New York gubernatorial election 1844

The New York gubernatorial election of 1844 took place on November 5, 1844, and the governor and lieutenant governor of New York were elected.

Candidates

Silas Wright competed with Addison Gardiner as running mate for the Democratic Party , Millard Fillmore with Samuel J. Wilkin for the Whig Party and Alvan Stewart with Charles O. Shepard for the Liberty Party .

Result

Candidates for governor

image	candidate	Political party	be right
			number	percent
	Silas Wright	Democratic Party	241.090	49.48%
	Millard Fillmore	Whig party	231.057	47.42%
	Alvan Stewart	Liberty Party	15,136	3.1%
total			487.283	100.00%

Candidates for the office of lieutenant governor

candidate	Political party	be right
		number	percent
Addison Gardiner	Democratic Party	240,844	49.43%
Samuel J. Wilkin	Whig party	231.048	47.42%
Charles O. Shepard	Liberty Party	15,386	3.16%
total		487.278	100.00%

literature

• History of political parties in the State of New-York by John Stilwell Jenkins, Alden & Markham (1846), 466
• Manual of the corporation of the City of New York (1852), 367
• The New-York state register, for 1845 by Orville Luther Holley, Volume 2, Page 101