1849 New Hampshire gubernatorial election

1849 New Hampshire gubernatorial election

←  1848 March 13, 1849 1850  →

Nominee Samuel Dinsmoor Jr. Levi Chamberlain Nathaniel S. Berry Party Democratic Whig Free Soil Popular vote 30,107 18,764 7,045 Percentage 53.73% 33.49% 12.57%

County results Dinsmoor:     40–50%     50–60%     60–70%     70–80% Chamberlain:     40–50%

Governor before election Jared W. Williams Democratic Elected Governor Samuel Dinsmoor Jr. Democratic

The 1849 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was held on March 13, 1849.

Incumbent Democratic Governor Jared W. Williams did not stand for re-election.

Democratic nominee Samuel Dinsmoor Jr. defeated Whig nominee Levi Chamberlain and Free Soil nominee Nathaniel S. Berry with 53.73% of the vote.

General election

Candidates

• Nathaniel S. Berry, Free Soil, judge of the Grafton County Court of Common Pleas, Free Soil nominee for Governor in 1846, 1847 and 1848
• Levi Chamberlain, Whig, lawyer, former State Senator ^[1]
• Samuel Dinsmoor Jr., Democratic, former clerk of the New Hampshire Senate, president of the Ashuelot Bank ^[2]

Results

1849 New Hampshire gubernatorial election ^{[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [a]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Samuel Dinsmoor Jr.	30,107	53.73%
	Whig	Levi Chamberlain	18,764	33.49%
	Free Soil	Nathaniel S. Berry	7,045	12.57%
	Scattering		117	0.21%
Majority			11,343	20.24%
Turnout			56,033
	Democratic hold		Swing

Notes

1. Some sources give Berry's total as 7,162. ^{[11] [12]} The result given is taken from the New Hampshire Senate Journal.

References

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6. Journal of the Honorable Senate of the State of New Hampshire; June Session, 1849. Concord: Butterfield and Hill. 1849. p. 10.
7. Lyon, G. Parker. The New-Hampshire Annual Register, and United States Calendar, for the year 1860. Concord: G. Parker Lyon. p. 44.
8. Carter, Hosea B., ed. (1891). "Gubernatorial Vote of New Hampshire – 1784 to 1890". The New Hampshire Manual for the General Court 1680–1891. Concord: Office of the Secretary of State. p. 155.
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10. Wadleigh, George (1913). Notable Events in the History of Dover, New Hampshire: from the first settlement in 1623 to 1865. Dover, N.H.: The Tufts College Press. p. 255.
11. Gubernatorial Elections, 1787-1997. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Inc. 1998. p. 66. ISBN   1-56802-396-0.
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