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 9 October 2023 and, if no candidate receives 50% of the vote, a Saturday 11 November 2023 runoff.
| Presidential Election [next regular election: Tuesday 3 November 2020] |
"post-Presidential" Off Year Election [next regular election: Tuesday 2 November 2021] |
Midterm Election [next regular election: Tuesday 8 November 2022] |
"pre-Presidential" Off Year Election [most recent election: Tuesday 7 November 2023] |
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| Delaware: Carney (D) | New Jersey: Murphy (D) | Alabama: Ivey (R) | Kentucky: Beshear (D) |
| Indiana: Holcomb (R) | Virginia: Northam (D) | Alaska: Dunleavy (R) | Louisiana: Edwards (D) (next election Saturday 14 October 2023) |
| Missouri: Parson (R) | Arizona: Ducey (R) | Mississippi: Reeves (R) | |
| Montana: Bullock (D) | Arkansas: Hutchinson (R) | ||
| New Hampshire: Sununu (R) | California: Newsom (D) | ||
| North Carolina: Cooper (D) | Colorado: Polis (D) | ||
| North Dakota: Burgum (R) | Connecticut: Lamont (D) | ||
| Utah: Herbert (R) | Florida: DeSantis (R) | ||
| Vermont: Scott (R) | Georgia: Kemp (R) | ||
| Washington: Inslee (D) | Hawaii: Ige (D) | ||
| West Virginia: Justice (R) | Idaho: Little (R) | ||
| Illinois: Pritzker (D) | |||
| Iowa: Reynolds (R) | |||
| Kansas: Kelly (D) | |||
| Maine: Mills (D) | |||
| Maryland: Hogan (R) | |||
| Massachusetts: Baker (R) | |||
| Michigan: Whitmer (D) | |||
| Minnesota: Walz (D) | |||
| Nebraska: Ricketts (R) | |||
| Nevada: Sisolak (D) | |||
| New Hampshire: 2-year term, previous regular election 2020 | |||
| New Mexico: Lujan Grisham (D) | |||
| New York: Cuomo (D) | |||
| Ohio: DeWine (R) | |||
| Oklahoma: Stitt (R) | |||
| Oregon: Brown (D) | |||
| Pennsylvania: Wolf (D) | |||
| Rhode Island: Raimondo (D) | |||
| South Carolina: McMaster (R) | |||
| South Dakota: Noem (R) | |||
| Tennessee: Lee (R) | |||
| Texas: Abbott (R) | |||
| Vermont: 2-year term, previous regular election 2020 | |||
| Wisconsin: Evers (D) | |||
| Wyoming: Gordon (R) | |||
| Total 4 Democratic (D) 7 Republican (R) |
Total 2 Democratic (D) |
Total 16 Democratic (D) 18 Republican (R) |
Total 2 Democratic (D) 1 Republican (R) |
| Grand Total 24 Democratic (D) 26 Republican (R) |
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