Elections / 2014 · Governors
Republicans won the most governorships up in 2014.
36 governor's races on the ballot — Democrats won 11, Republicans 24, others 1. Each state below links to its candidate results.
Results by state
Every row links to the state's full governor result with its county map.
| State | Won | Governor-elect | Margin | Pres. 2012 | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | R | Robert J. Bentley | R+22.2 | 1,178,018 | |
| Alaska | O | Bill Walker | R+14.0 | 263,093 | |
| Arizona | R | Doug Ducey | R+9.0 | 1,431,983 | |
| Arkansas | R | Asa Hutchinson | R+23.7 | 822,544 | |
| California | D | Jerry Brown | D+23.1 | 7,317,581 | |
| Colorado | D | John Hickenlooper | D+5.4 | 1,944,628 | |
| Connecticut | D | Dannel Malloy | D+17.3 | 1,080,609 | |
| Florida | R | Rick Scott | D+0.9 | 5,666,541 | |
| Georgia | R | Nathan Deal | R+7.8 | 2,490,031 | |
| Hawaii | D | David Ige | D+42.7 | 359,815 | |
| Idaho | R | Butch Otter | R+31.9 | 404,961 | |
| Illinois | R | Bruce Rauner | D+16.8 | 3,504,970 | |
| Iowa | R | Terry Branstad | D+5.8 | 1,086,819 | |
| Kansas | R | Sam Brownback | R+21.6 | 834,296 | |
| Maine | R | Paul LePage | D+15.2 | 611,176 | |
| Maryland | R | Larry Hogan | D+26.1 | 1,703,290 | |
| Massachusetts | R | Charlie Baker | D+23.1 | 2,048,981 | |
| Michigan | R | Rick Snyder | D+9.5 | 3,081,938 | |
| Minnesota | D | Mark Dayton | D+7.7 | 1,868,370 | |
| Nebraska | R | Pete Ricketts | R+21.8 | 520,656 | |
| Nevada | R | Brian Sandoval | D+6.7 | 517,062 | |
| New Hampshire | D | Maggie Hassan | D+5.6 | 484,276 | |
| New Mexico | R | Susana Martínez | D+10.1 | 512,805 | |
| New York | D | Andrew Cuomo | D+28.2 | 3,606,557 | |
| Ohio | R | John Kasich | D+3.0 | 2,954,207 | |
| Oklahoma | R | Mary Fallin | R+33.5 | 798,537 | |
| Oregon | D | John Kitzhaber | D+12.1 | 1,381,772 | |
| Pennsylvania | D | Tom Wolf | D+5.4 | 3,495,866 | |
| Rhode Island | D | Gina Raimondo | D+27.4 | 318,605 | |
| South Carolina | R | Nikki Haley | R+10.5 | 1,212,811 | |
| South Dakota | R | Dennis Daugaard | R+18.0 | 266,026 | |
| Tennessee | R | Bill Haslam | R+20.4 | 1,261,033 | |
| Texas | R | Greg Abbott | R+15.8 | 4,632,143 | |
| Vermont | D | Peter Shumlin | D+35.6 | 176,584 | |
| Wisconsin | R | Scott Walker | D+6.9 | 2,382,619 | |
| Wyoming | R | Matt Mead | R+40.8 | 155,347 |