2022 United States gubernatorial elections

November 8, 2022

39 governorships
36 states; 3 territories
  Majority party Minority party
 
Party Republican Democratic
Seats before 28 22
Seats after 26 24
Seat change Decrease 2 Increase 2
Popular vote 43,126,140 43,336,108
Percentage 49.05% 49.29%
Seats up 20 16
Seats won 18 18

     Democratic hold      Democratic gain
     Republican hold      Republican gain
     Independent gain
     No election

United States gubernatorial elections were held on November 8, 2022, in 36 states and three territories. As most governors serve four-year terms, the last regular gubernatorial elections for all but two of the seats took place in 2018 U.S. gubernatorial elections.[lower-alpha 1] The gubernatorial elections took place concurrently with several other federal, state, and local elections, as part of the 2022 midterm elections.

Democrats performed better than expected,[lower-alpha 2] including in closely-watched races in Kansas, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, and the party picked up the governorships of Arizona, Maryland, and Massachusetts. Republicans picked up the governorship of Nevada, making incumbent Democrat Steve Sisolak the only incumbent to lose his seat, the first Democrat since the 2014 Illinois gubernatorial election, and the first of any party since the 2019 Kentucky gubernatorial election.

This is the first midterm cycle since 1998 in which the non-incumbent party suffered net losses, the first since 1986 in which the incumbent party gained seats overall, and the first since 1934 in which Democrats did so.[1] Democrats won the popular vote in this gubernatorial election cycle by 0.24 points, making this the closest midterm gubernatorial election cycle since at least 1990.[2] However, the 2019 off-year elections were won by Democrats with a smaller margin of 0.01 points.

Partisan composition

Going into the election, there were 28 Republican governors and 22 Democratic governors in the United States. This class of governors is made up of 20 Republicans and 16 Democrats. In contrast to 2018, where Republicans were defending eight seats in states won by Hillary Clinton in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Republicans held six seats in states won by Joe Biden in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Meanwhile, Democrats were defending four governorships in states Trump had previously won (Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin in 2016, and Kansas in 2016 and 2020).

Election predictions

Several sites and individuals publish predictions of competitive seats. These predictions look at factors such as the strength of the incumbent (if the incumbent is running for re-election), the strength of the candidates, and the partisan leanings of the state (reflected in part by the state's Cook Partisan Voting Index rating). The predictions assign ratings to each state, with the rating indicating the predicted advantage that a party has in winning that seat.

Most election predictors use:

  • "tossup": no advantage
  • "tilt" (used by some predictors): advantage that is not quite as strong as "lean"
  • "lean": slight advantage
  • "likely": significant, but surmountable, advantage
  • "safe" or "solid": near-certain chance of victory
State PVI[3] Incumbent[4] Last
race
Cook
Oct 28,
2022
[5]
IE
Nov 3,
2022
[6]
Sabato
Nov 7,
2022
[7]
Politico
Nov 3,
2022
[8]
RCP
Nov 2,
2022
[9]
Fox
Nov 1,
2022
[10]
538[lower-alpha 3][lower-alpha 4]
Nov 7,
2022
[11]
ED
Nov 7,
2022
[12]
Result
Alabama R+15 Kay Ivey 59.5% R Solid R Solid R Safe R Solid R Safe R Solid R Solid R Safe R Ivey
66.9% R
Alaska R+8 Mike Dunleavy 51.4% R Likely R Likely R Likely R Likely R Likely R Likely R Likely R Likely R Dunleavy
50.3% R
Arizona R+2 Doug Ducey (term-limited) 56.0% R Tossup Tossup Lean R Tossup Tossup Tossup Lean R Lean R Hobbs
50.3% D (flip)
Arkansas R+16 Asa Hutchinson (term-limited) 65.3% R Solid R Solid R Safe R Solid R Safe R Solid R Solid R Safe R Sanders
63.0% R
California D+13 Gavin Newsom 61.9% D Solid D Solid D Safe D Solid D Safe D Solid D Solid D Safe D Newsom
59.2% D
Colorado D+4 Jared Polis 53.4% D Solid D Solid D Safe D Likely D Likely D Likely D Solid D Safe D Polis
58.5% D
Connecticut D+7 Ned Lamont 49.4% D Solid D Solid D Likely D Lean D Lean D Likely D Solid D Safe D Lamont
56.0% D
Florida R+3 Ron DeSantis 49.6% R Likely R Likely R Safe R Likely R Lean R Likely R Solid R Safe R DeSantis
59.4% R
Georgia R+3 Brian Kemp 50.2% R Lean R Lean R Likely R Lean R Lean R Lean R Likely R Likely R Kemp
53.4% R
Hawaii D+14 David Ige (term-limited) 62.7% D Solid D Solid D Safe D Solid D Safe D Solid D Solid D Safe D Green
63.2% D
Idaho R+18 Brad Little 59.8% R Solid R Solid R Safe R Solid R Safe R Solid R Solid R Safe R Little
60.5% R
Illinois D+7 J. B. Pritzker 54.5% D Solid D Solid D Safe D Likely D Lean D Solid D Solid D Safe D Pritzker
54.9% D
Iowa R+6 Kim Reynolds 50.3% R Solid R Solid R Safe R Solid R Likely R Solid R Solid R Safe R Reynolds
58.0% R
Kansas R+10 Laura Kelly 48.0% D Tossup Tossup Lean R (flip) Tossup Tossup Tossup Lean D Lean D Kelly
49.5% D
Maine D+2 Janet Mills 50.9% D Lean D Lean D Lean D Lean D Tossup Lean D Likely D Lean D Mills
55.7% D
Maryland D+14 Larry Hogan (term-limited) 55.4% R Solid D (flip) Likely D (flip) Safe D (flip) Solid D (flip) Safe D (flip) Solid D (flip) Solid D (flip) Safe D (flip) Moore
64.5% D (flip)
Massachusetts D+15 Charlie Baker (retiring) 66.6% R Solid D (flip) Likely D (flip) Safe D (flip) Solid D (flip) Safe D (flip) Solid D (flip) Solid D (flip) Safe D (flip) Healey
63.8% D (flip)
Michigan R+1 Gretchen Whitmer 53.3% D Lean D Tilt D Lean D Lean D Tossup Lean D Likely D Lean D Whitmer
54.5% D
Minnesota D+1 Tim Walz 53.8% D Likely D Lean D Likely D Lean D Tossup Lean D Likely D Likely D Walz
52.3% D
Nebraska R+13 Pete Ricketts (term-limited) 59.0% R Solid R Solid R Safe R Solid R Safe R Solid R Solid R Safe R Pillen
59.7% R
Nevada R+1 Steve Sisolak 49.4% D Tossup Tossup Lean R (flip) Tossup Tossup Tossup Lean R (flip) Lean R (flip) Lombardo
48.8% R (flip)
New Hampshire D+1 Chris Sununu 65.1% R Solid R Solid R Safe R Solid R Safe R Likely R Solid R Safe R Sununu
57.1% R
New Mexico D+3 Michelle Lujan Grisham 57.2% D Lean D Tilt D Lean D Lean D Tossup Tossup Likely D Lean D Grisham
52.0% D
New York D+10 Kathy Hochul 59.6% D Likely D Likely D Likely D Likely D Tossup Lean D Solid D Safe D Hochul
53.2% D
Ohio R+6 Mike DeWine 50.4% R Solid R Solid R Safe R Likely R Safe R Likely R Solid R Safe R DeWine
62.4% R
Oklahoma R+20 Kevin Stitt 54.3% R Likely R Likely R Likely R Likely R Tossup Lean R Likely R Safe R Stitt
55.4% R
Oregon D+6 Kate Brown (term-limited) 50.1% D Tossup Tossup Lean D Tossup Tossup Tossup Lean D Lean D Kotek
47.0% D
Pennsylvania R+2 Tom Wolf (term-limited) 57.8% D Likely D Lean D Likely D Likely D Lean D Likely D Solid D Likely D Shapiro
56.5% D
Rhode Island D+8 Dan McKee 52.6% D Solid D Solid D Likely D Likely D Likely D Likely D Solid D Likely D McKee
58.1% D
South Carolina R+8 Henry McMaster 54.0% R Solid R Solid R Safe R Solid R Safe R Solid R Solid R Safe R McMaster
58.1% R
South Dakota R+16 Kristi Noem 51.0% R Solid R Solid R Safe R Likely R Likely R Solid R Solid R Safe R Noem
62.0% R
Tennessee R+14 Bill Lee 59.6% R Solid R Solid R Safe R Solid R Safe R Solid R Solid R Safe R Lee
64.9% R
Texas R+5 Greg Abbott 55.8% R Likely R Solid R Likely R Likely R Lean R Likely R Solid R Likely R Abbott
54.8% R
Vermont D+16 Phil Scott 68.5% R Solid R Solid R Safe R Solid R Safe R Solid R Solid R Safe R Scott
70.9% R
Wisconsin R+2 Tony Evers 49.5% D Tossup Tossup Lean R (flip) Tossup Tossup Tossup Tossup Lean R (flip) Evers
51.2% D
Wyoming R+25 Mark Gordon 67.1% R Solid R Solid R Safe R Solid R Safe R Solid R Solid R Safe R Gordon
74.1% R

Race summary

States

State Governor Party First
elected
Status Candidates[13]
Alabama Kay Ivey Republican 2017[lower-alpha 5] Incumbent re-elected.
  • Green tickY Kay Ivey (Republican) 66.9%
  • Yolanda Flowers (Democratic) 29.2%
  • Jimmy Blake (Libertarian) 3.3%
Alaska Mike Dunleavy Republican 2018 Incumbent re-elected.
Arizona Doug Ducey Republican 2014 Incumbent term-limited.
New governor elected.
Democratic gain.
Arkansas Asa Hutchinson Republican 2014 Incumbent term-limited.
New governor elected.
Republican hold.
  • Green tickY Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Republican) 63.0%
  • Chris Jones (Democratic) 35.2%
  • Ricky Harrington (Libertarian) 1.8%
California Gavin Newsom Democratic 2018 Incumbent re-elected.
Colorado Jared Polis Democratic 2018 Incumbent re-elected.
Others
  • Kevin Ruskusky (Libertarian) 1.2%
  • Danielle Neuschwanger (Constitution) 0.9%
  • Paul Fiorino (Unity) 0.3%
Connecticut Ned Lamont Democratic 2018 Incumbent re-elected.
Florida Ron DeSantis Republican 2018 Incumbent re-elected.
  • Green tickY Ron DeSantis (Republican) 59.4%
  • Charlie Crist (Democratic) 40.0%
  • Carmen Gimenez (Independent) 0.4%
  • Hector Roos (Libertarian) 0.2%
Georgia Brian Kemp Republican 2018 Incumbent re-elected.
Hawaii David Ige Democratic 2014 Incumbent term-limited.
New governor elected.
Democratic hold.
Idaho Brad Little Republican 2018 Incumbent re-elected.
  • Green tickY Brad Little (Republican) 60.5%
  • Stephen Heidt (Democratic) 20.3%
  • Ammon Bundy (Independent) 17.2%
  • Paul Sand (Libertarian) 1.1%
  • Chantyrose Davison (Constitution) 0.9%
Illinois J. B. Pritzker Democratic 2018 Incumbent re-elected.
Iowa Kim Reynolds Republican 2017[lower-alpha 6] Incumbent re-elected.
  • Green tickY Kim Reynolds (Republican) 58.0%
  • Deidre DeJear (Democratic) 39.5%
  • Rick Stewart (Libertarian) 2.4%
Kansas Laura Kelly Democratic 2018 Incumbent re-elected.
Maine Janet Mills Democratic 2018 Incumbent re-elected.
Maryland Larry Hogan Republican 2014 Incumbent term-limited.
New governor elected.
Democratic gain.
Others
  • David Lashar (Libertarian) 1.5%
  • David Harding (Working Class) 0.9%
  • Nancy Wallace (Green) 0.7%
Massachusetts Charlie Baker Republican 2014 Incumbent retired.
New governor elected.
Democratic gain.
Michigan Gretchen Whitmer Democratic 2018 Incumbent re-elected.
Others
  • Mary Buzuma (Libertarian) 0.9%
  • Donna Brandenburg (U.S. Taxpayers) 0.4%
  • Kevin Hogan (Green) 0.2%
  • Daryl Simpson (Natural Law) 0.1%
Minnesota Tim Walz DFL 2018 Incumbent re-elected.
Others
Nebraska Pete Ricketts Republican 2014 Incumbent term-limited.
New governor elected.
Republican hold.
  • Green tickY Jim Pillen (Republican) 59.7%
  • Carol Blood (Democratic) 36.3%
  • Scott Zimmerman (Libertarian) 4.0%
Nevada Steve Sisolak Democratic 2018 Incumbent lost re-election.
New governor elected.
Republican gain.
Others
New Hampshire Chris Sununu Republican 2016 Incumbent re-elected.
  • Green tickY Chris Sununu (Republican) 57.1%
  • Tom Sherman (Democratic) 41.6%
  • Kelly Halldorson (Libertarian) 0.8%
  • Karlyn Borysenko (Libertarian) 0.5%
New Mexico Michelle Lujan Grisham Democratic 2018 Incumbent re-elected.
New York Kathy Hochul Democratic 2021[lower-alpha 7] Incumbent elected to full term.
Ohio Mike DeWine Republican 2018 Incumbent re-elected.
Oklahoma Kevin Stitt Republican 2018 Incumbent re-elected.
Oregon Kate Brown Democratic 2015[lower-alpha 8] Incumbent term-limited.
New governor elected.
Democratic hold.
Pennsylvania Tom Wolf Democratic 2014 Incumbent term-limited
New governor elected.
Democratic hold.
Others
  • Matt Hackenburg (Libertarian) 1.0%
  • Christina DiGiulio (Green) 0.5%
  • Joe Soloski (Keystone) 0.4%
Rhode Island Dan McKee Democratic 2021[lower-alpha 9] Incumbent elected to full term.
  • Green tickY Dan McKee (Democratic) 57.9%
  • Ashley Kalus (Republican) 38.9%
Others
  • Zachary Hurwitz (Independent) 1.3%
  • Paul Rianna Jr. (Independent) 0.9%
  • Elijah Gizzarelli (Libertarian) 0.8%
South Carolina Henry McMaster Republican 2017[lower-alpha 10] Incumbent re-elected.
South Dakota Kristi Noem Republican 2018 Incumbent re-elected.
Tennessee Bill Lee Republican 2018 Incumbent re-elected.
  • Green tickY Bill Lee (Republican) 64.9%
  • Jason Martin (Democratic) 32.9%
Others
  • John Gentry (Independent) 0.9%
  • Constance Every (Independent) 0.6%
  • Deborah Rouse (Independent) 0.2%
  • Rick Tyler (Independent) 0.1%
  • Charles Morgan (Independent) 0.1%
  • Basil Marceaux (Independent) 0.1%
  • Alfred O'Neil (Independent) 0.1%
  • Michael Scantland (Independent) 0.1%
Texas Greg Abbott Republican 2014 Incumbent re-elected.
  • Green tickY Greg Abbott (Republican) 54.8%
  • Beto O'Rourke (Democratic) 43.9%
  • Mark Tippetts (Libertarian) 1.0%
  • Delilah Barrios (Green) 0.4%
Vermont Phil Scott Republican 2016 Incumbent re-elected.
  • Green tickY Phil Scott (Republican) 70.9%
  • Brenda Siegel (Democratic) 23.9%
Others
  • Kevin Hoyt (Independent) 2.1%
  • Peter Duval (Independent) 1.6%
  • Bernard Peters (Independent) 0.8%
Wisconsin Tony Evers Democratic 2018 Incumbent re-elected.
  • Green tickY Tony Evers (Democratic) 51.2%
  • Tim Michels (Republican) 47.8%
  • Joan Ellis Beglinger (Independent) 1.0%
Wyoming Mark Gordon Republican 2018 Incumbent re-elected.
  • Green tickY Mark Gordon (Republican) 74.1%
  • Theresa Livingston (Democratic) 15.8%
  • Jared Baldes (Libertarian) 4.2%

Territories and federal district

Territory Governor Party First
elected
Status Candidates[14][15]
District of
Columbia
Muriel Bowser Democratic 2014 Incumbent re-elected.[16]
  • Green tickY Muriel Bowser (Democratic) 74.7%
  • Red Grant (Independent) 14.9%
  • Stacia Hall (Republican) 5.9%
  • Dennis Sobin (Libertarian) 1.3%
Guam Lou Leon Guerrero Democratic 2018 Incumbent re-elected.[17]
Northern Mariana
Islands
Ralph Torres Republican 2015[lower-alpha 11] Incumbent lost re-election.[18]
New governor elected.
Independent gain.
U.S. Virgin
Islands
Albert Bryan Democratic 2018 Incumbent re-elected.

Closest races

States where the margin of victory was under 1%:

  1. Arizona, 0.66%

States where the margin of victory was under 5%:

  1. Nevada, 1.51%
  2. Kansas, 2.21%
  3. Wisconsin, 3.40%
  4. Oregon, 3.42%

States where the margin of victory was under 10%:

  1. New Mexico, 6.38%
  2. New York, 6.40%
  3. Georgia, 7.54%
  4. Minnesota, 7.67%
  5. Northern Mariana Islands, 8.28%

Blue denotes races won by Democrats. Red denotes races won by Republicans. Grey denotes races won by Independents.

Alabama

Alabama gubernatorial election

November 8, 2022
Turnout38.5% Decrease
 
Nominee Kay Ivey Yolanda Flowers
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote 946,932 412,961
Percentage 66.9% 29.2%

County results
Ivey:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90%
Flowers:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%

Governor before election

Kay Ivey
Republican

Elected Governor

Kay Ivey
Republican

Incumbent Republican governor Kay Ivey took office on April 10, 2017, upon the resignation of former governor Robert J. Bentley, and was elected to a full term in 2018. She ran for re-election to a second full term in which she won her re-election bid in a landslide.[19]

Primary elections in Alabama were held on May 24. Runoff elections for instances where no candidate received 50% plus one vote were scheduled for June 21. A runoff was avoided in the Republican primary, with Ivey winning outright. The Democratic primary advanced to a runoff between Malika Sanders-Fortier and Yolanda Flowers, with Flowers winning the Democratic nomination.

This was the first gubernatorial election in Alabama history in which both major party nominees were women. Flowers was also the first Black female gubernatorial nominee in Alabama.[20] Governor Ivey was re-elected and sworn in for her second full term on January 16, 2023.

This is the only gubernatorial election in the 2020s to be won by a member of the Silent Generation.

Republican primary results[21]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Kay Ivey (incumbent) 357,069 54.45%
Republican Lynda Blanchard 126,202 19.25%
Republican Tim James 106,181 16.19%
Republican Lew Burdette 42,924 6.55%
Republican Dean Odle 11,767 1.79%
Republican Donald Trent Jones 3,821 0.58%
Republican Dave Thomas 2,886 0.44%
Republican Stacy Lee George 2,546 0.39%
Republican Dean Young 2,356 0.36%
Total votes 655,752 100.0%
Democratic primary results[21]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Yolanda Rochelle Flowers 56,991 33.88%
Democratic Malika Sanders-Fortier 54,699 32.52%
Democratic Patricia Jamieson Salter 19,691 11.71%
Democratic Arthur Kennedy 15,630 9.29%
Democratic Doug Smith 11,861 7.05%
Democratic Chad Martin 9,352 5.56%
Total votes 168,224 100.0%
Democratic primary runoff results[21]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Yolanda Rochelle Flowers 32,529 55.14%
Democratic Malika Sanders-Fortier 26,469 44.86%
Total votes 58,998 100.0%
2022 Alabama Gubernatorial Election[22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Kay Ivey (incumbent) 946,932 66.91% +7.45%
Democratic Yolanda Rochelle Flowers 412,961 29.18% -11.21%
Libertarian James D. "Jimmy" Blake 45,958 3.25% N/A
Write-in 9,432 0.67% +0.52%
Total votes 1,411,756 100%
Turnout 1,419,718 38.50%
Registered electors 3,687,753
Republican hold

Alaska

Alaska gubernatorial election

 
Candidate Mike Dunleavy Les Gara Bill Walker
Party Republican Democratic Independent
Running mate Nancy Dahlstrom Jessica Cook Heidi Drygas
Popular vote 132,632 63,851 54,668
Percentage 50.3% 24.2% 20.7%

State House district results

Governor before election

Mike Dunleavy
Republican

Elected Governor

Mike Dunleavy
Republican

Incumbent Republican governor Mike Dunleavy won re-election to a second term, becoming the first Republican governor to be re-elected to a second term since Jay Hammond in 1978 and the first governor, regardless of political affiliation, to be re-elected to a second term since Tony Knowles in 1998.

Primary election results[23][24]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican 76,534 40.43
Democratic
43,660 23.06
Independent
43,111 22.77
Republican
  • Charlie Pierce
  • Edie Grunwald
12,458 6.58
Republican 7,307 3.86
Independence
  • John Howe
  • Shellie Wyatt
1,702 0.90
Republican
  • Bruce Walden
  • Tanya Lange
1,661 0.88
Libertarian
  • William S. Toien
  • Shirley Rainbolt
1,381 0.73
Republican
  • David Haeg
  • Waynette Coleman
1,139 0.60
Independent
  • William Nemec
  • Ronnie Ostrem
347 0.18
Total votes 188,626 100.00
2022 Alaska gubernatorial election[25]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican 132,632 50.29% −1.15%
Democratic
63,851 24.21% −20.20%
Independent
54,668 20.73% +18.70%
Republican
11,817 4.48% N/A
Write-in 784 0.30% +0.09%
Total votes 263,752 100.0%
Turnout 266,472 44.33% −5.49%
Registered electors 601,161
Republican hold

Arizona

Arizona gubernatorial election

 
Nominee Katie Hobbs Kari Lake
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 1,287,891 1,270,774
Percentage 50.3% 49.7%

County results
Hobbs:      50–60%      60–70%
Lake:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%

Governor before election

Doug Ducey
Republican

Elected Governor

Katie Hobbs
Democratic

Incumbent Republican governor Doug Ducey was term-limited and ineligible to run for a third consecutive term. Democratic Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs won the election against Republican former television anchor Kari Lake.[27]

Primaries were held on August 2 for both parties, with Lake winning the Republican nomination and Hobbs winning the Democratic nomination, making this the first gubernatorial election in Arizona history in which both major party candidates for governor were women. Hobbs became the fifth female governor of Arizona, with Arizona setting a record for the most female governors in American history.[28][29] With the concurrent passage of Proposition 131, this will be the last gubernatorial election in Arizona without a lieutenant governor on the ticket.[30]

Going into the election, most polling had Lake leading and analysts generally considered the race to either be a tossup or leaning towards the Republican. Nonetheless, Hobbs ultimately defeated Lake with 50.32% of the vote, becoming the first Democrat elected governor of Arizona since Janet Napolitano in 2006. Lake refused to concede and filed a post-election lawsuit in an attempt to overturn the results, with all her claims either being dismissed or ruled against for lack of evidence.[31]

This race was one of six Republican-held governorships up for election in 2022 taking place in a state that was carried by Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. With a margin of 0.67%, it was the closest election of the 2022 gubernatorial election cycle.

Republican primary results[32]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Kari Lake 398,860 47.97%
Republican Karrin Taylor Robson 358,662 43.13%
Republican Matt Salmon (withdrawn) 30,704 3.69%
Republican Scott Neely 25,876 3.11%
Republican Paola Tulliani-Zen 17,281 2.08%
Write-in 105 0.01%
Total votes 831,508 100.0%
Democratic primary results[32]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Katie Hobbs 431,059 72.32%
Democratic Marco A. López Jr. 136,090 22.83%
Democratic Aaron Lieberman (withdrawn) 28,878 4.85%
Total votes 596,027 100.0%
2022 Arizona gubernatorial election[33]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Katie Hobbs 1,287,891 50.32% +8.48%
Republican Kari Lake 1,270,774 49.65% -6.35%
Write-in 820 0.03% +0.01%
Total votes 2,559,485 100.0%
Turnout 2,592,313 62.56%
Registered electors 4,143,929
Democratic gain from Republican

Arkansas

Arkansas gubernatorial election

 
Nominee Sarah Huckabee Sanders Chris Jones
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote 571,105 319,242
Percentage 63.0% 35.2%

County results

Sanders:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%

Jones:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%

Governor before election

Asa Hutchinson
Republican

Elected Governor

Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Republican

Incumbent Republican governor Asa Hutchinson was term-limited and could not seek a third term. Arkansas is one of the nine states and one territory of the United States that limit governors to two terms for life in their constitutions, along with California, Delaware, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Oklahoma. Sarah Huckabee Sanders was sworn in on January 10, 2023.[34][35]

Primary elections in Arkansas were held on May 24. Runoff elections for instances where no candidate receives over 50% of the vote were scheduled for June 21. Former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders won the Republican nomination, while Chris Jones won the Democratic nomination.[36]

Leading up to the Republican primary, Sanders received many endorsements from key Republican figures, including Donald Trump, Mike Pence, incumbent Asa Hutchinson, Arkansas' entire U.S. Congressional delegation, and dozens of GOP representatives from the State House and State Senate. She cruised to a landslide victory in the primary, and as Arkansas is a GOP stronghold, her victory virtually guaranteed she would win the general election, in which she defeated Jones by 28 points. Jones became the first Democrat to win Washington County since 2010, and Sanders became the first Republican to win majority-Black Crittenden County since her father in 1998. This is the first time ever that a Republican won three straight gubernatorial elections in the state's history.

Sanders became the first female governor of Arkansas, as well as the first daughter of a former governor to take office in United States history. In addition, with the election of Leslie Rutledge as lieutenant governor, Arkansas, along with Massachusetts, became the first two U.S. states to have both a female governor and female lieutenant governor serving at the same time.

Republican primary results[37]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Sarah Huckabee Sanders 289,249 83.14%
Republican Francis "Doc" Washburn 58,638 16.86%
Total votes 347,887 100.0%
Democratic primary results[37]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Chris Jones 66,540 70.43%
Democratic Anthony Bland 9,055 9.58%
Democratic Jay Martin 7,731 8.18%
Democratic James "Rus" Russell 6,421 6.80%
Democratic Supha Xayprasith-Mays 4,725 5.00%
Total votes 94,472 100.0%
2022 Arkansas gubernatorial election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Sarah Huckabee Sanders 571,105 62.96% -2.37%
Democratic Chris Jones 319,242 35.20% +3.43%
Libertarian Ricky Dale Harrington Jr. 16,690 1.84% -1.06%
Total votes 907,037 100.00% N/A
Turnout 907,037 50.81%
Registered electors 1,799,136
Republican hold

California

California gubernatorial election

 
Candidate Gavin Newsom Brian Dahle
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 6,470,104 4,462,914
Percentage 59.2% 40.8%

County results
Newsom:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%
Dahle:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%

Governor before election

Gavin Newsom
Democratic

Elected Governor

Gavin Newsom
Democratic

Incumbent Democratic Party Governor Gavin Newsom ran and won re-election to a second term after surviving a recall election in 2021, during his first term.[38]

The elections featured universal mail-in ballots; in-person voting was also available.[39] All statewide elected offices are currently held by Democrats. Newsom won 61.9% of the vote in both the 2018 gubernatorial election and the 2021 recall election. He received 55.9% of the top-two primary vote and faced Republican Party state senator Brian Dahle, who received 17.7% of the primary vote, in the general election.[40] Newsom easily won re-election with 59.2% of the vote to Dahle's 40.8%, but with a smaller margin of victory than in 2018. Dahle flipped five counties that Newsom carried in 2018, namely Lake, Merced (although Merced voted to recall Newsom), Orange, San Bernardino, and San Joaquin. Dahle received 32% of the vote in Los Angeles County, a respectable performance for a Republican in the Democratic stronghold.

Primary results[41]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Gavin Newsom (incumbent) 3,945,728 55.9
Republican Brian Dahle 1,252,800 17.7
No party preference Michael Shellenberger 290,286 4.1
Republican Jenny Rae Le Roux 246,665 3.5
Republican Anthony Trimino 246,322 3.5
Republican Shawn Collins 173,083 2.5
Green Luis J. Rodriguez 124,672 1.8
Republican Leo S. Zacky 94,521 1.3
Republican Major Williams 92,580 1.3
Republican Robert C. Newman II 82,849 1.2
Democratic Joel Ventresca 66,885 0.9
Republican David Lozano 66,542 0.9
Republican Ronald A. Anderson 53,554 0.8
No party preference Reinette Senum 53,015 0.8
Democratic Armando Perez-Serrato 45,474 0.6
Republican Ron Jones 38,337 0.5
Republican Daniel R. Mercuri 36,396 0.5
Green Heather Collins 29,690 0.4
Democratic Anthony Fanara 25,086 0.4
Republican Cristian Raul Morales 22,304 0.3
Republican Lonnie Sortor 21,044 0.3
No party preference Frederic C. Schultz 17,502 0.2
No party preference Woodrow Sanders III 16,204 0.2
No party preference James G. Hanink 10,110 0.1
No party preference Serge Fiankan 6,201 0.1
No party preference Bradley Zink 5,997 0.1
American Independent Jeff Scott (write-in) 13 0.0
Republican Gurinder Bhangoo (write-in) 8 0.0
Total votes 7,063,868 100.0
2022 California gubernatorial election[42][43]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Gavin Newsom (incumbent) 6,470,104 59.18% −2.77%
Republican Brian Dahle 4,462,914 40.82% +2.77%
Total votes 10,933,018 100.0% N/A
Turnout 10,933,018 50.80%
Registered electors 21,940,274
Democratic hold

Colorado

Colorado gubernatorial election

 
Nominee Jared Polis Heidi Ganahl
Party Democratic Republican
Running mate Dianne Primavera Danny Moore
Popular vote 1,468,481 983,040
Percentage 58.5% 39.2%

County results
Polis:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%
Ganahl:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%

Governor before election

Jared Polis
Democratic

Elected Governor

Jared Polis
Democratic

Incumbent Democratic governor Jared Polis won re-election to a second term, defeating Republican University of Colorado regent Heidi Ganahl. The primary election was held on June 28.[44]

Polis's 2022 victory marked the first time in American history that an openly gay politician was re-elected governor of a state.[45] Polis had the best performance for a re-elected Colorado governor since Bill Owens in 2002, the best for a Democrat since Roy Romer in 1990, and the highest raw vote total ever in a Colorado gubernatorial race.

Democratic primary results[46]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Jared Polis (incumbent) 523,489 100.00%
Total votes 523,489 100.00%
Republican primary results[46]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Heidi Ganahl 341,157 53.87%
Republican Greg Lopez 292,187 46.13%
Total votes 633,344 100.0%
2022 Colorado gubernatorial election[47]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic
1,468,481 58.53% +5.11%
Republican
983,040 39.18% -3.62%
Libertarian
  • Kevin Ruskusky
  • Michele Poague
28,939 1.15% -1.60%
American Constitution
  • Danielle Neuschwanger
  • Darryl Gibbs
21,623 0.86% N/A
Unity
  • Paul Noël Fiorino
  • Cynthia Munhos de Aquino Sirianni
6,687 0.27% -0.75%
Write-in 60 0.0% N/A
Total votes 2,508,830 100.0% N/A
Turnout 2,540,680 66.28%
Registered electors 3,833,360
Democratic hold

Connecticut

Connecticut gubernatorial election

 
Nominee Ned Lamont Bob Stefanowski
Party Democratic Republican
Running mate Susan Bysiewicz Laura Devlin
Popular vote 709,482 546,209
Percentage 56.0% 43.1%

County results
Lamont:      50–60%
Stefanowski:      50–60%

Governor before election

Ned Lamont
Democratic

Elected Governor

Ned Lamont
Democratic

Governor Ned Lamont was elected in 2018 with 49.4% of the vote and ran for re-election for a second term. The race simultaneously took place with the election to the state's Class III Senate seat. This election featured a rematch of the previous 2018 gubernatorial election, pitting Lamont against Republican Bob Stefanowski, who he previously defeated by 3.2% of the vote.[48] This time Lamont won re-election by a wider margin, becoming the first Democrat to win a gubernatorial election by more than 5 points in the state since 1986. This is the first time since 1994 that Tolland County voted Democratic in a gubernatorial election.

2022 Connecticut gubernatorial election[49][50]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic 710,186 55.97% +6.60%
Republican 546,209 43.05% -3.16%
Independent Party
  • Robert Hotaling
  • Stewart "Chip" Beckett
12,400 0.98% N/A
Green
  • Michelle Louise Bicking (write-in)
  • Cassandra Martineau (write-in)
98 0.0% N/A
Total votes 1,268,893 100.0%
Turnout 1,292,847 57.57%
Registered electors 2,245,844
Democratic hold

Florida

Florida gubernatorial election

 
Nominee Ron DeSantis Charlie Crist
Party Republican Democratic
Running mate Jeanette Nuñez Karla Hernandez-Mats
Popular vote 4,614,210 3,106,313
Percentage 59.4% 40.0%

County results
DeSantis:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90%
Crist:      50–60%      60–70%

Governor before election

Ron DeSantis
Republican

Elected Governor

Ron DeSantis
Republican

Governor Ron DeSantis was elected in 2018 with 49.6% of the vote and ran for reelection to a second term.[51] Andrew Gillum, former mayor of Tallahassee and Democratic nominee for governor in 2018, did not run against DeSantis again.[52][53]

U.S. representative and former Republican governor of Florida Charlie Crist was the Democratic nominee.[54] Also seeking the Democratic nomination was Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried.[55]

DeSantis won re-election by a sizable margin due to the state as a whole swinging further Republican than it voted in the 2020 United States presidential election and continuing the state's rightward shift since the 2008 United States presidential election. County flips by DeSantis were Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, Hillsborough, and Osceola counties, all of which were previous Democratic Party strongholds; these counties, notably, have relatively high Latino populations, for which their growth in support for the Republican Party was further cemented.[56][57] This election was seen by many to more firmly assert Florida's status as a red state and not a swing state.[58][57]

Democratic primary results[59]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Charlie Crist 904,524 59.71%
Democratic Nicole "Nikki" Fried 535,480 35.35%
Democratic Cadance Daniel 38,198 2.52%
Democratic Robert L. Willis 36,786 2.43%
Total votes 1,513,180 100.0%
2022 Florida gubernatorial election[60][61]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Ron DeSantis (incumbent)
Jeanette Nuñez (incumbent)
4,614,210 59.37% +9.78%
Democratic Charlie Crist
Karla Hernandez
3,106,313 39.97% -9.22%
Independent Carmen Jackie Gimenez
Kyle "KC" Gibson
31,577 0.41% N/A
Libertarian Hector Roos
Jerry "Tub" Rorabaugh
19,299 0.25% N/A
Total votes 7,771,399 100.0% N/A
Turnout 7,796,916 53.76%
Registered electors 14,503,978
Republican hold

Georgia

Georgia gubernatorial election

 
Nominee Brian Kemp Stacey Abrams
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote 2,111,572 1,813,673
Percentage 53.4% 45.9%

County results
Kemp:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90%
Abrams:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%

Governor before election

Brian Kemp
Republican

Elected Governor

Brian Kemp
Republican

Incumbent Republican governor Brian Kemp won re-election to a second term, defeating Democratic nominee Stacey Abrams in a rematch. Abrams conceded on election night.[62] The primary occurred on May 24, 2022.[63] Kemp was sworn in for a second term on January 12, 2023.

Kemp was endorsed by former Vice President Mike Pence. He faced a primary challenge from former U.S. Senator David Perdue, who was endorsed by former president Donald Trump after Kemp refused to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.[64]

Stacey Abrams, the former Minority Leader of the Georgia House of Representatives and founder of Fair Fight Action who was narrowly defeated by Kemp in the 2018 gubernatorial election, was once again the Democratic nominee for the governorship. This was Georgia's first gubernatorial rematch since 1950.[65]

Libertarian Shane T. Hazel, the Libertarian nominee for U.S. Senate in 2020, also declared he would run.[66] This race was one of six Republican-held governorships up for election in 2022 in a state carried by Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.

[67]

Despite Kemp's narrow 55,000-vote victory in 2018, which was Georgia's closest gubernatorial election since 1966, he went on to win by 300,000 votes (7.5%) – the largest raw vote victory for a Georgia governor since 2006. The race was seen as a potential benefit to Herschel Walker, who ran in the concurrent Senate race, as it was speculated Kemp's strong performance could help Walker avoid a runoff. He vastly underperformed compared to Kemp, however, and lost to incumbent Democratic senator Raphael Warnock in the December 6 runoff election.[68]

Republican primary results[69]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Brian Kemp (incumbent) 888,078 73.72%
Republican David Perdue 262,389 21.78%
Republican Kandiss Taylor 41,232 3.42%
Republican Catherine Davis 9,778 0.81%
Republican Tom Williams 3,255 0.27%
Total votes 1,204,742 100.0%
Democratic primary results[69]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Stacey Abrams 727,168 100.0%
Total votes 727,168 100.0%
2022 Georgia gubernatorial election[70]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Brian Kemp (incumbent) 2,111,572 53.41% +3.19%
Democratic Stacey Abrams 1,813,673 45.88% -2.95%
Libertarian Shane T. Hazel 28,163 0.71% -0.24%
Total votes 3,953,408 100.00%
Turnout 3,964,926 57.02%
Registered electors 6,953,485
Republican hold

Hawaii

Hawaii gubernatorial election

 
Nominee Josh Green Duke Aiona
Party Democratic Republican
Running mate Sylvia Luke Seaula Tupa'i Jr.
Popular vote 261,025 152,237
Percentage 63.2% 36.8%

County results
Green:      50–60%      60–70%

Governor before election

David Ige
Democratic

Elected Governor

Josh Green
Democratic

Incumbent Democratic governor David Ige was term-limited and ineligible to run for a third term. Incumbent lieutenant governor Josh Green was the Democratic nominee, and faced former lieutenant governor Duke Aiona, the Republican nominee. This marked the third time Aiona had been the Republican gubernatorial nominee, having previously run unsuccessfully in 2010 and 2014. Green won the election with 63.2% of the vote with Aiona receiving 36.8% of the vote.[71][72]

Green's performance was the highest percentage of the vote ever received by any gubernatorial candidate in the state's history. Despite this, Aiona performed 3 points better and received 20,000 more raw votes than Andria Tupola did in 2018.

Democratic primary results[73]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Josh Green 158,161 62.91%
Democratic Vicky Cayetano 52,447 20.86%
Democratic Kai Kahele 37,738 15.01%
Democratic Van Tanabe 1,236 0.49%
Democratic Richard Kim 991 0.39%
Democratic David Bourgoin 590 0.23%
Democratic Clyde Lewman 249 0.10%
Total votes 251,412 100.0%
Republican primary results[73]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Duke Aiona 37,608 49.57%
Republican B.J. Penn 19,817 26.12%
Republican Gary Cordery 8,258 10.88%
Republican Heidi Haunani Tsuneyoshi 7,255 9.56%
Republican Lynn Barry Mariano 903 1.19%
Republican Paul Morgan 796 1.05%
Republican Keline Kahau 469 0.62%
Republican Walter Woods 438 0.58%
Republican Moses Paskowitz 189 0.25%
Republican George Hawat 140 0.18%
Total votes 75,873 100.0%
2022 Hawaii gubernatorial election[74]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic 259,901 63.21% +0.54
Republican
151,258 36.79% +3.09
Total votes 411,159 100.00%
Turnout 417,215 48.44% –4.24
Registered electors 861,358
Democratic hold

Idaho

Idaho gubernatorial election

 
Nominee Brad Little Stephen Heidt Ammon Bundy
Party Republican Democratic Independent
Popular vote 358,598 120,160 101,835
Percentage 60.5% 20.3% 17.2%

County results
Little:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%
Heidt:      50–60%

Governor before election

Brad Little
Republican

Elected Governor

Brad Little
Republican

Governor Brad Little was elected in 2018 with 59.8% of the vote and ran for re-election to a second term. Little won his re-election bid by a landslide, defeating his Democratic challenger Stephen Heidt.

Incumbent lieutenant governor Janice McGeachin announced a primary challenge to Little, but Little won the Republican primary.[75] Anti-government activist Ammon Bundy also announced a run for the Republican nomination, but switched to an independent on February 17, 2022.[76]

The Democratic nominee is Stephen Heidt.[77]

Republican primary
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Brad Little (incumbent) 148,831 52.8
Republican Janice McGeachin 90,854 32.2
Republican Ed Humphreys 30,877 11.0
Republican Steve Bradshaw 5,470 1.9
Republican Ashley Jackson 3,172 1.1
Republican Lisa Marie 1,119 0.4
Republican Ben Cannady 804 0.3
Republican Cody Usabel 680 0.2
Total votes 281,807 100
Democratic primary
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Stephen Heidt 25,088 78.8
Democratic Write-ins 6,757 21.2
Total votes 31,845 100
2022 Idaho gubernatorial election[78][79]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Brad Little (incumbent) 358,598 60.52% +0.76%
Democratic Stephen Heidt 120,160 20.28% -17.91%
Independent Ammon Bundy 101,835 17.19% N/A
Libertarian Paul Sand 6,714 1.13% +0.05%
Constitution Chantyrose Davison 5,250 0.89% -0.07%
Total votes 592,557 100.0% N/A
Turnout 599,353 57.18% –4.24
Registered electors 1,048,263
Republican hold

Illinois

Illinois gubernatorial election

 
Nominee J. B. Pritzker Darren Bailey
Party Democratic Republican
Running mate Juliana Stratton Stephanie Trussell
Popular vote 2,253,748 1,739,095
Percentage 54.9% 42.4%

County results
Pritzker:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%
Bailey:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%

Governor before election

J. B. Pritzker
Democratic

Elected Governor

J. B. Pritzker
Democratic

Governor J. B. Pritzker was elected in 2018 with 54.5% of the vote and ran for a second term.[80] In the general election, Pritzker won re-election with 54.9% of the vote.

Republican candidates who announced their candidacy included Richard Irvin, Darren Bailey, Gary Rabine, Paul Schimpf, and Jesse Sullivan. Bailey won the primary on June 28.[81]

Democratic primary results[82][83]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic
810,989 91.88%
Democratic
  • Beverly Miles
  • Karla Shaw
71,704 8.12%
Total votes 882,693 100.0%
Republican primary results[82][84]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican
458,102 57.48%
Republican
  • Jesse Sullivan
  • Kathleen Murphy
125,094 15.70%
Republican 119,592 15.00%
Republican
  • Gary Rabine
  • Aaron Del Mar
52,194 6.55%
Republican
34,676 4.35%
Republican
  • Max Solomon
  • Latasha H. Fields
7,371 0.92%
Total votes 797,029 100.0%
2022 Illinois gubernatorial election[85]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic
2,253,748 54.91% +0.38%
Republican
1,739,095 42.37% +3.54%
Libertarian
  • Scott Schluter
  • John Phillips
111,712 2.72% +0.32%
Write-in 81 0.0% -0.01%
Total votes 4,104,636 100.0%
Turnout  %
Registered electors
Democratic hold

Iowa

Iowa gubernatorial election

 
Nominee Kim Reynolds Deidre DeJear
Party Republican Democratic
Running mate Adam Gregg Eric Van Lancker
Popular vote 709,198 482,950
Percentage 58.0% 39.5%

County results
Reynolds:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%
DeJear:      50–60%      60–70%

Governor before election

Kim Reynolds
Republican

Elected Governor

Kim Reynolds
Republican

Governor Kim Reynolds took office on May 24, 2017, upon the resignation of Terry Branstad and was elected to a full term in her own right in 2018 with 50.3% of the vote. She ran for re-election to a second full term.[86] In the general election, incumbent Republican governor Kim Reynolds won re-election in a landslide, defeating Democratic nominee Deidre DeJear.

Democrat Deidre DeJear, who announced her candidacy in August 2021,[87] was the Democratic nominee.[88]

Republican primary results[89]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Kim Reynolds (incumbent) 185,293 99.03%
Write-in 1,808 0.97%
Total votes 187,101 100.0%
Democratic primary results[89]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Deidre DeJear 145,555 99.45%
Democratic Write-ins 801 0.55%
Total votes 146,356 100.0%
2022 Iowa gubernatorial election[90]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican
709,198 58.04% +7.78%
Democratic
  • Deidre DeJear
  • Eric Van Lacker
482,950 39.53% -8.00%
Libertarian
  • Rick Stewart
  • Marco Battaglia
28,998 2.37% +0.84%
Write-in 718 0.06% +0.02%
Total votes 1,220,864 100.00
Turnout 1,230,416 55.06%
Registered electors 2,234,666
Republican hold

Kansas

Kansas gubernatorial election

 
Nominee Laura Kelly Derek Schmidt
Party Democratic Republican
Running mate David Toland Katie Sawyer
Popular vote 499,849 477,591
Percentage 49.5% 47.3%

County results
Kelly:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%
Schmidt:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%

Governor before election

Laura Kelly
Democratic

Elected Governor

Laura Kelly
Democratic

Governor Laura Kelly, a Democrat, was elected in 2018 with 48% of the vote and ran running for re-election to a second term.[91] On the Republican side, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt ran against her.[92]

Kelly narrowly won re-election, defeating Schmidt by 49.4% of the vote to 47.4% and by a margin of 20,614 votes in a minor upset.

Laura Kelly won the election by a margin of 2.2 percentage points over Derek Schmidt, similar to the percentage of votes that independent Dennis Pyle received. Kansas Republican Party Chair Mike Kuckelman pointed to this as evidence that Pyle was somewhat responsible for Schmidt's defeat. However, Pyle insisted that "Kansas needed a strong conservative candidate" and instead highlighted Schmidt's underperformance compared to other Republican candidates in Kansas.[93]

Kelly's personal popularity was also a factor in her victory, where a majority of voters approved of Kelly's job performance, while only a third did so for President Joe Biden.[94][95] Her win was also propelled by Democratic candidates' increased strength in suburban areas, such as Johnson County, in spite of Schmidt's increased vote share from 2018 in the Republican strongholds of rural Kansas.[96]

Democratic primary results[97]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic
270,968 93.84
Democratic
  • Richard Karnowski
  • Barry Franco
17,802 6.16
Total votes 288,770 100
Republican primary results[97]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican
373,524 80.60
Republican
  • Arlyn Briggs
  • Lance Berland
89,898 19.40
Total votes 463,422 100
2022 Kansas gubernatorial election[98]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic
499,849 49.54% +1.53%
Republican
477,591 47.33% +4.35%
Independent
20,452 2.03% N/A
Libertarian
  • Seth Cordell
  • Evan Laudick-Gains
11,106 1.10% −0.80%
Total votes 1,008,998 100.0%
Turnout 47.94%
Democratic hold

Maine

Maine gubernatorial election

 
Nominee Janet Mills Paul LePage
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 376,934 287,304
Percentage 55.7% 42.4%

County results
Mills:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%
LePage:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%

Governor before election

Janet Mills
Democratic

Elected Governor

Janet Mills
Democratic

Governor Janet Mills, a Democrat, was first elected in 2018 with 50.9% of the vote. Mills easily won re-election, soundly defeating Paul LePage by over 13 points, 55.7%–42.4%.[99] Hunkler took 1.9%. Mills's margin of victory was the largest for any Maine gubernatorial candidate since Angus King won re-election in 1998, and the largest victory for a statewide Democratic candidate since George J. Mitchell won re-election to the US Senate in 1988.

Democratic primary results[100]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Janet Mills (incumbent) 69,422 93.42%
Democratic Blank ballots 4,889 6.58%
Total votes 74,311 100.0%
Republican primary results[100]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Paul LePage 59,713 90.91%
Republican Blank ballots 5,971 9.09%
Total votes 65,684 100.0%
2022 Maine gubernatorial election[101]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Janet Mills (incumbent) 376,934 55.69% +4.80%
Republican Paul LePage 287,304 42.45% -0.73%
Independent Sam Hunkler 12,581 1.86% N/A
Total votes 676,819 100.0% N/A
Turnout  %
Registered electors
Democratic hold

Maryland

Maryland gubernatorial election

 
Nominee Wes Moore Dan Cox
Party Democratic Republican
Running mate Aruna Miller Gordana Schifanelli
Popular vote 1,293,944 644,000
Percentage 64.5% 32.1%

Moore:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%
Cox:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%

Governor before election

Larry Hogan
Republican

Elected Governor

Wes Moore
Democratic

Incumbent governor Larry Hogan, the two-term Republican, was term-limited and could not seek a third consecutive term.

The Democratic and Republican primaries were held on July 19,[102] with state delegate Dan Cox securing the Republican nomination, while author and former nonprofit CEO Wes Moore won the Democratic nomination. Political observers gave Moore a strong chance of defeating Cox in the general election in this reliably Democratic state where Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-to-1. Shortly after polls closed, several national news organizations called the election for Moore. Moore became the first African-American governor of Maryland after being sworn in on January 18, 2023.[103]

This race was also one of six Republican-held governorships up for election in 2022 in a state carried by Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, and one of three that voted for Biden by double-digits. Moore flipped six counties that had voted for Hogan in 2018, and his electoral strength largely came from densely populated Prince George's County and Baltimore, where he improved on the margins of 2018 Democratic nominee Ben Jealous by roughly 20 percent. Moore's margin of victory was the highest of any gubernatorial candidate in the state since William Donald Schaefer in 1986.[104]

2022.[105]

Neuman.[106]

Republican primary results[107]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican
153,423 52.00%
Republican
128,302 43.48%
Republican
8,268 2.80%
Republican
  • Joe Werner
  • Minh Thanh Luong
5,075 1.72%
Total votes 295,068 100.0%
Democratic primary results[107]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic 217,524 32.41%
Democratic
202,175 30.12%
Democratic
141,586 21.10%
Democratic
26,594 3.96%
Democratic
25,481 3.80%
Democratic
24,882 3.71%
Democratic
  • Ashwani Jain
  • LaTrece Hawkins Lytes
13,784 2.05%
Democratic
  • Jon Baron
  • Natalie Williams
11,880 1.77%
Democratic
4,276 0.64%
Democratic
  • Ralph Jaffe
  • Mark Greben
2,978 0.44%
Total votes 671,160 100.0%
2022 Maryland gubernatorial election[108]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic 1,293,944 64.53% +21.02%
Republican
644,000 32.12% -24.23%
Libertarian
  • David Lashar
  • Christiana Logansmith
30,101 1.50% +0.93%
Working Class
  • David Harding
  • Cathy White
17,154 0.86% N/A
Green
  • Nancy Wallace
  • Patrick Elder
14,580 0.73% +0.25%
Write-in 5,444 0.27% +0.19%
Total votes 2,005,223 100.0% N/A
Turnout 2,031,635 49.26% -9.80%
Registered electors 4,124,156
Democratic gain from Republican

Massachusetts

Massachusetts gubernatorial election

November 8, 2022
Turnout51.4% Decrease 8.75%[109]
 
Nominee Maura Healey Geoff Diehl
Party Democratic Republican
Running mate Kim Driscoll Leah Cole Allen
Popular vote 1,584,403 859,343
Percentage 63.7% 34.6%

Healey:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%
Diehl:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%

Governor before election

Charlie Baker
Republican

Elected Governor

Maura Healey
Democratic

Governor Charlie Baker was re-elected to a second term in 2018 with 66.6% of the vote. Because Massachusetts does not have gubernatorial term limits in its Constitution, he was eligible to run for re-election for a third term. However, in December 2021, Baker announced he would not be running for re-election.[110][111]

Geoff Diehl, a former state representative and Chris Doughty were running for the Republican nomination. Massachusetts attorney general Maura Healey and state senator Sonia Chang-Díaz were running for the Democratic nomination.

Diehl and Healey won their respective primaries on September 6.

Due to Massachusetts's strong liberal lean and Diehl's conservative political views, Healey was widely expected to win the election. The general election was called for the Democrat shortly after polls closed, with Healey becoming the first woman ever elected governor of Massachusetts and the first openly lesbian governor to take office in United States history.[112]

Republican primary results[113]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Geoff Diehl 149,800 55.44%
Republican Chris Doughty 120,418 44.56%
Total votes 270,218 100.0%
Democratic primary results[113]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Maura Healey 642,092 85.54%
Democratic Sonia Chang-Díaz (withdrawn) 108,574 14.46%
Total votes 750,666 100.0%
2022 Massachusetts gubernatorial election[114]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic 1,584,403 63.74% +30.62%
Republican 859,343 34.57% −32.03%
Libertarian
  • Kevin Reed
  • Peter Everett
39,244 1.58% N/A
Write-in 2,806 0.11% −0.17%
Total votes 2,485,796 100.0%
Turnout 2,511,461 51.4% −9.37%
Registered electors
Democratic gain from Republican

Michigan

Michigan gubernatorial election

 
Nominee Gretchen Whitmer Tudor Dixon
Party Democratic Republican
Running mate Garlin Gilchrist Shane Hernandez
Popular vote 2,430,505 1,960,635
Percentage 54.5% 43.9%

County results
Whitmer:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%
Dixon:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%

Governor before election

Gretchen Whitmer
Democratic

Elected Governor

Gretchen Whitmer
Democratic

Incumbent Democratic governor Gretchen Whitmer ran for re-election to a second term and faced former political commentator Tudor Dixon in the general election.[115] Whitmer defeated Dixon by a vote margin of nearly 11 percentage points, a larger victory than when she was first elected four years prior.

Democratic primary results[116]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Gretchen Whitmer (incumbent) 938,382 100.0%
Total votes 938,382 100.0%
Republican primary results[116]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Tudor Dixon 436,350 39.69%
Republican Kevin Rinke 236,306 21.50%
Republican Garrett Soldano 192,442 17.51%
Republican Ryan Kelley 165,587 15.06%
Republican Ralph Rebandt 45,046 4.10%
Write-in 23,542 2.14%
Total votes 1,099,273 100.0%
2022 Michigan gubernatorial election[117]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic
2,430,505 54.47% +1.16%
Republican 1,960,635 43.94% +0.19%
Libertarian
  • Mary Buzuma
  • Brian Ellison
38,800 0.87% -0.46%
Constitution
  • Donna Brandenburg
  • Mellissa Carone
16,246 0.36% -0.33%
Green
  • Kevin Hogan
  • Destiny Clayton
10,766 0.24% -0.44%
Natural Law
  • Daryl M. Simpson
  • Doug Dern
4,973 0.11% -0.13%
Write-in 47 0.00% ±0.0%
Total votes 4,461,972 100.0%
Turnout
Registered electors
Democratic hold

Minnesota

Minnesota gubernatorial election

 
Nominee Tim Walz Scott Jensen
Party Democratic (DFL) Republican
Running mate Peggy Flanagan Matt Birk
Popular vote 1,312,349 1,119,941
Percentage 52.3% 44.6%

Walz:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%
Jensen:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%

Governor before election

Tim Walz
Minnesota DFL

Elected Governor

Tim Walz
Minnesota DFL

Incumbent Democratic (DFL) Governor Tim Walz defeated the Republican nominee, former state senator Scott Jensen,[118] winning a second term.[119]

In the end, Jensen's advantage in rural Greater Minnesota could not overcome Walz's large lead in the Twin Cities metropolitan area, with Walz going on to win the election with a comfortable 7.7% margin. However, this was the first time ever in Walz's career that he lost Minnesota's 1st congressional district, the district that he used to represent in Congress and prior to this election, carried seven times in a row. This election was also the first time ever that Walz failed to carry the following counties in any election which he ran in: Freeborn County, Houston County, Mower County, and Winona County. Winona County was significant given the fact that President Joe Biden carried the county in 2020.

Democratic-Farmer-Labor primary results[120]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic (DFL) Tim Walz (incumbent) 416,973 96.54%
Democratic (DFL) Ole Savior 14,950 3.46%
Total votes 431,923 100.0%
Republican primary results[120]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Scott Jensen 288,499 89.31%
Republican Joyce Lynne Lacey 21,308 6.60%
Republican Bob "Again" Carney Jr. 13,213 4.09%
Total votes 323,020 100.0%
2022 Minnesota gubernatorial election[121][122]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic (DFL)
1,312,349 52.27% -1.57%
Republican 1,119,941 44.61% +2.18%
Legal Marijuana Now
  • James McCaskel
  • David Sandbeck
29,346 1.17% N/A
Grassroots—LC
  • Steve Patterson
  • Matt Huff
22,599 0.90% -1.75%
Independence
  • Hugh McTavish
  • Mike Winter
18,156 0.72% N/A
Socialist Workers
  • Gabrielle Prosser
  • Kevin Dwire
7,241 0.29% N/A
Write-in 1,029 0.04% ±0.0%
Total votes 2,510,661 100.0%
Turnout 2,525,873 61.01%
Registered electors 4,140,218
Democratic (DFL) hold

Nebraska

Nebraska gubernatorial election

 
Nominee Jim Pillen Carol Blood
Party Republican Democratic
Running mate Joe Kelly Al Davis
Popular vote 398,334 242,006
Percentage 59.7% 36.3%

County results
Pillen:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90%
Blood:      50–60%

Governor before election

Pete Ricketts
Republican

Elected Governor

Jim Pillen
Republican

Incumbent Republican governor Pete Ricketts was re-elected to a second term in 2018. He was term-limited by the Nebraska Constitution in 2022 and could not seek re-election for a third consecutive term.[123]

In the general election, Republican Jim Pillen went on to win the gubernatorial election by a 23-point margin.

Nebraska's primary elections were held on May 10. Former University of Nebraska Board of Regents chair Jim Pillen won the Republican nomination, while state senator Carol Blood won the Democratic nomination.

The race took on increased importance in October 2022, when U.S. Senator Ben Sasse announced he would resign and Ricketts said he would allow the winner of the 2022 gubernatorial election to appoint Sasse's replacement.[124] The winner, Jim Pillen, ultimately decided to appoint his predecessor (Ricketts) to fill Sasse's seat.

Republican primary results
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Jim Pillen 91,459 33.9%
Republican Charles Herbster 80,642 29.9%
Republican Brett Lindstrom 70,487 26.1%
Republican Theresa Thibodeau 16,413 6.1%
Republican Breland Ridenour 4,682 1.7%
Republican Michael Connely 2,831 1.1%
Republican Donna Nicole Carpenter 1,533 0.6%
Republican Lela McNinch 1,192 0.4%
Republican Troy Wentz 708 0.3%
Write-in 193 0.1%
Total votes 269,947 100.0%
Democratic primary results
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Carol Blood 88,802 87.0%
Democratic Roy Harris 11,264 11.3%
Write-in 1,574 1.7%
Total votes 100,066 100.0%
2022 Nebraska gubernatorial election[125]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican 398,334 59.74% +0.74
Democratic 242,006 36.29% -4.71
Libertarian
  • Scott Zimmerman
  • Jason Blumenthal
26,445 3.97% N/A
Total votes 666,795 100.00%
Turnout 682,716 54.93%
Registered electors 1,242,930
Republican hold

Nevada

Nevada gubernatorial election

 
Nominee Joe Lombardo Steve Sisolak
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote 497,377 481,991
Percentage 48.8% 47.3%

County results
Lombardo:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%
Sisolak:      40–50%      50–60%

Governor before election

Steve Sisolak
Democratic

Elected Governor

Joe Lombardo
Republican

Incumbent governor Steve Sisolak, a Democrat, was elected in 2018 with 49.4% of the vote and ran for re-election to a second term.[126] Sisolak lost re-election to a second term, being defeated by Republican nominee and Clark County Sheriff, Joe Lombardo.[127]

Sisolak was the first Democrat to seek re-election to Nevada's governorship since Bob Miller in 1994, and was subsequently the only incumbent governor in the United States to lose re-election in the 2022 elections. Decision Desk HQ called the race for Lombardo on November 11.[128] Amid a slate of failed gubernatorial pickup attempts, this was the only governorship Republicans flipped in the 2022 elections, as well as the only governorship in a state carried by one party in the prior presidential election to flip to the other party. This was also the first time since Pat Quinn's defeat in the 2014 Illinois gubernatorial election that an incumbent Democratic governor had lost re-election.

Former senator Dean Heller ran for the Republican nomination[129] as did North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee,[130] and Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo.[131] Lombardo won the Republican primary and faced Sisolak in November.[132]

Democratic primary results[133][134]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Steve Sisolak (incumbent) 157,283 89.53%
Democratic Tom Collins 12,051 6.86%
None of These Candidates 6,340 3.61%
Total votes 175,674 100.0%
Republican primary results[133][134]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Joe Lombardo 87,761 38.40%
Republican Joey Gilbert 61,738 27.01%
Republican Dean Heller 32,087 14.04%
Republican John Jay Lee 17,846 7.81%
Republican Guy Nohra 8,348 3.65%
Republican Fred J. Simon 6,856 3.00%
Republican Thomas Heck 4,315 1.89%
None of These Candidates 4,219 1.85%
Republican Eddie Hamilton 1,293 0.57%
Republican Amber Whitley 1,238 0.54%
Republican William Walls 833 0.36%
Republican Gary Evertsen 558 0.24%
Republican Seven Achilles Evans 475 0.21%
Republican Edward O'Brien 422 0.18%
Republican Barak Zilberberg 352 0.15%
Republican Stanleigh Lusak 229 0.10%
Total votes 228,570 100.0%
2022 Nevada gubernatorial election[135]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Joe Lombardo 497,377 48.81% +3.50%
Democratic Steve Sisolak (incumbent) 481,991 47.30% -2.09%
Libertarian Brandon Davis 14,919 1.46% +0.57%
None of These Candidates 14,866 1.46% -0.48%
Independent American Ed Bridges 9,918 0.97% -0.07%
Total votes 1,019,071 100.0%
Turnout 1,023,617 54.58%
Registered electors 1,875,578
Republican gain from Democratic

New Hampshire

New Hampshire gubernatorial election

November 8, 2022
Turnout67.6% Decrease
 
Nominee Chris Sununu Tom Sherman
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote 352,982 256,774
Percentage 57.0% 41.5%

Sununu:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90%
Sherman:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      >90%

Governor before election

Chris Sununu
Republican

Elected Governor

Chris Sununu
Republican

Incumbent Republican governor Chris Sununu was re-elected in 2020 with 65.1% of the vote and ran for a fourth term.[136] Physician Tom Sherman challenged Sununu as a Democrat.[137] Chris Sununu won re-election to a fourth term.

Republican primary results[138]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Chris Sununu (incumbent) 113,443 78.66%
Republican Karen Testerman 14,473 10.04%
Republican Thaddeus Riley 11,107 7.70%
Republican Julian Acciard 2,906 2.01%
Republican Jay Lewis 1,318 0.91%
Republican Richard McMenamon II 817 0.57%
Write-in 160 0.11%
Total votes 144,224 100.0%
Democratic primary results[138]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Tom Sherman 82,607 97.57%
Republican Chris Sununu (incumbent) (write-in) 1,963 2.32%
Write-in 95 0.11%
Total votes 84,665 100.0%
2022 New Hampshire gubernatorial election[139]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Chris Sununu (incumbent) 352,813 56.98% -8.14%
Democratic Tom Sherman 256,766 41.47% +8.11%
Libertarian Kelly Halldorson 5,071 0.82% N/A
Libertarian Karlyn Borysenko 2,772 0.45% N/A
Write-in 1,713 0.28% +0.19%
Total votes 619,135 100.0%
Turnout 626,845 67.63%
Registered electors 925,401
Republican hold

New Mexico

New Mexico gubernatorial election

 
Nominee Michelle Lujan Grisham Mark Ronchetti
Party Democratic Republican
Running mate Howie Morales Ant Thornton
Popular vote 370,168 324,701
Percentage 52.0% 45.6%

County results
Lujan Grisham:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%
Ronchetti:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%

Governor before election

Michelle Lujan Grisham
Democratic

Elected Governor

Michelle Lujan Grisham
Democratic

Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham was elected in 2018 with 57.2% of the vote and ran for a second term.[140] The Republican nominee is former meteorologist Mark Ronchetti.[141] Incumbent Democratic governor Michelle Lujan Grisham won a second term. She was first elected in 2018 with 57.2% of the vote. This was the first gubernatorial election in New Mexico since 1986 in which the winner was from the same party as the incumbent president.

Gubernatorial Democratic primary results[142]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Michelle Lujan Grisham (incumbent) 125,238 100.0%
Total votes 125,238 100.0%
Gubernatorial Republican primary results[142]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Mark Ronchetti 68,658 58.41%
Republican Rebecca Dow 18,185 15.47%
Republican Gregory Zanetti 16,394 13.95%
Republican Jay Block 12,469 10.61%
Republican Ethel Maharg 1,845 1.57%
Total votes 117,551 100.0%
2022 New Mexico gubernatorial election[143]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic
370,168 51.97% -5.23%
Republican
324,701 45.59% +2.79%
Libertarian
  • Karen Bedonie
  • Efren Gallardo, Jr
17,387 2.44% N/A
Total votes 712,256 100.0%
Turnout 714,797 52.38%
Registered electors 1,364,559
Democratic hold

New York

New York gubernatorial election

 
Nominee Kathy Hochul Lee Zeldin
Party Democratic Republican
Running mate Antonio Delgado Alison Esposito
Popular vote 3,140,415 2,762,581
Percentage 53.2% 46.8%

County results
Hochul:      50-60%      60-70%      70-80%      80-90%
Zeldin:      50-60%      60-70%      70-80%      80-90%

Governor before election

Kathy Hochul
Democratic

Elected Governor

Kathy Hochul
Democratic

Governor Andrew Cuomo was re-elected to a third term in 2018 with 59.6% of the vote. Because New York does not have gubernatorial term limits in its Constitution, he was eligible to run for re-election for a fourth term. On May 28, 2019, Cuomo announced that he would run for re-election for a fourth term in 2022.[144][145]

Cuomo was expected to face a primary challenge for the Democratic nomination as a result of allegations of sexual harassment involving Cuomo and a simultaneous investigation into his administration's cover-up of nursing home deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic.[146] Cuomo resigned as governor at the end of August 23, 2021, upon which Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul became governor.[147] Hochul has said she is running for a full gubernatorial term.[148] Current New York Attorney General Letitia James was previously running against Hochul in the primary, but later changed her mind to run for re-election.[149][150] Current New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams announced he would run against Hochul in the primary, as did current U.S. representative Thomas Suozzi.[151][152] Hochul won the primary on June 28.[153]

Republicans running for the gubernatorial nomination included former Westchester County executive Rob Astorino, Andrew Giuliani (the son of former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani), businessman and former Obama administration official Harry Wilson, and congressman and former state senator Lee Zeldin. Zeldin is the official designee of both the New York Republican Party and the New York Conservative Party.[154] Zeldin won the primary on June 28.[153]

Larry Shape is the Libertarian candidate for governor. The state board of elections disqualified him for not meeting ballot access requirements. He continued as a write in candidate.[155] He was also the Libertarian nominee in the 2018 election.[156]

Democratic gubernatorial primary results[157][158]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Kathy Hochul (incumbent) 607,928 67.64%
Democratic Jumaane Williams 173,872 19.35%
Democratic Thomas Suozzi 116,972 13.01%
Total votes 898,772 100.0%
Republican gubernatorial primary results[157][158]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Lee Zeldin 196,874 43.62%
Republican Andrew Giuliani 103,267 22.88%
Republican Rob Astorino 84,464 18.71%
Republican Harry Wilson 66,736 14.79%
Total votes 451,341 100.0%
2022 New York gubernatorial election[159]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic
  • Kathy Hochul
  • Antonio Delgado
2,879,092 48.77% -7.39%
Working Families
  • Kathy Hochul
  • Antonio Delgado
261,323 4.43% +2.55%
Total
3,140,415 53.20% -6.42%
Republican
  • Lee Zeldin
  • Alison Esposito
2,449,394 41.49% +9.89%
Conservative
  • Lee Zeldin
  • Alison Esposito
313,187 5.31% +1.15%
Total
2,762,581 46.80% +10.59%
Total votes 5,902,996 100.0%
Turnout 5,788,802 47.74%
Registered electors 12,124,242
Democratic hold

Ohio

Ohio gubernatorial election

November 8, 2022
Turnout52.32% Decrease 5.2pp
 
Nominee Mike DeWine Nan Whaley
Party Republican Democratic
Running mate Jon Husted Cheryl Stephens
Popular vote 2,580,424 1,545,489
Percentage 62.4% 37.4%

DeWine:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%
Whaley:      50–60%      60–70%

Governor before election

Mike DeWine
Republican

Elected Governor

Mike DeWine
Republican

Governor Mike DeWine was elected in 2018 with 50.4% of the vote and ran for re-election to a second term.

DeWine faced a primary challenge from former US Representative and 2018 Ohio Republican Senate Nominee Jim Renacci and farmer Joe Blystone. Former Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley[160][161][162] and former Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley[163] ran for the Democratic nomination.DeWine and Whaley won their respective primaries on May 3.

Incumbent Republican governor Mike DeWine won re-election to a second term in a landslide, defeating Democrat nominee Nan Whaley, the former mayor of Dayton, 62.8% to 37.2%.[164] DeWine's 25-point victory marked the continuation of a trend in which every incumbent Republican governor of Ohio since 1978 has won re-election by a double digit margin.

This was the first time since 1994 in which Trumbull and Mahoning counties have gone to the Republican candidate with over 60% of the vote.

Republican primary results[165][166]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican
519,594 48.11%
Republican
302,494 28.01%
Republican
235,584 21.81%
Republican 22,411 2.07%
Total votes 1,080,083 100.0%
Democratic primary results[165][166]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic
331,014 65.01%
Democratic 178,132 34.99%
Total votes 509,146 100.0%
2022 Ohio gubernatorial election[166]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican
2,580,424 62.41% +12.02%
Democratic
1,545,489 37.38% -9.30%
Write-in 8,964 0.22% N/A
Total votes 4,134,877 100.0%
Turnout 4,201,368 52.32%
Registered electors 8,029,950
Republican hold

Oklahoma

Oklahoma gubernatorial election

 
Nominee Kevin Stitt Joy Hofmeister
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote 639,484 481,904
Percentage 55.4% 41.8%

Stitt:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%
Hofmeister:      40–50%      50–60%

Governor before election

Kevin Stitt
Republican

Elected Governor

Kevin Stitt
Republican

Governor Kevin Stitt was elected in 2018 with 54.3% of the vote and ran for re-election to a second term.[167] Former state senator and physician Ervin Yen filed paperwork to challenge Stitt in the Republican Primary.[168] Stitt won the primary on June 28.[169]

On October 7, 2021, Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister announced she would be switching to the Democratic Party and subsequently announced her campaign for the Democratic nomination for governor.[170][171] Hofmeister won the nomination on June 28, defeating former state senator Connie Johnson in the primary.[169] Natalie Bruno has filed to run for the Libertarian Party's nomination.[172] Paul Tay has filed with the state ethics commission to run as an independent.[173]

Incumbent Republican governor Kevin Stitt was re-elected to a second term.[174] State Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister was the Democratic nominee, former Republican state senator Ervin Yen ran as an independent, and Natalie Bruno was the Libertarian nominee.

Although Stitt won by a comfortable margin, his performance was the worst of any 2022 Republican candidate for statewide office in Oklahoma. Meanwhile, Hofmeister's performance was the second best of any 2022 Democratic statewide candidate in Oklahoma, only behind State Superintendent of Public Instruction nominee Jena Nelson.

Republican primary results[175]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Kevin Stitt (incumbent) 248,525 69.06%
Republican Joel Kintsel 51,587 14.33%
Republican Mark Sherwood 47,713 13.26%
Republican Moira McCabe 12,046 3.35%
Total votes 359,871 100.0%
Democratic primary results[175]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Joy Hofmeister 101,913 60.73%
Democratic Connie Johnson 65,894 39.27%
Total votes 167,807 100.0%
2022 Oklahoma gubernatorial election[176][177]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Kevin Stitt (incumbent) 639,484 55.45% +1.12%
Democratic Joy Hofmeister 481,904 41.79% -0.44%
Libertarian Natalie Bruno 16,243 1.41% -2.03%
Independent Ervin Yen 15,653 1.36% N/A
Total votes 1,153,284 100.0%
Turnout 1,153,284 50.23%
Registered electors 2,295,906
Republican hold

Oregon

Oregon gubernatorial election

 
Nominee Tina Kotek Christine Drazan Betsy Johnson
Party Democratic Republican Independent
Popular vote 917,074 850,347 168,431
Percentage 47.0% 43.6% 8.6%

County results
Kotek:      30–40%      40–50%      50–60%      70–80%
Drazan:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%

Governor before election

Kate Brown
Democratic

Elected Governor

Tina Kotek
Democratic

The incumbent governor, Democrat Kate Brown, took office on February 18, 2015, upon the resignation of John Kitzhaber.[178] She was subsequently elected in the gubernatorial special election in 2016,[179] and was re-elected to a full term in 2018.[180] Due to term limits, she was ineligible for re-election in 2022.[181]

The Oregonian anticipated the election to have "the first competitive Democratic primary in more than a decade and potentially the closest such race since 2002."[182] Willamette Week anticipated a "wide open field of Democrats", citing the lack of an incumbent.[183] Almost 20 Republican Party candidates ran for the office, including two previous nominees for governor in 1998 and 2016,[184][185] as well as 15 Democrats and some non-affiliates/third-party members.[186]

In the May 17 primary elections, former Oregon House Speaker Tina Kotek was declared the winner of the Democratic primary half an hour after the ballot deadline.[187] The next day, former House Minority Leader Christine Drazan was determined to have won the Republican primary.[188] Notably, the general election featured three prominent female candidates, including former state senator Betsy Johnson, who was a moderate Democrat, running as an independent.

Oregon was considered a possible Republican pickup, as Brown had the lowest approval rating of any governor in the United States at the time and Johnson could have siphoned votes from Kotek.[189][190][191] Nonetheless, Kotek won the election by a slim margin, becoming Oregon's 7th consecutive Democratic governor.[192] She became one of the first lesbian governors in the United States, along with Maura Healey in Massachusetts.[193]

Democratic primary results[194]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Tina Kotek 275,301 57.63%
Democratic Tobias Read 156,017 32.66%
Democratic Patrick Starnes 10,524 2.20%
Democratic George Carrillo 9,365 1.96%
Democratic Michael Trimble 5,000 1.05%
Democratic John Sweeney 4,193 0.88%
Democratic Julian Bell 3,926 0.82%
Democratic Wilson Bright 2,316 0.48%
Democratic Dave Stauffer 2,302 0.48%
Democratic Ifeanyichukwu Diru 1,780 0.37%
Democratic Keisha Marchant 1,755 0.37%
Democratic Genevieve Wilson 1,588 0.33%
Democratic Michael Cross 1,342 0.28%
Democratic David Beem 1,308 0.27%
Democratic Peter Hall 982 0.21%
Total votes 477,699 100.0%
Republican primary results[194]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Christine Drazan 85,255 22.99%
Republican Bob Tiernan 66,089 17.82%
Republican Stan Pulliam 41,123 11.09%
Republican Bridget Barton 40,886 11.02%
Republican Bud Pierce 32,965 8.89%
Republican Marc Thielman 30,076 8.12%
Republican Kerry McQuisten 28,727 7.74%
Republican Bill Sizemore 13,261 3.57%
Republican Jessica Gomez 9,970 2.69%
Republican Tim McCloud 4,400 1.19%
Republican Nick Hess 4,287 1.15%
Republican Court Boice 4,040 1.09%
Republican Brandon Merritt 3,615 0.97%
Republican Reed Christensen 3,042 0.82%
Republican Amber Richardson 1,924 0.52%
Republican Raymond Baldwin 459 0.12%
Republican David Burch 406 0.11%
Republican John Presco 174 0.05%
Republican Stefan Strek 171 0.05%
Total votes 370,910 100.0%
2022 Oregon gubernatorial election[195][196]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Tina Kotek 917,074 46.96% -3.09%
Republican Christine Drazan 850,347 43.54% -0.11%
Independent Betsy Johnson 168,431 8.63% N/A
Constitution Donice Noelle Smith 8,051 0.41% -0.72%
Libertarian R. Leon Noble 6,867 0.35% -1.20%
Write-in 2,113 0.11% -0.05%
Total votes 1,952,883 100.0%
Turnout 1,997,689 66.91%
Registered electors 2,985,820
Democratic hold

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania gubernatorial election

 
Nominee Josh Shapiro Doug Mastriano
Party Democratic Republican
Running mate Austin Davis Carrie DelRosso
Popular vote 3,031,137 2,238,477
Percentage 56.5% 41.7%

County results
Shapiro:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%
Mastriano:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80-90%

Governor before election

Tom Wolf
Democratic

Elected Governor

Josh Shapiro
Democratic

Governor Tom Wolf was re-elected in 2018 with 57.8% of the vote. He is term-limited in 2022 by the Pennsylvania Constitution and was therefore ineligible to seek election to a third consecutive term.

Democratic state attorney general Josh Shapiro defeated Republican state senator Doug Mastriano in a landslide victory to succeed term-limited incumbent Democratic governor Tom Wolf. Primaries were held on May 17, 2022. Shapiro won the Democratic nomination after running unopposed and Mastriano won the Republican nomination with 44% of the vote. Mastriano's nomination drew attention due to his far-right political views.[197][198][199][200]

Shapiro defeated Mastriano by almost 15 points, a margin consistent with most polls. Shapiro scored the largest margin for a non-incumbent candidate for governor since 1946,[201][202] and his victory marked the first time since 1844 that the Democratic Party won three consecutive gubernatorial elections in Pennsylvania. Shapiro also made history by earning the most votes of any gubernatorial candidate in the state's history, garnering just over three million votes. Austin Davis was elected lieutenant governor, and became the second African-American elected to statewide office in the state's history, following Republican Timothy DeFoor in 2020.

Shapiro's large margin of victory has been widely credited with helping down-ballot Democrats in concurrent elections.

Democratic primary[203]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Josh Shapiro 1,227,151 100.0%
Total votes 1,227,151 100.0%
Republican primary[203]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Doug Mastriano 591,240 43.81%
Republican Lou Barletta 273,252 20.25%
Republican William McSwain 212,886 15.78%
Republican Dave White 129,058 9.56%
Republican Melissa Hart (withdrawn)[lower-alpha 14] 54,752 4.06%
Republican Joe Gale 27,920 2.07%
Republican Jake Corman (withdrawn)[lower-alpha 14] 26,091 1.93%
Republican Charlie Gerow 17,922 1.33%
Republican Nche Zama 16,238 1.20%
Total votes 1,349,359 100.00%
2022 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election[204]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic 3,031,137 56.49% -1.28%
Republican 2,238,477 41.71% +1.01%
Libertarian
  • Matt Hackenburg
  • Tim McMaster
51,611 0.96% -0.02%
Green
  • Christina DiGiulio
  • Michael Bagdes-Canning
24,436 0.46% -0.09%
Keystone
  • Joe Soloski
  • Nicole Shultz
20,518 0.38% N/A
Total votes 5,366,179 100.0% N/A
Turnout  %
Registered electors 8,864,831
Democratic hold

Rhode Island

Rhode Island gubernatorial election

 
Nominee Dan McKee Ashley Kalus
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 207,166 139,001
Percentage 57.9% 38.9%

McKee:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%
Kalus:      40–50%      50–60%

Governor before election

Dan McKee
Democratic

Elected Governor

Dan McKee
Democratic

Incumbent Democratic governor Dan McKee became Rhode Island's governor on March 2, 2021, when term-limited Gina Raimondo resigned following her confirmation as United States Secretary of Commerce. McKee easily won a full term on election day, defeating Republican Ashley Kalus by more than 19 percentage points.[205][206]

McKee's margin of victory and vote share were the highest for any candidate for governor of Rhode Island since 1992.

Democratic primary results
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Dan McKee (incumbent) 37,288 32.8
Democratic Helena Foulkes 33,931 29.9
Democratic Nellie Gorbea 29,811 26.2
Democratic Matt Brown 9,021 7.9
Democratic Luis Daniel Muñoz 3,547 3.1
Total votes 113,598 100.0
Republican primary results
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Ashley Kalus 17,188 83.7
Republican Jonathan Riccitelli 3,351 16.3
Total votes 20,539 100.0
2022 Rhode Island gubernatorial election[207]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Dan McKee (incumbent) 207,166 57.92% +5.28
Republican Ashley Kalus 139,001 38.86% +1.68
Independent Zachary Hurwitz 4,512 1.26% N/A
Independent Paul Rianna Jr. 3,123 0.87% N/A
Libertarian Elijah Gizzarelli 2,811 0.79% N/A
Write-in 1,057 0.30% −0.03
Total votes 357,670 100.00%
Turnout  %
Registered electors
Democratic hold

South Carolina

South Carolina gubernatorial election

Turnout50.9% Decrease
 
Nominee Henry McMaster Joe Cunningham
Party Republican Democratic
Running mate Pamela Evette Tally Parham Casey
Popular vote 988,501 692,691
Percentage 58.1% 40.7%

County results

McMaster:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%

Cunningham:      50–60%      60–70%

Governor before election

Henry McMaster
Republican

Elected Governor

Henry McMaster
Republican

Incumbent Republican governor Henry McMaster ran for re-election for a second full term in office and secured the Republican nomination in the June 14 primary. Joe Cunningham, former United States Representative from South Carolina's 1st congressional district, was the Democratic nominee.[208]

McMaster won the general election with 58% of the vote — a subsequently larger majority than in 2018. McMaster took office on January 24, 2017, upon the resignation of Nikki Haley, and was elected to a full term in 2018.

South Carolina Gubernatorial Republican Primary Election, 2022
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Henry McMaster (incumbent) 306,555 83.0%
Republican Harrison Musselwhite 61,545 16.7%
Total votes 367,689 100%
South Carolina Gubernatiorial Democratic Primary Election, 2022
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Joe Cunningham 102,315 56.5%
Democratic Mia McLeod 56,084 31.0%
Democratic Carlton Boyd 9,526 5.3%
Democratic William Williams 6,746 3.7%
Democratic Calvin McMillan 6,260 3.5%
Total votes 180,931 100%
2022 South Carolina gubernatorial election[209]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican
988,501 58.04% +4.08%
Democratic
692,691 40.67% −5.25%
Libertarian
  • Morgan Bruce Reeves
  • Jessica Ethridge
20,826 1.22% N/A
Write-in 1,174 0.07%
Total votes 1,703,192 100% N/A
Turnout 1,718,626 50.86%
Registered electors 3,379,089
Republican hold

South Dakota

South Dakota gubernatorial election

Turnout59.4% Decrease
 
Nominee Kristi Noem Jamie Smith
Party Republican Democratic
Running mate Larry Rhoden Jennifer Healy Keintz
Popular vote 217,035 123,148
Percentage 62.0% 35.2%

County results

Noem:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90%

Smith:      50–60%      70–80%      80–90%

Governor before election

Kristi Noem
Republican

Elected Governor

Kristi Noem
Republican

Governor Kristi Noem was elected in 2018 with 51% of the vote, and ran for re-election to a second term.[210] The Democratic nominee is state representative Jamie Smith.[211] Noem won a second term, winning 62% of the vote.

Republican primary results[212]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Kristi Noem (incumbent) 91,661 76.4
Republican Steven Haugaard 28,315 23.6
Total votes 119,976 100.0
2022 South Dakota gubernatorial election[213]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican
217,035 61.98% +11.01%
Democratic 123,148 35.17% -12.43%
Libertarian
  • Tracey Quint
  • Ashley Strand
9,983 2.85% +1.42%
Total votes 350,166 100.00% N/A
Turnout 59.40%
Registered electors 597,073
Republican hold

Tennessee

Tennessee gubernatorial election

November 8, 2022
Turnout38.61% Decrease[214] 15.85 pp
 
Nominee Bill Lee Jason Martin
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote 1,129,390 572,818
Percentage 64.9% 32.9%

Lee:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%
Martin:      50–60%      60–70%

Governor before election

Bill Lee
Republican

Elected Governor

Bill Lee
Republican

Incumbent Republican governor Bill Lee won re-election to a second term with almost 65% of the vote, Improving on his performance from 2018. The Democratic challenger was Jason Martin.

Lee flipped reliably Democratic Haywood County, home to Brownsville. It is one of only two remaining counties in Tennessee, along with Shelby County, with a majority African-American population. Haywood County has not voted Republican on a presidential level since 1972.

Republican primary results[215]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Bill Lee (incumbent) 494,362 100.00
Total votes 494,362 100.00
Democratic primary results[216]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Jason Martin 101,552 39.39
Democratic J.B. Smiley Jr. 100,062 38.81
Democratic Carnita Atwater 56,227 21.81
Total votes 257,841 100.00
2022 Tennessee gubernatorial election[217]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Bill Lee (incumbent) 1,129,390 64.91% +5.55
Democratic Jason Martin 572,818 32.92% −5.63
Independent John Gentry 15,395 0.89% N/A
Independent Constance Every 10,277 0.59% N/A
Independent Deborah Rouse 3,772 0.22% N/A
Independent Rick Tyler 2,380 0.14% N/A
Independent Charles Van Morgan 1,862 0.11% N/A
Independent Basil Marceaux 1,568 0.09% N/A
Independent Alfred O'Neil 1,216 0.07% N/A
Independent Michael Scantland 815 0.05% N/A
Write-In Lemichael D. Wilson 386 0.02% N/A
Write-In Charles Carney 2 0.00% N/A
Write-In Stephen C. Maxwell 1 0.00% N/A
Write-In Kameron Parker Scott 0 0.00% N/A
Total votes 1,739,882 100.00%
Turnout 1,756,397 38.61% -15.85%
Registered electors 4,549,183
Republican hold

Texas

Texas gubernatorial election

Turnout45.9% Decrease
 
Nominee Greg Abbott Beto O'Rourke
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote 4,437,099 3,553,656
Percentage 54.8% 43.9%

Abbott:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90%
O'Rourke:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90%
Tie:      40–50%      50%
     No data

Governor before election

Greg Abbott
Republican

Elected Governor

Greg Abbott
Republican

Incumbent Republican governor Greg Abbott won re-election to a third term, defeating Democratic nominee and former Congressman, Beto O'Rourke.[218] All statewide elected offices are currently held by Republicans. In his previous gubernatorial race in 2018, Abbott won with 55.8% of the vote.[219]

The Democratic and Republican primaries were held on March 1, 2022. O'Rourke and Abbott won outright majorities in their respective primaries, and therefore did not participate in the May 24 runoffs.

Texas has not voted for a Democratic candidate for governor since Ann Richards in 1990. Additionally, Abbott had a strong approval rating on election day, with 55% of voters approving to 45% disapproving.[220] Beto O'Rourke, who gained national attention in 2018 for his unusually close and competitive campaign against Senator Ted Cruz, was widely viewed as a rising star in the Texas Democratic Party and potential challenger for Abbott, but a failed run for President of the United States in 2020 prompted criticisms of opportunism, via Republican attempts to brand him as anti-law enforcement and his former comments on guns.

Abbott won re-election by 10.9%, which is a margin slightly smaller than his 13.3% in 2018 in spite of a much redder national climate in 2022, making this the closest gubernatorial election in Texas since 2006, and the closest election of Abbott's entire political career since his first race for the Texas Supreme Court in 1998. Beto O'Rourke, meanwhile, performed 8.3% worse than his 2018 Senate run, but did still win the highest share for a Democratic gubernatorial candidate since Ann Richards received 45.88% in her unsuccessful reelection bid against George W. Bush in 1994. Abbott's raw vote total was less than his 4.65 million in 2018, while O'Rourke set a record of most raw votes for a Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate at around 3.55 million, but was also less than his 4.04 million vote total in the 2018 Senate race.

Abbott carried 235 out of 254 counties in his re-election victory, flipping the heavily Hispanic counties of Culberson and Zapata and becoming the first Republican gubernatorial candidate to win the latter in the state's history (though Zapata had voted Republican in the 2020 presidential election), while O'Rourke became the first Democratic gubernatorial candidate to win the county of Fort Bend since 1974. O'Rourke outperformed Joe Biden two years prior among Latino voters though his performance with them was still worse than past nominees.

Republican primary results[221]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Greg Abbott (incumbent) 1,299,059 66.48%
Republican Allen West 239,557 12.26%
Republican Don Huffines 234,138 11.98%
Republican Chad Prather 74,173 3.80%
Republican Ricky Lynn Perry 61,424 3.14%
Republican Kandy Kaye Horn 23,605 1.21%
Republican Paul Belew 11,387 0.58%
Republican Danny Harrison 10,829 0.55%
Total votes 1,954,172 100%
Democratic primary results[221]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Beto O'Rourke 983,182 91.41%
Democratic Joy Diaz 33,622 3.13%
Democratic Michael Cooper 32,673 3.04%
Democratic Rich Wakeland 13,237 1.23%
Democratic Inocencio Barrientez 12,887 1.20%
Total votes 1,075,601 100%
2022 Texas gubernatorial election[222]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Greg Abbott (incumbent) 4,437,099 54.76% -1.05%
Democratic Beto O'Rourke 3,553,656 43.86% +1.35%
Libertarian Mark Tippetts 81,932 1.01% -0.68%
Green Delilah Barrios 28,584 0.35% N/A
Total votes 8,102,908 100.00% N/A
Turnout 8,102,908 45.85%
Registered electors 17,672,143
Republican hold

Vermont

2022 Vermont gubernatorial election

November 8, 2022
Turnout57.6% Decrease
 
Nominee Phil Scott Brenda Siegel
Party Republican Democratic
Alliance Progressive
Popular vote 202,147 68,248
Percentage 70.9% 23.9%

Scott:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%

Governor before election

Phil Scott
Republican

Elected Governor

Phil Scott
Republican

Incumbent Republican governor Phil Scott was re-elected in 2020 with 68.5% of the vote and ran for re-election to a fourth term.

In the general election, Scott easily defeated Democrat Brenda Siegel for his fourth consecutive term.[223][224]

This race was one of six Republican-held governorships up for election in 2022 in a state carried by Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. Scott's victory, in which he carried every municipality in the state, is the largest by margin in a Vermont gubernatorial race since Howard Dean's landslide in 1996. Scott's 47-point victory margin was the largest for a Republican candidate since 1950, even while Democratic congressman Peter Welch won the concurrent U.S. Senate election by a 40-point margin.

Republican primary results[225]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Phil Scott (incumbent) 20,319 68.56%
Republican Stephen C. Bellows 5,402 18.22%
Republican Peter Duval 3,627 12.24%
Write-in 290 0.98%
Total votes 29,638 100.0%
Democratic primary results[225]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Brenda Siegel 56,287 85.92%
Write-in 9,227 14.08%
Total votes 65,514 100.0%
2022 Vermont gubernatorial election[226]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Phil Scott (incumbent) 202,147 70.91% +0.75
Democratic/Progressive Brenda Siegel[lower-alpha 15] 68,248 23.94%
Independent Kevin Hoyt 6,022 2.06% +0.80
Independent Peter Duval 4,723 1.62% N/A
Independent Bernard Peters 2,315 0.79% N/A
Write-in 1,346 0.46% +0.02
Total votes 284,801 100%
Rejected ballots 255
Blank ballots 6,899
Turnout 291,955 57.62%
Registered electors 506,666
Republican hold

Wisconsin

Wisconsin gubernatorial election

Turnout56.7% Decrease
 
Nominee Tony Evers Tim Michels
Party Democratic Republican
Running mate Sara Rodriguez Roger Roth
Popular vote 1,358,774 1,268,535
Percentage 51.2% 47.8%

Evers:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90%
Michels:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90%
Tie:      40–50%      50%
     No data

Governor before election

Tony Evers
Democratic

Elected Governor

Tony Evers
Democratic

Incumbent Democratic governor Tony Evers won re-election to a second term, defeating Republican nominee, Tim Michels.

As Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes ran for the U.S. Senate in the concurrent election, a new Democratic running mate, state assemblywoman Sara Rodriguez, was nominated in the partisan primary. Barnes was the second lieutenant governor not to run with the incumbent governor since the state constitution was amended in 1967. The partisan primary was held on August 9, 2022, with businessman Tim Michels defeating former lieutenant governor Rebecca Kleefisch in the Republican primary. State senator Roger Roth received the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor.

This was the first gubernatorial election in Wisconsin since 2006 in which a Democrat won with an outright majority of the vote, the first since 1990 in which the winner was from the same party as the incumbent president, and the first since 1962 in which Wisconsin voted for a Democratic governor at the same time the party held the presidency. This was also the first gubernatorial election in the state since 1998 in which the winning candidate was of a different party than the winner of the concurrent U.S. Senate election.

Democratic primary results[227]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Tony Evers (incumbent) 491,656 100.0%
Total votes 491,656 100.0%
Republican primary results[227]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Tim Michels 326,969 47.18%
Republican Rebecca Kleefisch 291,384 42.05%
Republican Timothy Ramthun 41,639 6.01%
Republican Kevin Nicholson (withdrawn) 24,884 3.59%
Republican Adam Fischer 8,139 1.17%
Total votes 693,015 100.0%
Wisconsin gubernatorial election, 2022[228][229]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic 1,358,774 51.15% +1.61%
Republican 1,268,535 47.75% -0.69%
Independent
  • Joan Ellis Beglinger (withdrawn)
  • N/A
27,198 1.02% N/A
Write-in 1,983 0.08% +0.04%
Total votes 2,656,490 100.0% -0.63%
Turnout 2,668,891 70.96%
Registered electors 3,760,845
Democratic hold

Wyoming

Wyoming gubernatorial election

Turnout66.6% Decrease
 
Nominee Mark Gordon Theresa Livingston
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote 143,696 30,686
Percentage 74.1% 15.8%

County results
Gordon:      40–50%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%

Governor before election

Mark Gordon
Republican

Elected Governor

Mark Gordon
Republican

Governor Mark Gordon was elected in 2018 with 67.1% of the vote and is running for re-election to a second term.[230] Perennial candidate Rex Rammell[231] and truck driver Aaron Nab[232] were primary challenging Gordon.

Gordon and Livingston won their primaries on August 16, 2022. Livingston's 16.3% of the vote was the worst performance that year in a gubernatorial or senate race, doing worse than Leslie Petersen's 22.9% in 2010 and Brenda Siegel's 26.2% in Vermont 2022, and the worst performance by a Democrat in gubernatorial race in Wyoming history.

Republican primary results[233]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Mark Gordon (incumbent) 101,092 61.7
Republican Brent Bien 48,549 29.7
Republican Rex Rammell 9,373 5.7
Republican James Scott Quick 4,725 2.9
Total votes 163,739 100.0
Democratic primary results[233]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Theresa Livingston 4,989 71.2
Democratic Rex Wilde 2,016 28.8
Total votes 7,005 100.0
2022 Wyoming gubernatorial election[234][235]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Mark Gordon (incumbent) 143,696 74.07% +6.95%
Democratic Theresa Livingston 30,686 15.82% -11.72%
Write-in 11,461 5.91% +5.37%
Libertarian Jared Baldes 8,157 4.20% +2.72%
Total votes 194,000 100.0%
Turnout 198,198 66.59%
Registered electors 297,639
Republican hold

Territories and federal district

District of Columbia

2022 Washington, D.C., mayoral election

 
Nominee Muriel Bowser Rodney "Red" Grant Stacia Hall
Party Democratic Independent Republican
Popular vote 147,433 29,531 11,510
Percentage 74.62% 14.95% 5.83%

Results by ward

Mayor before election

Muriel Bowser
Democratic

Elected Mayor

Muriel Bowser
Democratic

Mayor Muriel Bowser was re-elected in 2018 with 76.4% of the vote and ran for a third term.[236] She was renominated, defeating city councilors Robert White and Trayon White in the primary.[237] She defeated Republican nominee Stacia Hall and independent Rodney "Red" Grant. D.C. Statehood Green nominee Corren Brown did not appear in the general election ballot.[238]

2022 Washington, D.C., mayoral election[16][239]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Muriel Bowser (incumbent) 147,433 74.62 -1.78
Independent Rodney Grant 29,531 14.95 N/A
Republican Stacia Hall 11,510 5.83 N/A
Libertarian Dennis Sobin 2,521 1.28 -2.12
Write-in 6,580 3.33 -0.67
Total votes 183785 100
Turnout 205,774 40.76 -5.53
Registered electors 504,815

Guam

2022 Guamanian gubernatorial election

November 8, 2022
 
Nominee Lou Leon Guerrero Felix Camacho
Party Democratic Republican
Running mate Josh Tenorio Tony Ada
Popular vote 18,623 14,786
Percentage 55.5% 44.1%

Governor before election

Lou Leon Guerrero
Democratic

Elected Governor

Lou Leon Guerrero
Democratic

Governor Lou Leon Guerrero was elected in 2018 with 50.8% of the vote and ran for re-election to a second term.[240] She was being challenged in the Democratic primary by U.S. House delegate Michael San Nicolas.[241]

The only Republican candidate is former governor Felix Camacho.[242]

Guerrero and Camacho won their respective primaries on August 27.

On November 8, Guerrero won re-election, winning by an 11-point margin (a 13-point shift right since 2018).

2022 Guam gubernatorial election[17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic
18,623 55.49% +4.7%
Republican 14,786 44.06% +17.67%
Write-in 152 0.45% -22.37%
Total votes 33,561 100.0%
Turnout 34,074 56.36%
Registered electors 60,462
Democratic hold

Northern Mariana Islands

Northern Mariana Islands gubernatorial election

 
Nominee Arnold Palacios Ralph Torres Tina Sablan
Party Independent Republican Democratic
Running mate David Apatang Vinnie Sablan Leila Staffler
First round 4,890
32.2%
5,726
38.8%
4,132
28.0%
Runoff 7,077
54.0%
6,017
46.0%
Eliminated

Governor before election

Ralph Torres
Republican

Elected Governor

Arnold Palacios
Independent

Governor Ralph Torres became governor on December 29, 2015, upon the death of incumbent governor Eloy Inos.[243][244] He was elected to his first full term in 2018 with 62.2% of the vote. Torres was challenged by his lieutenant governor, Arnold Palacios, a career Republican who ran as an independent, and by Democratic representative Tina Sablan. Torres earned 38.8% of the votes in the general election, ahead of Palacios and Sablan, but since no candidate won a clear majority a runoff between Torres and Palacios was held on November 25. Palacios, who gained the backing of Sablan, won the runoff handily, earning 54.05% of the vote.[245]

2022 Northern Mariana Islands Gubernatorial Election[246]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Ralph Torres (incumbent)
Vinnie Sablan
5,726 38.83%
Independent Arnold Palacios
David Apatang
4,890 33.15%
Democratic Tina Sablan
Leila Staffler
4,132 28.01%
Total votes 14,750 100.0
Turnout  %
Registered electors
2022 Northern Mariana Islands Gubernatorial Runoff Election.[247]
Party Candidate Votes %
Independent Arnold Palacios
David Apatang
7,077 54.95%
Republican Ralph Torres (incumbent)
Vinnie Sablan
6,017 45.95%
Total votes 13,094 100.0
Turnout  %
Registered electors
Independent gain from Republican

U.S. Virgin Islands

United States Virgin Islands gubernatorial election

 
Nominee Albert Bryan Kurt Vialet
Party Democratic Independent
Running mate Tregenza Roach Janelle Sarauw
Popular vote 12,157 8,244
Percentage 56.1% 38.1%

Results by district

Governor before election

Albert Bryan
Democratic

Elected Governor

Albert Bryan
Democratic

Governor Albert Bryan was elected in 2018 with 54.5% of the vote and ran for re-election to a second term.[248] St. Croix Democratic senator Kurt Vialet is running as an independent.[249]

2022 U.S. Virgin Islands gubernatorial election [250]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Albert Bryan Jr. (incumbent) 12,157 56.14
Independent Kurt Vialet 8,244 38.07
Independent Citizens Movement Stephen Frett 740 3.42
Independent Ronald Pickard 243 1.12
N/A Write-In 272 1.26
Total votes 21,656 100.00
Turnout 22,557 56.52
Registered electors 39,910
Democratic hold

See also

Notes

  1. New Hampshire's Chris Sununu and Vermont's Phil Scott, each of whom serves two-year terms, ran in the 2020 U.S. gubernatorial elections.
  2. In midterm elections, the party of the President of the United States usually suffers a net loss of 6 or more gubernatorial offices. The most recent midterm where that has happened was 2018's blue wave under then-President Donald Trump, when he lost seven governorships to the Democrats in the that year's gubernatorial election slate.
  3. FiveThirtyEight has three separate models for their House and Senate ratings: Lite (polling data only), Classic (polls, fundraising, and past voting patterns), and Deluxe (Classic alongside experts' ratings). This table uses the Deluxe model.
  4. Category ranges:
    • Tossup: <60% both candidates
    • Lean: ≥60%
    • Likely: ≥75%
    • Solid: ≥95%
  5. Ivey took office after her predecessor (Robert J. Bentley) resigned. She was subsequently elected in the 2018 Alabama gubernatorial election.
  6. Reynolds took office after her predecessor (Terry Branstad) resigned. She was subsequently elected in the 2018 Iowa gubernatorial election.
  7. Hochul took office after her predecessor (Andrew Cuomo) resigned.
  8. Brown took office after her predecessor (John Kitzhaber) resigned. She was subsequently elected in the 2016 Oregon gubernatorial special election.
  9. McKee took office in 2021 after his predecessor (Gina Raimondo) resigned.
  10. McMaster took office after his predecessor (Nikki Haley) resigned. He was subsequently elected in the 2018 South Carolina gubernatorial election.
  11. Torres took office after his predecessor (Eloy Inos) died. He was subsequently elected in the 2018 Northern Mariana Islands gubernatorial election.
  12. Suspended her campaign and endorsed Dunleavy on October 25, 2022 after allegations of sexual harassment against Pierce but remained on the ballot.[26]
  13. 1 2 Co-nominated with the Working Families Party and the Griebel-Frank for CT Party
  14. 1 2 Withdrew after deadline, remained on ballot
  15. Candidate received the nominations of both the Democratic and Progressive parties and will be listed on the ballot as "Democratic/Progressive" (candidate is primarily a Democrat).

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