2016 Governor's Chairs by State

The Green Papers: 2016 General Election

2016 Governor's Chairs
by State

12 Governor's Chairs up for election in 2016

12 Elected

38 Governor's Chairs not up for election in 2016

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

4 Incumbents renominated by same party

2 Democratic
2 Republican

111 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 2016 are marked as such.

There have been 0 deaths, 0 resignations, and 0 changes of party affiliation in 2016.

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North Carolina 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2012, 2016. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican

	Republican	Governor Patrick L. "Pat" McCrory • First elected: 2012 • Chair up for regular election: Tuesday 8 November 2016 • The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit. • Renominated - 15 March 2016 Primary

Utah 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2012, 2016. Term Limit: None
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican

	Republican	Governor Gary R. Herbert • Re-elected Tuesday 8 November 2016 • As Lieutenant Governor, succeeded to the Governorship upon the resignation of Governor Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. (Republican), effective 11 August 2009. First elected in a special election: 2010; re-elected: 2012 • Chair up for regular election: Tuesday 8 November 2016 • Renominated - 28 June 2016 Primary

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
	• Democratic-Nonpartisan League
	• Republican
Major Third Parties
	• Constitution
	• Green
	• Libertarian
Other Third Parties
	• America First
	• Independent American
	• Independent Party of Oregon
	• Liberty Union
	• Mountain
	• Unity
	• Working Families
Independents
	• Independent
	• No Affiliation
	• No Party Affiliation
	• Unaffiliated
Write-in/Scattered/otherwise not readily classifiable
	• 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.