Partisan composition of governors

Partisan breakdown of state governments
Partisan affiliation of state senators, state representatives, and governors across the United States
Partisan composition of state legislatures
Partisan composition of state houses
Partisan composition of state senates
Partisan composition of governors
State government trifectas
Who Runs the States report

The partisan composition of governors refers to which political party has control of the governor's office in each of the 50 states.

The current breakdown of gubernatorial control by party is as follows:

• 25 governors
• 26 governors
• 0 governor

See also: Partisan composition of state legislatures and state government trifectas

Cumulative numbers

Party	Number of	Percentage
Democratic governors	25	50%
Republican governors	26	52%
Independent governors	0	0%

The table below identifies the partisan affiliation of state and territory governors in the United States. If an office is vacant, it will not appear in the following list:

Office	Name	Party	Date assumed office
Governor of Georgia	Brian Kemp	Republican	January 14, 2019
Governor of Tennessee	Bill Lee	Republican	January 15, 2019
Governor of Missouri	Mike Parson	Republican	June 1, 2018
Governor of Kansas	Laura Kelly	Democratic	January 14, 2019
Governor of Alaska	Mike Dunleavy	Republican	December 3, 2018
Governor of Wisconsin	Tony Evers	Democratic	2019
Governor of Kentucky	Andy Beshear	Democratic	December 10, 2019
Governor of Maryland	Larry Hogan	Republican	January 21, 2015
Governor of Puerto Rico	Wanda Vázquez Garced	New Progressive	August 7, 2019
Governor of Colorado	Jared Polis	Democratic	2019
Governor of Idaho	Brad Little	Republican	2019
Governor of New Mexico	Michelle Lujan Grisham	Democratic	January 1, 2019
Governor of New Hampshire	Chris Sununu	Republican	January 5, 2017
Governor of Minnesota	Tim Walz	Democratic	January 7, 2019
Governor of Illinois	J.B. Pritzker	Democratic	2019
Governor of Alabama	Kay Ivey	Republican	April 10, 2017
Governor of Oklahoma	Kevin Stitt	Republican	January 14, 2019
Governor of Florida	Ron DeSantis	Republican	January 8, 2019
Governor of Texas	Greg Abbott	Republican	2015
Governor of Massachusetts	Charles D. Baker	Republican	January 8, 2015
Governor of Rhode Island	Gina Raimondo	Democratic	January 6, 2015
Governor of Vermont	Phil Scott	Republican	January 5, 2017
Governor of South Carolina	Henry McMaster	Republican	January 24, 2017
Governor of Washington	Jay Inslee	Democratic	January 16, 2013
Governor of Connecticut	Ned Lamont	Democratic	2019
Governor of New York	Andrew Cuomo	Democratic	January 1, 2011
Governor of South Dakota	Kristi L. Noem	Republican	2019
Governor of Indiana	Eric Holcomb	Republican	January 9, 2017
Governor of North Dakota	Doug Burgum	Republican	December 15, 2016
Governor of Oregon	Kate Brown	Democratic	2015
Governor of Pennsylvania	Tom Wolf	Democratic	January 20, 2015
Governor of Iowa	Kim Reynolds	Republican	May 24, 2017
Governor of Virginia	Ralph Northam	Democratic	January 10, 2018
Governor of Ohio	Richard Michael DeWine	Republican	January 14, 2019
Governor of Mississippi	Tate Reeves	Republican	January 14, 2020
Governor of California	Gavin Newsom	Democratic	2019
Governor of Utah	Gary Herbert	Republican	August 11, 2009
Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands	Albert Bryan	Democratic	January 7, 2019
Governor of Louisiana	John Bel Edwards	Democratic	January 11, 2016
Governor of Nevada	Steve Sisolak	Democratic	2019
Governor of Arizona	Doug Ducey	Republican	January 5, 2015
Governor of American Samoa	Lolo Matalasi Moliga	Nonpartisan	January 3, 2013
Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands	Ralph Torres	Republican	December 29, 2015
Governor of Wyoming	Mark Gordon	Republican	2019
Governor of Guam	Lou Leon Guerrero	Democratic	January 7, 2019
Governor of Delaware	John C. Carney Jr.	Democratic	January 17, 2017
Governor of Michigan	Gretchen Whitmer	Democratic	January 1, 2019
Governor of Hawaii	David Ige	Democratic	December 1, 2014
Governor of Arkansas	Asa Hutchinson	Republican	January 13, 2015
Governor of New Jersey	Phil Murphy	Democratic	2018
Governor of West Virginia	Jim Justice	Republican	January 16, 2017
Governor of North Carolina	Roy Cooper	Democratic	January 1, 2017
Governor of Maine	Janet T. Mills	Democratic	January 2, 2019
Governor of Montana	Steve Bullock	Democratic	January 7, 2013
Governor of Nebraska	Pete Ricketts	Republican	January 8, 2015

See also

• Gubernatorial and legislative party control of state government
• Partisan composition of state legislatures
• Partisan composition of state senates
• Partisan composition of state houses
• State government trifectas

External links

• NCSL's State Partisan Composition