Republicans won the most governorships up in 2018.

36 governor's races on the ballot — Democrats won 16, Republicans 20. Each state below links to its candidate and county-level 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	Votes
Alaska	R	Mike Dunleavy	−7.0%	282,529
Alabama	R	Kay Ivey	−19.1%	1,715,287
Arkansas	R	Governor Asa Hutchinson	−33.6%	891,509
Arizona	R	Doug Ducey	−14.2%	2,376,788
California	D	Gavin Newsom	+23.9%	12,464,235
Colorado	D	Jared Polis / Dianne Primavera	+10.6%	2,525,062
Connecticut	D	Ned Lamont And Susan Bysiewicz	+3.1%	1,406,774
Florida	R	Ron Desantis	−0.4%	8,221,200
Georgia	R	Brian Kemp	−1.4%	3,939,328
Hawaii	D	Ige / Green	+29.0%	390,843
Iowa	R	Kim Reynolds/Adam Gregg	−2.7%	1,327,150
Idaho	R	Brad Little	−21.6%	605,131
Illinois	D	Jb Pritzker	+15.7%	4,547,657
Kansas	D	Laura Kelly/Lynn Rogers	+5.1%	1,054,622
Massachusetts	R	Baker And Polito	−17.9%	5,001,374
Maryland	R	Larry Hogan	−11.9%	2,302,699
Maine	D	Janet T Mills	+7.7%	630,541
Michigan	D	Gretchen Whitmer	+9.6%	4,250,585
Minnesota	D	Tim Walz And Peggy Flanagan	+11.4%	2,586,203
Nebraska	R	Pete Ricketts And Mike Foley	−18.0%	697,981
New Hampshire	R	Chris Sununu	−7.0%	573,320
New Mexico	D	Michelle Lujan Grisham And Howie C Morales	+14.4%	696,459
Nevada	D	Steve Sisolak	+4.2%	952,934
New York	D	Andrew M Cuomo	+26.0%	5,458,933
Ohio	R	Mike Dewine And Jon Husted	−3.7%	4,435,462
Oklahoma	R	Kevin Stitt	−12.1%	1,186,385
Oregon	D	Kate Brown	+6.3%	1,877,086
Pennsylvania	D	Thomas W Wolf	+17.1%	5,013,046
Rhode Island	D	Gina M Raimondo	+15.5%	375,155
South Carolina	R	Henry McMaster / Pamela Evette	−8.0%	1,705,524
South Dakota	R	Kristi Noem And Larry Rhoden	−3.4%	338,715
Tennessee	R	Bill Lee	−21.0%	2,243,294
Texas	R	Abbott	−13.3%	8,341,613
Vermont	R	Phil Scott	−14.9%	273,984
Wisconsin	D	Tony Evers	+1.1%	2,672,338
Wyoming	R	Mark Gordon	−39.8%	202,138