United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1942, in 33 states, concurrent with the House and Senate elections, on November 3, 1942. Elections took place on September 14 in Maine.
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In Georgia, the governor was elected to a 4-year term for the first time, instead of a 2-year term.
Results
editState | Incumbent | Party | Status | Opposing candidates |
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Alabama | Frank M. Dixon | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | Chauncey Sparks (Democratic) 88.96% Hugh McEniry (Republican) 10.52% Ordway Southard (Communist) 0.52% [1] |
Arizona | Sidney Preston Osborn | Democratic | Re-elected, 72.48% | Jerrie W. Lee (Republican) 26.90% Charles R. Osburn (Prohibition) 0.61% [2] |
Arkansas | Homer Martin Adkins | Democratic | Re-elected, 100.00%[3] | (Democratic primary results) Homer Martin Adkins 71.76% Fred Keller 26.31% Bill Neill 1.03% Vernon Heath 0.91% [4] |
California | Culbert Olson | Democratic | Defeated, 41.75% | Earl Warren (Republican) 57.07% Nathan T. Porter (Townsend Party) 0.69% Fred Dyster (Prohibition) 0.48% Scattering 0.01% [5] |
Colorado | Ralph Lawrence Carr | Republican | Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Republican victory | John Charles Vivian (Republican) 56.23% Homer F. Bedford (Democratic) 43.41% William R. Dietrich (Communist) 0.36% [6] |
Connecticut | Robert A. Hurley | Democratic | Defeated, 44.38% | Raymond E. Baldwin (Republican) 48.93% Jasper McLevy (Socialist) 6.01% Joseph C. Borden Jr. (Socialist Labor) 0.69% [7] |
Georgia | Eugene Talmadge | Democratic | Defeated in Democratic primary, Democratic victory | Ellis Arnall (Democratic) 96.30% Scattering 3.70% [8] (Democratic primary results) Ellis Arnall 57.65% Eugene Talmadge 42.35% [9] |
Idaho | Chase A. Clark | Democratic | Defeated, 49.85% | C. A. Bottolfsen (Republican) 50.15% [10] |
Iowa | George A. Wilson | Republican | Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Republican victory | Bourke B. Hickenlooper (Republican) 62.75% Nelson G. Kraschel (Democratic) 36.96% Ward Hall (Prohibition) 0.21% F. M. Briggs (Independent) 0.08% [11] |
Kansas | Payne Ratner | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Andrew Frank Schoeppel (Republican) 56.68% William H. Burke (Democratic) 41.75% David C. White (Prohibition) 1.28% Ida A. Beloof (Socialist) 0.29% [12] |
Maine (held, September 14, 1942) |
Sumner Sewall | Republican | Re-elected, 66.84% | G. Lane Jr. (Democratic) 33.16% [13] |
Maryland | Herbert O'Conor | Democratic | Re-elected, 52.55% | Theodore McKeldin (Republican) 47.45% [14] |
Massachusetts | Leverett Saltonstall | Republican | Re-elected, 54.11% | Roger Putnam (Democratic) 44.96% Otis Archer Hood (Communist) 0.33% Joseph F. Massidda (Socialist) 0.22% Henning A. Blomen (Socialist Labor) 0.22% Guy S. Williams (Prohibition) 0.14% Scattering 0.02% [15] |
Michigan | Murray Van Wagoner | Democratic | Defeated, 46.73% | Harry Kelly (Republican) 52.60% Frederic S. Goodrich (Prohibition) 0.66% Scattering 0.01% [16] |
Minnesota | Harold Stassen | Republican | Re-elected, 51.60% | Hjalmar Petersen (Minnesota Farmer-Labor) 37.76% John D. Sullivan (Democratic) 9.46% Martin Mackie (Communist) 0.64% Harris A. Brandborg (Industrial Government) 0.54% [17] |
Nebraska | Dwight Griswold | Republican | Re-elected, 74.84% | Charles W. Bryan (Democratic) 25.16% [18] |
Nevada | Edward P. Carville | Democratic | Re-elected, 60.26% | Aaron V. Tallman (Republican) 39.75% [19] |
New Hampshire | Robert O. Blood | Republican | Re-elected, 52.18% | William J. Neal (Democratic) 47.83% [20] |
New Mexico | John E. Miles | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | John J. Dempsey (Democratic) 54.55% Joseph F. Tondre (Republican) 45.45% [21] |
New York | Herbert H. Lehman | Democratic | Retired, Republican victory | Thomas E. Dewey (Republican) 52.10% John J. Bennett Jr. (Democratic) 36.40% Dean Alfange (American Labor) 9.79% Israel Amter (Communist) 1.10% Coleman B. Cheney (Socialist) 0.53% Aaron M. Orange (Industrial Government) 0.09% [22] |
North Dakota | John Moses | Democratic | Re-elected, 57.62% | Oscar W. Hagen (Republican) 42.38% [23] |
Ohio | John W. Bricker | Republican | Re-elected, 60.50% | John McSweeney (Democratic) 39.50% [24] |
Oklahoma | Leon C. Phillips | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | Robert S. Kerr (Democratic) 51.89% William J. Otjen (Republican) 47.64% Edward W. Fickinger (Prohibition) 0.47% [25] |
Oregon | Charles A. Sprague | Republican | Defeated in Republican primary, Republican victory | Earl Snell (Republican) 77.87% Lew Wallace (Democratic) 22.13% [26] |
Pennsylvania | Arthur James | Republican | Term-limited, Republican victory | Edward Martin (Republican) 53.67% F. Clair Ross (Democratic) 45.13% Dale H. Learn (Prohibition) 0.68% John J. Haluska (United Pension) 0.31% Joseph Pirincin (Socialist Labor) 0.21% [27] |
Rhode Island | J. Howard McGrath | Democratic | Re-elected, 58.54% | James O. McManus (Republican) 41.46% [28] |
South Carolina | Richard Manning Jefferies | Democratic | Retired, Democratic victory | Olin D. Johnston (Democratic) 100.00% [29] (Democratic primary results) Olin Johnston 51.80% Wyndham Manning 48.20% [30] |
South Dakota | Harlan J. Bushfield | Republican | Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Republican victory | Merrell Q. Sharpe (Republican) 61.51% Lewis W. Bicknell (Democratic) 38.49% [31] |
Tennessee | Prentice Cooper | Democratic | Re-elected, 70.15% | C. N. Frazier (Republican) 29.85% [32] |
Texas | Coke R. Stevenson | Democratic | Re-elected, 96.83% | C. K. McDowell (Republican) 3.17% [33] |
Vermont | William Henry Wills | Republican | Re-elected, 77.90% | Park H. Pollard (Democratic) 22.10% [34] |
Wisconsin | Julius P. Heil | Republican | Defeated, 36.45% | Orland Steen Loomis (Progressive) 49.65%[35] William C. Sullivan (Democratic) 12.25% Frank P. Zeidler (Socialist) 1.41% Fred B. Blair (Independent) 0.14% Georgia Cozzini (Independent) 0.06% Scattering 0.04% [36] |
Wyoming | Nels H. Smith | Republican | Defeated, 48.68% | Lester C. Hunt (Democratic) 51.32% [37] |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "AL Governor, 1942". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ "AZ Governor, 1942". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ "AR Governor, 1942". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ "AR Governor, 1942 – D Primary". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ "CA Governor, 1942". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ "CO Governor, 1942". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ "CT Governor, 1942". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ "GA Governor, 1942". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ "GA Governor, 1942 – D Primary". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ "ID Governor, 1942". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ "IA Governor, 1942". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ "KS Governor, 1942". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ "ME Governor, 1942". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ "MD Governor, 1942". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ "MA Governor, 1942". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ "MI Governor, 1942". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ "MN Governor, 1942". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ "NE Governor, 1942". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ "NV Governor, 1942". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ "NH Governor, 1942". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ "NM Governor, 1942". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ "NY Governor, 1942". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ "ND Governor, 1942". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ "OH Governor, 1942". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ "OK Governor, 1942". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ "OR Governor, 1942". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ "PA Governor, 1942". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ "RI Governor, 1942". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ "SC Governor, 1942". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ "SC Governor, 1942 – D Primary". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ "SD Governor, 1942". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ "TN Governor, 1942". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ "TX Governor, 1942". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ "VT Governor, 1942". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ Loomis died before inauguration and was succeeded by the lieutenant governor-elect, Walter Samuel Goodland (R)
- ^ "WI Governor, 1942". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ "WY Governor, 1942". Our Campaigns. Retrieved March 12, 2019.