Franklin Pierce Democratic James Buchanan Democratic Pre-consolidation: Post-consolidation: Pre-consolidation: Post-consolidation: The 1856 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 4, 1856, as part of the 1856 United States presidential election.

New York was won by California Senator John C. Frémont (R–California), running with former Senator William L. Dayton (New Jersey), with 46.27 percent of the popular vote, against Senator James Buchanan (D–Pennsylvania), running with Representative and future presidential candidate in the 1860 presidential election John C. Breckinridge, with 32.84 percent of the popular vote and the 13th president of the United States Millard Fillmore (American[a]–New York), running with the 2nd U.S.

Ambassador to Germany Andrew Jackson Donelson, with 20.89 percent of the popular vote.

Frémont, the first presidential nominee of the newly formed Republican Party, would be the first of just three Republicans ever to carry the state without winning the presidency, the other two being Charles Evans Hughes in 1916 and Thomas E. Dewey in 1948 (both New Yorkers).

It was also the first time since voting for DeWitt Clinton in 1812 that New York backed a losing presidential candidate.