Governors, in all states except New Hampshire and Vermont, serve 4 year terms.
The Governors of New Hampshire and Vermont serve 2 year terms.
Regular Gubernatorial elections are held the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November in all states except Louisiana. Louisiana will hold a non-partisan primary on Saturday 19 October 2019 and, if no candidate receives 50% of the vote, a Saturday 16 November 2019 runoff.
| Presidential Election [next regular election: Tuesday 8 November 2016] |
"post-Presidential" Off Year Election [next regular election: Tuesday 7 November 2017] |
Midterm Election [next regular election: Tuesday 6 November 2018] |
"pre-Presidential" Off Year Election [most recent election: Tuesday 5 November 2019] |
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| Delaware: Markell (D) | New Jersey: Christie (R) | Alabama: Bentley (R) | Kentucky: Bevin (R) |
| Indiana: Pence (R) | Virginia: McAuliffe (D) | Alaska: Walker (I) | Louisiana: Edwards (D) (next election Saturday 26 October 2019) |
| Missouri: Nixon (D) | Arizona: Ducey (R) | Mississippi: Bryant (R) | |
| Montana: Bullock (D) | Arkansas: Hutchinson (R) | ||
| New Hampshire: Hassan (D) | California: Brown (D) | ||
| North Carolina: McCrory (R) | Colorado: Hickenlooper (D) | ||
| North Dakota: Dalrymple (R) | Connecticut: Malloy (D) | ||
| Oregon: Brown (D) | Florida: Scott (R) | ||
| Utah: Herbert (R) | Georgia: Deal (R) | ||
| Vermont: Shumlin (D) | Hawaii: Ige (D) | ||
| Washington: Inslee (D) | Idaho: Otter (R) | ||
| West Virginia: Tomblin (D) | Illinois: Rauner (R) | ||
| Iowa: Branstad (R) | |||
| Kansas: Brownback (R) | |||
| Maine: LePage (R) | |||
| Maryland: Hogan (R) | |||
| Massachusetts: Baker (R) | |||
| Michigan: Snyder (R) | |||
| Minnesota: Dayton (D) | |||
| Nebraska: Ricketts (R) | |||
| Nevada: Sandoval (R) | |||
| New Hampshire: 2-year term, previous regular election 2016 | |||
| New Mexico: Martinez (R) | |||
| New York: Cuomo (D) | |||
| Ohio: Kasich (R) | |||
| Oklahoma: Fallin (R) | |||
| Oregon: 4-year term, previous regular election 2014 | |||
| Pennsylvania: Wolf (D) | |||
| Rhode Island: Raimondo (D) | |||
| South Carolina: Haley (R) | |||
| South Dakota: Daugaard (R) | |||
| Tennessee: Haslam (R) | |||
| Texas: Abbott (R) | |||
| Vermont: 2-year term, previous regular election 2016 | |||
| Wisconsin: Walker (R) | |||
| Wyoming: Mead (R) | |||
| Total 8 Democratic (D) 4 Republican (R) |
Total 1 Democratic (D) 1 Republican (R) |
Total 8 Democratic (D) 1 Independent (I) 24 Republican (R) |
Total 1 Democratic (D) 2 Republican (R) |
| Grand Total 18 Democratic (D) 1 Independent (I) 31 Republican (R) |
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