Rutherford B. Hayes Republican James A. Garfield Republican Pre-consolidation: Post-consolidation: Pre-consolidation: Post-consolidation: The 1880 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 2, 1880.

Garfield and Arthur defeated the Democratic nominees, famed Civil War General Winfield Scott Hancock of Pennsylvania and his running mate former Congressman and banker William Hayden English of Indiana.

In a distant third came the Greenback Party candidate James B. Weaver with 1.12 percent.

New York weighed in for this election as less than 2 percentage points more Republican than the national average.

Garfield won much of upstate New York, including a victory in Erie County, home to the city of Buffalo, although Hancock did win Albany County, home to the state capital of Albany, along with several rural upstate counties.