1946 Governor election results

31 races · 31 with a recorded winner · popular vote by contest

Every Governor contest in the 1946 U.S. general election. Each race links to its full popular-vote breakdown; winners link to their profile. Part of the party vote tracker.

1946 Governor results by state
State	Winner	Result
Alabama	Jim Folsom D	174,962 votes · +152,600 over Lyman Ward
Arizona	Sidney Preston Osborn D	73,595 votes · +24,728 over Bruce Brockett
Arkansas	Benjamin Travis Laney D	128,029 votes · +103,896 over W. T. Mills
California	Earl Warren R	2,344,542 votes · +2,163,963 over Henry R. Schmidt
Colorado	William Lee Knous D	174,604 votes · +14,121 over Leon Lavington
Connecticut	James L. McConaughy R	371,852 votes · +95,517 over Charles W. Snow
Idaho	C. A. Robins R	102,233 votes · +23,102 over Arnold Williams
Iowa	Robert D. Blue R	362,592 votes · +96,402 over Frank Miles
Kansas	Frank Carlson R	309,064 votes · +54,781 over Harry Hines Woodring
Maine	Horace Hildreth R	110,327 votes · +40,703 over F. Davis Clark
Maryland	William Preston Lane Jr.D	268,084 votes · +46,332 over Theodore McKeldin
Massachusetts	Robert F. Bradford R	911,152 votes · +148,409 over Maurice J. Tobin
Michigan	Kim Sigler R	1,003,878 votes · +359,338 over Murray Van Wagoner
Minnesota	Luther Youngdahl R	519,067 votes · +169,502 over Harold H. Barker
Nebraska	Val Peterson R	249,468 votes · +118,101 over Frank Sorrell
Nevada	Vail Pittman D	28,655 votes · +7,408 over Melvin E. Jepson
New Hampshire	Charles M. Dale R	103,204 votes · +42,957 over F. Clyde Keefe
New Jersey	Alfred E. Driscoll R	807,378 votes · +221,418 over Lewis G. Hansen
New Mexico	Thomas J. Mabry D	70,055 votes · +7,480 over Edward L. Safford
New York	Thomas E. Dewey R	2,825,633 votes · +687,151 over James M. Mead
North Dakota	Fred G. Aandahl R	116,672 votes · +63,953 over Quentin N. Burdick
Ohio	Thomas J. Herbert R	1,166,550 votes · +40,553 over Frank Lausche
Oklahoma	Roy J. Turner D	259,491 votes · +32,065 over Olney F. Flynn
Oregon	Earl Snell R	237,681 votes · +131,207 over Carl C. Donaugh
Pennsylvania	Jim Duff R	1,828,462 votes · +557,515 over John Rice
Rhode Island	John Pastore D	148,885 votes · +23,429 over John G. Murphy
South Dakota	George Mickelson R	108,998 votes · +55,704 over Richard Haeder
Tennessee	Jim Nance McCord D	149,937 votes · +76,715 over William O. Lowe
Vermont	Ernest W. Gibson Jr.R	57,849 votes · +43,753 over Berthold C. Coburn
Wisconsin	Walter Samuel Goodland R	621,970 votes · +215,471 over Daniel Hoan
Wyoming	Lester C. Hunt D	43,020 votes · +4,687 over Earl Wright