After organizing the Whigs, the delegates decided to join the Anti-Nebraskans, and marched to their assembling place.
There the two parties merged and adopted the name Republican Party, and continued as the Republican state convention with King and Fenton as co-chairmen.
Only the jointly nominated Democrat Henry L. Selden could defeat his American and Republican opponents.
The incumbents Cook, Follett and Darius Clark were defeated.
16 Republicans, 11 Americans, four Democrats and one Temperance man were elected to a two-year term (1856–57) in the New York State Senate.