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Election results, 2024: Split-ticket states in the 2024 presidential and gubernatorial elections
Updated Dec. 3, 2024.
Eleven states held elections for governor in 2024, including eight with Republican governors heading into the election and three with Democratic governors.
In 2024, three states (New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Vermont) elected a president of one party and a governor from another party. In New Hampshire and Vermont, Democratic candidate Kamala Harris (D) won the state at the presidential level, while Republicans Kelly Ayotte (R) and incumbent Phil Scott (R), respectively, won the governorships in these states. In North Carolina, Republican candidate Donald Trump (R) won the state at the presidential level, while Democrat Josh Stein (D) won the state's governorship.
New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Vermont also elected a governor of the opposite party to the presidential candidate they backed in 2020. New Hampshire and Vermont re-elected Republican governors Chris Sununu (R) and Phil Scott (R) while voting for Joe Biden (D), while North Carolina re-elected its Democratic governor Roy Cooper (D) while voting for Donald Trump (R).
All three states had split their tickets the same way in 2016 when each of the three governors re-elected in 2020 first won office. That year, two other states split their tickets by voting for a Democratic governor and Donald Trump for president: Montana and West Virginia. Both states voted for Trump again in 2020 and elected a Republican governor.
In Montana, Greg Gianforte (R) won the 2020 gubernatorial election after losing to incumbent Steve Bullock (D) in 2016, becoming the only candidate to flip control of a governor's office in 2020. In West Virginia, incumbent Jim Justice (R) was re-elected as a Republican. Justice was elected as a Democrat in 2016 and joined the GOP the following year.
Two states electing their governor in 2024—New Hampshire and North Carolina—were rated as Lean or Toss-up by at least two of the following three outside political ratings publications: The Cook Political Report, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and Inside Elections. Both New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) and North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) did not run for re-election in 2024. The other nine states that held gubernatorial elections were rated as solid or safe for either one party or the other by at least two of those three outside political ratings publications.
As a result of the 2024 elections, no states changed partisan control as a result of the 2024 elections. To read more about Ballotpedia's coverage of the gubernatorial elections held in 2024 and for detailed results, click here.
In North Carolina and Vermont, the state's government is divided, and in New Hampshire, the state's government is a Republican trifecta, meaning there is a governor and both chambers of the state legislature of the same party. To read more about which states saw changed trifectas due to the 2024 elections, click here.
Gubernatorial seats up for election in 2024
The following map shows which states held gubernatorial elections in 2024. The table beneath the map shows which party currently controls the seat, whether an incumbent is running, the last time the seat flipped, the 2020 results for the state in its presidential and gubernatorial elections, and the 2024 margin of victory in the states' gubernatorial elections.
| Gubernatorial elections, 2024 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State | Incumbent | Incumbent running? | Election winner | Last time office changed parties | 2020 presidential result | 2020 gubernatorial result[1] | 2024 election result |
| Delaware |  John Carney |
No | Matt Meyer |
1993 | D+18.9 | D+20.9 | D+11.8 |
| Indiana |  Eric Holcomb |
No | Mike Braun |
2005 | R+16.0 | R+24.4 | R+15.2 |
| Missouri | Mike Parson |
No | Mike Kehoe |
2017 | R+15.4 | R+16.4 | R+16.2 |
| Montana | Greg Gianforte |
Yes | Greg Gianforte |
2021 | R+16.4 | R+12.8 | R+21.7 |
| New Hampshire | Chris Sununu |
No[2] | Kelly Ayotte |
2017 | D+7.3 | R+15.0 | R+6.3 |
| North Carolina | Roy Cooper |
No | Josh Stein |
2017 | R+1.3 | D+4.5 | D+11.7 |
| North Dakota | Doug Burgum |
No[3] | Kelly Armstrong |
1992 | R+33.3 | R+40.4 | R+44.8 |
| Utah | Spencer Cox |
Yes | Spencer Cox |
1985 | R+20.5 | R+32.7 | R+26 |
| Vermont | Phil Scott |
Yes | Phil Scott |
2017 | D+35.1 | R+47.2 | R+49.5 |
| Washington | Jay Inslee |
No[4] | Bob Ferguson |
1985 | D+19.2 | D+13.5 | D+12.8 |
| West Virginia | Jim Justice |
No | Patrick Morrisey |
2017[5] | R+38.9 | R+33.3 | R+33.6 |
See also
- Election results, 2024
- Election results, 2024: Split-ticket voting in statewide elections
- Mixed-party election outcomes in presidential election years, 1916-2024
- State government trifectas
- State government triplexes
- Gubernatorial elections, 2024
- Election results, 2024: State government trifectas
- Election results, 2024: State government triplexes
Footnotes
- ↑ 2022 election for New Hampshire and Vermont.
- ↑ Sununu announced he would not run for re-election on July 19, 2023.
- ↑ Burgum announced that he was running for president of the United States on June 7, 2023.
- ↑ Inslee announced on May 1, 2023, that he would not run for re-election in 2024.
- ↑ Justice was elected as a Democrat and switched to the Republican Party in 2017.
