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[2] [3] In the event of a vacancy, the governor is succeeded by the second-highest-ranking state official; in 45 states and 4 territories, the lieutenant governor is the first in the line of succession. [4] [5] As of January 25, 2025, there are 27 states with Republican governors and 23 states with Democratic governors. Both Republicans and ...
Governors who were members of the Democratic Party during their gubernatorial tenure. Subcategories This category has the following 55 subcategories, out of 55 total.
The Democratic nominee was four-term Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon, who ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 1998. Nixon defeated Hulshof comfortably, despite the fact that Missouri ultimately voted for John McCain, a Republican, for president. Missouri was the only state not to re-elect the incumbent party for governor in 2008.
The Democratic Governors Association (DGA) is a Washington, D.C.–based 527 organization founded in 1983, consisting of U.S. state and territorial governors affiliated with the Democratic Party. [1] The main purpose of the organization is to provide party support to the election and re-election of Democratic gubernatorial candidates.
GSD brands itself as a nonpartisan initiative of governors who will work together to protect democracy at the state level, according to a news release from Polis.
Victories in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin enable them to defend against Republican-dominated state legislatures on issues such as abortion rights and fair elections.
Political party strength in U.S. states is the level of representation of the various political parties in the United States in each statewide elective office providing legislators to the state and to the U.S. Congress and electing the executives at the state (U.S. state governor) and national (U.S. President) level.
Polling in 2022 has repeatedly shown him to be the most popular Democratic governor in America, even cracking the Top 10 as recently as October. But that hasn’t stopped Republicans — a lot of ...