2007 Governor's Chairs by State

The Green Papers: 2007 Off Year Election

2007 Governor's Chairs
by State

3 Governor's Chairs up for election in 2007

3 Elected

47 Governor's Chairs not up for election in 2007

19 Open Governor's Chairs (voluntary retirement, seeking other political office, term limits)

2 Incumbent Governors - election status not yet determined (primaries and/or nominating conventions yet to be held)

2 Republican

29 Candidates seeking a Governor's Chair (Candidates may run under the banner of multiple parties. Hence, the number of parties may be greater than the number of candidates.)

This is a list of the current Governors' chairs, the incumbents occupying them, and the candidacy status of said incumbents. Chairs up for election in the year 2007 are marked as such.

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Kentucky 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2003, 2007. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican

	Republican	435,857	41.29%	Governor Ernie Fletcher • 3 June 2006: Governor Fletcher announced that his 2007 running mate is Finance Cabinet Secretary Robbie Rudolph.
	~~Republican~~			~~Billy Harper - lost primary~~ • for Lt. Governor: Dick Wilson
	~~Republican~~			~~former Congressman Anne Meagher Northup - lost primary~~ • for Lt. Governor: Jeff Hoover
Total		1,055,511	100.00%

Louisiana 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2003, 2007. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic
	Republican	699,672	53.91%	Congressman Piyush "Bobby" Jindal • Congressman CD 1.
	Other-party nominee; (Republican)	186,800	14.39%	~~John Georges - lost primary~~
Total		1,297,943	100.00%

Mississippi 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2003, 2007. Term Limit: No one can serve more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican
	Republican	415,512	58.07%	Governor Haley Barbour
	~~Republican~~			~~Frederick L. Jones - lost primary~~
Total		715,590	100.00%

Political Parties Parties appear in parenthesis and italics when a candidate receives the endorsement of a given Party and/or official sources indicate a candidate's association with a particular Party but only where the Party in question does not appear on the actual ballot as such.

Major Parties
	• Democratic
	• Republican
Major Third Parties
	• Libertarian
Independents
	• No Party Affiliation
	• Other-party nominee

Notes

Candidates for office appear on this page in italics where 'The Green Papers' does not yet have independent confirmation from an election authority that the person so listed will actually appear on the ballot.