The Republican state convention met on September 8 at Saratoga Springs, New York.
William T. Tinsley for Canal Commissioner, and Benoni I. Ives for Prison Inspector, were nominated by acclamation.
John Bigelow, a Republican, was proposed by DeWitt Clinton Littlejohn for Secretary of State, and was nominated by acclamation.
Christopher A. Walrath for Canal Commissioner, and Rodney R. Crowley for Prison Inspector, were then nominated amid great noise and confusion.
20 Republicans and 12 Democrats were elected to a two-year term (1876–77) in the New York State Senate.