2024 Governor's Chairs by State

The Green Papers: 2024 General Election

2024 Governor's Chairs
by State

11 Governor's Chairs up for election in 2024

11 Elected

8 Republican
3 Democratic

39 Governor's Chairs not up for election in 2024

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

3 Incumbents renominated by same party

3 Republican

86 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 2024 are marked as such.

There have been 0 deaths, 0 resignation, and 0 changes of party affiliation in 2023.

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Indiana 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2020, 2024. Term Limit: No more than 2 4-year terms in any 3-term period
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican


		Open Chair (no incumbent)

	Republican	1,566,081	54.38%	Senator Michael K. "Mike" Braun • for Lieutenant Governor: Micah Beckwith
Total		2,879,655	100.00%

Missouri 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2020, 2024. Term Limit: No one can serve more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican


		Open Chair (no incumbent)
	Republican	1,750,802	59.14%	Lieutenant Governor Mike Kehoe
Total		2,960,266	100.00%

Montana 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2020, 2024. Term Limit: No more than 2 4-year terms in any 4-term period
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican


	Republican	354,569	58.86%	Governor Greg Gianforte • for Lieutenant Governor: Kristen Juras
Total		602,404	100.00%

New Hampshire 2 year term, Election Cycle: 2022, 2024. Term Limit: None. GOVERNOR is the only Statewide elected officer
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican


		Open Chair (no incumbent)
	Republican	436,122	52.64%	former U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte • First elected to the US Senate: 2010; unsuccessful candidate for re-election: 2016.
Total		828,575	100.00%

North Dakota 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2020, 2024. Term Limit: North Dakota passed an initiative in November 2022 to amend the state's Constitution to add Gubernatorial term limits of 2 4 year terms. Applies to individuals elected after 1 January 2023
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican


		Open Chair (no incumbent)
	Republican	247,056	68.26%	Member of Congress Kelly M. Armstrong • for Lieutenant Governor: state Representative Michelle Strinden
Total		361,951	100.00%

Utah 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2020, 2024. Term Limit: None
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican


	Republican	781,431	52.89%	Governor Spencer J. Cox • for Lieutenant Governor: Lieutenant Governor Deidre M. Henderson
Total		1,477,457	100.00%

Vermont 2 year term, Election Cycle: 2022, 2024. Term Limit: None
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican


	Republican	266,439	71.45%	Governor Phil Scott
Total		372,885	100.00%

West Virginia 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2020, 2024. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican


		Open Chair (no incumbent)
	Republican	459,300	61.99%	Attorney General Patrick James Morrisey • 4 April 2023: Announced candidacy for Governor.
Total		740,928	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-Nonpartisan League
	• Republican
Major Third Parties
	• Constitution
	• Green
	• Libertarian
	• Peace And Justice
Other Third Parties
	• Independent American
	• Mountain
	• Progressive
Independents
	• Independent
	• 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.

"Apparently not a candidate" indicates that someone we once listed as a candidate for an elective office will not, in fact, be running for that office (primarily because said candidate is not listed on an official ballot provided by a jurisdiction's election authorities, where that candidate has not previously withdrawn his/her candidacy or otherwise indicated no longer [or even ever] being a candidate for that office).

"FEC" indicates the Federal Election Commission (FEC) Campaign Finance Summary.

When available, we post each candidate's FEC identification number, the date of their most recently filed Report of Receipts and Disbursements, their "Tot" [Total Receipts (contributions received or what came in: FEC Form 3, Line 16, Column B)] and their "Dsb" [Total Disbursements (expenditures or what was spent: FEC Form 3, Line 23, Column B)]. A link is provided to the Federal Election Commission's Summary Report for those who might wish to explore the details.

If a candidate raises or spends $5,000 or less, he or she is not subject to FEC reporting requirements.