Historical Governor Elections

Browse 49 annual U.S. gubernatorial cycles from 1976 through 2024. Each year page lists the states with a recorded race and the party balance across all 50 governorships after that cycle, including states without an election that year.

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2010s

2000s

1990s

1980s

1970s

Governor maps show states with a recorded race in that year. The party balance includes holdover governorships. This archive records winning parties, not state vote totals. Its bundled data file was generated June 17, 2026; that timestamp does not mean every underlying result was independently reverified on that date.

Read the election data and methodology