The Green Papers: 2018 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 6 March 2018	Texas		Valdez (43%) v. White (28%) proceed to 22 May runoff					Abbott (inc)
Tuesday 20 March 2018	Illinois		Pritzker	46	Biss	26		Rauner (inc)	N	Ives
Tuesday 8 May 2018	Ohio		Cordray	L	Kucinich			DeWine	D	Taylor
Tuesday 15 May 2018	Idaho		Jordan	D	Balukoff			Little	37	Labrador	33
	Nebraska		Krist	D	Ward			Ricketts (inc)
	Oregon		Brown (inc)					Buehler	48	Carpenter	30
	Pennsylvania		Wolf (inc)	U				Wagner	44	Mango	40
Tuesday 22 May 2018	Arkansas		Henderson	L	Sanders			Hutchinson (inc)	L	Morgan
	Georgia		Abrams					Cagle (39%) v. Kemp (26%) proceed to a 26 June runoff
	Texas	R	Valdez	D	White		R
Tuesday 5 June 2018	Alabama		Maddox	D	Cobb			Ivey	D	Battle
	California		Newsom	33				Cox	26
	California		Top Two Primary					Top Two Primary
	Iowa		Hubbell	D	Glasson			Reynolds (inc)		U
	New Mexico		Grisham (inc)	L	Apodaca			Pearce	U
	South Dakota		Sutton	P				Noem	D	Jackley
Tuesday 12 June 2018	Maine		Mills	D	Cote			Moody	D	Mason
	Nevada		Sisolak	N	Giunchigliani			Laxalt	L	Schwartz
	South Carolina		Smith	L	Willis			McMaster (inc.) v Warren proceed to a 26 June runoff
Tuesday 19 June 2018	Arkansas	R					R
Tuesday 26 June 2018	Colorado		Polis	45	Kennedy	25		Stapleton	48	Mitchell	30
	Maryland		Jealous	40	Baker	29		Hogan (inc)	U
	Oklahoma		Edmondson	L	Johnson			Cornett v. Stitt proceed to a 28 August runoff
	South Carolina	R					R	McMaster (inc)	D	Warren
Tuesday 17 July 2018	Alabama	R					R
Tuesday 24 July 2018	Georgia	R					R	Kemp	L	Cagle
Thursday 2 August 2018	Tennessee		Dean	L	Fitzhugh			Lee	37	Boyd	24
Tuesday 7 August 2018	Kansas		Kelly	N	Brewer
Tuesday 7 August 2018	Michigan		Whitmer	N	El-Sayed			Schuette	N	Calley
Saturday 11 August 2018	Hawaii		Ing (inc)	N	Hanabusa			Tupola	D	Carrol
Tuesday 14 August 2018	Connecticut		Lamont					Stefanowski	29	Boughton	21
	Minnesota		Walz	42	Murphy	32		Johnson	D	Pawlenty
	South Dakota	R					R
	Vermont		Hallquist	48	Ehlers	22		Scott (inc)	L	Stern
	Wisconsin		Evers	42	Mitchell	16		Walker (inc)
Tuesday 21 August 2018	Alaska		Begich	U				Dunleavy	L	Treadwell
Tuesday 21 August 2018	Wyoming		Throne	L	Green			Gordon	33	Friess	26
Tuesday 28 August 2018	Arizona		Garcia	49	Farley	34		Ducey (inc)	L	Bennett
	Florida		Gillum	34	Graham	31		DeSantis	D	Putnam
	Oklahoma	R					R	Stitt	D	Cornett
Tuesday 4 September 2018	Massachusetts		Gonzalez	L	Massie			Baker (inc)	L	Lively
Tuesday 11 September 2018	New Hampshire		Kelly	L	Marchand			Sununu (inc)	P
Wednesday 12 September 2018	Rhode Island		Raimondo	D	Brown			Fung	D	Morgan
Thursday 13 September 2018	New York		Cuomo (inc)	L	Nixon			Molinaro	P

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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