also took a tiny portion of the vote. So did Daniel Webster, running as a Whig nominated against his will by a group of southern Whigs unsatisfied with Scott. Despite dying nine days before the election, he received 0.08% of the vote, mostly in New York City. This was one of the few northern states where he received votes.[2]

This was the last time a Democrat won the state outside of New York City proper until 1912 and the last until 1964, when Lyndon Johnson swept every New York county, that they received a majority. It was thus the last time until 1964 that many New York Counties voted for a Democrat, namely Allegany, Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Jefferson, Madison, Onondaga, Oswego, St. Lawrence, Tioga, Warren, and Wayne counties.

This was the last election in which the Whigs and not the Republican Party provided the main opposition to the Democrats. After the birth of the Republican Party, upstate New York remained a Republican bastion up until the 1990s.[3]

Results

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1852 United States presidential election in New York[4]
Party Candidate Running mate Popular vote Electoral vote
Count % Count %
Democratic Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire William Rufus DeVane King of Alabama 262,083 50.13% 35 100.00%
Whig Winfield Scott of New Jersey William Alexander Graham of North Carolina 234,882 44.93% 0 0.00%
Free Soil John Parker Hale of New Hampshire George Washington Julian of Indiana 25,329 4.85% 0 0.00%
Whig Daniel Webster of Massachusetts None of None 413 0.08% 0 0.00%
Liberty William Goodell of New York S.M. Bell of Virginia 72 0.01% 0 0.00%
Total 522,294 100.00% 35 100.00%

Results by county

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County Franklin Pierce
Democratic
Winfield Scott
Whig
John Parker Hale
Free Soil
Daniel Webster
Whig
William Goodell
Liberty
Margin Total votes cast[5]
# % # % # % # % # % # %
Albany 8,364 53.10% 7,246 46.00% 133 0.84% 8 0.05% 1,118 7.10% 15,751
Allegany 4,009 47.97% 3,670 43.92% 678 8.11% 339 4.06% 8,357
Broome 3,064 50.35% 2,674 43.94% 347 5.70% 390 6.41% 6,085
Cattaraugus 3,493 44.85% 3,688 47.35% 607 7.79% -195 -2.50% 7,788
Cayuga 4,552 44.14% 4,838 46.91% 916 8.88% 1 0.01% 6 0.06% -286 -2.77% 10,313
Chautauqua 3,703 35.19% 5,612 53.33% 1,209 11.49% -1,909 -18.14% 10,524
Chemung 3,189 54.46% 2,328 39.75% 339 5.79% 861 14.70% 5,856
Chenango 4,482 51.71% 3,880 44.77% 303 3.50% 2 0.02% 602 6.95% 8,667
Clinton 2,812 52.62% 2,287 42.80% 245 4.58% 525 9.82% 5,344
Columbia 4,456 51.78% 4,142 48.13% 7 0.08% 314 3.65% 8,605
Cortland 2,064 40.90% 2,328 46.13% 655 12.98% -264 -5.23% 5,047
Delaware 4,052 52.76% 3,289 42.83% 339 4.41% 763 9.93% 7,680
Dutchess 5,600 50.32% 5,495 49.38% 33 0.30% 105 0.94% 11,128
Erie 7,033 45.18% 8,025 51.55% 510 3.28% -992 -6.37% 15,568
Essex 1,973 40.24% 2,756 56.21% 174 3.55% -783 -15.97% 4,903
Franklin 2,074 52.49% 1,747 44.22% 130 3.29% 327 8.28% 3,951
Fulton 2,070 47.52% 2,171 49.84% 115 2.64% -101 -2.32% 4,356
Genesee 2,166 37.11% 3,358 57.53% 313 5.36% -1,192 -20.42% 5,837
Greene 3,242 53.49% 2,803 46.25% 16 0.26% 439 7.24% 6,061
Hamilton 342 73.08% 126 26.92% 0 0.00% 216 46.15% 468
Herkimer 4,220 56.60% 2,679 35.93% 555 7.44% 2 0.03% 1,541 20.67% 7,456
Jefferson 6,279 49.42% 5,656 44.52% 757 5.96% 13 0.10% 623 4.90% 12,705
Kings 10,628 55.00% 8,496 43.97% 66 0.34% 133 0.69% 2,132 11.03% 19,323
Lewis 2,535 55.53% 1,727 37.83% 303 6.64% 808 17.70% 4,565
Livingston 3,055 40.95% 4,096 54.91% 308 4.13% 1 0.01% -1,041 -13.95% 7,460
Madison 3,435 40.81% 3,379 40.14% 1,584 18.82% 20 0.24% 56 0.67% 8,418
Monroe 6,314 43.37% 7,467 51.29% 775 5.32% 1 0.01% -1,153 -7.92% 14,557
Montgomery 3,373 52.63% 2,995 46.73% 40 0.62% 1 0.02% 378 5.90% 6,409
New York 34,280 59.27% 23,124 39.98% 200 0.35% 236 0.41% 11,156 19.29% 57,840
Niagara 2,863 39.05% 3,413 46.55% 1,056 14.40% -550 -7.50% 7,332
Oneida 8,636 49.31% 7,832 44.72% 1,044 5.96% 804 4.59% 17,512
Onondaga 6,415 45.11% 6,097 42.87% 1,701 11.96% 7 0.05% 1 0.01% 318 2.24% 14,221
Ontario 3,347 40.33% 4,402 53.04% 547 6.59% 1 0.01% 3 0.04% -1,055 -12.71% 8,300
Orange 5,171 54.96% 4,221 44.86% 16 0.17% 1 0.01% 950 10.10% 9,409
Orleans 2,267 41.53% 2,586 47.37% 606 11.10% -319 -5.84% 5,459
Oswego 4,973 43.22% 4,375 38.03% 2,148 18.67% 9 0.08% 598 5.20% 11,505
Otsego 5,488 51.89% 4,454 42.11% 634 5.99% 1,034 9.78% 10,576
Putnam 1,521 64.81% 826 35.19% 0 0.00% 695 29.61% 2,347
Queens 2,904 56.61% 2,209 43.06% 12 0.23% 5 0.10% 695 13.55% 5,130
Rensselaer 6,564 50.59% 6,185 47.67% 218 1.68% 7 0.05% 379 2.92% 12,974
Richmond 1,324 52.90% 1,147 45.83% 30 1.20% 2 0.08% 177 7.07% 2,503
Rockland 1,788 70.92% 733 29.08% 0 0.00% 1,055 41.85% 2,521
St. Lawrence 5,584 48.39% 4,570 39.60% 1,386 12.01% 1,014 8.79% 11,540
Saratoga 4,292 48.43% 4,498 50.76% 71 0.80% 1 0.01% -206 -2.32% 8,862
Schenectady 1,900 53.45% 1,654 46.53% 0 0.00% 1 0.03% 246 6.92% 3,555
Schoharie 3,846 56.38% 2,958 43.36% 18 0.26% 888 13.02% 6,822
Seneca 2,515 50.97% 2,213 44.85% 200 4.05% 1 0.02% 5 0.10% 302 6.12% 4,934
Steuben 6,880 55.21% 5,236 42.02% 345 2.77% 1,644 13.19% 12,461
Suffolk 3,307 63.28% 1,917 36.68% 0 0.00% 2 0.04% 1,390 26.60% 5,226
Sullivan 2,681 56.04% 2,059 43.04% 44 0.92% 622 13.00% 4,784
Tioga 2,815 53.66% 2,234 42.58% 197 3.76% 581 11.08% 5,246
Tompkins 3,472 44.83% 3,410 44.03% 863 11.14% 62 0.80% 7,745
Ulster 5,916 53.31% 5,156 46.46% 26 0.23% 760 6.85% 11,098
Warren 1,713 56.99% 1,174 39.06% 119 3.96% 539 17.93% 3,006
Washington 3,174 40.35% 4,231 53.79% 461 5.86% -1,057 -13.44% 7,866
Wayne 4,050 44.83% 4,033 44.64% 941 10.42% 10 0.11% 17 0.19% 9,034
Westchester 5,283 56.34% 4,033 43.01% 55 0.59% 6 0.06% 1,250 13.33% 9,377
Wyoming 2,471 39.84% 3,005 48.44% 727 11.72% -534 -8.61% 6,203
Yates 2,153 48.37% 1,974 44.35% 324 7.28% 179 4.02% 4,451
Totals 262,172 50.13% 234,917 44.92% 25,446 4.87% 414 0.08% 72 0.01% 27,255 5.21% 523,021

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, part 2, p. 1072.
  2. ^ Morrill, James R. (1967). "THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1852: DEATH KNELL OF THE WHIG PARTY OF NORTH CAROLINA". The North Carolina Historical Review. 44 (4): 342–359. ISSN 0029-2494.
  3. ^ "Presidential election of 1936 - Map by counties". geoelections.free.fr. Retrieved November 18, 2021.
  4. ^ "1852 Presidential General Election Results - New York". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved December 24, 2013.
  5. ^ "County Project (WIP)". Google Docs. Retrieved November 18, 2021.