2020 Governor's Chairs by State

The Green Papers: 2020 General Election

2020 Governor's Chairs
by State

11 Governor's Chairs up for election in 2020

11 Elected

39 Governor's Chairs not up for election in 2020

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

8 Incumbents renominated by same party

101 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 2020 are marked as such.

There have been 0 deaths, 0 resignations, and 0 changes of party affiliation in 2020.

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Vermont 2 year term, Election Cycle: 2018, 2020. Term Limit: None
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican


	Independent	4,576	1.23%	Kevin Hoyt
	Independent	1,777	0.48%	Erynn Hazlett Whitney
	Independent	1,431	0.39%	Wayne Billado, III
	Independent	1,160	0.31%	Michael A. "Mike" DeVost
Total		370,968	100.00%

Virginia 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2017, 2021. Term Limit: ineligble to immediately succeed after a given 4-year term
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic



	Independent; (Republican)			state Senator Amanda F. Chase

West Virginia 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2016, 2020. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican



	Write-in; (Independent)			Quintin Gerard Caldwell
	Write-in; (Independent)			state Delegate S. Marshall Wilson • Elected as state Delegate as a Republican but switched Independent in 2019.
Total		768,804	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
Other Third Parties
	• Independent American
	• Independent Party Of Delaware
	• Mountain
	• Progressive
	• Truth Matters
Independents
	• Independent
	• No Party Affiliation
	• No Party Preference
	• 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.