Democrats won the most governorships up in 2008.

11 governor's races on the ballot — Democrats won 7, Republicans 4. 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. 2008	Votes
Delaware	D	Jack Markell	+35.5%	D+25.0	393,523
Indiana	R	Mitch Daniels	−17.7%	D+1.0	2,646,348
Missouri	D	Jay Nixon	+18.9%	R+0.1	2,816,975
Montana	D	Brian Schweitzer	+33.0%	R+2.4	476,938
New Hampshire	D	John Lynch	+42.5%	D+9.7	667,597
North Carolina	D	Bev Perdue	+3.4%	D+0.3	4,147,357
North Dakota	R	John Hoeven	−50.9%	R+8.6	309,288
Utah	R	Jon Huntsman Jr.	−57.9%	R+28.2	921,552
Vermont	R	Jim Douglas	−31.6%	D+37.0	309,817
Washington	D	Christine Gregoire	+6.4%	D+17.2	3,002,862
West Virginia	D	Joe Manchin	+44.1%	R+13.1	674,309