Democrats won the most governorships up in 1990.

35 governor's races on the ballot — Democrats won 19, Republicans 14, others 2. 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. 1988	Votes
Alabama	R	H. Guy Hunt	−4.2%	R+19.3	1,215,625
Alaska	O	Wally Hickel	+0.0%	R+23.3	186,913
Arkansas	D	Bill Clinton	+15.0%	R+14.2	696,311
California	R	Pete Wilson	−3.5%	R+3.6	7,317,101
Colorado	D	Roy Romer	+26.5%	R+7.8	984,435
Connecticut	O	Lowell Weicker	+0.0%	R+5.1	1,125,057
Florida	D	Lawton Chiles	+13.0%	R+22.4	3,530,274
Georgia	D	Zell Miller	+8.4%	R+20.3	1,412,287
Hawaii	D	John D. Waiheʻe III	+21.2%	D+9.5	334,801
Idaho	D	Cecil Andrus	+36.4%	R+26.1	320,610
Illinois	R	Jim Edgar	−2.6%	R+2.1	3,222,343
Iowa	R	Terry Branstad	−21.7%	D+10.2	971,224
Kansas	D	Joan Finney	+6.0%	R+13.2	783,325
Maine	R	John McKernan	−2.6%	R+11.5	522,181
Maryland	D	William Donald Schaefer	+19.5%	R+2.9	1,110,995
Massachusetts	R	Bill Weld	−3.3%	D+7.9	2,275,695
Michigan	R	John Engler	−0.7%	R+7.9	2,534,673
Minnesota	R	Arne Carlson	−3.4%	D+7.0	1,732,206
Nebraska	D	Ben Nelson	+0.7%	R+21.0	581,512
Nevada	D	Bob Miller	+34.9%	R+20.9	303,667
New Hampshire	R	Judd Gregg	−25.7%	R+26.2	279,696
New Mexico	D	Bruce King	+9.5%	R+5.0	410,256
New York	D	Mario Cuomo	+31.8%	D+4.1	3,850,649
Ohio	R	George Voinovich	−11.4%	R+10.9	3,477,519
Oklahoma	D	David Walters	+24.7%	R+16.6	911,314
Oregon	D	Barbara Roberts	+5.7%	D+4.7	1,097,457
Pennsylvania	D	Bob Casey	+35.3%	R+2.3	3,052,760
Rhode Island	D	Bruce Sundlun	+48.4%	D+11.7	356,588
South Carolina	R	Carroll Campbell	−41.7%	R+23.9	740,879
South Dakota	R	George Mickelson	−17.8%	R+6.3	256,723
Tennessee	D	Ned McWherter	+24.2%	R+16.3	768,894
Texas	D	Ann Richards	+2.6%	R+12.6	3,752,101
Vermont	R	Richard Snelling	−5.8%	R+3.5	206,861
Wisconsin	R	Tommy Thompson	−16.4%	D+3.6	1,378,601
Wyoming	D	Mike Sullivan	+30.7%	R+22.5	160,109