2006 general · November 7, 2006

2006 Governors election results

Name: 2006 Governors election results
Creator: 99chambers

Every Governors race in the 2006 general election, state by state: winners, margins and seats that changed party.

Races36

Changed party6

Unopposed0%0 races

Governors

D 20 · R 16

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
Alabama	Bob Riley (R)	16.0
Alaska	Sarah Palin (R)	7.4
Arizona	Janet Napolitano (D)	27.7
Arkansas	Mike D. Beebe (D)	15.5	Flipped
California	Arnold Schwarzenegger (R)	17.0
Colorado	Bill Ritter Jr (D)	17.3	Flipped
Connecticut	M. Jodi Rell (R)	28.1
Florida	Charlie Crist (R)	7.3
Georgia	Sonny Perdue (R)	20.5
Hawaii	Linda Lingle (R)	27.8
Idaho	C.L. Otter (R)	8.8
Illinois	Rod Blagojevich (D)	10.6
Iowa	Chet Culver (D)	9.8
Kansas	Kathleen Sebelius (D)	17.8
Maine	John Baldacci (D)	7.9
Maryland	Martin O'Malley (D)	6.6	Flipped
Massachusetts	Deval Patrick (D)	20.3	Flipped
Michigan	Jennifer M. Granholm (D)	14.2
Minnesota	Tim Pawlenty (R)	1.0
Nebraska	Dave Heineman (R)	50.0
Nevada	James Gibbons (R)	4.2
New Hampshire	John Lynch (D)	48.3
New Mexico	William Richardson (D)	37.6
New York	Eliot Spitzer (D)	41.6	Flipped
Ohio	Ted Strickland (D)	24.6	Flipped
Oklahoma	Brad Henry (D)	33.0
Oregon	Ted Kulongoski (D)	8.0
Pennsylvania	Edward G. Rendell (D)	20.7
Rhode Island	Donald L. Carcieri (R)	2.0
South Carolina	Marshall Clement Sanford Jr (R)	10.3
South Dakota	Mike Rounds (R)	26.1
Tennessee	Phil Bredesen (D)	39.5
Texas	Rick Perry (R)	9.2
Vermont	Jim Douglas (R)	15.6
Wisconsin	James E. Doyle (D)	7.5
Wyoming	Dave Freudenthal (D)	40.0

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