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Arkansas  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: No one can serve more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic
  Candidate Democratic     John Burkhalter
  Candidate Democratic     Attorney General Dustin McDaniel

Delaware  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2008, 2012. Term Limit: No one can serve more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic
  Elected Democratic 275,993 69.34% Governor Jack A. Markell
Total 398,033 100.00%  

Florida  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican
  Candidate Democratic     state Senator Nan H. Rich
18 April 2012: Announced candidacy

Indiana  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2008, 2012. Term Limit: No more than 2 4-year terms in any 3-term period
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican
 ** Open Chair (no incumbent) **
  Candidate Democratic 1,200,016 46.56% former state Representative John R. Gregg
For Lieutenant Governor: state Senator Vi Simpson
Total 2,577,329 100.00%  

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
  Candidate Democratic     Yarmouth Town Council Man Stephen M. "Steve" Woods

Missouri  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2008, 2012. Term Limit: No one can serve more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic
  Elected Democratic 1,494,056 54.77% Governor Jeremiah W. "Jay" Nixon
Total 2,727,883 100.00%  

Montana  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2008, 2012. Term Limit: No more than 2 4-year terms in any 4-term period
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic
 ** Open Chair (no incumbent) **
  Elected Democratic 236,450 48.90% Attorney General Steve Bullock
For Lieutenant Governor, former state Adjutant General John Walsh
Total 483,489 100.00%  

New Hampshire  2 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2012. Term Limit: None. GOVERNOR is the only Statewide elected officer
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic
 ** Open Chair (no incumbent) **
  Elected Democratic 378,934 54.61% former state Senator Maggie Hassan
Total 693,877 100.00%  

New Jersey  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2009, 2013. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican
  Candidate Democratic     state Senator Barbara Buono

New Mexico  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican
  Candidate Democratic     Attorney General Gary K. King

North Carolina  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2008, 2012. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic
 ** Open Chair (no incumbent) **
  Candidate Democratic 1,931,580 43.23% Lieutenant Governor Walter H. Dalton
Total 4,468,295 100.00%  

Pennsylvania  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican
  Candidate Democratic     former Public Utility Commissioner John Hanger

Rhode Island  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Independent
  Candidate Democratic     former Auditor General Ernest Almonte

Utah  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2008, 2012. Term Limit: None
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican
  Candidate Democratic 277,622 27.58% Peter S. Cooke
for Lieutenant Governor, Vincent C. Rampton.
21 April 2012: Won his party's nomination.
Total 1,006,524 100.00%  

Vermont  2 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2012. Term Limit: None
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic
  Elected Democratic; Working Families 170,749 57.80% Governor Peter Shumlin
Total 295,412 100.00%  

Virginia  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2009, 2013. Term Limit: ineligble to immediately succeed after a given 4-year term
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican
  Candidate Democratic     Terry McAuliffe

Washington  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2008, 2012. Term Limit: None
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic
 ** Open Chair (no incumbent) **
  Elected Democratic 1,582,802 51.54% Congressman Jay R. Inslee
Prefers Democratic Party.
24 June 2011: Candidate for Governor in 2012.
Congressman CD 1.
Total 3,071,047 100.00%  

West Virginia  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2008, 2012. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic
  Elected Democratic 335,468 50.49% Governor Earl Ray Tomblin
Total 664,486 100.00%  

Wisconsin  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2014. Term Limit: None
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican
  Candidate Democratic     former Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk
  Candidate Democratic     Secretary of State Douglas "Doug" La Follette
  Candidate Democratic     state Senator Kathleen Vinehout

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.

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Major Third Parties
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