New York gubernatorial election 1820
The New York gubernatorial election of 1820 took place in April 1820, the governor and lieutenant governor of New York were elected.
Candidates
DeWitt Clinton ran his own faction of the Democratic Republican Party for governor of New York, and Daniel D. Tompkins, then Vice President of the United States , for the Bucktails faction of the same party. The running mate of Clinton was John Tayler , Tompkins went alone to.
Result
image | candidate | Political party | be right | |
---|---|---|---|---|
number | percent | |||
DeWitt Clinton | Democratic Republican (Clintonian) | 47,447 | 50.78% | |
Daniel D. Tompkins | Democratic Republicans ( Bucktails ) | 45,990 | 49.22% | |
total | 93,437 | 100.00% |
literature
- Democrat's almanac, and political register, for 1840. , 66
- The New-York state register, for 1845 by Orville Luther Holley, Volume 2, Page 101