1907 United States gubernatorial elections

1907 United States gubernatorial elections

←  1906 November 5, 1907; September 17, 1907 (OK); April 21, 1908 (LA) 1908  →
8 governorships
Majority party Minority party   Party Republican Democratic Seats before 25 19 Seats after 26 19 Seat change 1 Seats up 2 5 Seats won 3 5   Third party   Party Silver Seats before 1 Seats after 1 Seat change Seats up 0 Seats won 0
Democratic gain     Democratic hold      Republican gain     Republican hold

United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1907, in eight 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. Massachusetts and Rhode Island both elected their governors to a single-year term. This was the last time Rhode Island elected its governors to a single-year term, as it switched to two-year-terms from the 1912 election.

Oklahoma held its first gubernatorial election on achieving statehood.

Results

State	Incumbent	Party	Status	Opposing candidates
Kentucky	J. C. W. Beckham	Democratic	Term-limited, Republican victory	Augustus E. Willson (Republican) 51.17% S. W. Hager (Democratic) 46.87% L. L. Pickett (Prohibition) 1.52% Claude Andrews (Socialist) 0.36% James H. Arnold (Socialist Labor) 0.09% [1]
Louisiana (held, April 21, 1908)	Newton C. Blanchard	Democratic	Term-limited, Democratic victory	Jared Y. Sanders (Democratic) 87.14% Henry N. Pharr (Republican) 11.05% James Barnes (Socialist) 1.81% [2] Democratic primary results Jared Y. Sanders 56.29% Theodore S. Wilkinson 43.71% [3]
Maryland	Edwin Warfield	Democratic	Retired, Democratic victory	Austin Lane Crothers (Democratic) 50.66% George R. Gaither Jr. (Republican) 46.81% James W. Frizzell (Prohibition) 1.88% Ira Culp (Socialist) 0.65% [4]
Massachusetts	Curtis Guild Jr.	Republican	Re-elected, 50.33%	Henry M. Whitney (Democratic) 22.58% Thomas L. Hisgen (Independence League) 20.20% Charles W. Bartlett (Anti-Merger) 3.00% John W. Brown (Socialist) 2.04% Hervey S. Cowell (Prohibition) 1.02% Thomas F. Brennan (Socialist Labor) 0.80% [5]
Mississippi	James K. Vardaman	Democratic	Term-limited, Democratic victory	Edmund F. Noel (Democratic) 100.00% [6] Democratic primary run-off results Edmund F. Noel 50.87% Earl Leroy Brewer 49.13% [7] [8] [9] [10] (majority, 2,002) [11] [12]
New Jersey	Edward C. Stokes	Republican	Term-limited, Republican victory	John Franklin Fort (Republican) 49.28% Frank S. Katzenbach Jr. (Democratic) 47.25% Frederick Krafft (Socialist) 1.74% James G. Mason (Prohibition) 1.33% John C. Butterworth (Socialist Labor) 0.40% [13]
Oklahoma (held, September 17, 1907)	New state			Charles N. Haskell (Democratic) 53.42% Frank Frantz (Republican) 42.81% C. C. Ross (Socialist) 3.78% [14]
Rhode Island	James H. Higgins	Democratic	Re-elected, 50.37%	Frederick H. Jackson (Republican) 46.90% Louis E. Remington (Prohibition) 1.26% William H. Johnston (Socialist) 1.03% John W. Leach (Socialist Labor) 0.44% [15]

References

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9. "The state executive committee". Okolona messenger. Okolona, Miss. September 4, 1907. p. 4. Retrieved April 13, 2021.
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