2021 Governor's Chairs by State

The Green Papers: 2021 General Election

2021 Governor's Chairs
by State

2 Governor's Chairs up for election in 2021

2 Democratic

2 Elected

48 Governor's Chairs not up for election in 2021

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

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

1 Democratic

435 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.)

Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

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Arizona 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2018, 2022. Term Limit: The Governor can not serve for more than 8 years
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican


	Independent	Mark Franzen, Jr.
	Independent	Chip Howard
	Independent	Valerie Kerby Lockey
	Independent	Elizabeth Wheeler
	Independent	Alan White

Arkansas 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2018, 2022. Term Limit: No one can serve more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican



	Independent	Bill Gates

Georgia 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2018, 2022. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican


	Independent	Al Bartell

Minnesota 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2018, 2022. Term Limit: None
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic


	Independent	James McCaskel

Pennsylvania 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2018, 2022. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic


	Independent	Eddie Wenrich

Rhode Island 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2018, 2022. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic


	Independent	Paul Rianna, Jr.

South Dakota 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2018, 2022. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican


	Independent	former state Representative Lora Hubbel

Texas 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2018, 2022. Term Limit: None
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican


	Independent	Raul Cortina
	Independent	Justin Cunneen
	Independent	Jal Ray Dennis
	Independent	Jorge Franco
	Independent	Deidre Gilbert
	Independent	Reginald Jennings, II
	Independent	Sean Sharp
	Independent	Ricardo Turullols-Bonilla
	~~Independent~~	~~Patrick Scott Wynne - apparently not a candidate~~
	Independent	Demetra Jefferson Wysinger

Wisconsin 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2018, 2022. Term Limit: None
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic


	Independent	Joan Ellis Beglinger
	Independent	Levi C. Borntreger
	Independent	Jess Daniel Hisel
	Independent	Ryan Patrick Sweeney

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
	• Green
	• Green Independent
	• Libertarian
Other Third Parties
	• America's Independent
	• American Independent
	• Conservative
	• Independent Greens
	• Independent Party of Florida
	• Liberation
	• Socialist Workers Party
Independents
	• Independent
	• No Party Affiliation
	• No Party Preference
	• Non Affiliated
	• Unaffiliated
Write-in/Scattered/otherwise not readily classifiable
	• Not readily classifiable
	• Scattering
	• Write-in