1990 general · November 6, 1990

1990 Governors election results

Name: 1990 Governors election results
Creator: 99chambers

Every Governors race in the 1990 general election, state by state: winners, margins and seats that changed party.

Races36

Changed party14

Unopposed0%0 races

Governors

D 19 · R 14 · Other 2 · Uncalled 1

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
Alabama	Guy Hunt (R)	4.2
Alaska	Wally Hickel (IND)	8.0	Flipped
Arizona	No winner recorded	—
Arkansas	Bill Clinton (D)	15.0
California	Pete Wilson (R)	3.6
Colorado	Roy Romer (D)	27.2
Connecticut	Lowell Weicker (CST)	2.9	Flipped
Florida	Lawton Chiles (D)	13.0	Flipped
Georgia	Zell Miller (D)	8.6
Hawaii	John Waihee (D)	21.6
Idaho	Cecil D. Andrus (D)	36.4
Illinois	Jim Edgar (R)	2.6
Iowa	Terry E. Branstad (R)	21.9
Kansas	Joan Finney (D)	6.0	Flipped
Maine	John R. McKernan Jr. (R)	2.6
Maryland	William D. Schaefer (D)	19.5
Massachusetts	William F. Weld (R)	3.3	Flipped
Michigan	John Engler (R)	0.7	Flipped
Minnesota	Arne Carlson (R)	3.5	Flipped
Nebraska	Earl Nelson (D)	0.7	Flipped
Nevada	Bob Miller (D)	36.0
New Hampshire	Judd Gregg (R)	25.8
New Mexico	Bruce King (D)	9.5	Flipped
New York	Mario Cuomo (D)	31.8
Ohio	George Voinovich (R)	11.3	Flipped
Oklahoma	David Walters (D)	24.8	Flipped
Oregon	Barbara Roberts (D)	5.8
Pennsylvania	Robert Casey (D)	35.3
Rhode Island	Bruce G. Sundlun (D)	48.3	Flipped
South Carolina	Carroll Campbell (R)	42.8
South Dakota	George S. Mickelson (R)	17.8
Tennessee	Ned McWherter (D)	24.9
Texas	Ann Richards (D)	2.7	Flipped
Vermont	Richard A. Snelling (R)	5.9	Flipped
Wisconsin	Tommy G. Thompson (R)	16.4
Wyoming	Mike Sullivan (D)	30.7

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