The Green Papers: 2012 General Election |
2012 Governor's Chairs by State |
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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 | |||||
Democratic | Governor Jack A. Markell Re-elected Tuesday 6 November 2012 First elected: 2008 Chair up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012 The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit. Renominated - 11 September 2012 Primary |
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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 | |||||
Democratic | Governor Jeremiah W. "Jay" Nixon Re-elected Tuesday 6 November 2012 First elected: 2008 Chair up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012 The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit. Renominated - 7 August 2012 Primary |
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Vermont 2 year term, Election Cycle: 2010, 2012. Term Limit: None | |||||
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic | |||||
Democratic | Governor Peter Shumlin Re-elected Tuesday 6 November 2012 First elected: 2010 Chair up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012 Renominated - 28 August 2012 Primary |
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If no candidate receives 50% of the vote in the November General Election, the state Legislature chooses the next Governor. | |||||
West Virginia 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2008, 2012. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms | |||||
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic | |||||
Democratic | Governor Earl Ray Tomblin Re-elected Tuesday 6 November 2012 Ascended to the Governor's chair as acting Governor when Governor Joe Manchin, III resigned to take office as a U.S. Senator: 15 November 2010. First elected in a Special Election: 4 October 2011. Chair up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012 The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit. Renominated - 8 May 2012 Primary elected in Special Election: Tuesday 4 October 2011. Next regular election: Tuesday 6 November 2012 |
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 | |
Other Third Parties | |
Liberty Union | |
Marijuana | |
Mountain | |
Progressive | |
Working Families | |
Independents | |
Independent | |
No Party Preference | |
Unaffiliated | |
Write-in/Scattered/otherwise not readily classifiable | |
Scattering | |
Write-in |
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