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Incumbent Republican governor Bill Owens was unable to run due to term limits, and the election was won by Democratic nominee Bill Ritter. With his win, Democrats obtained a trifecta in the state for the first time since 1963. As of 2024, this is the last time the Governor's office in Colorado changed partisan control.
The only instance since at least 1980 in which the second in line reached a state governorship was on January 8, 2002, when New Jersey Attorney General John Farmer Jr. acted as governor for 90 minutes between Donald DiFrancesco and John O. Bennett's terms in that capacity as president of the Senate following governor Christine Todd Whitman's ...
New Hampshire and Vermont's governors would serve two-year terms. As of 2025, this election marked the most recent cycle in which Alabama , Alaska , Georgia , and South Carolina elected Democrats to their respective governorships, and by extension, any even-year gubernatorial election in the Deep South.
State Incumbent Party First elected Result ... New governor elected. Democratic hold. ... North Carolina: Jim Hunt: Democratic 1976 1984 (term-limited)
Prior to 1865, the Governor of South Carolina was chosen by the General Assembly. The Constitution of South Carolina provided for the voters of South Carolina to choose the governor; James Lawrence Orr was the first elected governor of South Carolina. The following is a list of gubernatorial election results for the state of South Carolina:
Following the end of the American Civil War, South Carolina during Reconstruction was part of the Second Military District, which exerted some control over governor appointments and elections. South Carolina was readmitted to the Union on July 9, 1868. [4] Under the first constitution of South Carolina, a president of the state was elected for ...
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump is disqualified from being on the primary ballot in March 2024 for his role in the January 6th Capitol attack. Colorado disqualified Donald Trump from ...
The Governor of South Carolina is the chief executive of the state. The governor is elected to a four-year term and may serve up to two consecutive terms. The current governor is Republican Henry McMaster who succeeded to the office of Governor of South Carolina when Governor Nikki Haley resigned to become the United States Ambassador to the United Nations.