Assemblymen were elected countywide on general tickets to a one-year term, the whole Assembly being renewed annually.

State Senator Gideon Granger resigned in 1821, leaving a vacancy in the Western District.

DeWitt Clinton) and the Bucktails (led by Martin Van Buren, and including the Tammany Hall organization in New York City).

Abel Huntington (Southern D.), Abraham J. Hasbrouck (Middle D.), David C. Judson, Daniel Shipherd, John L. Viele (all three Eastern D.), Henry Seymour ( Western D.); and Assemblymen Abraham Gurnee (Southern D.), Archibald McIntyre (Middle D.) and Samuel M. Hopkins (Western D.) were also elected to the Senate.

[4] On April 17, the Legislature enacted that future State elections be held on the first Monday in November and the two succeeding days.

Abraham Gurnee, Archibald McIntyre and Samuel M. Hopkins changed from the Assembly to the Senate.