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United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1894, in 28 states, concurrent with the House and Senate elections, on November 6, 1894 (except in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Maine, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont, which held early elections).
In New York, the governor was elected to a two-year term for the first time, instead of a three-year term.
State | Incumbent | Party | Status | Opposing candidates |
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Alabama (held, 6 August 1894) | Thomas G. Jones | Democratic | Retired, Democratic victory | William C. Oates (Democratic) 57.10% Reuben F. Kolb (Populist) 42.90% [1] |
Arkansas (held, 3 September 1894) | William Meade Fishback | Democratic | Retired, Democratic victory | James Paul Clarke (Democratic) 58.91% Harmon L. Remmel (Republican) 20.54% David E. Barker (Populist) 19.33% J. W. Miller (Prohibition) 1.22% [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] |
California | Henry Markham | Republican | Retired, Democratic victory | James Budd (Democratic) 39.34% Morris M. Estee (Republican) 38.92% J. V. Webster (Populist) 18.03% Henry French (Prohibition) 3.71% [7] |
Colorado | Davis Hanson Waite | Populist | Defeated, 41.38% | Albert McIntire (Republican) 51.66% Charles S. Thomas (Democratic) 4.61% George Richardson (Prohibition) 2.35% [8] [9] [10] [11] |
Connecticut | Luzon B. Morris | Democratic | Retired, Republican victory | Owen Vincent Coffin (Republican) 54.18% Ernest Cady (Democratic) 42.77% DeWitt C. Pond (Prohibition) 1.49% Edwin C. Bingham (Populist) 1.00% James F. Tuckey (Socialist Labor) 0.55% Scattering 0.01% [12] |
Delaware | Robert J. Reynolds | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | Joshua H. Marvil (Republican) 50.81% Ebe W. Tunnell (Democratic) 47.69% Thomas J. Perry (Prohibition) 1.51% [13] |
Georgia (held, 3 October 1894) | William J. Northen | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | William Yates Atkinson (Democratic) 55.54% James K. Hines (Populist) 44.46% [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] |
Idaho | William J. McConnell | Republican | Re-elected, 41.51% | James W. Ballantine (Populist) 28.96% Edward A. Stevenson (Democratic) 28.70% Henry C. McFarland (Prohibition) 0.83% [19] |
Kansas | Lorenzo D. Lewelling | Populist [lower-alpha 2] | Defeated, 39.54% | Edmund Needham Morrill (Republican) 49.69% David Overmyer (Democratic) 8.93% I. O. Pickering (Prohibition) 1.84% [20] [21] |
Maine (held, 10 September 1894) | Henry B. Cleaves | Republican | Re-elected, 64.32% | Charles Fletcher Johnson (Democratic) 28.21% Luther C. Bateman (Populist) 4.94% Ira G. Hersey (Prohibition) 2.52% [22] [23] |
Massachusetts | Frederic T. Greenhalge | Republican | Re-elected, 56.45% | John E. Russell (Democratic) 36.95% Alfred W. Richardson (Prohibition) 2.97% George H. Cary (Populist) 2.69% David G. Taylor (Socialist Labor) 0.93% [24] |
Michigan | John Treadway Rich | Republican | Re-elected, 56.89% | Spencer O. Fisher (Democratic) 31.37% Alva M. Nichols (Populist) 7.20% Albert M. Todd (Prohibition) 4.51% Scattering 0.04% [25] [26] [27] [28] |
Minnesota | Knute Nelson | Republican | Re-elected, 49.94% | Sidney M. Owen (Populist) 29.67% George Loomis Becker (Democratic) 18.09% Hans S. Hilleboe (Prohibition) 2.31% [29] [30] |
Nebraska | Lorenzo Crounse | Republican | Retired, Populist victory | Silas A. Holcomb (Populist) [lower-alpha 3] 47.98% Thomas Jefferson Majors (Republican) 46.41% P. Sturdevant (Straight-Out Democrat) 3.43% E. A. Gerrard (Prohibition) 2.18% [31] [32] |
Nevada | Roswell K. Colcord | Republican | [ data missing ] | John Edward Jones (Silver) 49.87% Abner Coburn Cleveland (Republican) 36.87% George Peckham (Populist) 6.79% Theodore Winters (Democratic) 6.47% [33] |
New Hampshire | John Butler Smith | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Charles A. Busiel (Republican) 55.98% Henry O. Kent (Democratic) 40.89% Daniel C. Knowles (Prohibition) 2.11% George D. Epps (Populist) 1.00% Scattering 0.03% [34] [35] |
New York | Roswell P. Flower | Democratic | Retired, Republican victory | Levi P. Morton (Republican) 52.82% David B. Hill (Democratic) 40.58% Everett P. Wheeler (Reform Democrat) 2.13% Francis E. Baldwin (Prohibition) 1.84% Charles H. Matchett (Socialist Labor) 1.24% Charles B. Matthews (Populist) 0.87% Scattering 0.51% [36] [37] |
North Dakota | Eli C. D. Shortridge | Populist [lower-alpha 4] | Retired, Republican victory | Roger Allin (Republican) 57.49% Elmer D. Wallace (Populist) 22.67% F. M. Kinter (Democratic) 19.84% [lower-alpha 5] [38] [39] [40] |
Oregon (held, 4 June 1894) | Sylvester Pennoyer | Democratic | Term limited, Republican victory | William Paine Lord (Republican) 47.23% Nathan Pierce (Populist) 29.99% William Galloway (Democratic) 20.51% James Kennedy (Prohibition) 2.26% [41] [42] |
Pennsylvania | Robert E. Pattison | Democratic | Term limited, Republican victory | Daniel H. Hastings (Republican) 60.32% William M. Singerly (Democratic) 34.98% Charles L. Hawley (Prohibition) 2.46% Jerome T. Ailman (Populist) 2.04% Thomas H. Grundy (Socialist Labor) 0.18% Scattering 0.01% [43] |
Rhode Island (held, 4 April 1894) | D. Russell Brown | Republican | Re-elected, 53.15% | David S. Baker (Democratic) 41.28% Henry B. Metcalf (Prohibition) 4.08% Charles G. Baylor (Socialist Labor) 1.08% Henry A. Burlingame (Populist) 0.41% [44] |
South Carolina | Benjamin Tillman | Democratic | Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Democratic victory | John Gary Evans (Democratic) 69.57% Sampson Pope (Populist) 30.43% [45] |
South Dakota | Charles H. Sheldon | Republican | Re-elected, 52.64% | Isaac Howe (Populist) 34.63% James A. Ward (Democratic) 11.41% M. H. Alexander (Prohibition) 1.32% [46] [47] [48] |
Tennessee | Peter Turney | Democratic | Re-elected after disputed election | (Original result) Henry Clay Evans (Republican) 45.20% Peter Turney (Democratic) 44.87% A. L. Mims (Populist) 9.93% [49] [50] [51] [52] [53] [54] [55] [56] (Result declared by General Assembly) Peter Turney (Democratic) 45.06% Henry Clay Evans (Republican) 43.94% A. L. Mims (Populist) 11.00% [50] [51] [52] [53] [57] [58] [59] |
Texas | Jim Hogg | Democratic | Retired, Democratic victory | Charles A. Culberson (Democratic) 49.01% Thomas L. Nugent (Populist) 36.13% W. K. Makemason (Republican) 12.90% J. B. Schmitz (Lily-White Republican) 1.19% J. M. Dunn (Prohibition) 0.52% Scattering 0.25% [60] [61] |
Vermont (held, 4 September 1894) | Levi K. Fuller | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Urban A. Woodbury (Republican) 73.54% George W. Smith (Democratic) 24.38% Thomas S. McGinnis (Populist) 1.28% Rodney Whittemore (Prohibition) 0.79% Scattering 0.02% [62] [63] |
Wisconsin | George Wilbur Peck | Democratic | Defeated, 37.89% | William H. Upham (Republican) 52.24% D. Frank Powell (Populist) 6.82% John F. Cleghorn (Prohibition) 2.99% Scattering 0.05% [64] [65] |
Wyoming | John Eugene Osborne [lower-alpha 6] | Democratic | [ data missing ] | William A. Richards (Republican) 52.61% William H. Holliday (Democratic) 36.11% Lewis C. Tidball (Populist) 11.28% [66] |
The 1894 United States House of Representatives elections were held from June 4, 1894, to November 6, 1894, with special elections throughout the year. Elections were held to elect representatives from all 356 congressional districts across each of the 44 U.S. states at the time, as well as non-voting delegates from the inhabited U.S. territories. The winners of this election served in the 54th Congress, with seats apportioned among the states based on the 1890 United States census.
United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1900, in 34 states, concurrent with the House, Senate elections and presidential election, on November 6, 1900.
United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1803, in 12 states.
United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1898, in 28 states, concurrent with the House and Senate elections, on November 8, 1898.
The 1894 Tennessee gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1894. Incumbent Democratic Governor Peter Turney defeated former congressman and Republican nominee Henry Clay Evans with 45.06% of the vote.
The 1892 Tennessee gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1892. Democratic nominee Peter Turney defeated Republican nominee George W. Winstead, and Incumbent Governor John P. Buchanan, who ran as a Populist, with 47.86% of the vote.
The 1954 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1954.
The 1916 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1916.
United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1896, in 32 states, concurrent with the House, Senate elections and presidential election, on November 3, 1896.
United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1892, in 32 states, concurrent with the House, Senate elections and presidential election, on November 8, 1892.
United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1890, in 27 states, concurrent with the House and Senate elections, on November 4, 1890.
United States gubernatorial elections were held on Tuesday November 6, in 26 states, concurrent with the House, Senate elections and presidential election, on November 6, 1888.
The 1890 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on September 1, 1890. Incumbent Democratic Governor James Philip Eagle defeated Union Labor and Republican fusion nominee Napoleon B. Fizer with 55.51% of the vote.
The 1894 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on September 3, 1894.
The 1892 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on September 5, 1892.
The 1896 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on September 7, 1896.
The 1898 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on September 5, 1898. Incumbent Democratic Governor Daniel W. Jones defeated Republican nominee Henry F. Auten and Populist nominee W. Scott Morgan with 67.35% of the vote.
The 1900 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on September 3, 1900.
The 1900 Nebraska gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1900.
The 1902 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on September 1, 1902.
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