1966 Governor election results

35 races · 35 with a recorded winner · popular vote by contest

Every Governor contest in the 1966 U.S. general election. Each race links to its full popular-vote breakdown; winners link to their profile. Part of the party vote tracker.

1966 Governor results by state
State	Winner	Result
Alabama	Lurleen Wallace D	537,505 votes · +274,562 over James D. Martin
Alaska	Wally Hickel R	33,145 votes · +1,080 over William A. Egan
Arizona	Jack Williams R	203,438 votes · +28,534 over Samuel Goddard
Arkansas	Winthrop Rockefeller R	306,324 votes · +49,121 over James D. Johnson
California	Ronald Reagan R	3,742,913 votes · +993,739 over Pat Brown
Colorado	John Arthur Love R	356,730 votes · +69,598 over Robert Lee Knous
Connecticut	John N. Dempsey D	561,599 votes · +115,063 over E. Clayton Gengras
Florida	Claude R. Kirk Jr.R	821,190 votes · +152,957 over Robert K. High
Georgia	Bo Callaway R	453,665 votes · +3,039 over Lester Maddox
Hawaii	John A. Burns D	108,840 votes · +4,516 over Randolph Crossley
Idaho	Don Samuelson R	104,586 votes · +10,842 over Cecil Andrus
Iowa	Harold Hughes D	494,259 votes · +99,741 over William G. Murray
Kansas	Robert Docking D	380,030 votes · +75,705 over William H. Avery
Maine	Kenneth Curtis D	172,036 votes · +20,234 over John H. Reed
Maryland	Spiro Agnew R	455,318 votes · +81,775 over George P. Mahoney
Massachusetts	John A. Volpe R	1,277,358 votes · +524,638 over Edward McCormack Jr.
Michigan	George W. Romney R	1,490,430 votes · +527,047 over Zolton Ferency
Minnesota	Harold LeVander R	680,593 votes · +72,650 over Karl Rolvaag
Nebraska	Norbert Tiemann R	299,245 votes · +112,260 over Philip Sorensen
Nevada	Paul Laxalt R	71,807 votes · +5,937 over Grant Sawyer
New Hampshire	John W. King D	125,882 votes · +18,623 over Hugh Gregg
New Mexico	David Cargo R	134,625 votes · +9,038 over Gene Lusk
New York	Nelson Rockefeller R	2,690,626 votes · +392,263 over Frank D. O'Connor
Ohio	Jim Rhodes R	1,795,277 votes · +703,223 over Frazier Reams Jr.
Oklahoma	Dewey F. Bartlett R	377,078 votes · +80,750 over Preston J. Moore
Oregon	Tom McCall R	377,346 votes · +72,338 over Robert Straub
Pennsylvania	Ray Shafer R	2,110,349 votes · +241,630 over Milton Shapp
Rhode Island	John H. Chafee R	210,202 votes · +88,340 over Horace E. Hobbs
South Carolina	Robert Evander McNair D	255,854 votes · +71,766 over Joseph O. Rogers Jr.
South Dakota	Nils Boe R	131,710 votes · +35,206 over Robert Chamberlin
Tennessee	Buford Ellington D	532,998 votes · +468,396 over H.L. Crowder
Texas	John Connally D	1,037,517 votes · +669,492 over T. E. Kennerly
Vermont	Philip H. Hoff D	78,669 votes · +21,092 over Richard Snelling
Wisconsin	Warren P. Knowles R	626,047 votes · +86,789 over Patrick Lucey
Wyoming	Stanley Hathaway R	65,624 votes · +10,375 over Ernest Wilkerson