1895 United States gubernatorial elections

1895 United States gubernatorial elections

←  1894 November 5, 1895; April 3, 1895 (RI) 1896  →
9 governorships
Majority party Minority party   Party Republican Democratic Seats before 22 20 [lower-alpha 1] Seats after 26 17 Seat change 4 3 Seats up 4 4 Seats won 8 1   Third party Fourth party   Party Populist Silver Seats before 1 1 Seats after 1 1 Seat change Seats up 0 0 Seats won 0 0
Democratic gain     Democratic hold      Republican gain     Republican hold

United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1895, in nine states.

Kentucky, 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. Massachusetts and Rhode Island both elected its governors to a single-year term. They would abandon this practice in 1920 and 1912, respectively. Iowa and Ohio at this time held gubernatorial elections in every odd numbered year.

Utah held its first gubernatorial election on achieving statehood.

Results

State	Incumbent	Party	Status	Opposing candidates
Iowa	Frank D. Jackson	Republican	Retired, Republican victory	Francis M. Drake (Republican) 52.00% Washington I. Babb (Democratic) 37.23% Sylvester B. Crane (Populist) 8.02% Francis Bacon (Prohibition) 2.74% [1]
Kentucky	John Y. Brown	Democratic	Term-limited, Republican victory	William O'Connell Bradley (Republican) 48.29% Parker Watkins Hardin (Democratic) 45.80% Thomas S. Pettit (Populist) 4.74% T. P. Demaree (Prohibition) 1.17% [2]
Maryland	Frank Brown	Democratic	Retired, Republican victory	Lloyd Lowndes Jr. (Republican) 52.01% John E. Hurst (Democratic) 44.20% Joshua Levering (Prohibition) 3.21% Henry F. Andrews (Populist) [lower-alpha 2] 0.57% [3]
Massachusetts	Frederic T. Greenhalge	Republican	Re-elected, 56.77%	George F. Williams (Democratic) 37.06% Edward Kendall (Prohibition) 2.79% Elbridge G. Brown (Populist) 2.37% Moritz E. Ruther (Socialist Labor) 0.99% Scattering 0.01% [4]
Mississippi	John Marshall Stone	Democratic	Term-limited, Democratic victory	Anselm J. McLaurin (Democratic) 72.85% Frank Burkitt (Populist) 27.15% [5] [6]
New Jersey	George Theodore Werts	Democratic	Term-limited, Republican victory	John W. Griggs (Republican) 52.28% Alexander T. McGill (Democratic) 43.64% Henry W. Wilbur (Prohibition) 2.14% George B. Keim (Socialist Labor) 1.33% William B. Ellis (Populist) 0.61% [7]
Ohio	William McKinley	Republican	Retired, Republican victory	Asa S. Bushnell (Republican) 51.00% James E. Campbell (Democratic) 39.94% Jacob S. Coxey Sr. (Populist) 6.29% Seth H. Ellis (Prohibition) 2.54% William Watkins (Socialist Labor) 0.22% [8]
Rhode Island (held, 5 April 1895)	Daniel Russell Brown	Republican	Retired, Republican victory	Charles W. Lippitt (Republican) 56.89% George L. Littlefield (Democratic) 32.39% Smith Quimby (Prohibition) 5.95% George Ellsworth Boomer (Socialist Labor) 3.92% William Foster, Jr. (Populist) 0.86% [9]
Utah	New state			Heber Manning Wells (Republican) 50.32% John Thomas Caine (Democratic) 44.73% Henry W. Lawrence (Populist) 4.95% [10]

References

1. "IA Governor, 1895". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
2. "KY Governor, 1895". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
3. "MD Governor, 1895". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
4. "MA Governor, 1895". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
5. "MS Governor, 1895". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
6. Rowland, Dunbar (1908). The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi, 1908. Nashville, Tenn.: Press of the Brandon Printing Company. p. 245.
7. "NJ Governor, 1895". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
8. "OH Governor, 1895". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
9. "RI Governor, 1895". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
10. "UT Governor, 1895". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 7 August 2020.

Notes

1. William T. Watson (D) succeeded Delaware Governor Joshua H. Marvil (R) who died in office in April 1895.
2. Andrews also stood on the Socialist Labor ticket.

Bibliography

• Glashan, Roy R. (1979). American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978. Meckler Books. ISBN   0-930466-17-9.
• Gubernatorial Elections, 1787-1997. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Inc. 1998. ISBN   1-56802-396-0.
• Dubin, Michael J. (2014). United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1861-1911: The Official Results by State and County. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN   978-0-7864-4722-0.
• The World Almanac and Encyclopedia, 1896. New York, NY: The Press Publishing Co. 1896.
• Rhoades, Henry Eckford, ed. (1896). The Tribune Almanac and Political Register, 1896. New York, NY: The Tribune Association.