New York gubernatorial election 1830

The New York gubernatorial election of 1830 took place between November 1st and 3rd, 1830, and the governor and lieutenant governor of New York were elected.

Candidates

Martin Van Buren , who was elected governor in 1828, was appointed US Secretary of State by US President Andrew Jackson . Enos T. Throop succeeded him as lieutenant governor and ran for a full term in the 1830 elections. Edward Philip Livingston was his running mate . Francis Granger competed with Samuel Stevens , who, however, competed for the Anti-Masonic Party . Ezekiel Williams performed alone for his party.

Result

image	candidate	Political party	be right
			number	percent
	Enos T. Throop	Democratic Party	128,842	51.22%
	Francis Granger	National Republican Party	120,361	47.85%
	Ezekiel Williams	Working men's party	2,332	0.93%
total			251,535	100.00%

literature

• Democrat's almanac, and political register, for 1840. , 66
• Historical Sketches of Western New York by EW Vanderhoof, BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2009, ISBN 9781110856558 , page 204
• The American Statesman: A Political History by Andrew White Young, Derby & Jackson (1857), 466
• The New-York state register, for 1845 by Orville Luther Holley, Volume 2, Page 101