The Green Papers: 2014 General Election
 
Copyright www.flags.net/UNST.htm 2014 Governor's Chairs
by State

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 2014 are marked as such.

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Alaska  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican
  Candidate Libertarian 8,985 3.21% Carolyn F. "Care" Clift
for Lieutenant Governor: Andrew C. Lee
Total 279,958 100.00%  

Arizona  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: The Governor can not serve for more than 8 years
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican
 ** Open Chair (no incumbent) **
  Candidate Libertarian 57,337 3.81% Barry J. Hess, II
Total 1,506,416 100.00%  

Arkansas  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: No one can serve more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic
 ** Open Chair (no incumbent) **
  Candidate Libertarian 16,319 1.92% Dekalb Township Constable Frank Gilbert
Total 848,592 100.00%  

Colorado  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic
  Candidate Libertarian 39,590 1.94% Matthew Hess
for Lieutenant Governor: Brandon Young
Total 2,041,607 100.00%  

Florida  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican
  Candidate Libertarian 223,356 3.75% Adrian Wyllie
for Lieutenant Governor: Greg Roe
Total 5,951,561 100.00%  

Georgia  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican
  Candidate Libertarian 60,185 2.36% Andrew T. Hunt
Total 2,550,648 100.00%  

Hawaii  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic
 ** Open Chair (no incumbent) **
  Candidate Libertarian 6,395 1.73% Jeffrey A. "Jeff" Davis
for Lieutenant Governor: Cynthia Kealahilahi Verschuur "Lahi" Marlin
Total 369,642 100.00%  

Idaho  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: None
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican
  Candidate Libertarian 17,884 4.07% John T. Bujak
Total 439,830 100.00%  

Illinois  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: None
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic
  Candidate Libertarian 121,534 3.35% Chad Grimm
for Lieutenant Governor: Alexander "Alex" "A.J." Cummings
Total 3,627,690 100.00%  

Iowa  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: None
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican
  Candidate Libertarian 20,319 1.80% Lee Deakins Hieb
for Lieutenant Governor: Tim Watson
Total 1,129,034 100.00%  

Kansas  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican
  Candidate Libertarian 35,206 4.05% Keen A. Umbehr
for Lieutenant Governor: Joshua J. "Josh" Umbehr (son of Keen)
Total 869,502 100.00%  

Maryland  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic
 ** Open Chair (no incumbent) **
  Candidate Libertarian 25,382 1.46% Shawn Quinn
for Lieutenant Governor: Lorenzo Gaztañaga
Total 1,733,177 100.00%  

Michigan  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican
  Candidate Libertarian 35,723 1.13% Mary Buzuma
for Lieutenant Governor: Scotty Boman
Total 3,156,531 100.00%  

Minnesota  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: None
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic
  Candidate Libertarian 18,082 0.92% Chris Holbrook
for Lieutenant Governor: Chris Dock
Total 1,975,406 100.00%  

Nebraska  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican
 ** Open Chair (no incumbent) **
  Candidate Libertarian 19,001 3.52% Mark G. Elworth, Jr.
for Lieutenant Governor (tentative): Scott Zimmerman
Total 540,202 100.00%  

New Hampshire  2 year term, Election Cycle: 2012, 2014. Term Limit: None. GOVERNOR is the only Statewide elected officer
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic
  Candidate Write-in; (Libertarian)     Max Abramson
Total 485,183 100.00%  

New York  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: None
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic
  Candidate Libertarian 16,967 0.43% Michael "Mike" McDermott
for Lieutenant Governor: Chris Edes
Total 3,930,386 100.00%  

Oklahoma  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican
  Candidate Independent; (Libertarian) 9,125 1.11% Richard Prawdzienski
Total 824,831 100.00%  

Oregon  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: No more than 2 4-year terms in any 3-term period
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic
  Candidate Libertarian 21,903 1.49% Paul B. Grad
Total 1,469,717 100.00%  

Pennsylvania  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican
  Candidate Write-in; (Libertarian)     Ken Krawchuk
for Lieutenant Governor: Henry Haller.
1 August 2014: Did not submit the requisite number of petition signatures.
5 August 2014: May run as a write-in.
28 August 2014: Running as a write-in.
Total 3,495,866 100.00%  

South Carolina  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican
  Candidate Libertarian 15,438 1.24% Charles Steven "Steve" French, Jr.
Total 1,246,301 100.00%  

Tennessee  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms. GOVERNOR is the only Statewide elected officer
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican
  Candidate Independent; (Libertarian) 8,321 0.61% Daniel T. Lewis
Total 1,353,728 100.00%  

Texas  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: None
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican
 ** Open Chair (no incumbent) **
  Candidate Libertarian 66,543 1.41% Katherine Youngblood "Kathie" Glass
Total 4,718,268 100.00%  

Vermont  2 year term, Election Cycle: 2012, 2014. Term Limit: None
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic
  Candidate Libertarian 8,428 4.36% Dan Feliciano
Total 193,087 100.00%  

Wisconsin  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: None
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican
  Candidate Libertarian 18,720 0.78% Robert Burke
for Lieutenant Governor: Joseph M. "Joe" Brost
Total 2,410,314 100.00%  

Wyoming  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: No more than 2 4-year terms in any 4-term period. The Wyoming Supreme Court determined on 4 May 2004 that term limits require an amendment to the state constitution rather than, as they were, imposed by a 1992 ballot initiative. At the time, the ruling was not applied to statewide offices. Reference: CATHCART v. MEYER, 2004 WY 49, 88 P.3d 1050, Case Number: 04-32, 04-33, 04-34, Decided: 05/04/2004
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican
  Candidate Libertarian 4,040 2.36% Dee Cozzens
Total 171,153 100.00%  

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
  Democratic-Farmer Labor
  Republican
Major Third Parties
  Constitution
  Green
  Libertarian
  Pacific Green
Other Third Parties
  Americans Elect
  Conservative
  Grassroots
  Hawai'i Independent Party
  Independence
  Independent American
  Independent Party of Connecticut
  Independent Party of Oregon
  Iowa
  Liberty Union
  Marijuana
  Moderate
  New Independent Party Iowa
  Peoples
  Progressive
  Sapient
  StopCommonCore
  U.S. Taxpayers
  United Citizens
  United Independent
  Women's Equality
  Working Families
Independents
  Independent
  No Party Affiliation
  Petition
  Petitioning Candidate
  Unaffiliated
  Unenrolled
Write-in/Scattered/otherwise not readily classifiable
  None of these candidates
  Scattering
  Write-in
 

Notes

Candidates for office appear on this page in italics where 'The Green Papers' does not yet have independent confirmation from a legal election authority that the person has been officially certified to appear on the ballot.


 


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