New York gubernatorial election 1777

The New York gubernatorial election of 1777 took place in June 1777. The governor and lieutenant governor of New York were elected .

procedure

The election took place on June 1, 1777, but due to the American Revolution it took some time to collect and count the votes, so the official final result was not announced until July 9. On July 11th, George Clinton accepted the election to governor of New York and immediately went to work, taking the outstanding oath of office as soon as he could safely leave his military command.

At that time there were no political parties , the Democratic Republican and Federalist parties only appeared in 1789, until then every candidacy was personal. Furthermore, the candidacies for the offices of governor and vice-governor took place independently of one another, ie one candidate could stand for election for both offices (running mates) . The New York Committee of Safety endorsed Philip Schuyler as governor and George Clinton as lieutenant governor.

Result

George Clinton was elected both governor and lieutenant governor. As a result, Clinton formally resigned as Lieutenant Governor and runner-up Pierre Van Cortlandt , then President of the Committee of Safety, took office.

Candidate for governor of New York

image	candidate	be right
image	candidate	number	percent
	George Clinton	1,828	48.44%
	Philip Schuyler	1,199	31.77%
	John Morin Scott	368	9.75%
	John Jay	367	9.72%
	Robert R. Livingston	7th	0.19%
	Philip Livingston	5	0.13%
total		3,774	100%

Candidate for the office of Lieutenant Governor of New York

image	candidate	be right
image	candidate	number	percent
	George Clinton	1,647	47.15%
	Pierre Van Cortlandt	1,098	31.43%
	Abraham Ten Broeck	748	21.41%
total		3,493	100%

Individual evidence

↑ George Clinton: Yeoman Politician of the New Republic by John P. Kaminski, New York State Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for the Study of the American Constitution (Rowman & Littlefield, 1993, ISBN 0945612176 , ISBN 9780945612179 , page 24)

[1] George Clinton: Yeoman Politician of the New Republic by John P. Kaminski, New York State Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for the Study of the American Constitution (Rowman & Littlefield, 1993, ISBN 0945612176 , ISBN 9780945612179 , page 24)