The Green Papers: 2016 Gubernatorial Primaries at a Glance

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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

Date	State	Democrat					Republican
Date	State	R	Winner	%	Second	%	R	Winner	%	Second	%
Tuesday 15 March 2016	North Carolina		Cooper	L	Spaulding			McCrory (inc)
Tuesday 3 May 2016	Indiana		Gregg	U				Pence (inc)	U
Tuesday 3 May 2016	Indiana		Gregg	U				The winner subsequently withdrew and was replaced by Holcomb
Tuesday 10 May 2016	West Virginia		Justice	N	Goodwin			Cole	U
Tuesday 17 May 2016	Oregon		Brown (inc)					Pierce	48	Alley	29
Sunday 5 June 2016	Puerto Rico		Nevares	N	Pierluisi			Bernier	P
Tuesday 7 June 2016	Montana		Bullock (inc)					Gianforte
Tuesday 14 June 2016	North Dakota		Nelson	U				Burgum	D	Stenehjem
Tuesday 28 June 2016	Utah		Weinholtz	C				Herbert (inc)	L	Johnson
Tuesday 2 August 2016	Missouri		Koster					Greitens	35	Brunner	25
	Washington		Inslee (Democrat) (inc)	49	Bryant (Republican)	39
	Washington		TOP TWO Primary
Tuesday 9 August 2016	Vermont		Minter	N	Dunne			Scott		Lisman	L
Tuesday 13 September 2016	Delaware		Carney	P				Bonini	L	Lafferty
Tuesday 13 September 2016	New Hampshire		Van Ostern	N	Marchand			Sununu	31	Edelblut	30

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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