Table 6.7

Voting Statistics of Gubernatorial Election

Data publication year: 2023 (showing) 2022

			Primary election					General election
FIPS	State or other jurisdiction	Date of last election	Republican	Democrat	3rd Party	Independent	Total votes	Republican	Percent	Democrat	Percent	3rd Party	Percent	Independent and write-in	Percent	Total votes
01	Alabama	2022	619,938	152,692	0	0	772,630	946,932	66.9	412,961	29.2	45,958	3.2	9,432	0.7	1,415,283
02	Alaska (a)	2022	99,099	43,660	3,083	43,458	189,300	144,449	54.8	63,851	24.2	54,668	20.7	784	0.3	263,752
04	Arizona	2022	831,508	596,027	550	0	1,428,085	1,270,774	49.6	1,287,891	50.3	0	0	820	0.1	2,559,485
05	Arkansas	2022	347,887	94,472	0	0	442,359	571,105	63	319,242	35.2	16,690	1.8	0	0	907,037
06	California (b)	2022	2,427,005	4,083,193	154,375	399,315	7,063,888	4,462,914	40.8	6,470,104	59.2	0	0	0	0	10,933,018
08	Colorado	2022	633,316	523,481	0	0	1,156,797	983,040	39.2	1,468,481	58.5	57,249	2.3	60	0	2,508,830
09	Connecticut	2022	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	546,209	43	710,186	56	0	0	12,498	1	1,268,893
10	Delaware	2020	55,447	119,311	0	0	174,758	190,312	38.6	292,903	59.5	3,270	0.7	6,150	1.2	492,635
12	Florida	2022	N.A.	1,514,988	0	0	1,514,988	4,614,210	59.4	3,106,313	40	19,299	0.2	31,577	0.4	7,771,399
13	Georgia	2022	1,204,742	727,168	0	0	1,931,910	2,111,572	53.4	1,813,673	45.9	28,163	0.7	25	0	3,953,433
15	Hawaii	2022	75,873	251,412	0	1,219	328,504	152,237	36.8	261,025	63.2	0	0	0	0	413,262
16	Idaho	2022	281,824	31,845	1,268	0	314,937	358,598	60.5	120,160	20.3	11,964	2	101,881	17.2	592,603
17	Illinois	2022	797,029	882,693	0	0	1,679,722	1,739,095	42.4	2,253,748	54.9	111,712	2.7	74	0	4,104,629
18	Indiana	2020	524,496 (c)	408,230 (c)	0 (c)	0	932,726	1,706,724	56.5	968,092	32.1	345,567	11.4	0	0	3,020,383
19	Iowa	2022	187,101	146,356	0	0	333,457	709,198	58	482,950	39.5	28,998	2.4	718	0.1	1,221,864
20	Kansas	2022	463,440	288,770	(c)	0	752,210	477,591	47.3	499,849	49.5	11,106	1.1	20,452	2	1,008,998
21	Kentucky	2019	259,866	394,513	0	0	654,379	704,754	48.8	709,890	49.2	28,433	2	46	0	1,443,123
22	Louisiana (d)	2019	696,434	636,963	0	10,084	1,343,481	734,286	48.7	774,498	51.3	0	0	0	0	1,508,784
23	Maine	2022	59,713 (c)	69,422 (c)	0	0	129,135	287,304	42.4	376,934	55.7	0	0	12,581	1.9	676,819
24	Maryland	2022	295,068	671,160	0	0	966,228	644,000	32.1	1,293,944	64.5	61,835	3.1	5,444	0.3	2,005,223
25	Massachusetts	2022	270,987	752,638	0	0	1,023,625	859,343	34.6	1,584,403	63.7	39,244	1.6	2,806	0.1	2,485,796
26	Michigan	2022	1,099,273	938382 (c)	0	0	2,037,655	1,960,635	43.9	2,430,505	54.5	70,785	1.6	47	0	4,461,972
27	Minnesota	2022	323,020	431,923	4513	0	759,456	1,119,941	44.6	1,312,349	52.3	77,342	3.1	1,029	0	2,510,661
28	Mississippi	2019	383,080	302,390	0	0	685,470	459,396	51.9	414,368	46.8	2,625	0.3	8,522	1	884,911
29	Missouri	2020	682,756	537,927	5,033	0	1,225,716	1,720,202	57.1	1,225,771	40.7	66,301	2.2	13	0	3,012,287
30	Montana	2020	223,150	148,593	713 (c)	0	372,456	328,548	54.4	250,860	41.6	24,179	4	21	0	603,608
31	Nebraska	2022	270,271	100,216	1595 (c)	0	372,082	398,334	59.2	242,006	36	26,455	3.9	5,798	0.9	672,593
32	Nevada	2022	228,570 (e)	175,674 (e)	0	0	404,244	497,377	48.8	481,991	47.3	24,837	2.4	14866 (e)	1.5	1,019,071
33	New Hampshire	2020	145,626	138,219	0	0	283,845	516,609	65.1	264,639	33.4	11,329	1.4	683	0.1	793,260
34	New Jersey	2021	339,033	382,984	0	0	722,017	1,255,185	48	1,339,471	51.2	20,230	0.8	0	0	2,614,886
35	New Mexico	2022	117,551	125238 (c)	0	0	242,789	324,701	45.6	370,168	52	17387	2.4	0	0	712,256
36	New York	2022	453,602	902,502	0	0	1,356,104	2,762,581 (f)	46.7	3,140,415 (f)	53.1	0	0	9,290	0.2	5,912,286
37	North Carolina	2020	784,791	1,294,633	0	0	2,079,424	2,586,605	47	2,834,790	51.5	81,383	1.5	0	0	5,502,778
38	North Dakota	2020	107,379	34,732	705	203	143,019	235,629	65.8	90,925	25.4	13,833	3.9	17,472	4.9	357,859
39	Ohio	2022	1,080,083	509,146	0	0	1,589,229	2,580,424	62.4	1,545,489	37.4	0	0	8,964	0.2	4,134,877
40	Oklahoma	2022	339,639	154,725	0	0	494,364	639,484	55.4	481,904	41.8	16,243	1.4	15,653	1.4	1,153,284
41	Oregon	2022	378,317	491,445	0	0	869,762	850,347	43.5	917074 (g)	47	14,918	0.8	170,544	8.7	1,952,883
42	Pennsylvania	2022	1,349,359	1,227,151 (c)	0	0	2,576,510	2,238,477	41.7	3,031,137	56.5	96,565	1.8	0	0	5,366,179
44	Rhode Island	2022	20,539	113,598	0	0	134,137	139,001	38.9	207,166	57.9	2,811	0.8	8,692	2.4	357,670
45	South Carolina	2022	368,005	181,590	0	0	549,595	988,501	58	692,691	40.7	20,826	1.2	1,174	0.1	1,703,192
46	South Dakota	2022	119,976	(c)	(c)	0	119,976	217,035	62	123,148	35.2	9,983	2.9	0	0	350,166
47	Tennessee	2022	494362 (c)	257,841	0	0	752,203	1,129,390	64.9	572,818	32.9	0	0	37,288	2.1	1,739,496
48	Texas	2022	1,954,172	1,075,601	0	0	3,029,773	4,437,099	54.8	3,553,656	43.9	110,516	1.4	1,637	0	8,102,908
49	Utah	2020	527,178	(h)	0	0	527,178	918,754	63	442,754	30.3	77,203	5.3	20,167	1.4	1,458,878
50	Vermont	2020	58,171	101,232	838	0	160,241	248,412	68.5	99,214	27.4	3,505	1	11,580	3.2	362,711
51	Virginia (i)	2021	12,550	494,932	0	0	507,482	1,663,596	50.6	1,600,116	48.6	23,125	0.7	2,593	0.1	3,289,430
53	Washington (j)	2020	1,068,633	1,307,530	88,349	24,447	2,488,959	1,749,066	43.1	2,294,243	56.6	0	0	13,145	0.3	4,056,454
54	West Virginia	2020	211,843	192,465	0	0	404,308	497,944	63.5	237,024	30.2	33,836	4.3	15,483	2	784,287
55	Wisconsin	2022	693,519	492,631	0	0	1,186,150	1,268,535	47.8	1,358,774	51.1	0	0	29,181	1.1	2,656,490
56	Wyoming	2022	164,351	7,223	0	0	171,574	143,696	74.1	30,686	15.8	8,157	4.2	11,461	5.9	194,000
60	American Samoa	2020	…………………………………………………………...………………………………..(k)……………………………………….…………………………………………………….	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	11,861
66	Guam	2022	3,026	19,560	0	0	22,586	14,786	44.1	18,623	55.5	0	0	152	0.5	33,561
69	CNMI* (m)	2022	(l)	(l)	(l)	(l)	(l)	5,726	38.8	4,132	28	0	0	4,890	33.2	14,748
72	Puerto Rico (n)	2020	280,443	204,269	0	0	484,712	427,016	33.2	407,817	31.7	281,046	34.2	11,866	0.9	1,127,745
78	U.S. Virgin Islands	2022	0	6,564	0	0	6,564	0	0	12,157	56.1	0	0	9,499	43.9	21,656

Source:

Sources: The Council of State Governments' survey of state elections web sites and Ballotpedia, March 2020, May 2021 and April 2023.

Notes:

In elections with more than one candidate of the same party or third parties, totals represent votes for all candidates, rather than votes for the top candidate.

Key:

*	—	Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands.
N.A.	—	Not applicable.

Footnotes:

(a)	Utilizes Ranked Choice Voting (RCV)
(b)	California became an open primary state after passage of Proposition 14 in the June 2010 election. The top two vote-getters in primary races for congressional, state legislative and statewide offices, regardless of political party, will be in a face-off in the general election. California had a recall election in 2021.
(c)	Candidate ran unopposed.
(d)	Louisiana has an open primary which requires all candidates, regardless of party affiliation, to appear on a single ballot. If a candidate receives over 50 percent of the vote in the primary, he is elected to the office. If no candidate receives a majority vote, then a single election is held between the two candidates receiving the most votes.
(e)	Nevada voters have the option to select “None of These Candidates.” If the “None of These Candidates” option receives the most votes in an election, the actual candidate who receives the most votes wins the election. In the Democratic primary, the “None of These Candidates” option received 5,069 votes. In the Republican primary, 6,136 voters selected that option. The “None of These Candidates” option received 18,865 votes in the general election.
(f)	Republican and Democratic vote totals represent fusion voting candidates where candidates are supported by multiple parties. Republican vote total includes votes from the Conservative party. Democratic vote total includes votes from the Working Families party.
(g)	Democratic vote totals represent a fusion voting candidate where the candidate is supported by multiple parties. Democratic vote total includes votes from the Working Families party.
(h)	Candidate nominated by convention.
(i)	The Republican primary is done in a Ranked Choice Voting format. The number included as votes for the Republican primary is the total of the top two candidates in the final round of the ranking process.
(j)	Washington utilizes a nonpartisan, top-two primary system, where the top two candidates advance to the general election regardless of party.
(k)	There are no primaries. Instead, the law provides for a run off when none of the candidates receives more than 50% of the vote. All elections and candidates are nonpartisan, but candidates do identify with specific parties. The vote total in the general election was 11,861.
(l)	There are no primaries. Instead, the law provides for a run off when none of the candidates receives more than 50% of the vote.
(m)	General election results listed resulted in a runoff election between the Republican and Independent candidates, in which the Independent candidate won with 7,077 votes (54%) and the Republican candidate received 6,017 votes (46%).
(n)	New Progressive Party listed under Republicans and Popular Democratic Party listed under Democrats.