1944 United States gubernatorial elections

United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1944, in 32 states, concurrent with the House, Senate elections and presidential election, on November 7, 1944 (September 11 in Maine).

1944 United States gubernatorial elections

November 7, 1944; September 11, 1944 (ME)
32 state governorships
Majority party Minority party   Party Democratic Republican Last election 22 governorships 26 governorships Seats before 22 26 Seats after 25 23 Seat change 3 3
Democratic holds   Democratic pickups   Republican holds   Republican pickups

This was the last time Idaho elected its governors to 2-year terms, switching to 4-years from the 1946 election.

Results

State	Incumbent	Party	Status	Opposing Candidates
Arizona	Sidney Preston Osborn	Democratic	Re-elected, 77.91%	Jerrie W. Lee (Republican) 21.19% Charles R. Osburn (Prohibition) 0.90% [1]
Arkansas	Homer Martin Adkins	Democratic	Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Democratic victory	Benjamin Travis Laney (Democratic) 85.96% H. C. Stump (Republican) 14.04% [2]
Colorado	John Charles Vivian	Republican	Re-elected, 52.40%	Roy Phelix Best (Democratic) 47.60% [3]
Connecticut	Raymond E. Baldwin	Republican	Re-elected, 50.48%	Robert A. Hurley (Democratic) 47.36% Jasper McLevy (Socialist) 1.99% Joseph C. Borden Jr. (Socialist Labor) 0.17% [4]
Delaware	Walter W. Bacon	Republican	Re-elected, 50.52%	Isaac J. MacCollum (Democratic) 49.19% Thomas W. Jakes (Prohibition) 0.29% [5]
Florida	Spessard Holland	Democratic	Term-limited, Democratic victory	Millard Caldwell (Democratic) 78.94% Bert L. Acker (Republican) 21.06% [6]
Idaho	C. A. Bottolfsen	Republican	Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Democratic victory	Charles C. Gossett (Democratic) 52.64% W. H. Detweiler (Republican) 47.36% [7]
Illinois	Dwight H. Green	Republican	Re-elected, 50.75%	Thomas J. Courtney (Democratic) 48.93% Charles Storm (Socialist Labor) 0.17% Willis R. Wilson (Prohibition) 0.14% [8]
Indiana	Henry F. Schricker	Democratic	Term-limited, Republican victory	Ralph F. Gates (Republican) 50.97% Samuel D. Jackson (Democratic) 48.18% Waldo E. Yeater (Prohibition) 0.74% William Rabe (Socialist) 0.11% [9]
Iowa	Bourke B. Hickenlooper	Republican	Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Republican victory	Robert D. Blue (Republican) 56.01% R. F. Mitchell (Democratic) 43.63% Glen Williamson (Prohibition) 0.28% Hugh Bockewitz (Socialist) 0.08% [10]
Kansas	Andrew Frank Schoeppel	Republican	Re-elected, 65.73%	Robert S. Lemon (Democratic) 32.84% David C. White (Prohibition) 1.11% W. W. Tamplin (Socialist) 0.32% [11]
Maine (held, September 11, 1944)	Sumner Sewall	Republican	Retired, Republican victory	Horace Hildreth (Republican) 70.27% Paul Julien (Democratic) 29.73% [12]
Massachusetts	Leverett Saltonstall	Republican	Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Democratic victory	Maurice J. Tobin (Democratic) 53.64% Horace T. Cahill (Republican) 0.27% Henning A. Blomen (Socialist Labor) 0.27% Guy S. Williams (Prohibition) 0.15% Scattering 0.01% [13]
Michigan	Harry Kelly	Republican	Re-elected, 54.69%	Edward J. Fry (Democratic) 44.76% Seth A. Davey (Prohibition) 0.26% Forest Odell (Socialist) 0.13% Leland Marion (America First) 0.10% Theos A. Grove (Socialist Labor) 0.06% [14]
Minnesota	Edward John Thye	Republican	Re-elected, 61.59%	Byron G. Allen (DFL) 37.78% Gerald M. York (Industrial Government) 0.63% [15]
Missouri	Forrest C. Donnell	Republican	Term-limited, Democratic victory	Phil M. Donnelly (Democratic) 50.94% Jean Paul Bradshaw (Republican) 48.97% W. F. Rinck (Socialist) 0.08% Stephen Tendler (Socialist Labor) 0.01% [16]
Montana	Sam C. Ford	Republican	Re-elected, 56.36%	Leif Erickson (Democratic) 43.18% Charles R. Miller (Prohibition) 0.47% [17]
Nebraska	Dwight Griswold	Republican	Re-elected, 76.11%	George W. Olsen (Democratic) 23.89% [18]
New Hampshire	Robert O. Blood	Republican	Lost Republican primary, Republican victory	Charles M. Dale (Republican) 53.11% James J. Powers (Democratic) 46.89% [19]
New Mexico	John J. Dempsey	Democratic	Re-elected, 51.81%	Carroll G. Gunderson (Republican) 48.19% [20]
North Carolina	J. Melville Broughton	Democratic	Term-limited, Democratic victory	R. Gregg Cherry (Democratic) 69.61% Frank C. Patton (Republican) 30.40% [21]
North Dakota	John Moses	Democratic	Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Republican victory	Fred G. Aandahl (Republican) 52.02% William T. Depuy (Democratic) 28.92% Alvin C. Strutz (Independent) 18.81% A. M. Wiley (Prohibition) 0.26% [22]
Ohio	John W. Bricker	Republican	Retired to run for Vice President of the United States, Democratic victory	Frank Lausche (Democratic) 51.82% James Garfield Stewart (Republican) 48.19% [23]
Rhode Island	J. Howard McGrath	Democratic	Re-elected, 60.65%	Norman D. MacLeod (Republican) 39.35% [24]
South Dakota	Merrell Q. Sharpe	Republican	Re-elected, 65.51%	Lynn Fellows (Democratic) 34.50% [25]
Tennessee	Prentice Cooper	Democratic	Retired, Democratic victory	Jim Nance McCord (Democratic) 62.50% John W. Kilgo (Republican) 35.98% John Randolph Neal Jr. (Independent) 1.52% [26]
Texas	Coke R. Stevenson	Democratic	Re-elected, 90.95%	B. J. Peasley (Republican) 9.05% [27]
Utah	Herbert B. Maw	Democratic	Re-elected, 50.21%	J. Bracken Lee (Republican) 49.79% [28]
Vermont	William Henry Wills	Republican	Retired, Republican victory	Mortimer R. Proctor (Republican) 65.90% Ernest H. Bailey (Democratic) 34.10% [29]
Washington	Arthur B. Langlie	Republican	Defeated, 48.12%	Monrad Wallgren (Democratic) 51.51% Allen Emerson (Prohibition) 0.20% Henry E. O. Gusey (Socialist Labor) 0.16% [30]
West Virginia	Matthew M. Neely	Democratic	Term-limited, Democratic victory	Clarence W. Meadows (Democratic) 54.44% Daniel Boone Dawson (Republican) 45.56% [31]
Wisconsin	Walter Samuel Goodland	Republican	Re-elected, 52.84%	Daniel Hoan (Democratic) 40.62% Alexander O. Benz (Progressive) 5.76% George A. Nelson (Socialist) 0.70% Georgia Cozzini (Socialist Labor) 0.09% [32]

See also

• United States elections, 1944
  • 1944 United States presidential election
  • United States Senate elections, 1944
  • United States House of Representatives elections, 1944

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