1944 United States gubernatorial elections

none January 2025 1944 United States gubernatorial elections United States 1912 legislative no 1943 United States gubernatorial elections 1943 1945 United States gubernatorial elections 1945 Seats up Seats won 32 governorships November 7, 1944;September 11, 1944 (ME) Democratic Party (United States) 22 25 3 12 15 Republican Party (United States) 26 23 3 20 17 324px #94C6DF Democratic hold #0272B1 Democratic gain#F48984 Republican hold #CB001A Republican gain#D3D3D3 No election United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1944, in 32 states, concurrent with the House, Senate elections and presidential election, on November 7, 1944. Elections took place on September 11 in Maine. This was the last time Idaho elected its governors to 2-year terms, switching to 4-years from the 1946 election. Race summary StateGovernorPartyFirstelectedStatusCandidates ArizonaSidney Preston Osborn 1940Incumbent re-elected. Democratic Party (US) Sidney Preston Osborn (Democratic) 77.9% Republican Party (US)Jerrie W. Lee (Republican) 21.2% Prohibition Party (US)Charles R. Osburn (Prohibition) 0.9%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=261759 AZ Governor, 1942 Our Campaigns March 12, 2019 ArkansasHomer Martin Adkins 1940Incumbent retired.Democratic hold. Democratic Party (US) Benjamin T. Laney (Democratic) 86.0% Republican Party (US) Harley C. Stump (Republican) 14.0%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=261898 AR Governor, 1944 Our Campaigns March 10, 2019 ColoradoJohn Charles Vivian 1942Incumbent re-elected. Republican Party (US) John Charles Vivian (Republican) 52.4% Democratic Party (US)Roy Phelix Best (Democratic) 47.6%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=261902 CO Governor, 1944 Our Campaigns March 10, 2019 ConnecticutRaymond E. Baldwin 1942Incumbent re-elected. Republican Party (US) Raymond E. Baldwin (Republican) 50.5% Democratic Party (US) Robert A. Hurley (Democratic) 47.4% Socialist Party (US)Jasper McLevy (Socialist) 2.0% Socialist Labor Party (US)Joseph C. Borden Jr. (Socialist Labor) 0.2%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=123338 CT Governor, 1944 Our Campaigns March 10, 2019 DelawareWalter W. Bacon 1940Incumbent re-elected. Republican Party (US) Walter W. Bacon (Republican) 50.5% Democratic Party (US)Isaac J. MacCollum (Democratic) 49.2% Prohibition Party (US)Thomas W. Jakes (Prohibition) 0.3%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=262000 DE Governor, 1944 Our Campaigns March 10, 2019 FloridaSpessard Holland 1940 Incumbent term-limited.Democratic hold. Democratic Party (US) Millard Caldwell (Democratic) 79.0% Republican Party (US) Bert L. Acker (Republican) 21.0%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=131884 FL Governor, 1944 Our Campaigns March 10, 2019 IdahoC. A. Bottolfsen 19381940 (lost)1942 Incumbent retired.Democratic gain. Democratic Party (US) Charles C. Gossett (Democratic) 52.6% Republican Party (US) W. H. Detwiler (Republican) 47.4%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=261920 ID Governor, 1944 Our Campaigns March 10, 2019 IllinoisDwight H. Green 1940Incumbent re-elected. Republican Party (US) Dwight H. Green (Republican) 50.8% Democratic Party (US) Thomas J. Courtney (Democratic) 49.0% Socialist Labor Party (US) Charles Storm (Socialist Labor) 0.2% Prohibition Party (US) Willis R. Wilson (Prohibition) 0.1%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=121511 IL Governor, 1944 Our Campaigns March 10, 2019 IndianaHenry F. Schricker 1940 Incumbent term-limited.Republican gain. Republican Party (US) Ralph F. Gates (Republican) 51.0% Democratic Party (US) Samuel D. Jackson (Democratic) 48.2% Prohibition Party (US) Waldo E. Yeater (Prohibition) 0.7% Socialist Party (US) William Rabe (Socialist) 0.1%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=262002 IN Governor, 1944 Our Campaigns March 10, 2019 IowaBourke B. Hickenlooper 1940Incumbent retired.Republican hold. Republican Party (US) Robert D. Blue (Republican) 56.0% Democratic Party (US) R. F. Mitchell (Democratic) 43.6% Prohibition Party (US)Glen Williamson (Prohibition) 0.3% Socialist Party (US) Hugh Bockewitz (Socialist) 0.1%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=262005 IA Governor, 1944 Our Campaigns March 10, 2019 KansasAndrew Frank Schoeppel 1942Incumbent re-elected. Republican Party (US) Andrew Frank Schoeppel (Republican) 65.7% Democratic Party (US) Robert S. Lemon (Democratic) 32.8% Prohibition Party (US) David C. White (Prohibition) 1.1% Socialist Party (US) W. W. Tamplin (Socialist) 0.3%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=262008 KS Governor, 1944 Our Campaigns March 10, 2019 MaineSumner Sewall 1940Incumbent retired.Republican hold. Republican Party (US) Horace Hildreth (Republican) 70.3% Democratic Party (US) Paul Julien (Democratic) 29.7%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=262015 ME Governor, 1944 Our Campaigns March 10, 2019 MassachusettsLeverett Saltonstall 1938 Incumbent retired.Democratic gain. Democratic Party (US) Maurice J. Tobin (Democratic) 53.6% Republican Party (US) Horace T. Cahill (Republican) 46.0% Socialist Labor Party (US)Henning A. Blomen (Socialist Labor) 0.3% Prohibition Party (US)Guy S. Williams (Prohibition) 0.2%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=262021 MA Governor, 1944 Our Campaigns March 10, 2019 MichiganHarry Kelly politician 1942Incumbent re-elected. Republican Party (US) Harry Kelly (Republican) 54.7% Democratic Party (US) Edward J. Fry (Democratic) 44.8% Prohibition Party (US)Seth A. Davey (Prohibition) 0.3% Socialist Party (US)Forest Odell (Socialist) 0.1% IndependentLeland Marion (America First) 0.1% Socialist Labor Party (US)Theos A. Grove (Socialist Labor) 0.1%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=114771 MI Governor, 1944 Our Campaigns March 10, 2019 MinnesotaEdward J. Thye 1943Thye became governor in 1943 after predecessor (Harold Stassen) resigned.Incumbent elected to serve a full term. Republican Party (US) Edward J. Thye (Republican) 61.6% Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Byron G. Allen (DFL) 37.8% Industrial Government Party (US)Gerald M. York (Industrial Government) 0.6%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=55832 MN Governor, 1944 Our Campaigns March 10, 2019 MissouriForrest C. Donnell 1940 Incumbent term-limited.Democratic gain. Democratic Party (US) Phil M. Donnelly (Democratic) 50.94% Republican Party (US) Jean Paul Bradshaw (Republican) 48.97% Socialist Party (US) W. F. Rinck (Socialist) 0.08% Socialist Labor Party (US) Stephen Tendler (Socialist Labor) 0.01%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=262032 MO Governor, 1944 Our Campaigns March 10, 2019 MontanaSam C. Ford 1940Incumbent re-elected. Republican Party (US) Sam C. Ford (Republican) 56.4% Democratic Party (US) Leif Erickson (Democratic) 43.2% Prohibition Party (US)Charles R. Miller (Prohibition) 0.5%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=262037 MT Governor, 1944 Our Campaigns March 10, 2019 NebraskaDwight Griswold 1940Incumbent re-elected. Republican Party (US) Dwight Griswold (Republican) 76.1% Democratic Party (US) George W. Olsen (Democratic) 23.9%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=262043 NE Governor, 1944 Our Campaigns March 10, 2019 New HampshireRobert O. Blood 1940Incumbent lost renomination.Republican hold. Republican Party (US) Charles M. Dale (Republican) 53.1% Democratic Party (US) James J. Powers (Democratic) 46.9%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=262048 NH Governor, 1944 Our Campaigns March 10, 2019 New MexicoJohn J. Dempsey 1942Incumbent re-elected. Democratic Party (US) John J. Dempsey (Democratic) 51.9% Republican Party (US) Carroll G. Gunderson (Republican) 48.2%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=262040 NM Governor, 1944 Our Campaigns March 10, 2019 North CarolinaJ. Melville Broughton 1940 Incumbent term-limited.Democratic hold. Democratic Party (US) R. Gregg Cherry (Democratic) 69.6% Republican Party (US) Frank C. Patton (Republican) 30.4%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=133637 NC Governor, 1944 Our Campaigns March 10, 2019 North DakotaJohn Moses North Dakota politician 1938Incumbent retired.Republican gain. Republican Party (US) Fred G. Aandahl (Republican) 52.0% Democratic Party (US) William T. Depuy (Democratic) 28.9% Independent Alvin C. Strutz (Independent) 18.8% Prohibition Party (US) A. M. Wiley (Prohibition) 0.3%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=262035 ND Governor, 1944 Our Campaigns March 10, 2019 OhioJohn W. Bricker 1938Incumbent retired.Democratic gain. Democratic Party (US) Frank Lausche (Democratic) 51.8% Republican Party (US) James Garfield Stewart (Republican) 48.2%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=27762 OH Governor, 1944 Our Campaigns March 10, 2019 Rhode IslandJ. Howard McGrath 1940Incumbent re-elected. Democratic Party (US) J. Howard McGrath (Democratic) 60.7% Republican Party (US) Norman D. MacLeod (Republican) 39.4%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=261928 RI Governor, 1944 Our Campaigns March 10, 2019 South DakotaMerrell Q. Sharpe 1942Incumbent re-elected. Republican Party (US) Merrell Q. Sharpe (Republican) 65.5% Democratic Party (US) Lynn Fellows (Democratic) 34.5%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=262018 SD Governor, 1944 Our Campaigns March 10, 2019 TennesseePrentice Cooper 1938Incumbent retired.Democratic hold. Democratic Party (US) Jim Nance McCord (Democratic) 62.5% Republican Party (US) John W. Kilgo (Republican) 36.0% Independent John Randolph Neal Jr. (Independent) 1.5%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=261905 TN Governor, 1944 Our Campaigns March 10, 2019 TexasCoke R. Stevenson 1941Stevenson became governor in 1941 after predecessor (W. Lee O'Daniel) resigned. He was subsequently elected to a full term in 1942.Incumbent re-elected. Democratic Party (US) Coke R. Stevenson (Democratic) 91.0% Republican Party (US) B. J. Peasley (Republican) 9.0%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=151514 TX Governor, 1944 Our Campaigns March 10, 2019 UtahHerbert B. Maw 1940Incumbent re-elected. Democratic Party (US) Herbert B. Maw (Democratic) 50.21% Republican Party (US) J. Bracken Lee (Republican) 49.79%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=222985 UT Governor, 1944 Our Campaigns March 10, 2019 VermontWilliam Henry Wills politician 1940Incumbent retired.Republican hold. Republican Party (US) Mortimer Proctor (Republican) 65.9% Democratic Party (US) Ernest H. Bailey (Democratic) 34.1%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=144180 VT Governor, 1944 Our Campaigns March 10, 2019 WashingtonArthur B. Langlie 1940 Incumbent lost re-election.Democratic gain. Democratic Party (US) Monrad Wallgren (Democratic) 51.5% Republican Party (US) Arthur B. Langlie (Republican) 48.1% Prohibition Party (US)Allen Emerson (Communist) 0.2% Socialist Labor Party (US)Henry E.O. Gusey (Socialist Labor) 0.16%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=58910 WA Governor, 1944 Our Campaigns March 10, 2019 West VirginiaMatthew M. Neely 1940 Incumbent term-limited.Democratic hold. Democratic Party (US) Clarence W. Meadows (Democratic) 54.4% Republican Party (US) Daniel Boone Dawson (Republican) 45.6%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=261909 WV Governor, 1944 Our Campaigns March 10, 2019 WisconsinWalter Samuel Goodland 1943Goodland became governor in 1943 after governor-elect Orland Steen Loomis died before taking office. The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that as lieutenant governor, Goodland was next in the line of succession following the term of outgoing governor Julius P. Heil. Incumbent elected to full term. Republican Party (US) Walter Samuel Goodland (Republican) 52.8% Democratic Party (US)Daniel Hoan (Democratic) 40.6% Progressive Party (US) Alexander O. Benz (Progressive) 5.8% Socialist Party (US)George A. Nelson (Socialist) 0.7% Socialist Labor Party (US)Georgia Cozzini (Socialist Labor) 0.09%https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=200140 WI Governor, 1944 Our Campaigns March 10, 2019 Closest races States where the margin of victory was under 5%: Utah, 0.42% Delaware, 1.33% Illinois, 1.82% Missouri, 1.97% Indiana, 2.79% Connecticut, 3.12% Washington, 3.39% New Mexico, 3.62% Ohio, 3.63% Colorado, 4.80% States where the margin of victory was under 10%: Idaho, 5.3% New Hampshire, 6.2% Massachusetts, 7.7% West Virginia, 8.9% Michigan, 9.9% Red denotes states won by Republicans. Blue denotes states won by Democrats. Notes See also 1944 United States elections 1944 United States presidential election 1944 United States Senate elections 1944 United States House of Representatives elections References 30emcollapsed Category:September 1944 in the United States Category:November 1944 in the United States Category:United States home front during World War II