Democrats won the most governorships up in 1982.

36 governor's races on the ballot — Democrats won 27, Republicans 9. Each state below links to its candidate results.

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Results by state

Every row links to the state's full governor result with its county map.

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State	Won	Governor-elect	Margin	Pres. 1980	Votes
Alabama	D	George Wallace	+18.5%	R+1.3	1,091,353
Alaska	D	Bill Sheffield	+9.0%	R+27.9	191,276
Arizona	D	Bruce Babbitt	+30.0%	R+32.4	726,321
Arkansas	D	Bill Clinton	+9.4%	R+0.6	789,351
California	R	George Deukmejian	−1.2%	R+16.8	7,668,683
Colorado	D	Richard Lamm	+34.0%	R+24.0	930,700
Connecticut	D	Bill O'Neill	No data	R+9.6	578,264
Florida	D	Bob Graham	+29.4%	R+17.0	2,688,566
Georgia	D	Joe Frank Harris	+25.6%	D+14.8	1,168,586
Hawaii	D	George Ariyoshi	+16.6%	D+1.9	311,853
Idaho	D	John V. Evans	+1.2%	R+41.3	326,522
Illinois	R	Jim Thompson	−0.1%	R+7.9	3,627,128
Iowa	R	Terry Branstad	−6.3%	R+12.7	1,031,604
Kansas	D	John W. Carlin	+8.7%	R+24.6	745,128
Maine	D	Joseph Brennan	+23.8%	R+3.4	454,015
Maryland	D	Harry Hughes	+24.0%	D+3.0	1,138,736
Massachusetts	D	Michael Dukakis	+22.9%	R+0.2	1,968,788
Michigan	D	James Blanchard	+6.3%	R+6.5	2,930,873
Minnesota	D	Rudy Perpich	+18.9%	D+3.9	1,760,900
Nebraska	D	Bob Kerrey	+1.3%	R+39.5	547,639
Nevada	D	Richard Bryan	+11.6%	R+35.6	228,236
New Hampshire	R	John H. Sununu	−4.6%	R+29.4	277,706
New Mexico	D	Toney Anaya	+5.9%	R+18.2	407,466
New York	D	Mario Cuomo	+3.4%	R+2.7	5,170,040
Ohio	D	Dick Celeste	+20.1%	R+10.6	3,285,844
Oklahoma	D	George Nigh	+24.4%	R+25.5	880,366
Oregon	R	Victor Atiyeh	−25.5%	R+9.7	1,014,157
Pennsylvania	R	Dick Thornburgh	−2.7%	R+7.1	3,645,137
Rhode Island	D	J. Joseph Garrahy	+49.7%	D+10.5	326,810
South Carolina	D	Richard Riley	+39.6%	R+1.5	671,593
South Dakota	R	Bill Janklow	−41.8%	R+28.8	278,565
Tennessee	R	Lamar Alexander	−19.1%	R+0.3	1,238,630
Texas	D	Mark White	+7.3%	R+13.9	3,163,807
Vermont	R	Richard Snelling	−11.0%	R+6.0	167,505
Wisconsin	D	Anthony S. Earl	+14.8%	R+4.7	1,559,610
Wyoming	D	Edgar Herschler	+26.3%	R+34.7	168,555