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The 1850 New York gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1850. Incumbent Governor Hamilton Fish was not a candidate for re-election. Washington Hunt was elected to succeed him, defeating Horatio Seymour in the latter's first run for governor. Seymour would go on to serve two terms in office and be nominated for President of the United States in 1868.
Following defeats in the Barnburner and Hunker factions reconciled in 1849. However, their joint ticket was only partly successful, as the Anti-Rent endorsement still controlled in 1849; anti-Rent candidates won every state office.
At a convention in Syracuse on September 11, the Democrats nominated former Hunker Horatio Seymour for governor and former Barnburners for the remaining offices.
The Whig state convention met on September 27 in Syracuse with Francis Granger presiding. After Hunt's nomination, the majority of the convention passed a resolution approving the political course of United States Senator William H. Seward. This caused the conservative minority led by Granger, who favored a compromise on slavery as supported by President Millard Fillmore, to withdraw from the convention. The faction became known as the "Silver Grays", after Granger's white hair.
The Silver Grays state convention met on October 17 in Utica, with Granger again presiding. Nevertheless, the Syracuse nominations, including Hunt's were endorsed.
Hunt won the election with one of the smallest majorities in New York history, only 262 votes. Four out of five candidates on the cross-endorsed Anti-Rent ticket were elected, showing their still present but waning influence.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Whig | Washington Hunt | 214,614 | 47.55% |  1.93 | |
| Democratic | Horatio Seymour | 214,352 | 49.58% | 20.82 | |
| Liberty | William L. Chaplin | 3,416 | 0.35% |  2.82 | |
| Total votes | 459,382 | 100.00% | |||
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Horatio Seymour was an American politician. He served as Governor of New York from 1853 to 1854 and from 1863 to 1864. He was the Democratic Party nominee for president in the 1868 United States presidential election, losing to Republican Ulysses S. Grant.
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