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Holcomb won the election in a landslide, though Libertarian Donald Rainwater's 11% of the vote was the highest percentage of vote for a third-party candidate in any of the 2020 gubernatorial race, and the highest any Libertarian candidate ever received in Indiana in a three-party race (The 2006 United States Senate election in Indiana saw the ...
A total of 15 current governors previously served as lieutenant governor, while ten previously served in the United States House of Representatives. [14] The governor's office has term limits in 37 states and 4 territories; these terms are four years except in New Hampshire and Vermont , where governors serve two-year terms.
Map of relative party strengths in each U.S. state after the 2020 presidential election. Political party strength in U.S. states is the level of representation of the various political parties in the United States in each statewide elective office providing legislators to the state and to the U.S. Congress and electing the executives at the state (U.S. state governor) and national (U.S ...
The most recent member of a third party (not an independent) elected to a governorship is Jesse Ventura, a member of the Independence Party of Minnesota who was elected Governor of Minnesota in 1998. While there have been few third parties that have gained traction at the national level, several states have been three-party systems at one point ...
Incumbent Governor Jay Inslee, the Democratic candidate, defeated Loren Culp, the Republican candidate by a wide margin. Inslee, who was eligible to run for a third term due to the lack of gubernatorial term limits, [1] initially launched a campaign for president of the United States in the 2020 election.
Nationally there were 36 state governor's races on U.S. midterm election ballots on Tuesday, with the future of abortion rights and election oversight at risk in competitive contests around the ...
Baker, Dooly, Peach, Quitman and Twiggs County all voted for Trump by wider margins than they did in 2020, showing a shift that was in line with much of the rest of the state. Three counties ...
Map based on last Senate election in each state as of 2024. Starting with the 2000 United States presidential election, the terms "red state" and "blue state" have referred to US states whose voters vote predominantly for one party—the Republican Party in red states and the Democratic Party in blue states—in presidential and other statewide elections.