In Louisiana and Kentucky , both governors were term-limited. Both elections led to a party switch. Two states held regularly scheduled gubernatorial elections in the electoral cycle: New Jersey and Virginia.
Heading into the November election, Democrats held eight of the seats and the Republicans held three seats. Six incumbents sought re-election, three retired and two were term-limited. Of the six who ran, four were Democrats and two were Republicans.
The only party switch took place in North Carolina , where Lt. As of December , the number of Democratic governors in the country was at its lowest since After the November election, there were 29 Republican governors and 20 Democratic, with one Independent.
Three states, Kentucky , Louisiana and Mississippi , had regularly scheduled gubernatorial elections in the electoral cycle. A fourth state, West Virginia , held a special election following a court order.
Mississippi's Haley Barbour was prevented by term limits from running for re-election and his lieutenant governor , Republican Phil Bryant , won election as his successor. Thirty-seven gubernatorial elections took place on November 2, That added up to the largest block of states to choose governors in a single election year. Four states that make up almost one-fourth of the entire U. In 15 of the seats up for election, the incumbent could not run again because of term limits , leaving 22 seats guaranteed to be open to non-incumbents.
Of the incumbent but limited-out governors, eight were Democratic and seven Republican. When incumbents did choose to run, the primaries were good to them. Only in Nevada did an incumbent seeking re-election lose his own party's primary. One of the term-limited governors, Dave Freudenthal in Wyoming , at one point indicated he planned to challenge his state's term limits law; while he did win his legal battle to have the state's term limits invalidated, he eventually declined to run for a third term.
Praise or blame is extended to political parties for the economic, educational, health and other quality of life outcomes that result from the policies those parties enact into law. To better understand which political party enjoys power in each of the states, Ballotpedia has analyzed state government control from using the concept of a "partisan trifecta. The two major political parties claim that their policies will lead to better outcomes.
What does the data show? We identified the party holding each state's governorship for the majority of time in each year from through Across the country, there were years of Democratic governors The trifecta analysis over this period shows a notable trend toward one-party control of state governments.
At the outset of the study period , 18 states had trifectas while 31 states had divided governments. In , only 13 states had divided governments, while single-party trifectas hold sway in 36 states, the most in the 22 years we studied. The number of states with trifectas doubled between and The trifecta analysis also allowed us to identify seven states that have experienced dramatic changes in partisan state government control from the first 11 years of the study to the last 11 years of the study.
Studying the partisan composition of state governments as we do also allows a clean way to assess whether a state is "moving red" or "moving blue. Figure Visualization of Trifectas from -- Alabama-Missouri. The link below is to the most recent stories in a Google news search for the terms Governor State Office. These results are automatically generated from Google. Ballotpedia does not curate or endorse these articles. Governor state executive office - Google News.
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Ralph Northam. McAuliffe, a longtime close friend and advisor to former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, aimed to make a comeback. He had served as governor from to for the commonwealth, which bans governors from seeking consecutive terms. He was also fighting to continue a Democratic winning streak in Virginia statewide races that began in Hundreds of thousands of new jobs.
We moved forward, we made our state open and welcoming. We're not going back. Youngkin, a political newcomer who made a fortune during his year tenure at global investment firm Carlyle Group, saw his campaign exceed expectations, with his outsider status and extensive business background appealing to Virginians concerned about the state economy. He supports limiting abortion rights, and has repeatedly sponsored a bill that would ban abortions performed because of a Down syndrome diagnosis.
White has been prominent in Delaware County politics for years. The election that saw White lose his Delco Council seat was also a landmark moment for suburban Philly politics at large. The region had been moving steadily left for about a decade, and with that election, Delaware County became controlled by Democrats for the first time in a hundred years.
In that race, he stressed his blue collar roots and commitment to reasonable taxes and good fiscal management. The free Keystone Crossroads newsletter delivers the most important Pennsylvania stories to your inbox every week.
Shapiro breaks with Wolf over strategy on climate change. Wolf has worked for two years to finalize regulations to make Pa. Shapiro, considered the likely Democratic nominee to succeed Gov. Sign up for our weekly newsletter. Related Content. Keystone Crossroads. Republicans likely to join the race Doug Mastriano, 57 State Sen.
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