2002 general · November 5, 2002

2002 Governors election results

Name: 2002 Governors election results
Creator: 99chambers

Every Governors race in the 2002 general election, state by state: winners, margins and seats that changed party.

Races36

Changed party20

Unopposed0%0 races

Governors

D 14 · R 22

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
Alabama	Bob Riley (R)	0.2	Flipped
Alaska	Frank Murkowski (R)	15.2	Flipped
Arizona	Janet Napolitano (D)	1.0	Flipped
Arkansas	Mike Huckabee (R)	6.1
California	Gray Davis (D)	4.9
Colorado	Bill Owens (R)	30.1
Connecticut	John Rowland (R)	12.2
Florida	Jeb Bush (R)	13.0
Georgia	Sonny Perdue (R)	5.3	Flipped
Hawaii	Linda Lingle (R)	4.6	Flipped
Idaho	Dirk Kempthorne (R)	14.8
Illinois	Rod Blagojevich (D)	7.3	Flipped
Iowa	Tom Vilsack (D)	8.4
Kansas	Kathleen Sebelius (D)	7.9	Flipped
Maine	John Baldacci (D)	5.7	Flipped
Maryland	Robert Ehrlich (R)	3.9	Flipped
Massachusetts	Mitt Romney (R)	4.8
Michigan	Jennifer M. Granholm (D)	4.1	Flipped
Minnesota	Tim Pawlenty (R)	7.9	Flipped
Nebraska	Mike Johanns (R)	42.8
Nevada	Kenny Guinn (R)	48.5
New Hampshire	Craig Benson (R)	21.1	Flipped
New Mexico	William Richardson (D)	16.4	Flipped
New York	George Pataki (R)	15.9
Ohio	Robert Alphonso Taft (R)	20.2
Oklahoma	Brad Henry (D)	0.7	Flipped
Oregon	Ted Kulongoski (D)	3.0
Pennsylvania	Edward G. Rendell (D)	9.2	Flipped
Rhode Island	Donald L. Carcieri (R)	9.5
South Carolina	Marshall Clement Sanford Jr (R)	5.8	Flipped
South Dakota	Mike Rounds (R)	15.0
Tennessee	Phil Bredesen (D)	3.1	Flipped
Texas	Rick Perry (R)	18.3
Vermont	Jim Douglas (R)	2.6	Flipped
Wisconsin	James E. Doyle (D)	3.7	Flipped
Wyoming	Dave Freudenthal (D)	2.1	Flipped

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