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1978 general · November 7, 1978

1978 Governors election results

Every Governors race in the 1978 general election, state by state: winners, margins and seats that changed party.

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Races36
Changed party1
Unopposed0%0 races

Governors

D 21 · R 15

RaceWinnerWon byNotes
AlabamaForrest H. James Jr (D)47.4
AlaskaJay Hammond (R)12.6
ArizonaBruce Babbitt (D)7.9
ArkansasBill Clinton (D)26.7
CaliforniaEdmund G. Brown Jr. (D)19.5
ColoradoRichard D. Lamm (D)20.8
ConnecticutElla T. Grasso (D)18.4
FloridaBob Graham (D)11.2
GeorgiaGeorge Busbee (D)61.3
HawaiiGeorge Ariyoshi (D)10.4
IdahoJohn Evans V. (D)19.5
IllinoisJames R. Thompson (R)19.1
IowaRobert E. Ray (R)17.5
KansasJohn Carlin (D)2.2
MaineJoseph Brennan (D)13.4
MarylandHarry R. Hughes (D)42.0
MassachusettsEdward J. King (D)5.3
MichiganWilliam G. Milliken (R)13.7
MinnesotaAlbert H. Quie (R)7.2
NebraskaCharles Thone (R)11.9
NevadaRobert F. List (R)17.2
New HampshireHugh J. Gallen (D)4.0Flipped
New MexicoBruce King (D)1.1
New YorkHugh L. Carey (D)6.0
OhioJames A. Rhodes (R)1.7
OklahomaGeorge Nigh (D)4.6
OregonVictor Atiyeh (R)9.8
PennsylvaniaRichard Thornburgh (R)6.2
Rhode IslandJ. Joseph Garrahy (D)32.1
South CarolinaRichard W. Riley (D)23.8
South DakotaWilliam Janklow (R)13.3
TennesseeLamar Alexander (R)11.7
TexasWilliam P. Clements (R)0.7
VermontRichard A. Snelling (R)29.6
WisconsinLee S. Dreyfus (R)9.5
WyomingEd Herschler (D)1.7

Results are each source's final count; margins are the winner's lead over the runner-up in points of the vote. Source: Algara, Carlos; Amlani, Sharif (Harvard Dataverse); English Wikipedia