2024 Governor's Chairs by State

The Green Papers: 2024 General Election

2024 Governor's Chairs
by State

11 Governor's Chairs up for election in 2024

11 Elected

39 Governor's Chairs not up for election in 2024

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

3 Incumbents renominated by same party

3 Republican

87 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 2024 are marked as such.

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

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Delaware 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2020, 2024. Term Limit: No one can serve more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime
Partisan Composition: 1 Democratic


		Open Chair (no incumbent)

	~~Write-in~~			~~Danny Amen "ACE" Valentine Shabazz - apparently not a candidate~~ • aka Danny ACE Valentine
Total		498,635	100.00%

Indiana 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2020, 2024. Term Limit: No more than 2 4-year terms in any 3-term period
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican


		Open Chair (no incumbent)
	Write-in; (Independent)	52	0.00%	Christopher Ryan Stried
Total		2,879,655	100.00%

Missouri 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2020, 2024. Term Limit: No one can serve more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican


		Open Chair (no incumbent)
	Write-in	24	0.00%	Theo "Ted" Brown, Sr.
Total		2,960,266	100.00%

Utah 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2020, 2024. Term Limit: None
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican


	Write-in; (Republican)	200,551	13.53%	state Representative Phil Lyman • for Lieutenant Governor: Natalie Clawson • 3 May 2024: State 3rd District Court Judge Matthew Bates rules that Layne Bangerter is not eligible to run for Lieutenant Governor in the 25 June Republican primary due to the 5 year residency requirement. 6 May 2024: Natalie Clawson named as the replacement running mate. 25 June 2024: Lost Gubernatorial Republican Primary. 13 August 2024: Running for Governor as a write-in.
	Write-in	525	0.04%	Charlie Tautuaa • for Lieutenant Governor: Sylvia Miera Fisk
	Write-in; (Unaffiliated)			Richard Kennedy Lyman - apparently not a candidate • for Lieutenant Governor: Carol Ann Lyman • 25 October 2024: Withdrew.
Total		1,481,921	100.00%

West Virginia 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2020, 2024. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms
Partisan Composition: 1 Republican


		Open Chair (no incumbent)
	Write-in	5	0.00%	William Allen Meadows
	Write-in; (Independent)	3	0.00%	Quintin Gerard "Browwn Clowwn" Caldwell
	Write-in	2	0.00%	Troy Green
Total		740,938	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
	• Peace And Justice
Other Third Parties
	• Independent American
	• Mountain
	• Progressive
Independents
	• Independent
	• 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.

"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.