1860 United States presidential election in New York

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1860 United States presidential election in New York
November 6, 1860
Turnout95.5%[1] Increase 5.6 pp
 
Nominee Abraham Lincoln
Party Republican Fusion
Alliance Democratic
Constitutional Union
Southern Democratic
Home state Illinois
Running mate Hannibal Hamlin
Electoral vote 35 0
Popular vote 353,804 305,101
Percentage 53.70% 46.30%
County results
President before election

James Buchanan
Democratic

Elected President

Abraham Lincoln
Republican

The 1860 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 6, 1860, as part of the 1860 United States presidential election. Voters chose 35 electors of the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. New York was the tipping state in this election, and had Lincoln lost it there would have been a contingent election decided by Congress.

New York was won by Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln, who defeated the Democratic fusion ticket.

Lincoln won New York by a margin of 7.39 percentage points.

New York in the election was one of the four states that had a fusion ticket for the Democratic Party. The other three states were New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.

New York was home to a prominent Republican politician, William H. Seward who was widely expected to be nominated in the Republican Convention.

New York was key to the election; a Lincoln loss there would deadlock the Electoral College. Soon after his return from his Midwest tour, Seward embarked on another, speaking to large crowds across the state of New York. At his advisor Thurlow Weed's urging, he went to New York City and gave a patriotic speech before a large crowd on November 3, only three days before the election.[2]

Results

1860 United States presidential election in New York[3][4][5][a]
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Republican Abraham Lincoln 353,804 53.70% 35
Fusion[b] Stephen A. Douglas / John Bell / John C. Breckinridge 305,101 46.30% 0
Totals 658,905 100.00% 35

Results by county

County[3][4][5] Abraham Lincoln
Republican 		Stephen A. Douglas
John Bell
John C. Breckinridge
Fusion 		Margin Total votes cast
# % # % # %
Albany 9,835 46.85% 11,158 53.15% -1,323 -6.30% 20,993
Allegany 6,443 71.76% 2,535 28.24% 3,908 43.53% 8,978
Broome 4,554 61.31% 2,874 38.69% 1,680 22.62% 7,428
Cattaraugus 5,955 63.52% 3,420 36.48% 2,535 27.04% 9,375
Cayuga 7,922 66.69% 3,956 33.31% 3,966 33.39% 11,878
Chautauqua 8,481 69.80% 3,670 30.20% 4,811 39.59% 12,151
Chemung 2,949 54.35% 2,477 45.65% 472 8.70% 5,426
Chenango 5,685 60.63% 3,691 39.37% 1,994 21.27% 9,376
Clinton 3,961 54.76% 3,272 45.24% 689 9.53% 7,233
Columbia 5,108 51.97% 4,720 48.03% 388 3.95% 9,828
Cortland 3,893 69.46% 1,712 30.54% 2,181 38.91% 5,605
Delaware 5,001 59.83% 3,358 40.17% 1,643 19.66% 8,359
Dutchess 6,763 52.63% 6,086 47.37% 677 5.27% 12,849
Erie 12,430 53.29% 10,897 46.71% 1,533 6.57% 23,327
Essex 3,454 65.80% 1,795 34.20% 1,659 31.61% 5,249
Franklin 3,103 55.98% 2,440 44.02% 663 11.96% 5,543
Fulton[c] 3,111 51.79% 2,896 48.21% 215 3.58% 6,007
Genesee 4,464 64.51% 2,456 35.49% 2,008 29.02% 6,920
Greene 3,137 47.00% 3,537 53.00% -400 -5.99% 6,674
Herkimer 5,302 61.17% 3,366 38.83% 1,936 22.34% 8,668
Jefferson 8,796 61.35% 5,542 38.65% 3,254 22.69% 14,338
Kings 15,883 43.54% 20,599 56.46% -4,716 -12.93% 36,482
Lewis 3,257 58.84% 2,278 41.16% 979 17.69% 5,535
Livingston 5,178 61.34% 3,264 38.66% 1,914 22.67% 8,442
Madison 6,289 66.15% 3,218 33.85% 3,071 32.30% 9,507
Monroe 10,808 59.69% 7,300 40.31% 3,508 19.37% 18,108
Montgomery 3,528 52.03% 3,253 47.97% 275 4.06% 6,781
New York 33,290 34.76% 62,482 65.24% -29,192 -30.48% 95,772
Niagara 4,992 57.12% 3,748 42.88% 1,244 14.23% 8,740
Oneida 12,508 58.07% 9,031 41.93% 3,477 16.14% 21,539
Onondaga 11,243 60.77% 7,259 39.23% 3,984 21.53% 18,502
Ontario 5,764 61.27% 3,643 38.73% 2,121 22.55% 9,407
Orange[d] 5,898 49.53% 6,011 50.47% -113 -0.95% 11,909
Orleans 3,859 63.20% 2,247 36.80% 1,612 26.40% 6,106
Oswego 9,076 62.62% 5,418 37.38% 3,658 25.24% 14,494
Otsego 6,543 56.28% 5,082 43.72% 1,461 12.57% 11,625
Putnam 1,243 48.33% 1,329 51.67% -86 -3.34% 2,572
Queens 3,749 46.06% 4,392 53.94% -642 -7.89% 8,140
Rensselaer 8,464 49.92% 8,492 50.08% -28 -0.17% 16,956
Richmond 1,408 37.27% 2,370 62.73% -962 -25.46% 3,778
Rockland 1,410 37.32% 2,370 62.68% -958 -25.36% 3,778
Saratoga 5,900 56.42% 4,557 43.58% 1,343 12.84% 10,457
Schenectady 2,154 51.89% 1,997 48.11% 157 3.78% 4,151
Schoharie 3,279 43.77% 4,212 56.23% -933 -12.45% 7,491
Schuyler 2,551 59.88% 1,709 40.12% 842 19.77% 4,260
Seneca 3,025 50.23% 2,997 49.77% 28 0.46% 6,022
St. Lawrence 11,324 73.66% 4,049 26.34% 7,275 47.32% 15,373
Steuben 8,250 62.16% 5,023 37.84% 3,227 24.31% 13,273
Suffolk 3,756 51.61% 3,521 48.39% 235 3.23% 7,277
Sullivan[d] 2,944 48.15% 3,170 51.85% -226 -3.70% 6,114
Tioga 3,760 57.80% 2,745 42.20% 1,015 15.60% 6,505
Tompkins 4,348 58.96% 3,027 41.04% 1,321 17.91% 7,375
Ulster 6,775 52.05% 6,242 47.95% 523 4.09% 13,017
Warren 2,719 57.96% 1,972 42.04% 747 15.92% 4,691
Washington 6,173 63.91% 3,486 36.09% 2,687 27.82% 9,659
Wayne 6,668 62.85% 3,942 37.15% 2,726 25.69% 10,610
Westchester 6,771 45.45% 8,126 54.55% -1,355 -9.10% 14,897
Wyoming 4,498 65.27% 2,393 34.73% 2,105 30.55% 6,891
Yates 3,014 67.17% 1,473 32.83% 1,541 34.34% 4,487
Totals[e] 353,804 53.70% 305,101 46.30% 48,703 7.39% 658,905

New York City results

Results by ward (New York County)[7]
Ward Lincoln
Republican		 Fusion Total
Votes % Votes % Votes
1 504 25.90% 1,442 74.10% 1,946
2 223 35.34% 408 64.66% 631
3 285 33.33% 570 66.67% 855
4 498 19.64% 2,037 80.36% 2,535
5 1,144 34.76% 2,147 65.24% 3,291
6 397 12.31% 2,827 87.69% 3,224
7 1,435 29.90% 3,365 70.10% 4,800
8 1,641 34.40% 3,130 65.60% 4,771
9 2,944 42.67% 3,956 57.33% 6,900
10 1,463 40.03% 2,192 59.97% 3,655
11 1,943 31.51% 4,224 68.49% 6,167
12 991 32.40% 2,068 67.60% 3,059
13 1,347 36.43% 2,351 63.57% 3,698
14 748 20.91% 2,830 79.09% 3,578
15 1,737 40.73% 2,528 59.27% 4,265
16 2,473 41.98% 3,418 58.02% 5,891
17 2,975 34.33% 5,690 65.67% 8,665
18 2,130 33.43% 4,242 66.57% 6,372
19 1,180 38.92% 1,852 61.08% 3,032
20 2,822 39.15% 4,386 60.85% 7,208
21 2,269 38.69% 3,596 61.31% 5,865
22 2,141 41.33% 3,039 58.67% 5,180
Totals 33,290 34.83% 62,298 65.17% 95,588

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

Counties that flipped from American to Republican

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

Counties that flipped from American to Democratic

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Since New York voted for presidential electors directly, the totals below are based on the highest elector on each ticket.
  2. ^ The slate of electors were pledged to 3 different candidates: 18 to Douglas, 10 to Bell, and 7 to Breckinridge.[6]
  3. ^ Includes Hamilton County
  4. ^ a b The return from this county arrived too late to be included in the official state canvass.
  5. ^ Does not include the late arriving votes from Orange and Sullivan counties

References

  1. ^ Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, part 2, p. 1072.
  2. ^ Van Deusen, Glyndon (1967). William Henry Seward. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 234–235. OCLC 426046.
  3. ^ a b "Official Canvass". The New York Herald. January 3, 1861. p. 8. Retrieved December 2, 2025.
  4. ^ a b "Supplement - Official Canvass - Electoral and State". The Chenango American. Greene. January 24, 1861. p. 5. Retrieved December 2, 2025.
  5. ^ a b The Tribune Almanac and Political Register for 1861. New York: The Tribune Association. 1861. p. 41. Retrieved December 2, 2025.
  6. ^ Dubin, Michael J., United States Presidential Elections, 1788–1860: The Official Results by County and State, McFarland & Company, 2002, p. 187
  7. ^ "The Tribune almanac and political register 1860 - 1864 - Page 45". HathiTrust.
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