1944 Governor election results

32 races · 32 with a recorded winner · popular vote by contest

Every Governor contest in the 1944 U.S. general election. Each race links to its full popular-vote breakdown; winners link to their profile. Part of the party vote tracker.

1944 Governor results by state
State	Winner	Result
Arizona	Sidney Preston Osborn D	100,220 votes · +72,959 over Jerrie W. Lee
Arkansas	Benjamin Travis Laney D	186,401 votes · +155,959 over Harley C. Stump
Colorado	John Charles Vivian R	259,862 votes · +23,776 over Roy Phelix Best
Connecticut	Raymond E. Baldwin R	418,289 votes · +25,872 over Robert A. Hurley
Delaware	Walter W. Bacon R	63,829 votes · +1,673 over Isaac J. MacCollum
Florida	Millard Caldwell D	361,007 votes · +264,686 over Bert L. Acker
Idaho	Charles Gossett D	109,527 votes · +10,995 over W. H. Detweiler
Illinois	Dwight H. Green R	2,013,270 votes · +72,271 over Thomas J. Courtney
Indiana	Ralph F. Gates R	849,346 votes · +46,581 over Samuel D. Jackson
Iowa	Robert D. Blue R	561,827 votes · +124,143 over Richard F. Mitchell
Kansas	Andrew Frank Schoeppel R	463,110 votes · +231,700 over Robert S. Lemon
Maine	Horace Hildreth R	131,849 votes · +76,068 over Paul J. Jullien
Massachusetts	Maurice J. Tobin D	1,048,284 votes · +150,576 over Horace T. Cahill
Michigan	Harry F. Kelly R	1,208,859 votes · +219,552 over Edward J. Fry
Minnesota	Edward John Thye R	701,185 votes · +271,053 over Byron G. Allen
Missouri	Phil M. Donnelly D	793,490 votes · +30,582 over Jean Paul Bradshaw
Montana	Sam C. Ford R	116,461 votes · +27,237 over Leif Erickson
Nebraska	Dwight Griswold R	410,136 votes · +281,376 over George W. Olsen
New Hampshire	Charles M. Dale R	115,799 votes · +13,567 over James J. Powers
New Mexico	John J. Dempsey D	76,443 votes · +5,330 over Carroll G. Gunderson
North Carolina	R. Gregg Cherry D	528,995 votes · +297,997 over Frank C. Patton
North Dakota	Fred G. Aandahl R	107,863 votes · +47,902 over William T. DePuy
Ohio	Frank Lausche D	1,603,809 votes · +112,359 over James Garfield Stewart
Rhode Island	J. Howard McGrath D	179,010 votes · +62,852 over Norman D. MacLeod
South Dakota	Merrell Q. Sharpe R	148,646 votes · +70,370 over Lynn Fellows
Tennessee	Jim Nance McCord D	275,746 votes · +117,004 over John W. Kilgo
Texas	Coke R. Stevenson D	1,007,826 votes · +907,539 over B. J. Peasley
Utah	Herbert B. Maw D	123,907 votes · +1,056 over J. Bracken Lee
Vermont	Mortimer R. Proctor R	78,907 votes · +38,072 over Ernest H. Bailey
Washington	Monrad Wallgren D	428,834 votes · +28,230 over Arthur B. Langlie
West Virginia	Clarence W. Meadows D	395,122 votes · +64,473 over Daniel Boone Dawson
Wisconsin	Walter Samuel Goodland R	697,740 votes · +161,383 over Daniel Hoan