The Green Papers
2014 Gubernatorial Primaries at a Glance


 

This "at a glance" look at the primary in each State simply lists the winner (and, in many cases, the candidate who came in second) in each Primary in chronological order.

boldface followed by (inc) indicates the incumbent


 
2014 Gubernatorial Primaries at a Glance
Date State Democrat
Democrat
Republican
Republican
     Winner % Second %      Winner % Second %
Tuesday 4 March 2014 Texas   Davis         Abbott      
Tuesday 18 March 2014 Illinois   Quinn (inc) L Hardiman     Rauner 40 Dillard 37
Tuesday 6 May 2014 Ohio   FitzGerald         Kasich (inc) U    
Tuesday 13 May 2014 Nebraska   Hassebrook U       Ricketts 27 Bruning 26
Tuesday 20 May 2014 Arkansas   Ross         Hutchinson L Coleman  
Georgia   Carter U       Deal (inc) L Pennington  
Idaho   Balukoff L Kerr     Otter (inc) N Fulcher  
Oregon   Kitzhaber (inc)         Richardson L Challstrom  
Pennsylvania   Wolf D Schwartz     Corbett (inc) U    
Tuesday 27 May 2014 Texas R         R        
Tuesday 3 June 2014 Alabama   Griffith L Bass     Bentley (inc)      
California   Brown (inc) 54%   Kashkari (19%)
Iowa   Hatch U       Branstad (inc)      
New Mexico   King 35 Webber 23   Martinez (inc) U    
South Dakota   Wismer D Lowe     Daugaard (inc)      
Tuesday 10 June 2014 Arkansas R         R        
Maine   Michaud U       LePage (inc) U    
Nevada   None of these candidates 30 Goodman 25   Sandoval (inc)      
Goodman received the nomination.
South Carolina   Sheheen P       Haley (inc) P    
Tuesday 24 June 2014 Colorado   Hickenlooper (inc) U       Beauprez 30 Tancredo 27
Maryland   Brown N Gansler     Hogan 43 Craig 30
Oklahoma   Dorman C       Fallin (inc)      
South Carolina R         R        
Tuesday 15 July 2014 Alabama R         R        
Tuesday 22 July 2014 Georgia R         R        
Tuesday 5 August 2014 Kansas   Davis U       Brownback (inc) L Winn  
Michigan   Schauer U       Snyder (inc) U    
Thursday 7 August 2014 Tennessee   Brown 42 McKamey 26   Haslam (inc)      
Saturday 9 August 2014 Hawaii   Ige L Abercrombie (inc)     Aiona      
Tuesday 12 August 2014 Connecticut   Malloy (inc) C       Foley D McKinney  
Minnesota   Dayton (inc)         Johnson 30 Zellers 24
South Dakota R         R        
Wisconsin   Burke         Walker (inc) U    
Tuesday 19 August 2014 Alaska   Mallott         Parnell (inc)      
Wyoming   Gosar U       Mead (inc) D Haynes  
Tuesday 26 August 2014 Arizona   Duval U       Ducey 37 Smith 22
Florida   Crist L       Scott (inc)      
Oklahoma R         R        
Vermont   Shumlin (inc)         Milne      
Saturday 30 August 2014 Guam   Gutierrez U       Calvo (inc) U    
Tuesday 9 September 2014 Massachusetts   Coakley 42 Grossman 37   Baker L Fisher  
New Hampshire   Hassan (inc)         Havenstein D Hemingway  
New York   Cuomo (inc) L Teachout     Astorino P    
Rhode Island   Raimondo 42 Taveras 29   Fung D Block  
 
 

Key

  • If a candidate wins 75.5% or more of the primary vote, the second place finisher is not listed.
  • U means that this candidate ran in the primary unopposed (that is, with no other candidates appearing on the ballot but him/her). Please note that write-ins do NOT count as such "other candidates on the ballot" but the appearance of "Uncommitted" (or equivalent, such as "None of the Above") on a ballot DOES.
  • L indicates a landslide majority [60.5 to 75.4% of the primary vote] for the winner.
  • D indicates a decisive majority [52.5 to 60.4% of the primary vote] for the winner.
  • N indicates a narrow majority [50.0(+1 vote) to 52.4% of the primary vote] for the winner.
  • Where a winning (or, in a runoff State, leading) candidate has failed to gain at least a majority of the primary vote, the winner(leader) of the primary and the candidate who came in second are both listed with their respective percentages of the primary vote rounded up or down to the nearest whole integer.
  • C indicates the Party's nominee was chosen by a Party-run process other than the Primary (State Convention, Party Central Committee or equivalent).
  • P indicates Primary cancelled / nomination by default because nominee was the only candidate to have filed for this Party's Primary for this office. P also applies to nominees-to-be by apparent Party consensus (i.e. no opposition at an ensuing Convention).
  • R indicates any Runoff which has been scheduled for this date.
 


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