1932 United States gubernatorial elections

United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1932, in 35 states, concurrent with the House, Senate elections and presidential election, on November 8, 1932 (September 12 in Maine).

1932 United States gubernatorial elections

November 8, 1932; September 12, 1932 (ME)
35 state governorships (including 1 special election)
Majority party Minority party   Party Democratic Republican Last election 27 governorships 19 governorships Seats before 27 19 Seats after 38 8 Seat change 11 11   Third party Fourth party   Party Farmer–Labor Independent Last election 1 governorship 1 governorship Seats before 1 1 Seats after 1 1 Seat change
Democratic gain      Democratic hold      Republican gain      Republican hold      Farmer–Labor hold

Results

State	Incumbent	Party	Status	Opposing Candidates
Arizona	George W. P. Hunt	Democratic	Defeated in Democratic primary, Democratic victory	Benjamin Baker Moeur (Democratic) 63.22% J. C. "Jack" Kinney (Republican) 35.43% Lawrence McGivern (Socialist) 0.69% Andrew Bettwy (Arizona Progressive Democrat) 0.49% Martin Gehon (Communist) 0.17% [1]
Arkansas	Junius Marion Futrell	Democratic	Re-elected, 90.39%	J. O. Livesay (Republican) 8.91% Scattering 0.70% [2]
Colorado	Billy Adams	Democratic	Retired, Democratic victory	Edwin Carl Johnson (Democratic) 57.23% James D. Parriott (Republican) 40.78% Morton Alexander (Socialist) 1.39% William Penn Collins (Farmer Labor) 0.38% William R. Dietrich (Communist) 0.23% [3]
Connecticut	Wilbur L. Cross	Democratic	Re-elected, 48.44%	John H. Trumbull (Republican) 46.62% Jasper McLevy (Socialist) 3.47% Albert Levitt (Independent Republican) 0.86% Michael P. O'Lean (Socialist Labor) 0.39% Isadore Wofsy (Communist) 0.23% [4]
Delaware	C. Douglass Buck	Republican	Re-elected, 54.23%	Landreth L. Layton (Democratic) 44.88% Fred W. Whiteside (Socialist) 0.79% - Thomas (Communist) 0.11% [5]
Florida	Doyle E. Carlton	Democratic	Term-limited, Democratic victory	David Sholtz (Democratic) 66.62% W. J. Howey (Republican) 33.38% [6]
Georgia	Richard Russell Jr.	Democratic	Retired to run for U.S. senator, Democratic victory	Eugene Talmadge (Democratic) 100.00% [7] (Democratic primary results) Eugene Talmadge 42.02% (264) Hosea Abit Nix 28.38% (94) Thomas W. Hardwick 12.73% (30) John N. Holder 7.11% (10) H. B. Edwards 4.66% (8) John I. Kelly 4.37% (4) Scattering 0.73% [8]
Idaho	C. Ben Ross	Democratic	Re-elected, 61.73%	Byron Defenbach (Republican) 36.44% Scattering 1.84% [9]
Illinois	Louis Lincoln Emmerson	Republican	Retired, Democratic victory	Henry Horner (Democratic) 57.62% Len Small (Republican) 40.71% Roy E. Burt (Socialist) 1.18% Leondies McDonald (Communist) 0.37% J. E. Procum (Socialist Labor) 0.09% W. W. O'Brien (Independent) 0.04% [10]
Indiana	Harry G. Leslie	Republican	Term-limited, Democratic victory	Paul V. McNutt (Democratic) 55.02% Raymond S. Springer (Republican) 42.75% Powers Hapgood (Socialist) 1.20% F. W. Lough (Prohibition) 0.59% Ward B. Hiner (National) 0.20% Theodore Luesse (Communist) 0.14% Charley Lynch (Socialist Labor) 0.12% [11]
Iowa	Dan W. Turner	Republican	Defeated, 47.23%	Clyde L. Herring (Democratic) 52.77% [12]
Kansas	Harry H. Woodring	Democratic	Defeated, 34.12%	Alfred M. Landon (Republican) 34.82% John R. Brinkley (Independent) 30.58% H. M. Perkins (Socialist) 0.49% [13]
Maine (held, 12 September 1932)	William Tudor Gardiner	Republican	Retired, Democratic victory	Louis J. Brann (Democratic) 50.25% Burleigh Martin (Republican) 49.28% Frank H. Maxfield (Socialist) 0.47% [14]
Massachusetts	Joseph B. Ely	Democratic	Re-elected, 52.76%	William S. Youngman (Republican) 45.03% Alfred B. Lewis (Socialist) 1.57% John J. Ballam (Communist) 0.39% Charles S. Oram (Socialist Labor) 0.24% Scattering 0.01% [15]
Michigan	Wilber M. Brucker	Republican	Defeated, 43.12%	William A. Comstock (Democratic) 54.92% John Panzer (Socialist) 1.24% William Reynolds (Communist) 0.49% Charles Elwood Holmes (Prohibition) 0.13% Robert Fraser (Socialist Labor) 0.07% Albert T. Renner (Proletarian) 0.02% [16]
Minnesota	Floyd B. Olson	Farmer-Labor	Re-elected, 50.57%	Earle Brown (Republican) 32.34% John E. Regan (Democratic) 16.44% William Schneiderman (Communist) 0.47% John P. Johnson (Industrial) 0.18% [17]
Missouri	Henry S. Caulfield	Republican	Term-limited, Democratic victory	Guy Brasfield Park (Democratic) 60.17% Edward H. Winter (Republican) 39.10% Louis Martin Wolf (Socialist) 0.68% Owen W. Penney (Communist) 0.03% William Wesley Cox (Socialist Labor) 0.02% [18]
Montana	John E. Erickson	Democratic	Re-elected, 48.50%	Frank A. Hazelbaker (Republican) 46.73% Chris Yegen (Socialist) 2.92% Rodney Salisbury (Communist) 0.93% W. R. Duncan (Liberty) 0.93% [19]
Nebraska	Charles W. Bryan	Democratic	Re-elected, 52.53%	Dwight P. Griswold (Republican) 46.28% John M. Paul (Socialist) 1.19% [20]
New Hampshire	John Gilbert Winant	Republican	Re-elected, 54.20%	Henri Ledoux (Democratic) 45.42% Frank T. Butler (Socialist) 0.27% William J. Wilgus Jr. (Communist) 0.12% [21]
New Mexico	Arthur Seligman	Democratic	Re-elected, 54.82%	Richard C. Dillon (Republican) 44.19% E. E. Frost (Socialist) 0.70% Thomas C. Cullender (Liberty) 0.23% W. F. Richardson (Communist) 0.07% [22]
New York	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Democratic	Retired to run for U.S. President, Democratic victory	Herbert H. Lehman (Democratic) 56.69% William J. Donovan (Republican) 38.62% Louis Waldman (Socialist) 2.0% John F. Vichert (Law Preservation) 1.78% Israel Amter (Communist) 0.56% Aaron M. Orange (Socialist Labor) 0.15% [23]
North Carolina	Oliver Max Gardner	Democratic	Term-limited, Democratic victory	John C. B. Ehringhaus (Democratic) 70.07% Clifford C. Frazier (Republican) 29.93% [24]
North Dakota	George F. Shafer	Republican	Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Republican victory	William Langer (Republican) 54.75% Herbert C. Depuy (Democratic) 44.97% Andrew Omholt (Communist) 0.28% [25]
Ohio	George White	Democratic	Re-elected, 52.82%	David S. Ingalls (Republican) 44.85% Joseph W. Sharts (Socialist) 1.26% Aaron S. Watkins (Prohibition) 0.76% John Marshall (Communist) 0.25% William Woodhouse (Socialist Labor) 0.07% [26]
Rhode Island	Norman S. Case	Republican	Defeated, 43.50%	Theodore F. Green (Democratic) 55.20% Frederick W. Hurst (Socialist) 0.73% James P. Reid (Communist) 0.21% Roscoe W. Phillips (Prohibition) 0.19% Charles F. Bishop (Socialist Labor) 0.17% [27]
South Dakota	Warren E. Green	Republican	Defeated, 42.40%	Tom Berry (Democratic) 55.63% H. O. Stevens (Liberty) 1.75% Helen Tangen (Independent) 0.22% [28]
Tennessee	Henry Hollis Horton	Democratic	Retired, Democratic victory	Hill McAlister (Democratic) 42.75% John McCall (Republican) 29.79% Lewis S. Pope (Independent) 27.05% John H. Compton (Independent) 0.32% Charles R. Marlow (Independent) 0.09% [29]
Texas	Ross S. Sterling	Democratic	Defeated in Democratic primary, Democratic victory	Miriam A. Ferguson (Democratic) 61.98% Orville Bullington (Republican) 37.68% George C. Edwards (Socialist) 0.22% George W. Armstrong (Jacksonian) 0.09% Philip L. Howe (Communist) 0.02% Otho L. Heitt (Liberty) 0.02% [30]
Utah	George Dern	Democratic	Retired, Democratic victory	Henry H. Blood (Democratic) 56.39% William W. Seegmiller (Republican) 41.76% A. L. Porter (Socialist) 1.36% Marvin P. Bales (Communist) 0.49% [31]
Vermont	Stanley Calef Wilson	Republican	Re-elected, 61.69%	James Patrick Leamy (Democratic) 37.20% Frederick W. Suitor (Socialist) 1.09% Scattering 0.02% [32]
Washington	Roland H. Hartley	Republican	Defeated in Republican primary, Democratic victory	Clarence D. Martin (Democratic) 57.29% John Arthur Gellatly (Republican) 33.75% Luvern Clyde Hicks (Liberty) 6.79% John F. McKay (Socialist) 1.63% Fred E. Walker (Communist) 0.41% Edward Kriz (Socialist Labor) 0.07% Maslen Meade (Independent) 0.06% [33]
West Virginia	William G. Conley	Republican	Term-limited, Democratic victory	Herman G. Kump (Democratic) 53.77% T. C. Townsend (Republican) 45.80% J. H. Snider (Socialist) 0.37% Miles Stone (Communist) 0.06% [34]
Wisconsin	Philip La Follette	Republican	Defeated in Republican primary, Democratic victory	Albert George Schmedeman (Democratic) 52.48% Walter Jodok Kohler (Republican) 41.87% Frank B. Metcalfe (Socialist) 5.07% William C. Dean (Prohibition) 0.28% Fred B. Blair (Communist) 0.26% Joseph Ehrhardt (Socialist Labor) 0.04% Scattering 0.01% [35]
Wyoming (special election)	Alonzo M. Clark	Republican	Defeated in Republican primary, Democratic victory	Leslie A. Miller (Democratic) 50.85% Harry R. Weston (Republican) 47.22% A. O. Blow (Socialist) 1.74% Merton Willer (Communist) 0.19% [36]

See also

• 1932 United States elections
  • 1932 United States presidential election
  • 1932 United States Senate elections
  • 1932 United States House of Representatives elections

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