2018 Governor's Chairs by State

The Green Papers: 2018 General Election

2018 Governor's Chairs
by State

36 Governor's Chairs up for election in 2018

36 Elected

14 Governor's Chairs not up for election in 2018

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

19 Incumbents renominated by same party

1 Incumbent lost primary - no longer a candidate for this office

1 Republican

262 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 2018 are marked as such.

There have been 0 deaths, 0 resignations, and 0 changes of party affiliation in 2018.

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Alabama 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2014, 2018. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican



	Write-in; (Independent)			Chad "Chig" Martin
Total		1,719,589	100.00%

Idaho 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2014, 2018. Term Limit: None
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican


		Open Chair (no incumbent)
	Write-in; (Independent)	51	0.01%	Lisa Marie
Total		605,131	100.00%

Illinois 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2014, 2018. Term Limit: None
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican


	Write-in; (Independent)	13	0.00%	Gregg Moore
Total		4,547,657	100.00%

Kansas 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2014, 2018. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican


		Open Chair (no incumbent)

	Independent	68,498	6.50%	Greg Orman • for Lieutenant Governor: John Doll
	Independent	6,576	0.62%	Richard "Rick" Kloos • for Lieutenant Governor: Nathaniel Kloos
Total		1,054,622	100.00%

Maine 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2014, 2018. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms. GOVERNOR is the only Statewide elected officer
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican


		Open Chair (no incumbent)
	Independent	37,268	5.77%	state Treasurer Teresea M. "Terry" Hayes
	Independent			Alan Caron • 29 October 2018: Withdrew endorsing Attorney General Janet T. Mills (Democratic). He remains on the ballot but votes cast for him are counted as blanks.

	Write-in; (Independent)			Kenneth A. Capron
	Write-in; (Independent)			former state Senator John T. Jenkins
Total		646,013	100.00%

Rhode Island 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2014, 2018. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic



	Independent	16,532	4.39%	former state Representative Joseph A. "Joe" Trillo • 2016 Honorary Rhode Island campaign chair for Donald Trump
	Independent	6,223	1.65%	Luis-Daniel Muñoz
Total		376,401	100.00%

Tennessee 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2014, 2018. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms. GOVERNOR is the only Statewide elected officer
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican


		Open Chair (no incumbent)
	Independent; (Libertarian)	5,198	0.23%	Sherry L. Clark
	Independent	4,687	0.21%	Mark Wright
	Independent	3,631	0.16%	Patrick Whitlock
	Independent; (Green)	3,070	0.14%	Yvonne Neubert
	Independent; (Libertarian)	2,969	0.13%	Heather Scott
	Independent	2,841	0.13%	Mark "Coonrippy" Brown
	Independent	2,444	0.11%	Joe B. Wilmoth
	Independent; (Libertarian)	1,550	0.07%	George Blackwell Smith, IV
	Independent; (Libertarian)	1,502	0.07%	Cory King
	Independent; (Libertarian)	1,396	0.06%	Tracy C. Yaste Tisdale
	Independent; (Libertarian)	1,217	0.05%	Justin Cornett
	Independent	1,096	0.05%	Chad Riden
	Independent	1,059	0.05%	Robert Sawyers, Sr.
	Independent; (Libertarian)	1,012	0.05%	Vinnie Vineyard
	Independent	981	0.04%	Rick Tyler • Also running for House CD 3.
	Independent; (Libertarian)	869	0.04%	Gabriel Fancher
	Independent; (Libertarian)	814	0.04%	Sean Bruce Fleming
	Independent; (Libertarian)	800	0.04%	Alfred Shawn Rapoza
	Independent	755	0.03%	Jessie D. McDonald
	Independent	739	0.03%	Toney Randall Mitchell
	Independent; (Libertarian)	726	0.03%	Mike Toews
	Independent; (Libertarian)	652	0.03%	Matthew Koch
	Independent; (Libertarian)	613	0.03%	Jeremy Allen Stephenson
	Independent	609	0.03%	Tommy Ray McAnally
	Independent; (Libertarian)	588	0.03%	Jaron D. Weidner
	Independent; (Libertarian)	496	0.02%	William Andrew "Andrew" Helmstetter
Total		2,243,294	100.00%

Vermont 2 year term, Election Cycle: 2016, 2018. Term Limit: None
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican


	Independent	3,266	1.17%	Trevor Barlow
	Independent	2,287	0.82%	Charles "Chuck" Laramie
	Independent; (Marijuana)	2,129	0.77%	Cris Ericson
Total		278,230	100.00%

Wisconsin 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2014, 2018. Term Limit: None
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican


	Independent	18,884	0.71%	former Antigo Town Councilor Maggie Turnbull • for Lieutenant Governor: William Stephen "Wil" Losch
	Independent; (Wisconsin Green)	11,087	0.41%	Michael J. White • for Lieutenant Governor: Tiffany Anderson
	Independent; (The Wisconsin Party)	2,745	0.10%	Arnie Enz

	Write-in; (Independent)	2	0.00%	Richard Michael Turtenwald
	Write-in; (Independent)	1	0.00%	Ralph "Robbie" Hoffman
Total		2,673,308	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-Farmer Labor
	• Republican
Major Third Parties
	• Constitution
	• Green
	• Libertarian
	• Reform
	• Wisconsin Green
Other Third Parties
	• Clear Water Party of Iowa
	• Compassion
	• Conservative
	• Earth Rights
	• Grassroots - Legalize Cannabis
	• Griebel Frank for CT
	• Humanitarian
	• Independence
	• Independent American
	• Independent Party of Connecticut
	• Independent Party of Oregon
	• Liberty Union
	• Marijuana
	• Moderate
	• Natural Law
	• Progressive
	• Republican Takeover
	• Serve America Movement
	• Socialist Workers Party
	• U.S. Taxpayers
	• Unity
	• Women's Equality
	• Working Families
Independents
	• Independent
	• No Affiliation
	• No Party Affiliation
	• No Political Party
	• None
	• Nonpartisan
	• Petition
	• The Wisconsin Party
	• Unenrolled
Write-in/Scattered/otherwise not readily classifiable
	• None of these candidates
	• 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.