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The 1854 New York gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1854. Incumbent Governor Horatio Seymour ran for re-election to a second term in office but was defeated by Myron Clark. Clark won with only 33.38% of the vote, the lowest percentage of any successful candidate in state history.
Like many of the elections across the country that year, the campaign was dominated by the debate over the Kansas-Nebraska Act, with the Democratic Party splitting once more over the issue of slavery and opponents of the Franklin Pierce administration endorsing Clark, with the exception of the American Party, which ran Daniel Ullman and finished in a strong third.