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1851 Lt. Gubernatorial General Election Results - California
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  Lt. Gubernatorial
Candidate		Political
Party		Popular Vote
Samuel PurdyDemocratic 24,399 53.79%
Drury P. BaldwinWhig 20,959 46.21%
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  1851 California County Map of General Election Results for Lt. Governor  
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Election Notes:
  • The state legislature's canvass credited Purdy with 707 votes in Mariposa County and gave his total as 24,398. The Baldwin figures in the Assembly Journal are the same as in the returns.
  • Candidates' party affiliations obtained from 9/24/1851 Sacramento Daily Union. https://www.cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SDU18510924.2.9.1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------
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Data Sources:
  • Source for Popular Vote data: California State Archives, "Lieut. Governor," Abstract of Returns of an Election held for Governor and Lieut. Governor on the third day of September A.D. 1851 in the Several Counties of this State (Vallejo, 1851)
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