1859 California gubernatorial election

none January 2025 September 2023 1859 California gubernatorial election presidential Flag of California (1850).pngborder 1857 California gubernatorial election 1857 1861 California gubernatorial election 1861 no September 7, 1859 Latham1 3x4.jpg Milton Latham Lecompton Democrat 61,352 59.13% John Currey.jpg John Currey Anti-Lecompton Democrat 31,298 31.13% Portrait of Leland Stanford Crop.jpg Leland Stanford Republican Party (United States) 10,110 9.74% 1859 California gubernatorial election results map by county.svg County ResultsLatham: #7DDDDD 40–50% #51C2C2 50–60%#2AACAC 60–70%#009696 70–80%#008080 80–90%#006666 >90%Currey:#7996E2 50–60% Governor John B. Weller Lecompton Democrat Milton Latham Lecompton Democrat The 1859 California gubernatorial election was held on September 7, 1859, to elect the governor of California. Since the beginning of the 1850s, issues regarding slavery had effectively split the state Democratic Party. Initially divided by pro-slavery Chivalrists and anti-slavery Free Soilers, by 1857, the party had split into the Lecompton and Anti-Lecompton factions. Lecompton members supported the Kansas Lecompton Constitution, a document explicitly allowing slavery into the territory, while Anti-Lecompton faction members were in opposition to slavery's expansion. The violence between supporting and opposition forces led to the period known as Bleeding Kansas. Splits in the Democratic Party, as well as the power vacuum created by the collapse of the Whig Party, helped facilitate the rise of the American Party both in state and federal politics. In particular, state voters voted Know-Nothings into the California State Legislature, and elected J. Neely Johnson as governor in the 1855 general elections. During the 1859 general elections, Lecompton Democrats voted Latham, who had briefly lived in the American South, as their nominee for governor. Anti-Lecomptons in turn selected John Currey as their nominee. The infant Republican Party, running in its first gubernatorial election, selected businessman Leland Stanford as its nominee. To make matters more complicated, after the election, Senator David C. Broderick, an Anti-Lecompton Democrat, was killed in a duel by slavery supporter and former state Supreme Court Justice David Terry on September 13.http://www.joincalifornia.com/election/1859-09-07 Election History for the state of California JoinCalifornia 7 September 1859 2007-05-21 Results California gubernatorial election, 1859California State Archives, Statement of the Votes Polled at a General Election Held in the State of California, on the Seventh Day of September, A.D. 1859 Lecompton Democrat Milton Latham 61,352 59.13% +59.13% Anti-Lecompton Democrat John Currey 31,298 31.13% -25.58% Republican Party (United States) Leland Stanford 10,110 9.74% -12.72% 29,054 28.00% 103,760 100.00% Lecompton Democrat Democratic Party (United States) -6.25% Results by county County Milton LathamLecompton John CurreyAnti-Lecompton Leland StanfordRepublican Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % # %Alameda1,06652.54%66432.73%29914.74%40219.81%2,029Amador2,02362.44%98530.40%2327.16%1,03832.04%3,240Butte1,91548.67%1,66642.34%3549.00%2496.33%3,935Calaveras3,27569.67%1,39129.59%350.74%1,88440.08%4,701Colusa54174.93%16622.99%152.08%37551.94%722Contra Costa80565.77%37830.88%413.35%42734.89%1,224Del Norte39273.13%12623.51%183.36%26649.63%536El Dorado3,09652.32%2,41340.78%4086.90%68311.54%5,917Fresno35996.77%112.96%10.27%34893.80%371Humboldt39746.60%37243.66%839.74%252.93%852Klamath60783.38%12016.48%10.14%48766.90%728Los Angeles1,91687.69%492.24%22010.07%1,696"Stanford" Margin over Stanford77.62%2,185Marin46776.68%7512.32%6711.00%39264.37%609Mariposa1,46286.92%21212.60%80.48%1,25074.32%1,682Mendocino73088.38%8510.29%111.33%64578.09%826Merced23187.50%3212.12%10.38%19975.38%264Monterey49569.13%17524.44%466.42%32044.69%716Napa81046.85%90552.34%140.81%-95-5.49%1,729Nevada3,18550.56%2,53440.22%5819.22%65110.33%6,300Placer2,32653.61%1,11725.74%89620.65%1,20927.86%4,339Plumas88251.16%64937.65%19311.19%23313.52%1,724Sacramento3,52654.82%2,67841.64%2283.54%84813.18%6,432San Bernardino53292.20%61.04%396.76%493"Stanford"85.44%577San Diego25993.50%10.36%176.14%242"Stanford"87.36%277San Francisco4,74744.29%2,94327.46%3,02728.24%1,720"Stanford"16.05%10,717San Joaquin1,80662.43%87830.35%2097.22%92832.08%2,893San Luis Obispo28482.56%308.72%308.72%25473.84%344San Mateo42044.54%41844.33%10511.13%20.21%943Santa Barbara43192.49%00.00%357.51%396"Stanford"84.98%466Santa Clara1,40758.63%36715.29%62626.08%781"Stanford"32.54%2,400Santa Cruz49645.21%45141.11%15013.67%454.10%1,097Shasta1,45650.28%1,43249.45%80.28%240.83%2,896Sierra2,81458.93%1,66634.89%2956.18%1,14824.04%4,775Siskiyou2,15961.60%1,30337.18%431.23%85624.42%3,505Solano1,17256.16%82739.63%884.22%34516.53%2,087Sonoma1,98162.04%1,14835.95%642.00%83326.09%3,193Stanislaus38976.57%10620.87%132.56%28355.71%508Sutter69573.86%15916.90%879.25%53656.96%941Tehama77085.84%9210.26%353.90%67875.59%897Trinity1,28560.67%82939.14%40.19%45621.53%2,118Tulare82191.73%637.04%111.23%75884.69%895Tuolumne3,72368.58%73713.58%96917.85%2,754"Stanford"50.73%5,429Yolo75754.42%56840.83%664.74%18913.59%1,391Yuba2,44256.14%1,47133.82%43710.05%97122.32%4,350Total 61,35259.13%32,29831.13%10,1109.74%29,05428.00%103,760 Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic Alameda San Francisco Notes References 1859 California gubernatorial Category:September 1859 in the United States