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The1848 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 7, 1848, as part of the1848 United States presidential election. Voters chose 36 representatives, or electors to theElectoral College, who voted forPresident andVice President.
New York voted for theWhig candidate,Zachary Taylor, overFree Soil candidateMartin Van Buren andDemocratic candidateLewis Cass. Taylor won New York by a margin of 21.51% over Van Buren. As of 2024, Van Buren's performance remains the best ever by a third-party candidate in New York presidential election history.[3] With 27% of the popular vote, New York was Van Buren's fourth strongest state afterVermont,Massachusetts andWisconsin.[4]
This was the first of only four elections to date in whichNew York County has not backed the Democratic candidate.[a]New York City would not vote against the Democratic candidate again until 1896.
| 1848 United States presidential election in New York[5][6][7][b] | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Running mate | Popular vote | Electoral vote | ||||
| Count | % | Count | % | |||||
| Whig | Zachary Taylor ofLouisiana | Millard Fillmore ofNew York | 218,603 | 47.94% | 36 | 100.00% | ||
| Free Soil | Martin Van Buren ofNew York | Charles Francis Adams Sr. ofMassachusetts | 120,510 | 26.43% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Democratic | Lewis Cass ofMichigan | William O. Butler ofKentucky | 114,320 | 25.07% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Liberty | Gerrit Smith ofNew York | Charles C. Foote ofMichigan | 2,545 | 0.56% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Total | 455,978 | 100.00% | 36 | 100.00% | ||||
| County[5][6][7] | Zachary Taylor Whig | Martin Van Buren Free Soil | Lewis Cass Democratic | Gerrit Smith Liberty | Margin[c] | Total votes cast | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Albany | 7,068 | 52.31% | 2,407 | 17.82% | 4,002 | 29.62% | 34 | 0.25% | 3,066[d] | 22.69% | 13,511 |
| Allegany | 2,789 | 45.33% | 2,040 | 33.15% | 1,283 | 20.85% | 41 | 0.67% | 749 | 12.17% | 6,153 |
| Broome | 2,490 | 47.59% | 777 | 14.85% | 1,959 | 37.44% | 6 | 0.11% | 531[d] | 10.15% | 5,232 |
| Cattaraugus | 2,604 | 46.82% | 1,236 | 22.22% | 1,677 | 30.15% | 45 | 0.81% | 927[d] | 16.67% | 5,562 |
| Cayuga | 4,318 | 45.99% | 3,979 | 42.38% | 1,034 | 11.01% | 58 | 0.62% | 339 | 3.61% | 9,389 |
| Chautauqua | 4,207 | 54.23% | 1,628 | 20.99% | 1,911 | 24.64% | 11 | 0.14% | 2,296[d] | 29.60% | 7,757 |
| Chemung | 1,943 | 40.17% | 2,166 | 44.78% | 728 | 15.05% | 0 | 0.00% | -223 | -4.61% | 4,837 |
| Chenango | 3,587 | 46.57% | 1,481 | 19.23% | 2,616 | 33.96% | 19 | 0.25% | 971[d] | 12.61% | 7,703 |
| Clinton | 1,941 | 41.80% | 1,221 | 26.30% | 1,472 | 31.70% | 9 | 0.19% | 469[d] | 10.10% | 4,643 |
| Columbia | 3,943 | 48.27% | 2,100 | 25.71% | 2,121 | 25.96% | 5 | 0.06% | 1,822 | 22.30% | 8,169 |
| Cortland | 1,879 | 39.94% | 1,803 | 38.32% | 946 | 20.11% | 77 | 1.64% | 76 | 1.62% | 4,705 |
| Delaware | 2,832 | 43.16% | 2,908 | 44.32% | 790 | 12.04% | 31 | 0.47% | -76 | -1.16% | 6,561 |
| Dutchess | 5,376 | 54.28% | 1,295 | 13.07% | 3,227 | 32.58% | 7 | 0.07% | 2,149[d] | 21.70% | 9,905 |
| Erie | 7,647 | 57.12% | 2,357 | 17.61% | 3,360 | 25.10% | 24 | 0.18% | 4,287[d] | 32.02% | 13,388 |
| Essex | 2,629 | 55.27% | 1,119 | 23.52% | 1,002 | 21.06% | 7 | 0.15% | 1,510 | 31.74% | 4,757 |
| Franklin | 1,353 | 41.79% | 911 | 28.13% | 974 | 30.08% | 0 | 0.00% | 379[d] | 11.70% | 3,238 |
| Fulton[e] | 1,976 | 49.81% | 1,602 | 40.38% | 380 | 9.58% | 9 | 0.23% | 374 | 9.43% | 3,967 |
| Genesee | 2,890 | 55.19% | 1,111 | 21.22% | 1,180 | 22.54% | 55 | 1.05% | 1,710[d] | 32.66% | 5,236 |
| Greene | 2,707 | 42.76% | 1,425 | 22.51% | 1,551 | 24.50% | 648 | 10.24% | 1,156[d] | 18.26% | 6,331 |
| Herkimer | 2,430 | 34.46% | 3,893 | 55.21% | 699 | 9.91% | 29 | 0.41% | -1,463 | -20.75% | 7,051 |
| Jefferson | 4,841 | 41.48% | 4,342 | 37.20% | 2,445 | 20.95% | 43 | 0.37% | 499 | 4.28% | 11,671 |
| Kings | 7,511 | 56.65% | 817 | 6.16% | 4,881 | 36.81% | 50 | 0.38% | 2,630[d] | 19.84% | 13,259 |
| Lewis | 1,223 | 37.25% | 1,258 | 38.32% | 789 | 24.03% | 13 | 0.40% | -35 | -1.07% | 3,283 |
| Livingston | 3,730 | 55.14% | 2,100 | 31.04% | 889 | 13.14% | 46 | 0.68% | 1,630 | 24.09% | 6,765 |
| Madison | 2,898 | 39.05% | 2,739 | 36.91% | 1,565 | 21.09% | 219 | 2.95% | 159 | 2.14% | 7,421 |
| Monroe | 6,539 | 51.49% | 4,671 | 36.78% | 1,443 | 11.36% | 47 | 0.37% | 1,868 | 14.71% | 12,700 |
| Montgomery | 2,924 | 50.15% | 1,602 | 27.48% | 1,285 | 22.04% | 19 | 0.33% | 1,322 | 22.68% | 5,830 |
| New York | 29,070 | 54.53% | 5,106 | 9.58% | 18,975 | 35.59% | 159 | 0.30% | 10,095[d] | 18.94% | 53,310 |
| Niagara | 2,828 | 45.28% | 2,080 | 33.31% | 1,313 | 21.02% | 24 | 0.38% | 748 | 11.98% | 6,245 |
| Oneida | 6,032 | 41.50% | 4,816 | 33.13% | 3,585 | 24.66% | 103 | 0.71% | 1,216 | 8.37% | 14,536 |
| Onondaga | 5,442 | 43.01% | 4,942 | 39.06% | 2,229 | 17.62% | 39 | 0.31% | 500 | 3.95% | 12,652 |
| Ontario | 3,848 | 49.15% | 2,627 | 33.55% | 1,272 | 16.25% | 82 | 1.05% | 1,221 | 15.60% | 7,829 |
| Orange | 4,172 | 47.54% | 1,434 | 16.34% | 3,170 | 36.12% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,002[d] | 11.42% | 8,776 |
| Orleans | 2,402 | 47.16% | 1,722 | 33.81% | 918 | 18.02% | 51 | 1.00% | 680 | 13.35% | 5,093 |
| Oswego | 3,655 | 39.88% | 4,254 | 46.42% | 1,134 | 12.37% | 122 | 1.33% | -599 | -6.54% | 9,165 |
| Otsego | 3,929 | 41.00% | 1,941 | 20.26% | 3,674 | 38.34% | 38 | 0.40% | 255 | 2.66% | 9,582 |
| Putnam | 816 | 36.66% | 415 | 18.64% | 995 | 44.70% | 0 | 0.00% | -179[f] | -8.04% | 2,226 |
| Queens | 2,444 | 53.67% | 800 | 17.57% | 1,310 | 28.77% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,134[d] | 24.90% | 4,554 |
| Rensselaer | 6,241 | 52.53% | 2,930 | 24.66% | 2,685 | 22.60% | 25 | 0.21% | 3,311 | 27.87% | 11,881 |
| Richmond | 1,099 | 52.79% | 123 | 5.91% | 860 | 41.31% | 0 | 0.00% | 239[d] | 11.48% | 2,082 |
| Rockland | 918 | 40.93% | 255 | 11.37% | 1,064 | 47.44% | 6 | 0.27% | -146[f] | -6.51% | 2,243 |
| Saratoga | 4,438 | 52.71% | 1,405 | 16.69% | 2,515 | 29.87% | 61 | 0.72% | 1,923[d] | 22.84% | 8,419 |
| Schenectady | 1,716 | 53.03% | 444 | 13.72% | 1,070 | 33.07% | 6 | 0.19% | 646[d] | 19.96% | 3,236 |
| Schoharie | 2,724 | 44.85% | 654 | 10.77% | 2,671 | 43.97% | 25 | 0.41% | 53[d] | 0.87% | 6,074 |
| Seneca | 1,767 | 37.88% | 1,523 | 32.65% | 1,360 | 29.15% | 15 | 0.32% | 244 | 5.23% | 4,665 |
| St. Lawrence | 3,667 | 35.58% | 6,023 | 58.45% | 614 | 5.96% | 1 | 0.01% | -2,356 | -22.86% | 10,305 |
| Steuben | 4,357 | 43.75% | 3,623 | 36.38% | 1,975 | 19.83% | 4 | 0.04% | 734 | 7.37% | 9,959 |
| Suffolk | 2,180 | 46.92% | 1,400 | 30.13% | 1,051 | 22.62% | 15 | 0.32% | 780 | 16.79% | 4,646 |
| Sullivan | 1,672 | 46.83% | 534 | 14.96% | 1,363 | 38.18% | 1 | 0.03% | 309[d] | 8.66% | 3,570 |
| Tioga | 1,782 | 41.75% | 789 | 18.49% | 1,683 | 39.43% | 14 | 0.33% | 99[d] | 2.32% | 4,268 |
| Tompkins | 3,003 | 43.32% | 2,648 | 38.20% | 1,270 | 18.32% | 11 | 0.16% | 355 | 5.12% | 6,932 |
| Ulster | 4,659 | 52.32% | 2,277 | 25.57% | 1,969 | 22.11% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,382 | 26.75% | 8,905 |
| Warren | 1,270 | 42.95% | 618 | 20.90% | 1,019 | 34.46% | 50 | 1.69% | 251[d] | 8.49% | 2,957 |
| Washington | 4,486 | 57.75% | 2,024 | 26.06% | 1,225 | 15.77% | 33 | 0.42% | 2,462 | 31.69% | 7,768 |
| Wayne | 3,567 | 44.03% | 3,690 | 45.54% | 797 | 9.84% | 48 | 0.59% | -123 | -1.52% | 8,102 |
| Westchester | 4,112 | 54.21% | 1,312 | 17.30% | 2,146 | 28.29% | 15 | 0.20% | 1,966[d] | 25.92% | 7,585 |
| Wyoming | 2,381 | 44.30% | 1,630 | 30.33% | 1,337 | 24.87% | 27 | 0.50% | 751 | 13.97% | 5,375 |
| Yates | 1,651 | 41.13% | 1,483 | 36.95% | 862 | 21.47% | 18 | 0.45% | 168 | 4.19% | 4,014 |
| Total | 218,603 | 47.94% | 120,510 | 26.43% | 114,320 | 25.07% | 2,545 | 0.56% | 98,093 | 21.51% | 455,978 |
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