The Green Papers: 2023 General Election
 
Copyright www.flags.net/UNST.htm 2023 Governor's Chairs
by State

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 2023 are marked as such.

There have been 0 deaths, 0 resignation, and 0 changes of party affiliation in 2023.

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Kentucky  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2019, 2023. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic

Chair up for regular election Democratic Governor  Andy Beshear
First elected: 2019
Chair up for regular election: Tuesday 7 November 2023
The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit.
Renominated
  Candidate Democratic     Governor  Andy Beshear
for Lieutenant Governor: Lieutenant Governor Jacqueline Coleman
    Democratic     Peppy Martin - lost primary
    Democratic     Geoffrey M. "Geoff" Young - lost primary
  Candidate Republican     Attorney General  Daniel Cameron
10 May 2022: Candidate for Governor in 2023.
    Republican     Jacob Clark - lost primary
    Republican     David O. Cooper - lost primary
    Republican     former United Nations Ambassador Kelly Craft - lost primary
    Republican     Eric C. Deters - lost primary
    Republican     former McCreary School Board Member Robert "Bob" DeVore - lost primary
    Republican     Auditor of Public Accounts  Mike Harmon - lost primary
12 July 2021: Candidate for Governor in 2022.
    Republican     Somerset Mayor  Alan Keck - lost primary
    Republican     Dennis Ray Ormerod - lost primary
    Republican     Agriculture Commissioner  Ryan F. Quarles - lost primary
2 May 2022: Candidate for Governor in 2023.
    Republican     Johnny Ray Rice - lost primary
    Republican     Robbie C. Smith - lost primary
  Candidate Write-in     Brian Fishback
for Lieutenant Governor: William "Bill" Fishback

Louisiana  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2019, 2023. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic

Chair up for regular election
Open
Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards
First elected: 2015; re-elected: 2019
Chair up for regular election: Saturday 14 October 2023
The current Governor is affected by a term limit and cannot run for re-election.
Open Chair - At Term Limit
  Candidate Independent     Benjamin Barnes
  Candidate Republican     Patrick Henry "Dat" Barthel
  Candidate Democratic     Daniel M. "Danny" Cole
  Candidate Republican     Xavier Ellis
  Candidate No Party     "Keitron" Gagnon
  Candidate Republican     state Senator  Sharon W. Hewitt
  Candidate Independent     Jeffery Istre
  Candidate Republican     "Xan" John
  Candidate Republican     Attorney General  "Jeff" Landry
  Candidate Independent     Hunter Lundy
  Candidate Republican     state Representative  Richard James Nelson
20 September 2023: "Today, I am withdrawing from the Louisiana Governor's race, and endorsing Jeff Landry." He remains on the ballot.
  Candidate Republican     Treasurer  John M. Schroder, Sr.
9 January 2023: Candidate for Governor.
  Candidate Independent     Frank Scurlock
  Candidate Republican     Stephen "Wags" Waguespack
  Candidate Democratic     former state Transportation Secretary Shawn D. Wilson
4 March 2023: Resigned as Transportation Secretary.

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
  Republican
Major Third Parties
  Constitution
  Libertarian
Other Third Parties
  Mountain
Independents
  Independent
  No Party
Write-in/Scattered/otherwise not readily classifiable
  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.

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.

"Apparently not a candidate" indicates that someone we once listed as a candidate for an elective office will not, in fact, be running for that office (primarily because said candidate is not listed on an official ballot provided by a jurisdiction's election authorities, where that candidate has not previously withdrawn his/her candidacy or otherwise indicated no longer [or even ever] being a candidate for that office).

"FEC" indicates the Federal Election Commission (FEC) Campaign Finance Summary.

When available, we post each candidate's FEC identification number, the date of their most recently filed Report of Receipts and Disbursements, their "Tot" [Total Receipts (contributions received or what came in: FEC Form 3, Line 16, Column B)] and their "Dsb" [Total Disbursements (expenditures or what was spent: FEC Form 3, Line 23, Column B)]. A link is provided to the Federal Election Commission's Summary Report for those who might wish to explore the details.

If a candidate raises or spends $5,000 or less, he or she is not subject to FEC reporting requirements.


 


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