Democrats won the most governorships up in 2006.

36 governor's races on the ballot — Democrats won 20, Republicans 16. 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. 2004	Votes
Alabama	R	Bob Riley	−15.9%	R+25.6	1,238,154
Alaska	R	Sarah Palin	−7.3%	R+25.9	234,378
Arizona	D	Janet Napolitano	+27.2%	R+10.5	1,503,358
Arkansas	D	Mike Beebe	+14.9%	R+9.8	745,805
California	R	Arnold Schwarzenegger	−17.0%	D+9.9	8,226,889
Colorado	D	Bill Ritter	+16.8%	R+4.7	1,513,872
Connecticut	R	Jodi Rell	−27.7%	D+10.4	1,108,268
Florida	R	Charlie Crist	−7.1%	R+5.0	4,698,134
Georgia	R	Sonny Perdue	−19.8%	R+16.6	2,040,773
Hawaii	R	Linda Lingle	−27.1%	D+8.7	337,030
Idaho	R	Butch Otter	−8.6%	R+38.1	436,282
Illinois	D	Rod Blagojevich	+39.4%	D+10.3	2,098,067
Iowa	D	Chet Culver	+9.6%	R+0.7	1,036,446
Kansas	D	Kathleen Sebelius	+17.5%	R+25.4	835,579
Maine	D	John Baldacci	+7.9%	D+9.0	547,757
Maryland	D	Martin O'Malley	+6.5%	D+13.0	1,767,743
Massachusetts	D	Deval Patrick	+20.0%	D+25.2	2,173,954
Michigan	D	Jennifer Granholm	+14.1%	D+3.4	3,750,599
Minnesota	R	Tim Pawlenty	−1.0%	D+3.5	2,177,763
Nebraska	R	Dave Heineman	−48.9%	R+33.2	579,426
Nevada	R	Jim Gibbons	−4.0%	R+2.6	534,687
New Hampshire	D	John Lynch	+48.2%	D+1.4	403,048
New Mexico	D	Bill Richardson	+37.6%	R+0.8	559,170
New York	D	Eliot Spitzer	+38.2%	D+18.3	4,361,044
Ohio	D	Ted Strickland	+23.9%	R+2.1	3,909,669
Oklahoma	D	Brad Henry	+33.0%	R+31.1	926,462
Oregon	D	Ted Kulongoski	+7.9%	D+4.2	1,289,534
Pennsylvania	D	Ed Rendell	+20.8%	D+2.5	4,092,652
Rhode Island	R	Donald Carcieri	−2.0%	D+20.8	386,809
South Carolina	R	Mark Sanford	−10.3%	R+17.1	1,090,944
South Dakota	R	Mike Rounds	−25.6%	R+21.3	328,216
Tennessee	D	Phil Bredesen	+38.9%	R+14.3	1,788,344
Texas	R	Rick Perry	−9.2%	R+22.9	4,371,602
Vermont	R	Jim Douglas	−15.2%	D+20.1	256,104
Wisconsin	D	Jim Doyle	+7.4%	D+0.4	2,118,542
Wyoming	D	Dave Freudenthal	+40.0%	R+39.8	193,616