Republicans won the most governorships up in 2002.

36 governor's races on the ballot — Democrats won 14, Republicans 22. 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. 2000	Votes
Alabama	R	Bob Riley	−0.3%	R+14.9	1,341,330
Alaska	R	Frank Murkowski	−15.1%	R+31.0	223,495
Arizona	D	Janet Napolitano	+1.0%	R+6.3	1,205,696
Arkansas	R	Mike Huckabee	−6.1%	R+5.4	805,332
California	D	Gray Davis	+4.9%	D+11.8	7,096,327
Colorado	R	Bill Owens	−29.0%	R+8.4	1,359,956
Connecticut	R	John G. Rowland	−12.2%	D+17.5	1,022,942
Florida	R	Jeb Bush	−12.8%	R+0.01	5,058,272
Georgia	R	Sonny Perdue	−5.2%	R+11.7	1,978,739
Hawaii	R	Linda Lingle	−4.6%	D+18.3	376,656
Idaho	R	Dirk Kempthorne	−14.6%	R+39.5	403,277
Illinois	D	Rod Blagojevich	+7.1%	D+12.0	3,442,001
Iowa	D	Tom Vilsack	+8.2%	D+0.3	997,061
Kansas	D	Kathleen Sebelius	+7.8%	R+20.8	818,688
Maine	D	John Baldacci	+5.7%	D+5.1	494,578
Maryland	R	Bob Ehrlich	−3.9%	D+16.4	1,693,014
Massachusetts	R	Mitt Romney	−4.9%	D+27.3	2,077,969
Michigan	D	Jennifer Granholm	+4.0%	D+5.1	3,136,031
Minnesota	R	Tim Pawlenty	−7.9%	D+2.4	2,185,275
Nebraska	R	Mike Johanns	−41.2%	R+29.0	462,697
Nevada	R	Kenny Guinn	−46.2%	R+3.5	454,936
New Hampshire	R	Craig Benson	−20.5%	R+1.3	428,940
New Mexico	D	Bill Richardson	+16.5%	D+0.1	484,232
New York	R	George Pataki	−15.9%	D+25.0	4,450,335
Ohio	R	Bob Taft	−19.5%	R+3.5	3,101,931
Oklahoma	D	Brad Henry	+0.7%	R+21.9	1,035,620
Oregon	D	Ted Kulongoski	+2.8%	D+0.4	1,199,789
Pennsylvania	D	Ed Rendell	+9.0%	D+4.2	3,502,643
Rhode Island	R	Donald Carcieri	−9.6%	D+29.1	332,056
South Carolina	R	Mark Sanford	−5.9%	R+15.9	1,106,562
South Dakota	R	Mike Rounds	−14.9%	R+22.7	330,183
Tennessee	D	Phil Bredesen	+3.0%	R+3.9	1,624,087
Texas	R	Rick Perry	−17.8%	R+21.3	4,452,389
Vermont	R	Jim Douglas	−2.5%	D+9.9	223,354
Wisconsin	D	Jim Doyle	+3.7%	D+0.2	1,720,749
Wyoming	D	Dave Freudenthal	+2.1%	R+40.1	181,535