The Green Papers: 2019 General Election
 
Copyright www.flags.net/UNST.htm 2019 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 2019 are marked as such.

There have been 0 deaths, 0 resignations, and 0 changes of party affiliation in 2019.

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Kentucky  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2015, 2019. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican

Chair up for regular election Republican Governor Matthew Griswold "Matt" Bevin
First elected: 2015
Chair up for regular election: Tuesday 5 November 2019
The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit.
Renominated
  Elected Democratic 709,577 49.19% Attorney General Andy Beshear
for Lieutenant Governor: Jacqueline Coleman
  Candidate Republican 704,388 48.83% Governor Matthew Griswold "Matt" Bevin
for Lieutenant Governor: state Senator Ralph A. Alvarado

25 August 2018: Announced he would run for re-election.
5 November 2019: Governor Bevin states he will not concede.
6 November 2019: This result is being challenged. There will be a recanvass on 14 November.
14 November 2019: Conceded.
  Candidate Libertarian 28,425 1.97% John Hicks
for Lieutenant Governor: Ann Cormican
  Candidate Write-in; (Socialist Workers Party)     Amy Husk
for Lieutenant Governor: Samir Hazboun
  Candidate Write-in     Blackii Effing Whyte
for Lieutenant Governor: Douglas G. Estridge
Total 1,442,390 100.00%  

Louisiana  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2015, 2019. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic

Chair up for regular election Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards
• Re-elected Saturday 16 November 2019
First elected: 2015
Chair up for regular election: Saturday 16 November 2019
The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit.
  Elected Democratic 774,498 51.33% Governor John Bel Edwards
Recieved 47% in the 12 October General Election. Proceeds to 16 November 2019 Runoff
  Candidate Republican 734,286 48.67% "Eddie" Rispone
Recieved 27% in the 12 October General Election. Proceeds to 16 November 2019 Runoff
Total 1,508,784 100.00%  

Mississippi  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2015, 2019. Term Limit: No one can serve more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican

Chair up for regular election
Open
Republican Governor Phil Bryant
First elected: 2011; re-elected: 2015.
Chair up for regular election: Tuesday 5 November 2019
The current Governor is affected by a term limit and cannot run for re-election.
Open Chair - At term limit.
  Elected Republican 449,655 52.13% Lieutenant Governor Tate Reeves
3 January 2019: Running for Governor in 2019.
6 August 2019: Received 49% in the primary. Proceeds to 27 August Runoff.
27 August 2019: Won the run-off with 54%.
  Candidate Democratic 402,131 46.62% Attorney General Jim Hood
1 October 2018: Will run for Governor in 2019.
  Candidate Independent 8,245 0.96% David R. "Big Dave" Singletary
  Candidate Constitution 2,517 0.29% Bob Hickingbottom
Total 862,548 100.00%  

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
  Constitution
  Libertarian
Other Third Parties
  Socialist Workers Party
Independents
  Independent
  Unaffiliated
Write-in/Scattered/otherwise not readily classifiable
  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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