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The1882 New York state election was held on November 7, 1882, to elect thegovernor, thelieutenant governor, thechief judge and aU.S. Representative-at-large, as well as all members of theNew York State Assembly. Besides, two constitutional amendments were proposed – the abolition of tolls on the State canals, and to increase the number of justices on theNew York Supreme Court – and were accepted by the electorate.
TheGreenback state convention met on July 19 atAlbany, New York. Epenetus Howe was nominated for governor, James Allen for lieutenant governor, Lawrence J. McParlin for chief judge, and L. G. McDonald for U.S. Representative-at-large.[1]
TheProhibition state convention met on September 20 atRochester, New York. Rev. T. J. Bossell was president. Alphonso A. Hopkins was nominated for governor, William H. Boole, ofKings County, for lieutenant governor; C. A. Hammond, ofOnondaga County, for chief judge; and L. S. Freeman, ofNiagara County, for U.S. Representative-at-large.[2]
TheRepublican state convention met on September 20 atSaratoga Springs, New York. There were two opposing factions in the party: theHalf-Breeds led by GovernorAlonzo B. Cornell, and theStalwarts led by Ex-U.S. SenatorsRoscoe Conkling andThomas C. Platt in league with railroad magnateJay Gould. The State Committee met at 9 o'clock at Congress Hall and electedEdward M. Madden to be temporary chairman of the convention (vote Madden (St.) 18,Edmund L. Pitts (H.-B.) 14). The convention opened at half past 10 at Town Hall. The roll was called byJohn W. Vrooman, the Clerk of theNew York State Senate. When Madden was proposed for temporary chairman, the Half-Breeds objected and proposed Pitts, and a vote was taken. Madden received 251, Pitts 243, showing an almost evenly divided convention with a slight Stalwart majority.U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Charles J. Folger (St.) was nominated for governor on the second ballot (first ballot: Folger 223, Cornell [incumbent] 180,James W. Wadsworth 69,John H. Starin 19,John C. Robinson 6; second ballot: Folger 257, Cornell 222, Wadsworth 18).[3] B. Platt Carpenter (St.), the Chairman of the State Committee, was nominated for lieutenant governor; andA. Barton Hepburn for U.S. Representative-at-large. The incumbent[4] Chief Judge Charles Andrews was nominated to succeed himself.[5] Hepburn declined to run, and the State Committee substituted Howard Carroll, ofNew York City, on the ticket at a meeting on October 10 at theFifth Avenue Hotel inNew York City (first ballot: Carroll 14,Ferris Jacobs, Jr. 7, Corp. James Tanner 6,John A. King 1; second ballot: Carroll 28).[6]
TheDemocratic state convention met on September 22 at Shakespeare Hall inSyracuse, New York. TheTammany delegates were admitted again, and the rift in the Party was bridged over. David B. Hill was nominated for lieutenant governor by acclamation. William C. Ruger was nominated for chief judge on the first ballot (vote: Ruger 210,Rufus W. Peckham, Jr. 163,Augustus Schoonmaker, Jr. 1).[7]
The whole Democratic ticket was elected.
The incumbent Andrews was defeated.
84 Democrats, 42 Republicans and 2 Independents were elected for the session of 1883 to theNew York State Assembly.
| Office | Democratic ticket | Republican ticket | Prohibition ticket | Greenback ticket | ||||
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| Governor | Grover Cleveland | 535,318 | Charles J. Folger | 342,464 | Alphonso A. Hopkins[8] | 25,783 | Epenetus Howe[9] | 11,974 |
| Lieutenant Governor | David B. Hill | 534,629 | B. Platt Carpenter | 337,494 | William H. Boole | James Allen[10] | ||
| Chief Judge | William C. Ruger | 482,822 | Charles Andrews | 409,422 | C. A. Hammond | 16,234 | Lawrence J. McParlin[11] | 10,527 |
| U.S. Representative-at-large | Henry W. Slocum | 503,394 | Howard Carroll | 394,232 | L. S. Freeman | L. G. McDonald[12] | ||
| County | Cleveland | Folger | Hopkins | Howe | ||||
| Albany | 20,126 | 65.30% | 10,309 | 33.45% | 0.00% | 385 | 1.25% | |
| Allegany | 3,779 | 40.06% | 3,718 | 39.41% | 1,586 | 16.81% | 350 | 3.71% |
| Broome | 5,060 | 48.43% | 4,955 | 47.42% | 325 | 3.11% | 109 | 1.04% |
| Cattaraugus | 5,279 | 47.12% | 4,681 | 41.78% | 781 | 6.97% | 462 | 4.12% |
| Cayuga | 5,859 | 51.33% | 4,406 | 38.60% | 698 | 6.11% | 452 | 3.96% |
| Chautauqua | 6,207 | 50.85% | 4,803 | 39.35% | 828 | 6.78% | 369 | 3.02% |
| Chemung | 5,336 | 58.36% | 3,079 | 33.67% | 78 | 0.85% | 651 | 7.12% |
| Chenango | 4,258 | 46.15% | 3,913 | 42.41% | 574 | 6.22% | 482 | 5.22% |
| Clinton | 3,560 | 44.81% | 4,318 | 54.35% | 18 | 0.23% | 49 | 0.62% |
| Columbia | 6,703 | 64.27% | 3,607 | 34.59% | 92 | 0.88% | 27 | 0.26% |
| Cortland | 3,011 | 46.90% | 2,986 | 46.51% | 379 | 5.90% | 44 | 0.69% |
| Delaware | 4,596 | 48.37% | 4,331 | 45.58% | 334 | 3.52% | 240 | 2.53% |
| Dutchess | 8,875 | 53.27% | 7,321 | 43.94% | 407 | 2.44% | 58 | 0.35% |
| Erie | 23,748 | 57.37% | 16,408 | 39.64% | 1,046 | 2.53% | 190 | 0.46% |
| Essex | 2,150 | 40.78% | 2,951 | 55.97% | 24 | 0.46% | 147 | 2.79% |
| Franklin | 2,294 | 41.80% | 3,074 | 56.01% | 25 | 0.46% | 95 | 1.73% |
| Fulton | 3,448 | 50.48% | 3,011 | 44.08% | 327 | 4.79% | 45 | 0.66% |
| Genesee | 3,518 | 51.26% | 2,898 | 42.23% | 395 | 5.76% | 52 | 0.76% |
| Greene | 4,481 | 58.07% | 2,808 | 36.39% | 273 | 3.54% | 154 | 2.00% |
| Hamilton | 407 | 53.20% | 320 | 41.83% | 28 | 3.66% | 10 | 1.31% |
| Herkimer | 5,131 | 54.08% | 3,701 | 39.01% | 625 | 6.59% | 30 | 0.32% |
| Jefferson | 7,190 | 56.86% | 4,483 | 35.45% | 925 | 7.32% | 47 | 0.37% |
| Kings | 65,636 | 68.86% | 26,148 | 27.43% | 2,548 | 2.67% | 983 | 1.03% |
| Lewis | 3,787 | 59.26% | 2,447 | 38.29% | 145 | 2.27% | 11 | 0.17% |
| Livingston | 3,966 | 48.59% | 3,650 | 44.72% | 413 | 5.06% | 133 | 1.63% |
| Madison | 4,328 | 50.27% | 3,512 | 40.79% | 648 | 7.53% | 121 | 1.41% |
| Monroe | 13,143 | 50.95% | 11,056 | 42.86% | 1,364 | 5.29% | 234 | 0.91% |
| Montgomery | 5,374 | 56.77% | 3,927 | 41.49% | 102 | 1.08% | 63 | 0.67% |
| New York | 124,914 | 71.45% | 47,785 | 27.33% | 584 | 0.33% | 1,537 | 0.88% |
| Niagara | 5,884 | 59.84% | 3,256 | 33.11% | 638 | 6.49% | 55 | 0.56% |
| Oneida | 13,673 | 58.05% | 8,741 | 37.11% | 913 | 3.88% | 228 | 0.97% |
| Onondaga | 11,563 | 48.70% | 11,629 | 48.97% | 522 | 2.20% | 31 | 0.13% |
| Ontario | 5,272 | 50.88% | 4,675 | 45.12% | 295 | 2.85% | 120 | 1.16% |
| Orange | 8,874 | 55.05% | 6,541 | 40.57% | 553 | 3.43% | 153 | 0.95% |
| Orleans | 3,119 | 49.99% | 2,549 | 40.86% | 543 | 8.70% | 28 | 0.45% |
| Oswego | 6,757 | 48.32% | 6,376 | 45.59% | 503 | 3.60% | 348 | 2.49% |
| Otsego | 5,848 | 51.66% | 4,730 | 41.78% | 677 | 5.98% | 65 | 0.57% |
| Putnam | 1,691 | 47.69% | 1,825 | 51.47% | 30 | 0.85% | 0.00% | |
| Queens | 8,666 | 68.11% | 3,698 | 29.06% | 200 | 1.57% | 160 | 1.26% |
| Rensselaer | 13,714 | 56.36% | 10,468 | 43.02% | 0.00% | 151 | 0.62% | |
| Richmond | 4,370 | 67.98% | 2,012 | 31.30% | 36 | 0.56% | 10 | 0.16% |
| Rockland | 2,771 | 63.88% | 1,473 | 33.96% | 89 | 2.05% | 5 | 0.12% |
| Saratoga | 6,227 | 48.84% | 6,185 | 48.51% | 304 | 2.38% | 34 | 0.27% |
| Schenectady | 2,836 | 50.26% | 2,604 | 46.15% | 157 | 2.78% | 46 | 0.82% |
| Schoharie | 4,924 | 68.11% | 2,076 | 28.72% | 174 | 2.41% | 55 | 0.76% |
| Schuyler | 2,155 | 48.59% | 2,151 | 48.50% | 59 | 1.33% | 70 | 1.58% |
| Seneca | 3,510 | 56.51% | 2,555 | 41.14% | 106 | 1.71% | 40 | 0.64% |
| St. Lawrence | 5,220 | 35.23% | 9,304 | 62.79% | 279 | 1.88% | 15 | 0.10% |
| Steuben | 8,997 | 51.94% | 6,577 | 37.97% | 1,276 | 7.37% | 473 | 2.73% |
| Suffolk | 5,287 | 55.73% | 3,815 | 40.21% | 331 | 3.49% | 54 | 0.57% |
| Sullivan | 3,451 | 55.43% | 2,266 | 36.40% | 119 | 1.91% | 390 | 6.26% |
| Tioga | 3,583 | 47.97% | 3,143 | 42.08% | 369 | 4.94% | 374 | 5.01% |
| Tompkins | 3,619 | 51.04% | 2,690 | 37.94% | 324 | 4.57% | 458 | 6.46% |
| Ulster | 8,470 | 55.33% | 6,140 | 40.11% | 655 | 4.28% | 42 | 0.27% |
| Warren | 2,677 | 47.36% | 2,560 | 45.29% | 76 | 1.34% | 339 | 6.00% |
| Washington | 4,190 | 40.57% | 5,929 | 57.40% | 151 | 1.46% | 59 | 0.57% |
| Wayne | 4,296 | 45.52% | 4,251 | 45.04% | 541 | 5.73% | 350 | 3.71% |
| Westchester | 11,478 | 63.96% | 6,005 | 33.46% | 314 | 1.75% | 148 | 0.82% |
| Wyoming | 2,909 | 49.25% | 2,120 | 35.90% | 859 | 14.54% | 18 | 0.30% |
| Yates | 2,073 | 42.95% | 2,501 | 51.82% | 118 | 2.45% | 134 | 2.78% |
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