1986 general · November 4, 1986

1986 Governors election results

Name: 1986 Governors election results
Creator: 99chambers

Every Governors race in the 1986 general election, state by state: winners, margins and seats that changed party.

Races36

Changed party14

Unopposed0%0 races

Governors

D 19 · R 17

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
Alabama	Guy Hunt (R)	12.9	Flipped
Alaska	Steve Cowper (D)	4.9
Arizona	Evan Mecham (R)	5.2	Flipped
Arkansas	Bill Clinton (D)	27.8
California	George Deukmejian (R)	23.7
Colorado	Roy Romer (D)	17.3
Connecticut	William A. O'Neill (D)	17.0
Florida	Bob Martinez (R)	9.1	Flipped
Georgia	Joe Frank Harris (D)	41.0
Hawaii	John Waihee (D)	3.9
Idaho	Cecil D. Andrus (D)	0.9
Illinois	James R. Thompson (R)	12.7
Iowa	Terry E. Branstad (R)	3.9
Kansas	Mike Hayden (R)	3.8	Flipped
Maine	John R. McKernan Jr. (R)	9.7	Flipped
Maryland	William D. Schaefer (D)	64.7
Massachusetts	Michael S. Dukakis (D)	37.6
Michigan	James J. Blanchard (D)	36.8
Minnesota	Rudy Perpich (D)	13.1
Nebraska	Kay Orr (R)	5.9	Flipped
Nevada	Richard Bryan (D)	48.4
New Hampshire	John H. Sununu (R)	7.4
New Mexico	Garrey E. Carruthers (R)	6.1	Flipped
New York	Mario Cuomo (D)	34.1
Ohio	Richard F. Celeste (D)	21.2
Oklahoma	Henry Bellmon (R)	2.9	Flipped
Oregon	Neil Goldschmidt (D)	4.0	Flipped
Pennsylvania	Robert Casey (D)	2.4	Flipped
Rhode Island	Edward Diprete (R)	33.3
South Carolina	Carroll Campbell (R)	3.1	Flipped
South Dakota	George S. Mickelson (R)	3.6
Tennessee	Ned McWherter (D)	8.5	Flipped
Texas	William P. Clements (R)	6.7	Flipped
Vermont	Madeline Kunin (D)	8.8
Wisconsin	Tommy G. Thompson (R)	6.6	Flipped
Wyoming	Mike Sullivan (D)	7.9

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