Gouverneurswahl in New York 1777
| Governor candidate | Popular Vote | Lieutenant Governor candidate | Popular Vote | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| George Clinton | 1,828 | (48.44%) | George Clinton | 1,647 | (47.15%) |
| Philip Schuyler | 1,199 | (31.77%) | Pierre Van Cortlandt | 1,098 | (31.43%) |
| John Morin Scott | 368 | (9.75%) | Abraham Ten Broeck | 748 | (21.41%) |
| John Jay | 367 | (9.72%) | |||
| Robert R. Livingston | 7 | (0.19%) | |||
| Philip Livingston | 5 | (0.13%) | |||
Notes:
- The election began on June 1, but due to the Independence War it took some time to collect and count the votes, and the official result was announced on July 9. George Clinton accepted the office of Governor on July 11 and assumed its duties immediately, pending to take the oath as soon as he could safely leave his military command.
- There were no parties yet, the Democratic-Republican and Federalist Parties appeared only in 1789, until then the candidacies were personal. Besides, the candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor were not "running mates", all candidates ran independently.
- The New York Committee of Safety endorsed Philip Schuyler for Governor and George Clinton for Lieutenant Governor, which led to Clinton's running for both offices and actually winning both. Clinton formally resigned the lieutenant governorship and the second placed Pierre Van Cortlandt (then President of the Committee of Safety) took the office. [1]
See also
Vorlage:New York gubernatorial elections
Vorlage:NewYork-stub Vorlage:US-election-stub
- ↑ 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)