United States gubernatorial elections were held on November 4, 2014, in 36 states and three territories, concurrent with other elections during the
2014 United States elections
The 2014 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 4, 2014, in the middle of Democratic President Barack Obama's second term. Republicans retained control of the House of Representatives and won control of the Senate.
Republicans ...
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The Republicans defended 22 seats, compared to the Democrats' 14. The Republicans held open seats in Arizona, Nebraska, and Texas; and gained open Democratic-held seats in Massachusetts, Maryland, and Arkansas. Republican
Bruce Rauner
Bruce Vincent Rauner (; born February 18, 1956) is an American businessman, philanthropist, and politician who served as the 42nd governor of Illinois from 2015 to 2019. Prior to his election, he was the chairman of R8 Capital Partners and chai ...
Sean Parnell
Sean Randall Parnell (born November 19, 1962) is an American attorney and politician. He succeeded Sarah Palin in July 2009 to become the tenth governor of Alaska and served until 2014.Alaska, who lost to independent Bill Walker. Democrats held their open seat in Rhode Island, as well as Hawaii, where incumbent Governor Neil Abercrombie was defeated in the primary.
All totaled, the Republicans had a net gain of two seats (giving them 31 total), the Democrats had a net loss of three seats (leaving them with 18 total), and an independent picked up one seat (giving them 1 total). As a result of these races, Republican Terry Branstad was re-elected to his sixth full four-year term as governor of Iowa, and thus became the longest-serving governor in U.S. history.
As of , this is the last time that Republicans have won gubernatorial races in Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, New Mexico, and Wisconsin; and the last time Democrats won races in New Hampshire and Vermont. This is also the last time that the Republicans have made a net gain of governorships in a midterm election, and the last time that a candidate outside of the two major parties has won the governorship of any state.
States where the margin of victory was under 5%:
# Florida, 1.0%
# Vermont, 1.3%
# Massachusetts, 1.9%
# Alaska, 2.2%
# Connecticut, 2.5%
# Colorado, 3.3%
# Kansas, 3.7%
# Maryland, 3.8%
# Illinois, 3.9%
# Michigan, 4.0%
# Rhode Island, 4.5%
# Maine, 4.8%
States where the margin of victory was under 10%:
# New Hampshire, 5.0%
# Minnesota, 5.6%
# Wisconsin, 5.7%
# Oregon, 5.8%
# Georgia, 7.8%
# Pennsylvania, 9.8%Red denotes states won by Republicans. Blue denotes states won by Democrats. Grey denotes states won by Independents.
Alabama
GovernorRobert Bentley ran for re-election. Bentley was elected with 57.9% of the vote in 2010.
Former Morgan County Commissioner Stacy Lee George challenged Bentley in the Republican primary, as did Bob Starkey, a retired software company executive.
Former baseball player and businessman Kevin Bass and former U.S. Representative
Parker Griffith
Rolf Parker Griffith Jr. (born August 6, 1942) is an American retired physician, entrepreneur and politician who served in the Alabama State Senate from 2006 to 2008 and then as the U.S. representative for from 2009 to 2011.
A lifelong member ...
pursued the Democratic nomination, which Griffith won.
Bentley won re-election to a second term.
Sean Parnell
Sean Randall Parnell (born November 19, 1962) is an American attorney and politician. He succeeded Sarah Palin in July 2009 to become the tenth governor of Alaska and served until 2014.Bill Walker at first ran in the Republican primary, but withdrew and instead ran as an independent. Governor Parnell was defeated by Independent Bill Walker.
Former
Mayor of Juneau
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Byron Mallott won the Democratic gubernatorial primary on August 19 with 80% of the vote. On September 2, Walker and Mallott merged their campaigns, with Walker, who ran for governor and Mallott, who ran for lieutenant governor.
Arizona
GovernorJan Brewer was term-limited in 2014 despite only serving one full term, as Arizona state law limits office holders to two consecutive terms, regardless of whether they are full or partial terms. In November 2012, Brewer declared she was looking into what she called "ambiguity" in Arizona's term-limit law to seek a second full four-year term.
On March 12, 2014, Brewer announced she would not seek re-election to another four-year term, which would have required a "longshot court challenge" to the
Arizona Constitution
The Constitution of the State of Arizona is the governing document and framework for the State of Arizona. The current constitution is the first and only adopted by the state of Arizona.
History
The Arizona Territory was authorized to hold a ...
Ken Bennett
Kenneth Roy Bennett (born August 1, 1959) is an American businessman and politician who served as president of the Arizona Senate and served as the 19th Secretary of State of Arizona, from 2009 to 2015. He was a candidate for Governor of Arizona ...
State Senator
A state senator is a member of a state's senate in the bicameral legislature of 49 U.S. states, or a member of the unicameral Nebraska Legislature.
Description
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Fred DuVal
Fred Price DuVal (born May 24, 1954) is an American businessman, civic leader, education leader and author. He is president of DuVal and Associates, a senior advisor to Dentons Law, an advisor to Macquarie Infrastructure, Chairman of Excelsior M ...
, former Chairman of the
Arizona Board of Regents
The Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) is the governing body of Arizona's public university system. It provides policy guidance to Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University, the University of Arizona, and their branch campuses.
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won the Democratic nomination.
Ducey won the election.
Arkansas
GovernorMike Beebe was term-limited in 2014. Former Representative Mike Ross is the Democratic nominee, while former Representative Asa Hutchinson is the Republican nominee.
Hutchinson won the election.
California
GovernorJerry Brown sought re-election. He was elected to a third non-consecutive term with 53.1% of the vote in 2010, having previously served as governor from 1975 to 1983.
State Assemblyman Tim Donnelly and former U.S. Treasury Department Official Neel Kashkari were running for the Republican nomination. Former Lieutenant Governor Abel Maldonado launched a campaign but then withdrew. With 19 percent of the vote Kashkari came in second after Governor Jerry Brown (54 percent) under California's new Nonpartisan blanket primary.
Colorado
GovernorJohn Hickenlooper sought for re-election. Hickenlooper was elected with 50.7% of the vote in 2010.
State Senator Greg Brophy and Former Congressman Tom Tancredo are running for the Republican nomination. Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler is a potential Republican candidate.
Hickenlooper won re-election to a second term.
2010
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Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley is challenging Malloy again after losing by less than 1% of the vote in 2010.
Malloy won re-election to a second term.
Rick Scott
Richard Lynn Scott ( Myers, born December 1, 1952) is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Florida since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he was the 45th governor of Florida from 2011 to 2019.
Scott ...
was elected with 48.9% of the vote in 2010, defeating then-Chief Financial Officer of Florida Alex Sink by a margin of just over 1 percent. He announced his bid for a second term and is facing former Republican Governor turned Democrat
Charlie Crist
Charles Joseph Crist Jr. (; born July 24, 1956) is an American attorney and politician who served as the 44th governor of Florida from 2007 to 2011 and as the U.S. representative for from 2017 to 2022. Crist has been a member of the Democratic ...
State Senator
A state senator is a member of a state's senate in the bicameral legislature of 49 U.S. states, or a member of the unicameral Nebraska Legislature.
Description
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Nan Rich lost to Charlie Crist in the primary.
Economist and 2010 Independent nominee for governor
Farid Khavari
Farid A. Khavari ( fa, فرید خاوری) is an Iranian American economist, author, patent-holder, designer, and small business owner. In 2010 and 2014, he ran as an independent candidate for Governor of Florida.
Personal
Khavari was born ...
John Barge
John D. Barge is the former superintendent of schools for the U.S. state of Georgia. He was a candidate for Governor of Georgia in the 2014 election, coming in third place in the Republican primary and receiving 11.5% of the vote.
In 2020, Bar ...
Commissioner
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, was running for governor, but is now running for lieutenant governor. Carter won the gubernatorial nomination.
Deal won re-election to a second term.
Hawaii
GovernorNeil Abercrombie launched his re-election campaign on April 29, 2013; sought a second term in 2014. Abercrombie was elected with 58.2% of the vote in 2010 over former Lieutenant Governor Duke Aiona. However, in 2014, State Senator David Ige challenged Abercrombie for the Democratic nomination, and successfully defeated Abercrombie for the nomination in a landslide victory during the state's primary election on August 9, 2014. Abercrombie's primary election defeat was the first in Hawaii history for a governor, and marked the first time an incumbent governor lost re-election since 1962.
In the midst of Abercrombie's loss, former Lieutenant Governor Duke Aiona won the Republican nomination for governor for the second time, and former
Honolulu mayor
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Mufi Hannemann won his primary as an independent. They along with David Ige advanced to the gubernatorial general election. Ige won the election.
Idaho
GovernorButch Otter sought a third term. Otter was elected to a second term with 59.1% of the vote in 2010. State Senator Russ Fulcher unsuccessfully challenged Otter for the Republican nomination.
A. J. Balukoff, President of the Boise School Board,Popkey, Dan "Democrat Balukoff joins race for governor" '' Idaho Statesman'', December 3, 2013. (accessed December 3, 2013) won the Democratic nomination.
Otter won re-election to a third term.
Illinois
Democratic GovernorPat Quinn sought re-election, but was defeated by Businessman
Bruce Rauner
Bruce Vincent Rauner (; born February 18, 1956) is an American businessman, philanthropist, and politician who served as the 42nd governor of Illinois from 2015 to 2019. Prior to his election, he was the chairman of R8 Capital Partners and chai ...
. Quinn was elected to a full term with 46.6% of the vote in 2010.
Businessman
Bruce Rauner
Bruce Vincent Rauner (; born February 18, 1956) is an American businessman, philanthropist, and politician who served as the 42nd governor of Illinois from 2015 to 2019. Prior to his election, he was the chairman of R8 Capital Partners and chai ...
, Treasurer Dan Rutherford, and State Senators Kirk Dillard and Bill Brady are running for the Republican nomination.
On March 18, 2014, Bruce Rauner won the primary and the GOP nomination with 40.1% of the vote.
Iowa
GovernorTerry Branstad sought a sixth non-consecutive term. He was elected to a fifth term (non-consecutive) with 53% of the vote in 2010. Political activist Tom Hoefling unsuccessfully challenged Branstad for the Republican nomination.
Assistant Majority Leader of the Iowa State Senate
Jack Hatch
Jack G. Hatch (born March 13, 1950) is a former Iowa State Senator and American business owner. He was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Iowa in the 2014 election. A Democrat, Hatch served in the Iowa Senate from 2003 to 2015, and was an a ...
former
Des Moines
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school board member Jonathan Narcisse and
Webster
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bus driver Paul Dahl, sought the Democratic nomination. Hatch won.
Branstad won re-election and became the longest-serving governor in US history.
Kansas
GovernorSam Brownback sought re-election. Brownback was elected with 63.4% of the vote in 2010. He easily won the Republican nomination.
Paul Davis, Minority Leader of the Kansas House of Representatives, successfully ran for the Democratic nomination. According to The Fix, Democrats see this as the "sleeper race" of 2014.
Brownback won re-election to a second term.
Maine
GovernorPaul LePage sought a second term. LePage was elected with 38.3% of the vote in a competitive three member race in
2010
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. He easily won the Republican nomination.
Representative Mike Michaud successfully ran for the Democratic nomination.
Independent candidate
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Some politicians have political views th ...
Eliot Cutler, who finished second in Maine's 2010 gubernatorial election, is running again against LePage.
LePage won re-election to a second term.
Martin O'Malley
Martin Joseph O'Malley (born January 18, 1963) is an American lawyer and former politician who served as the 61st Governor of Maryland from 2007 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he was Mayor of Baltimore from 1999 to 2007.
O'Malley ...
was term-limited in 2014.
O'Malley endorsed
Lieutenant Governor
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David R. Craig
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, Chairman of Change Maryland and former Maryland Secretary of Appointments
Larry Hogan
Lawrence Joseph Hogan Jr. (born May 25, 1956) is an American politician and businessman serving as the 62nd governor of Maryland since 2015. A moderate member of the Republican Party, he was secretary of appointments under Maryland governor Bo ...
, Delegate Ron George, former Charles County Republican Central Committee Chairman Charles Lollar, and 2012 U.S. Senate candidate Brian Vaeth.
On June 24, Brown and Hogan won their respective primaries. On November 4, Hogan was elected as governor.
Deval Patrick
Deval Laurdine Patrick (born July 31, 1956) is an American politician, civil rights lawyer, author, and businessman who served as the 71st governor of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015. He was first elected in 2006, succeeding Mitt Romney, who ...
was eligible to run for re-election, but decided not to seek a third term.
State Senator
A state senator is a member of a state's senate in the bicameral legislature of 49 U.S. states, or a member of the unicameral Nebraska Legislature.
Description
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and Cape Air CEO Dan Wolf was running for the Democratic nomination, but withdrew after the Ethics Commission ruled his co-ownership of Cape Air violated state conflict of interest rules.
Democratic candidates included PAREXEL executive
Joseph Avellone
Joseph Charles "Joe" Avellone III, M.D. (born September 29, 1948) is an American medical doctor, businessman, and politician from Massachusetts. He was a surgeon at Concord Hospital for four years, selectman for the town of Wellesley, Massachu ...
, former Administrator of the
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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Donald Berwick
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,
Attorney General
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In some jurisdictions, attorneys general also have exec ...
Martha Coakley
Martha Mary Coakley (born July 14, 1953) is an American lobbyist and lawyer who served as Attorney General of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015. Prior to serving as Attorney General, she was District Attorney of Middlesex County from 1999 to 2007 ...
Juliette Kayyem
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. Coakley won the nomination.
Republican candidates included former Massachusetts cabinet official and 2010 nominee Charlie Baker, and TEA Party member and Shrewsbury small businessman Mark Fisher.
Baker won the nomination.
Michigan
GovernorRick Snyder sought re-election to a second term and was unopposed in the August 5 party primary. Snyder was elected with 58.1% of the vote in 2010.
Former Representative Mark Schauer was unopposed for the Democratic nomination.
Snyder won re-election to a second term.
Minnesota
GovernorMark Dayton sought re-election. Dayton was elected with 43.7% of the vote in
2010
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.
Teacher Rob Farnsworth, investment banker
Scott Honour
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* Scott, Saskatchewan, a town in the Rural Municipality of Tramping Lake No. 380
* Rural Municipality of Scott No. 98, Saskat ...
Commissioner
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In practice, the title of commissioner has evolved to in ...
Marty Seifert
Martin John "Marty" Seifert (born April 23, 1972) is a former Republican Party of Minnesota, Republican Minority Leader and former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. He represented District 21A, a predominantly rural district in s ...
Kurt Zellers
Kurt Zellers (born October 16, 1969) is an American politician who served as speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2011 to 2013 and minority leader from 2009 to 2011. A member of the Republican Party of Minnesota, he represent ...
sought the Republican nomination. Activist Leslie Davis sought the DFL nomination.
Lieutenant Governor
A lieutenant governor, lieutenant-governor, or vice governor is a high officer of state, whose precise role and rank vary by jurisdiction. Often a lieutenant governor is the deputy, or lieutenant, to or ranked under a governor — a "second-in-comm ...
Rick Sheehy
Rick Sheehy (born October 3, 1959) is an American politician who served as the 38th lieutenant governor of Nebraska from 2005 to 2013. A member of the Republican Party since 2003, he is the longest-serving lieutenant governor in Nebraska history, ...
had been endorsed by Heineman, but Sheehy exited the race due to a report regarding a series of inappropriate phone calls he had made to women who were not his wife. State SenatorsTom Carlson, Charlie Janssen, and
Beau McCoy
Beau McCoy (born November 12, 1980) is an American politician who served as a member of the Nebraska Legislature for the 39th district from 2009 to 2017.
Early life and education
McCoy was born in Burlington, Colorado, has been active in th ...
also ran for the Republican nomination. Other potential Republican candidates include Auditor of Public Accounts Mike Foley and businessman Pete Ricketts. The nomination was won by Ricketts.
Executive Director of the
Center for Rural Affairs
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Chuck Hassebrook ran for the Democratic nomination.
State Senator
A state senator is a member of a state's senate in the bicameral legislature of 49 U.S. states, or a member of the unicameral Nebraska Legislature.
Description
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Annette Dubas
Annette M. Dubas (born February 5, 1956) is a politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska, who served in the Nebraska Legislature from 2007 to 2015. She was a candidate in the 2014 Nebraska gubernatorial election, but withdrew in November 2013. ...
was also running, but she has withdrawn, leaving Hassebrook the only Democratic candidate. Hassebrook won the nomination.
Ricketts won the election.
Nevada
GovernorBrian Sandoval sought a second term. Sandoval was elected with 53.4% of the vote in 2010.
Anthropology Professor Frederick "Fred" Conquest and Businessman Chris Hyepock ran for the Democratic nomination. Bob Goodman, won the nomination.
Family therapist David Lory VanDerBeek successfully sought the Independent American nomination.
Sandoval won re-election to a second term.
New Hampshire
GovernorMaggie Hassan, elected in 2012 sought re-election. New Hampshire's governors serve two-year terms.
Former U.S. Representative
Frank Guinta
Frank Christopher Guinta (born September 26, 1970) is an American businessman and politician who represented New Hampshire's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2011 to 2013 and 2015 to 2017. A member of t ...
had not ruled out the possibility of running for the Republican nomination.
State Senator
A state senator is a member of a state's senate in the bicameral legislature of 49 U.S. states, or a member of the unicameral Nebraska Legislature.
Description
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's Howie Morales and Linda Lopez sought the Democratic nomination. King won.
Martinez won re-election to a second term.
Steven McLaughlin
Steven Francis "Steve" McLaughlin (born October 4, 1963) is an American politician serving as County Executive of Rensselaer County, New York. A Republican, McLaughlin represented the 107th District in the New York State Assembly from 2011 to 201 ...
, Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro and Harry Wilson, the nominee for State Comptroller in 2010.
Ohio
GovernorJohn Kasich sought a second term. Kasich was elected with 49.4% of the vote in 2010.
Cuyahoga County
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Executive
Ed FitzGerald
Edward FitzGerald (born July 10, 1968) is an American businessman, attorney, and entrepreneur who previously served as a law enforcement officer and public official in the Greater Cleveland Metropolitan Area.
Early life
FitzGerald was born ...
Todd Portune
Todd Brian Portune (August 14, 1958 – January 25, 2020) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a member of the Cincinnati City Council and as a Hamilton County Commissioner. Portune was regarded as left of center on social iss ...
are running for the Democratic nomination.
Former Ohio state representative Charlie Earl is running for the Libertarian nomination.
Kasich won re-election to a second term.
Oklahoma
GovernorMary Fallin sought a second term. Fallin was elected with 60.1% of the vote in 2010.
2010 Republican Party Gubernatorial candidate Randy Brogdon ran again.
State Representative Joe Dorman is the only Democratic candidate who ran.
Fallin won re-election to a second term.
Oregon
GovernorJohn Kitzhaber sought re-election. Kitzhaber was elected with 49.2% of the vote in 2010. Kitzhaber won the election.
Pennsylvania
Incumbent Republican Governor Tom Corbett ran for re-election to a second term but was defeated by the
Democratic
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nominee, Tom Wolf. This marked the first time an incumbent governor running for re-election in Pennsylvania lost.
Democrat Tom Wolf won his party's primary on May 20, 2014, defeating Congresswoman
Allyson Schwartz
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, State Treasurer Rob McCord and former Pennsylvania Secretary of Environmental Protection Kathleen McGinty in a
landslide victory
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.
Rhode Island
GovernorLincoln Chafee retired after one term in office. Chafee was elected with 36.1% in a competitive three-way race in 2010 in which he ran as an independent. He became a Democrat in May 2013, promoting speculation he would run for a second term, but later announced that he would not run for re-election on September 4, 2013.
Providence Mayor Angel Taveras, State Treasurer Gina Raimondo, and former United States Department of Education official Clay Pell ran for the nomination. Raimondo won the primary election.
Cranston Mayor Allan Fung ran for the Republican nomination. Moderate Party Chairman
Ken Block
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, who received 6.5% of the vote in the 2010 gubernatorial election, had filed to run again for the Moderate Party. He has since switched to run as a Republican. Fung won the nomination.
Nikki Haley
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sought re-election. Haley was elected with 51.4% of the vote in 2010.
Democratic 2010 gubernatorial nominee, State Senator Vincent Sheheen, sought a rematch.
On April 11, Tom Ervin announced that he was dropping out of the GOP primary.
Haley won re-election to a second term.
South Dakota
GovernorDennis Daugaard sought re-election. Daugaard was elected with 61.5% of the vote in 2010. Republican former State Representative Lora Hubbel has announced a primary challenge to Daugaard.
Joe Lowe, the former Director of Wildland Fire Suppression, ran for the Democratic nomination. Other speculated candidates included former Commissioner of Schools and Public Lands Bryce Healy, former Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, and Sioux Falls Mayor Mike Huether, but they have all ruled out running for governor.
Daugaard won re-election to a second term.
Tennessee
GovernorBill Haslam sought re-election. Haslam was elected with 65% of the vote in 2010.
On August 7, Haslam won the Republican nomination with 87.7%. He faced Democrat Charlie Brown, Constitution Party nominee Shaun Crowell, Green Party nominee Isa Infante, and
Libertarian
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Daniel T. Lewis. Haslam won re-election to a second term.
Rick Perry
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was eligible to run for re-election, but chose not to seek a fourth term on July 8, 2013. Perry was re-elected to a third term with 55.1% of the vote in 2010.
Attorney General Greg Abbott was the Republican Party nominee, having defeated perennial candidate Larry Kilgore, Lisa Fritsch and former Univision personality Miriam Martinez in the Republican primary.
State Senator Wendy Davis was the Democratic Party nominee.
Abbott won the election with 59.3% of the vote.
Vermont
GovernorPeter Shumlin, re-elected in 2012, sought re-election. Vermont governors serve two-year terms. He faced Republican businessman Scott Milne, among many other candidates, in the general election.
Since no candidate received more than 50% of the vote, the Vermont General Assembly voted to choose the winner, of which Shumlin won re-election by a vote of 110–69, with one abstention.
Wisconsin
GovernorScott Walker sought re-election. Walker was elected with 52.3% of the vote in 2010 and was subject to an unsuccessful recall election in 2012, which he won with 53.1% of the vote.
Former Wisconsin Secretary of Commerce Mary Burke ran for the Democratic nomination.
Walker was re-elected to a second term.
Wyoming
GovernorMatt Mead sought re-election. Mead was elected with 65.68% of the vote in 2010. He won the GOP primary on August 19, 2014, with 55% of the vote against Taylor Haynes (32%) and Cindy Hill (13%).
The Democratic nominee is Pete Gosar.
Territories and federal district
District of Columbia
MayorVincent C. Gray sought re-election. Gray was elected with 74.2% of the vote in 2010.
Gray faced a competitive primary with challenges from four members of the
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State Department
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official
Reta Jo Lewis
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Lewis was formerly the director of congressional affairs at German M ...
and activist
Andy Shallal
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. Bowser defeated Gray for the Democratic nomination by over 10 points.
David Catania
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, another district councilman, and Carol Schwartz, a former councilwoman and perennial candidate, ran in the general election as independents. Other candidates included Libertarian nominee Bruce Majors and Statehood Green nominee Faith Dane.
Bowser won the election, becoming the second female mayor of the District of Columbia since Sharon Pratt left office in 1995. She was also elected to the lowest share of the vote in Washington, D.C. history.
Guam
GovernorEddie Calvo ran for re-election to a second term. Calvo was elected with 50.61% of the vote in 2010, defeating former Democratic Governor Carl Gutierrez.
In June 2014, Gutierrez announced his intention to challenge Governor Calvo, setting up a rematch of the 2010 gubernatorial contest.
Calvo won re-election to a second term.
Northern Mariana Islands
GovernorEloy Inos, who was elected as lieutenant governor in 2009 as a member of the Covenant Party, succeeded his predecessor Benigno Fitial (R) upon the latter's resignation on February 20, 2013, sought a full term. In September 2013 he moved to re-unify the Covenant Party with the Republican Party, and is running as a Republican in 2014. His running mate is Senate President Ralph Torres (R-Saipan).
Former Ports Authority executive director Edward "Tofila" Deleon Guerrero is running as a Democrat, with former representative Danny Quitugua as his running mate.
Former Republican Governor Juan Babauta is running as an independent, with former Republican Senator Juan Torres as his running mate.
2009 Republican candidate
Heinz Hofschneider
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ran as an independent, with Senator Ray Yumul (I-Saipan) as his running mate.
Inos won election to a full term.
John de Jongh
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was term-limited in 2014. He was re-elected with 56.3% of the vote in 2010.
U.S. House delegateDonna Christian-Christensen won the Democratic primary against a crowded field of candidates, which included former territorial legislator
Adlah Donastorg Jr.
Adlah Alphonso "Foncie" Donastorg, Jr. (born December 30, 1961) is a U.S. Virgin Islander politician, who served as a Senator in the Legislature of the Virgin Islands for seven terms from January 1995 through January 2011. He was most recently ...
, incumbent
lieutenant governor
A lieutenant governor, lieutenant-governor, or vice governor is a high officer of state, whose precise role and rank vary by jurisdiction. Often a lieutenant governor is the deputy, or lieutenant, to or ranked under a governor — a "second-in-comm ...
Gregory Francis
Gregory R. Francis (born August 30, 1951 in Saint Croix) is an American Virgin Islands politician. A Democrat, he served as Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands from January 1, 2007 to January 5, 2015, having been elected on a ...
, and former lieutenant governor Gerard Luz James. Among the independent candidates were former court judge Soraya Diase Coffelt and former lieutenant governor Kenneth Mapp, who sought the governorship for the third time in a row.
After a runoff was held when no candidate reached a majority of votes, Mapp won the election.
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2014 United States elections
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2014 United States Senate elections
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2014 United States House of Representatives elections
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