1962 United States gubernatorial elections

1962 United States gubernatorial elections

November 6, 1962
35 governorships
Majority party Minority party   Party Democratic Republican Seats before 34 16 Seats after 34 16 Seat change Seats up 21 14 Seats won 21 14
Democratic hold      Democratic gain      Republican hold      Republican gain      No election

United States gubernatorial elections were held 6 November 1962 in 35 states, concurrent with the House and Senate elections.

In Minnesota, the governor was elected to a 4-year term for the first time, instead of a 2-year term. In North Dakota, this was the last election on a 2-year cycle, before switching to a 4-year term for governors.

The Democratic and Republican parties each gained seven governorships from the other party, leaving the overall partisan balance unchanged.

Results

State	Incumbent	Party	Status	Opposing candidates
Alabama	John Malcolm Patterson	Democratic	Term-limited, Democratic victory	George Wallace (Democratic) 96.27% Frank P. Walls (Republican) 3.73% [1]
Alaska	William A. Egan	Democratic	Re-elected, 52.27%	Mike Stepovich (Republican) 47.73% [2]
Arizona	Paul Fannin	Republican	Re-elected, 54.83%	Samuel Pearson Goddard Jr. (Democratic) 45.17% [3]
Arkansas	Orval Faubus	Democratic	Re-elected, 73.27%	Willis Ricketts (Republican) 26.73% [4]
California	Pat Brown	Democratic	Re-elected, 51.92%	Richard Nixon (Republican) 46.85% Robert L. Wyckoff (Prohibition) 1.12% Scattering 0.10% [5]
Colorado	Stephen McNichols	Democratic	Defeated, 42.64%	John Arthur Love (Republican) 56.67% Louis K. Stephens (Socialist Labor) 0.41% Stephen L. DeArvil (Independent) 0.28% [6]
Connecticut	John N. Dempsey	Democratic	Re-elected, 53.21%	John deKoven Alsop (Republican) 46.79% [7]
Georgia	Ernest Vandiver	Democratic	Term-limited, Democratic victory	Carl Sanders (Democratic) 99.95% Write-ins 0.05% [8]
Hawaii	William F. Quinn	Republican	Defeated, 41.68%	John A. Burns (Democratic) 58.32% [9]
Idaho	Robert E. Smylie	Republican	Re-elected, 54.64%	Vernon K. Smith (Democratic) 45.36% [10]
Iowa	Norman A. Erbe	Republican	Defeated, 47.44%	Harold Hughes (Democratic) 52.56% [11]
Kansas	John Anderson Jr.	Republican	Re-elected, 53.42%	Dale E. Saffels (Democratic) 45.60% Vearl Bacon (Prohibition) 0.98% [12]
Maine	John H. Reed	Republican	Re-elected, 50.08%	Maynard C. Dolloff (Democratic) 49.92% [13]
Maryland	J. Millard Tawes	Democratic	Re-elected, 55.64%	Frank Small Jr. (Republican) 44.36% [14]
Massachusetts	John Volpe	Republican	Defeated, 49.71%	Endicott Peabody (Democratic) 49.92% Henning A. Blomen (Socialist Labor) 0.26% Guy S. Williams (Prohibition) 0.11% [15]
Michigan	John Swainson	Democratic	Defeated, 48.45%	George W. Romney (Republican) 51.36% James Sim (Socialist Labor) 0.19% [16]
Minnesota	Elmer L. Andersen	Republican	Defeated, 49.706%	Karl Rolvaag (DFL) 49.714% William Braatz (Industrial Government) 0.58% [17]
Nebraska	Frank B. Morrison	Democratic	Re-elected, 52.23%	Fred A. Seaton (Republican) 47.76% Scattering 0.01% [18]
Nevada	Grant Sawyer	Democratic	Re-elected, 66.84%	Oran K. Gragson (Republican) 33.16% [19]
New Hampshire	Wesley Powell	Republican	Defeated in Republican primary, Democratic victory	John W. King (Democratic) 58.89% John Pillsbury (Republican) 41.11% [20]
New Mexico	Edwin L. Mechem	Republican	Defeated, 47.01%	Jack M. Campbell (Democratic) 52.98% Scattering 0.01% [21]
New York	Nelson Rockefeller	Republican	Re-elected, 53.08%	Robert Morgenthau (Democratic) 43.97% David H. Jaquith (Conservative) 2.44% Richard Garza (Socialist Workers) 0.34% Eric Hass (Socialist Labor) 0.17% [22]
North Dakota	William L. Guy	D-NPL	Re-elected, 50.44%	Mark Andrews (Republican) 49.56% [23]
Ohio	Michael DiSalle	Democratic	Defeated, 41.08%	Jim Rhodes (Republican) 58.92% [24]
Oklahoma	J. Howard Edmondson	Democratic	Term-limited, Republican victory	Henry Bellmon (Republican) 55.27% W. P. Atkinson (Democratic) 44.43% Richard Zavitz (Independent) 0.29% [25]
Oregon	Mark Hatfield	Republican	Re-elected, 54.20%	Robert Y. Thornton (Democratic) 41.63% Robert H. Wampler (Independent) 4.10% Scattering 0.06% [26]
Pennsylvania	David L. Lawrence	Democratic	Term-limited, Republican victory	William Scranton (Republican) 55.39% Richardson Dilworth (Democratic) 44.28% George Sam Taylor (Socialist Labor) 0.33% [27]
Rhode Island	John A. Notte Jr.	Democratic	Defeated, 49.94%	John Chafee (Republican) 50.06% [28]
South Carolina	Fritz Hollings	Democratic	Term-limited, Democratic victory	Donald S. Russell (Democratic) 100.00% [29]
South Dakota	Archie M. Gubbrud	Republican	Re-elected, 56.10%	Ralph Herseth (Democratic) 43.90% [30]
Tennessee	Buford Ellington	Democratic	Term-limited, Democratic victory	Frank G. Clement (Democratic) 50.85% William Anderson (Independent) 32.83% Hubert David Patty (Republican) 16.09% E. B. Bowles (Independent) 0.23% [31]
Texas	Price Daniel	Democratic	Defeated in Democratic primary, Democratic victory	John Connally (Democratic) 53.98% Jack Cox (Republican) 45.57% Jack Carswell (Constitution) 0.45% [32]
Vermont	F. Ray Keyser Jr.	Republican	Defeated, 49.46%	Philip H. Hoff (Democratic) 50.54% [33]
Wisconsin	Gaylord Nelson	Democratic	Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Democratic victory	John W. Reynolds Jr. (Democratic) 50.37% Philip G. Kuehn (Republican) 49.43% Adolf Wiggert (Independent) 0.20% [34]
Wyoming	Jack R. Gage	Democratic	Defeated, 45.53%	Clifford Hansen (Republican) 54.47% [35]

See also

• 1962 United States elections
  • 1962 United States Senate elections
  • 1962 United States House of Representatives elections

References

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