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Delaware  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2008, 2012. Term Limit: No one can serve more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic

Chair up for election Democratic Governor Jack A. Markell
• Re-elected Tuesday 6 November 2012
First elected: 2008
Chair up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012
The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit.
Renominated - 11 September 2012 Primary
  Elected Democratic 275,993 69.34% Governor Jack A. Markell
  Candidate Republican 113,793 28.59% Jeffrey E. "Jeff" Cragg
  Candidate Green 4,575 1.15% Mark Joseph Perri
  Candidate Libertarian 3,668 0.92% Jesse McVay
  Candidate Write-in 4 0.00% David C. Graham
Total 398,033 100.00%  

Missouri  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2008, 2012. Term Limit: No one can serve more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic

Chair up for election Democratic Governor Jeremiah W. "Jay" Nixon
• Re-elected Tuesday 6 November 2012
First elected: 2008
Chair up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012
The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit.
Renominated - 7 August 2012 Primary
  Elected Democratic 1,494,056 54.77% Governor Jeremiah W. "Jay" Nixon
  Candidate Republican 1,160,265 42.53% David "Dave" Spence
  Candidate Libertarian 73,509 2.69% Jim Higgins
  Candidate Write-in 39 0.00% Leonard Steinman
  Candidate Write-in 14 0.00% Ronald E. Levy
Total 2,727,883 100.00%  

Montana  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2008, 2012. Term Limit: No more than 2 4-year terms in any 4-term period
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic

Chair up for election
Open
Democratic Governor Brian Schweitzer
First elected: 2004; re-elected: 2008
Chair up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012
The current Governor is affected by a term limit and cannot run for re-election.
Open Chair - At Term Limit
 ** Open Chair (no incumbent) **
  Elected Democratic 236,450 48.90% Attorney General Steve Bullock
For Lieutenant Governor, former state Adjutant General John Walsh
  Candidate Republican 228,879 47.34% former Congressman Rick Hill
For Lieutenant Governor, state Senator Jon Sonju
  Candidate Libertarian 18,160 3.76% Ron Vandevender
For Lieutenant Governor, Marc Mulcahy
Total 483,489 100.00%  

New Hampshire  2 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2012. Term Limit: None. GOVERNOR is the only Statewide elected officer
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic

Chair up for election
Open
Democratic Governor John H. Lynch
First elected: 2004; re-elected: 2006, 2008, 2010
Chair up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012
Open Chair - 15 September 2011: Announced he will not run for re-election.
 ** Open Chair (no incumbent) **
  Elected Democratic 378,934 54.61% former state Senator Maggie Hassan
  Candidate Republican 295,026 42.52% Ovide M. Lamontagne
  Candidate Libertarian 19,251 2.77% John J. Babiarz
  Candidate Scattering 666 0.10% Scatter
Total 693,877 100.00%  

North Carolina  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2008, 2012. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic

Chair up for election
Open
Democratic Governor Beverly Eaves "Bev" Perdue
First elected: 2008
Chair up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012
The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit.
Open Chair - 26 January 2012: Announced that she will not seek reelection in 2012.
 ** Open Chair (no incumbent) **
  Elected Republican 2,440,707 54.62% former Charlotte Mayor Patrick "Pat" McCrory
  Candidate Democratic 1,931,580 43.23% Lieutenant Governor Walter H. Dalton
  Candidate Libertarian 94,652 2.12% Barbara Howe
  Candidate Scattering 1,297 0.03% Write-in
  Candidate Write-in 59 0.00% Donald Kreamer
Total 4,468,295 100.00%  

Vermont  2 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2012. Term Limit: None
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic

Chair up for election Democratic Governor Peter Shumlin
• Re-elected Tuesday 6 November 2012
First elected: 2010
Chair up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012
Renominated - 28 August 2012 Primary
  Elected Democratic; Working Families 170,749 57.80% Governor Peter Shumlin
  Candidate Republican 110,940 37.55% state Senator Randy Brock
  Candidate Independent 5,868 1.99% Emily Peyton
  Candidate Marijuana 5,583 1.89% Cris Ericson
Running for the Senate Class 1 seat and the Governor's chair in 2012.
  Candidate Liberty Union 1,303 0.44% Dave Eagle
  Candidate Scattering 969 0.33% Combined Write-in votes
  Candidate Write-in; (Progressive)     Annette Smith
 If no candidate receives 50% of the vote in the November General Election, the state Legislature chooses the next Governor.
Total 295,412 100.00%  

Washington  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2008, 2012. Term Limit: None
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic

Chair up for election
Open
Democratic Governor Christine "Chris" Gregoire
First elected: 2004; re-elected: 2008
Chair up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012
Open Chair - 13 June 2011: "Today, I say I will not run for a third term as governor ...."
 ** Open Chair (no incumbent) **
  Elected Democratic 1,582,802 51.54% Congressman Jay R. Inslee
Prefers Democratic Party.
24 June 2011: Candidate for Governor in 2012.
Congressman CD 1.
  Candidate Republican 1,488,245 48.46% Attorney General Rob McKenna
Prefers Republican Party
  Candidate Write-in; (No Party Preference)     Thomas Gerard Grajkowski
Total 3,071,047 100.00%  

West Virginia  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2008, 2012. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic

Chair up for election Democratic Governor Earl Ray Tomblin
• Re-elected Tuesday 6 November 2012
Ascended to the Governor's chair as acting Governor when Governor Joe Manchin, III resigned to take office as a U.S. Senator: 15 November 2010. First elected in a Special Election: 4 October 2011.
Chair up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012
The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit.
Renominated - 8 May 2012 Primary
elected in Special Election: Tuesday 4 October 2011.
Next regular election: Tuesday 6 November 2012
  Elected Democratic 335,468 50.49% Governor Earl Ray Tomblin
  Candidate Republican 303,291 45.64% William Joseph "Bill" Maloney
  Candidate Mountain 16,791 2.53% Jesse Johnson
  Candidate Libertarian 8,936 1.34% David Moran
  Candidate Write-in; (Constitution)     Phil Hudok
  Candidate Write-in     Frankie Rocchetti
  Candidate Write-in     Barbara Lynn Spurlock
Total 664,486 100.00%  

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.

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