Posted on 11/04/2023 6:34:07 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
DEPEW -- Union. ST. JOHN -- Dem.
Cattaraugus.......2,500 New-York.......19,600
Chatauqua.........4,500 Albany........... 1,850
Broome...........2,000 Westchester..... 1,000
Livingston.........1,400 Richmond........ 800 Monroe............1,300 Queens............ 800
Niagara........... 500 Seneca........... 300
Ontario...........1,500 Columbia......... 300
Oswego...........2,500 Orange........... 300
Tioga............. 900 Erie.............. 1,000
Onondaga.........2,500 Rockland.......... 800
Chenango.........1,800 Sullivan......... 500
Montgomery....... 450 Putnam.......... 400
Herkimer......... 950 Ulster............ 700
Oneida.............1,000
Madison...........2,500 Total.........28,350
St. Lawrence......6,500
Jefferson..........3,000
Cayuga............2,700
Schuyler.......... 700
Wyoming.........1,600
Steuben...........2,500
Chemung......... 200
Kings......... 500
Total.........43,050
To be added eighteen Union and five Democratic Counties.
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The Elections Yesterday: The Union State Ticket Carried by at Least 25,000 Majority – 2-4
From Charleston Harbor: The Second Bombardment of Fort Sumter – 4-5
The Gettysburgh “National Cemetery” – 5-6
Gen. Grant’s Department: The Progress and Prospects of Operations at Chattanooga – 6-7
The Work on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad – 7
The War in Mississippi: Change Among the Rebel Commanders – 7
Indian Troubles: Fort Union Taken by the Indians and Burned – 7
The Army of the Potomac: The Enemy Fortifying the Approaches on this Side of the Rappahannock – 7
Important from the South: Affairs at Charleston, at Chattanooga and in Virginia – 8-9
News from Washington: Our Special Washington Dispatches – 9
Editorial: The Election – Union Victory – 9-10
Editorial: Peril to Gen. Burnside – How to Succor Him – 10
Editorial: Prospects at Charleston – 10
Amusements – 10
Now 150 years later the election results are not posted on the next day.
The results can be confusing to look at.
First this was an odd year election for the New York State Secretary of State, which “From 1847 on, the secretary and the other state cabinet officers were elected by the voters at the state elections in November in odd years to a two-year term, so that, until 1877, they served in the second half of the term of the governor in office and the first half of the term of the succeeding governor, since the governors at the time were elected to a two-year term in even years.” They were elected until 1926.
The Union Party eventually became the Republican Party.
At the time of the Civil War, New York City consisted solely of Manhattan.
New York City is showing with 19,000 votes but that is the preliminary vote total for the democrat who took what was then NYC. The population in 1860 was 813,669. The results shown were very partial and disjointed. I think tomorrows paper would show more complete results.
The final vote as per a New Tribune Almanac for New York County was Chauncey Depew 23,613 and 43,283 for Daniel B. St. John.
Depew who was a replacement candidate after the original candidate declined to run. The state tally was Chauncey Depew 314,347 to Daniel B. St. John 284,942.
https://books.google.com/books?id=PVowAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA4-PT171#v=onepage&q=depew&f=false See page 18
The Union state convention - Republicans and War Democrats which supported the Union and Abraham Lincoln’s policy during the American Civil War - met on September 2 at Syracuse, New York. Ward Hunt was Temporary Chairman until the choice of Abraham Wakeman as President. Peter A. Porter was nominated for Secretary of State on the first ballot . . . . When informed of his nomination, Colonel Porter, who was commanding his troops at Baltimore, declined to run because he “wanted to serve his country in the field.”. . . and the State Committee substituted Depew . . .
The convention happened 2 months before election day and he was not even the first choice, yet his name apparently appeared on half a million plus ballots.
It was a Union sweep of the eight state offices with two democrat incumbents defeated
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