1852 United States presidential election in New York

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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.

1852 United States presidential election in New York

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Turnout	84.7%[1] 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 Pierce   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80% Scott   40–50%   50–60%
President before election Millard Fillmore Whig Elected President Franklin Pierce Democratic

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

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

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

• United States presidential elections in New York