1919 United States gubernatorial elections

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1919 United States gubernatorial elections
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  1918 November 4, 1919;
April 20, 1920 (LA)
1920  

6 governorships
 Majority partyMinority party
 
Party Republican Democratic
Seats before27 [lower-alpha 1] 20
Seats after2720
Seat changeSteady2.svgSteady2.svg
Seats up24
Seats won24

1919 United States gubernatorial elections results map.svg
     Democratic gain     Democratic hold
     Republican gain     Republican hold

United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1919, in six states. Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland and Mississippi held their gubernatorial elections in odd numbered years, every 4 years, preceding the United States presidential election year. New Jersey at this time held gubernatorial elections every 3 years. It would abandon this practice in 1949. This was the last time Massachusetts elected its governors to a single-year term. It switched to two-year terms from the 1920 election.

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Results

StateIncumbentPartyStatusOpposing candidates
Kentucky James D. Black DemocraticDefeated, 45.29% Edwin P. Morrow (Republican) 53.82%
G. D. Becker (Socialist) 0.89%
[1]
Louisiana
(Held, 20 April 1920)
Ruffin Pleasant DemocraticTerm-limited, Democratic victory John Milliken Parker (Democratic) 97.47%
J. Stewart Thompson (Republican) 2.53%
[2]
(Democratic primary results)
John Milliken Parker 54.28%
Frank P. Stubbs 45.72%
[3]
Maryland Emerson Harrington DemocraticRetired, Democratic victory Albert C. Ritchie (Democratic) 49.06%
Harry Whinna Nice (Republican) 48.99%
Arthur L. Blessing (Socialist) 1.22%
Robert W. Stevens (Labor) 0.73% [4]
Massachusetts Calvin Coolidge RepublicanRe-elected, 60.94% Richard H. Long (Democratic) 36.95%
William A. King (Socialist) 1.35%
Ingvar Paulsen (Socialist Labor) 0.45%
Charles B. Ernst (Prohibition) 0.32%
[5]
Mississippi Theodore G. Bilbo DemocraticTerm-limited, Democratic victory Lee M. Russell (Democratic) 96.96%
J. T. Lester (Socialist) 3.04%
[6]
(Democratic primary run-off results)
Lee M. Russell 52.67%
Oscar Goodbar Johnston 47.33%
[7]
New Jersey William Nelson Runyon RepublicanDefeated in Republican primary, Democratic victory Edward I. Edwards (Democratic) 49.20%
Newton A. K. Bugbee (Republican) 45.92%
Albert Farr (Socialist) 2.49%
Charles E. Lane (National Prohibition) 1.38%
John C. Butterworth (Socialist Labor) 0.73%
Mark M. Denterfass (Single Tax) 0.28%
[8]

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Notes

  1. Louis Folwell Hart (R) succeeded Washington Governor Ernest Lister (D) upon his resignation in February 1919.