1922 United States gubernatorial elections

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| <- 1921 | November 7, 1922;
October 3, 1922 (AR)
September 11, 1922 (ME) | 1923 ->

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33 governorships
|  | Majority party  | Minority party

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Party  | Democratic | Republican
Seats before  | 14  | 34
Seats after  | 26 | 22
Seat change  | 12  | 12
Seats up  | 8  | 25
Seats won  | 20 | 13

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Democratic gain Democratic hold
Republican hold

United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1922, in 33 states, concurrent with the House and Senate elections, on November 7, 1922. Elections took place on October 3 in Arkansas, and September 11 in Maine.

## Results

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State | Incumbent | Party | Status | Opposing candidates

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Alabama | Thomas Kilby | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | William W. Brandon (Democratic) 77.56%
Oliver D. Street (Republican) 21.28%
Arlie Barber (Socialist) 1.16%
[1]
Arizona | Thomas Edward Campbell | Republican | Defeated, 45.06% | George W. P. Hunt (Democratic) 54.94%
[2]
Arkansas
(held, 3 October 1922)[3][4][5][6] | Thomas C. McRae | Democratic | Re-elected, 78.09% | John W. Grabiel (Republican) 21.91%
[7]
California | William Stephens | Republican | Defeated in Republican primary, Republican victory | Friend Richardson (Republican) 59.69%
Thomas Lee Woolwine (Democratic) 35.98%
Alexander Horr (Socialist) 4.29%
Scattering 0.04%
[8]
Colorado | Oliver Henry Shoup | Republican | Retired, Democratic victory | William E. Sweet (Democratic) 49.64%
Benjamin Griffith (Republican) 48.29%
Lauren E. Arnold (Socialist) 0.82%
G. F. Stevens (Farmer Labor) 0.73%
Barney Haughey (Old Age Pension) 0.52%
[9]
Connecticut | Everett J. Lake | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Charles A. Templeton (Republican) 52.37%
David Fitzgerald (Democratic) 45.73%
Martin F. Plunkett (Socialist) 1.91%
[10]
Georgia | Thomas W. Hardwick | Democratic | Defeated in Democratic primary, Democratic victory | Clifford M. Walker (Democratic) 100.00%
[11]
(Democratic primary results)
Clifford M. Walker 58.11%
Thomas W. Hardwick 40.56%
H. Bedinger Baylor 1.33%
[12]
Idaho | D. W. Davis | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Charles C. Moore (Republican) 39.53%
H. F. Samuels (Progressive) 31.69%
Moses Alexander (Democratic) 28.79%
[13]
Iowa | Nathan E. Kendall | Republican | Re-elected, 70.54% | J. R. Files (Democratic) 29.46%
[14]
Kansas | Henry Justin Allen | Republican | Retired, Democratic victory | Jonathan M. Davis (Democratic) 50.87%
W. Y. Morgan (Republican) 47.41%
M. L. Phillips (Socialist) 1.72%
[15]
Maine
(held, 11 September 1922) | Percival P. Baxter | Republican | Re-elected, 57.95% | William R. Pattangall (Democratic) 42.05%
[16]
Massachusetts | Channing H. Cox | Republican | Re-elected, 52.24% | John F. Fitzgerald (Democratic) 45.42%
Walter S. Hutchins (Socialist) 1.03%
John B. Lewis (Prohibition) 0.77%
Henry Hess (Socialist Labor) 0.53%
[17]
Michigan | Alex J. Groesbeck | Republican | Re-elected, 61.15% | Alva M. Cummins (Democratic) 37.39%
Benjamin Blumenberg (Socialist) 0.76%
Belden C. Hoyt (Prohibition) 0.47%
E. R. Markley (Socialist Labor) 0.22%
[18]
Minnesota | J. A. O. Preus | Republican | Re-elected, 45.21% | Magnus Johnson (Farmer-Labor) 43.13%
Edward Indrehus (Democratic) 11.66%
[19]
Nebraska | Samuel R. McKelvie | Republican | Retired, Democratic victory | Charles W. Bryan (Democratic) 54.62%
Charles H. Randall (Republican) 41.95%
Harry C. Parmenter (Progressive) 3.43%
[20]
Nevada | Emmet D. Boyle | Democratic | Retired, Democratic victory | James G. Scrugham (Democratic) 53.88%
John H. Miller (Republican) 46.12%
[21]
New Hampshire | Albert O. Brown | Republican | Retired, Democratic victory | Fred H. Brown (Democratic) 53.28%
Windsor H. Goodnow (Republican) 46.72%
[22]
New Jersey | Edward I. Edwards | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | George Sebastian Silzer (Democratic) 52.19%
William N. Runyon (Republican) 46.82%
George H. Goebel (Socialist) 0.69%
Martin R. McDonald (Workers) 0.14%
Frank Sanders (Socialist Labor) 0.10%
Edward M. Caffall (Single Tax) 0.06%
[23]
New Mexico | Merritt C. Mechem | Republican | Retired, Democratic victory | James F. Hinkle (Democratic) 54.57%
C. L. Hill (Republican) 44.66%
T. S. Smith (Farmer Labor) 0.78%
[24]
New York | Nathan L. Miller | Republican | Defeated, 39.97% | Alfred E. Smith (Democratic) 55.21%
Edward F. Cassidy (Socialist) 4.31%
George K. Hinds (Prohibition) 0.38%
Jeremiah D. Crowley (Socialist Labor) 0.13%
[25]
North Dakota | Ragnvald Nestos | Republican | Re-elected, 57.65% | William Lemke (Non-Partisan League) 42.35%
[26]
Ohio | Harry L. Davis | Republican | Retired, Democratic victory | A. Victor Donahey (Democratic) 50.56%
Carmi A. Thompson (Republican) 49.41%
Scattering 0.03%
[27]
Oklahoma | James B. A. Robertson | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | John C. Walton (Democratic) 54.45%
John Fields (Republican) 44.79%
Orville E. Enfield (Socialist) 0.77%
[28]
Oregon | Ben W. Olcott | Republican | Defeated, 42.64% | Walter M. Pierce (Democratic) 57.36%
[29]
Pennsylvania | William Cameron Sproul | Republican | Term-limited, Republican victory | Gifford Pinchot (Republican) 56.78%
John A. McSparran (Democratic) 39.71%
Lilith Martin Wilson (Socialist) 2.17%
William Repp (Prohibition) 0.97%
William H, Thomas (Industrialist) 0.21%
John W. Dix (Single Tax) 0.15%
Scattering 0.01%
[30]
Rhode Island | Emery J. San Souci | Republican | Defeated in Republican primary, Democratic victory | William Smith Flynn (Democratic) 51.72%
Harold J. Gross (Republican) 47.17%
Charles F. Bishop (Socialist Labor) 0.60%
George W. Miller (Labor) 0.51%
[31]
South Carolina | Wilson Godfrey Harvey | Democratic | Retired, Democratic victory | Thomas Gordon McLeod (Democratic) 100.00%
[32]
(Democratic primary run-off results)
Thomas Gordon McLeod 53.84%
Coleman L. Blease 46.16%
[33]
South Dakota | William H. McMaster | Republican | Re-elected, 45.02% | Louis N. Crill (Democratic) 28.74%
Alice Lorraine Daly (Non-Partisan League) 26.24%
[34]
Tennessee | Alfred A. Taylor | Republican | Defeated, 42.11% | Austin Peay (Democratic) 57.89%
[35]
Texas | Pat Morris Neff | Democratic | Re-elected, 82.01% | W. H. Atwell (Republican) 17.99%
[36]
Vermont | James Hartness | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Redfield Proctor Jr. (Republican) 74.82%
J. Holmes Jackson (Democratic) 24.97%
Scattering 0.21%
[37]
Wisconsin | John J. Blaine | Republican | Re-elected, 76.36% | Arthur A. Bentley (Independent Democrat) 10.60%
Louis A. Arnold (Socialist) 8.21%
M. L. Welles (Prohibition) 4.45%
Arthur A. Dietrich (Independent) 0.30%
Scattering 0.08%
[38]
Wyoming | Robert D. Carey | Republican | Defeated in Republican primary, Democratic victory | William B. Ross (Democratic) 50.03%
John W. Hay (Republican) 48.87%
Scattering 1.11%
[39]

## See also

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* 1922 United States elections
* 1922 United States Senate elections
* 1922 United States House of Representatives elections

## References

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1. ^ "AL Governor, 1922". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
2. ^ "AZ Governor, 1922". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
3. ^ Thomas, David Y. (December 1922). "Notes from Arkansas". The Southwestern Political Science Quarterly. 3 (3): 231–232. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
4. ^ "Effort to block Hartje Amendment". The log cabin Democrat. Conway, Ark. March 24, 1922. p. 4. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
5. ^ "State, County and District Ticket". The Little River news. Ashdown, Little River County, Ark. September 27, 1922. p. 1. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
6. ^ "All Amendments Are Snowed Under". The Little River news. Ashdown, Little River County, Ark. October 28, 1922. p. 2. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
7. ^ "AR Governor, 1922". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
8. ^ "CA Governor, 1922". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
9. ^ "CO Governor, 1922". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
10. ^ "CT Governor, 1922". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
11. ^ "GA Governor, 1922". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
12. ^ "GA Governor, 1922 – D Primary". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
13. ^ "ID Governor, 1922". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
14. ^ "IA Governor, 1922". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
15. ^ "KS Governor, 1922". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
16. ^ "ME Governor, 1922". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
17. ^ "MA Governor, 1922". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
18. ^ "MI Governor, 1922". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
19. ^ "MN Governor, 1922". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
20. ^ "NE Governor, 1922". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
21. ^ "NV Governor, 1922". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
22. ^ "NH Governor, 1922". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
23. ^ "NJ Governor, 1922". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
24. ^ "NM Governor, 1922". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
25. ^ "NY Governor, 1922". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
26. ^ "ND Governor, 1922". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
27. ^ "OH Governor, 1922". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
28. ^ "OK Governor, 1922". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
29. ^ "OR Governor, 1922". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
30. ^ "PA Governor, 1922". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
31. ^ "RI Governor, 1922". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
32. ^ "SC Governor, 1922". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
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34. ^ "SD Governor, 1922". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
35. ^ "TN Governor, 1922". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
36. ^ "TX Governor, 1922". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
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39. ^ "WY Governor, 1922". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 26 March 2019.

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