2014 Governor's Chairs by State

The Green Papers: 2014 General Election

2014 Governor's Chairs
by State

36 Governor's Chairs up for election in 2014

36 Elected

14 Governor's Chairs not up for election in 2014

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

26 Incumbents renominated by same party

1 Incumbent lost primary - no longer a candidate for this office

1 Democratic

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

1 Republican

246 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 2014 are marked as such.

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Alabama 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican
	Scattering	2,395	0.20%	Write-In
Total		1,180,413	100.00%

Alaska 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican

	Scattering	893	0.32%	Write-in Votes
Total		279,958	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)
	Scattering	3,001	0.81%	Blank Votes
	Scattering	431	0.12%	Over Votes
Total		369,642	100.00%

Iowa 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: None
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican
	Scattering	1,093	0.10%	Write-in
Total		1,129,034	100.00%

Maine 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
	Scattering	5,740	0.93%	Blank
	Scattering	79	0.01%	Others
Total		616,967	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)
	Scattering	4,202	0.24%	Other Write-Ins
Total		1,733,177	100.00%

Massachusetts 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: None
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic
		Open Chair (no incumbent)
	Scattering	28,463	1.30%	Blanks
	Scattering	1,858	0.08%	All Others
Total		2,186,789	100.00%

Minnesota 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: None
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic
	Scattering	769	0.04%	WRITE-IN
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)
	Scattering	545	0.10%	Write-ins
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
	Scattering	907	0.19%	Scatter
Total		485,183	100.00%

New York 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: None
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic
	Scattering	106,852	2.72%	Blank
	Scattering	6,378	0.16%	Scattering
	Scattering	4,448	0.11%	Void
Total		3,930,386	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
	Scattering	6,654	0.45%	Misc.
Total		1,469,717	100.00%

Rhode Island 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic
		Open Chair (no incumbent)
	Scattering	739	0.23%	WRITE-IN
Total		324,055	100.00%

South Carolina 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican
	Scattering	934	0.07%	Write-In
Total		1,246,301	100.00%

Vermont 2 year term, Election Cycle: 2012, 2014. Term Limit: None
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic
	Scattering	722	0.37%	write-in
Total		193,087	100.00%

Wisconsin 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: None
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican
	Scattering	1,248	0.05%	SCATTERING
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
	Scattering	8,490	4.96%	Write-Ins
	Scattering	3,214	1.88%	Under Votes
	Scattering	62	0.04%	Over Votes
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.