2024 United States attorney general elections

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2024 United States attorney general elections
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The 2024 United States attorney general elections will be held on November 5, 2024, to elect the attorneys general of ten U.S. states. The previous elections for this group of states took place in 2020, while Vermont's attorney general was last elected in 2022. [1]

Contents

These elections will take place concurrently with the 2024 presidential election, elections to the Senate and House of Representatives, and various other state and local elections.

Partisan composition

Going into these elections, this class of attorneys general is made up of 5 Democrats and 5 Republicans. Democrats are defending one state won by Donald Trump in 2020 (North Carolina), while Republicans do not hold any states won by Joe Biden.

Election predictions

Several sites and individuals published predictions of competitive seats. These predictions looked at factors such as the strength of the incumbent (if the incumbent is running for re-election), the strength of the candidates, and the partisan leanings of the state (reflected in part by the state's Cook Partisan Voting Index rating). The predictions assigned ratings to each seat, with the rating indicating the predicted advantage that a party has in winning that seat.

Most election predictors use:

State PVI [2] Incumbent [3] Last
race		 Sabato
January 31,
2024 [4]
Indiana R+11 Todd Rokita 58.3% R Lean R
Missouri R+10 Andrew Bailey 59.4% R Safe R
Montana R+11 Austin Knudsen 58.5% R Safe R
North Carolina R+3 Josh Stein
(retiring)		50.1% D Tossup
Oregon D+6 Ellen Rosenblum
(retiring)		56.0% D Safe D
Pennsylvania R+2 Michelle Henry
(retiring)		50.9% D Tossup
Utah R+13 Sean Reyes
(retiring)		60.6% R Safe R
Vermont D+16 Charity Clark 65.1% D Safe D
Washington D+8 Bob Ferguson
(retiring)		56.4% D Safe D
West Virginia R+22 Patrick Morrisey
(retiring)		63.8% R Safe R

Race summary

StateAttorney
General		PartyFirst
elected		StatusCandidates
Indiana Todd Rokita Republican 2020 Incumbent running
Missouri Andrew Bailey Republican2023 [lower-alpha 2] Incumbent running
Montana Austin Knudsen Republican 2020 Incumbent running
North Carolina Josh Stein Democratic 2016 Incumbent retiring to
run for governor [12]
Oregon Ellen Rosenblum Democratic2012 [lower-alpha 3] Incumbent retiring [14]
  • ▌Michael Cross (Republican) [15]
  • ▌Will Lathrop (Republican) [15]
  • ▌Shaina Maxey Pomerantz (Democratic) [15]
  • ▌ Dan Rayfield (Democratic) [15]
Pennsylvania Michelle Henry Democratic2023 [lower-alpha 4] Incumbent retiring [16]
Utah Sean Reyes Republican2013 [lower-alpha 5] Incumbent retiring [21]
Vermont Charity Clark Democratic 2022 Incumbent running
Washington Bob Ferguson Democratic 2012 Incumbent retiring to
run for governor [24]
West Virginia Patrick Morrisey Republican 2012 Incumbent retiring to
run for governor [28]

Indiana

Attorney General Todd Rokita was elected in 2020 with 58.3% of the vote. [31] He is running for re-election. [5]

Missouri

Attorney General Andrew Bailey was appointed in 2023 after his predecessor, Eric Schmitt, resigned after being elected to the United States Senate. Bailey has stated that he plans to run for election to a full term. [8] Republican former assistant U.S. Attorney Will Scharf is running for the seat. [10]

Montana

Attorney General Austin Knudsen was elected in 2020 with 58.5% of the vote. He is running for re-election. [32] Democratic attorney Ben Alke is running against him. [33]

North Carolina

North Carolina Attorney General election
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  Rep. Jeff Jackson - 118th Congress (Updated) (cropped).jpg Representative Dan Bishop of NC (cropped 2).jpg
Nominee Jeff Jackson Dan Bishop
Party Democratic Republican
Incumbent Attorney General

Josh Stein
Democratic



Attorney General Josh Stein was re-elected in 2020 with 50.1% of the vote. He is retiring to run for governor. [12]

U.S. Representative Dan Bishop is the lone Republican candidate. [34]

U.S. Representative Jeff Jackson won the Democratic nomination defeating Durham County district attorney Satana Deberry and lawyer and Marine Corps veteran Tim Dunn. [35] [36] [37]

Oregon

Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum was re-elected in 2020 with 56% of the vote. She is eligible to seek re-election, but stated in September 2023 that she will retire. [14] Democratic House Speaker Dan Rayfield is running for the office, as are Republicans International Justice Mission executive country director Will Lanthrop and Robert Neuman [38] [39] [40]

Pennsylvania

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Nominee Eugene DePasquale David Sunday
Party Democratic Republican
Incumbent Attorney General

Michelle Henry
Democratic



Attorney General Josh Shapiro resigned after being elected governor. Deputy attorney general Michelle Henry was appointed as the new attorney general and she was confirmed by the state senate. She is not running for a full term. [16]

Former Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale won the Democratic nomination defeating former Philadelphia chief public defender Keir Bradford-Grey, former Bucks County solicitor Joe Khan, state representative Jared Solomon, and Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer. [41] [18] [42] [43] [44]

York County District Attorney David Sunday won the Republican nomination defeating state representative Wendell Craig Williams. [20] [45]

Utah

Attorney General Sean Reyes was re-elected in 2020 with 60.6% of the vote. He is eligible to seek re-election, and had previously stated in September 2023 that he will do so, but announced in December 2023 that he will not run. [21] Derek Brown, former chair of the Utah Republican Party, is running for the office. [46]

Vermont

Attorney General Charity Clark was elected in 2022 with 61.3% of the vote. She is eligible to seek re-election, but has not yet stated if she will do so.

Washington

Attorney General Bob Ferguson was re-elected in 2020 with 56.4% of the vote. He is retiring to run for governor. [24]

Democrats former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington Nicholas Brown and state senator Manka Dhingra are running for the position. [25] [26]

The lone Republican candidate as of January 2024 is attorney and Pasco city councilman Pete Serrano. [27]

West Virginia

West Virginia Attorney General election
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Nominee J.B. McCuskey Teresa Toriseva
Party Republican Democratic
Incumbent Attorney General

Patrick Morrisey
Republican



Attorney General Patrick Morrisey was re-elected in 2020 with 63.8% of the vote. He is retiring to run for governor. [28]

Republican State Auditor JB McCuskey defeated state senator and former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia Michael Stuart for the Republican nomination [47]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Seat tallies and popular vote do not include states that do not elect attorneys general or territorial attorneys general.
  2. ↑ Bailey took office after his predecessor, Eric Schmitt, resigned to take office as U.S. senator.
  3. ↑ Rosenblum took office after her predecessor, John Kroger, resigned. She was subsequently elected in 2012.
  4. ↑ Henry took office after her predecessor, Josh Shapiro, resigned.
  5. ↑ Reyes took office after his predecessor, John Swallow, resigned. He was subsequently elected in 2014.

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