1907 United States gubernatorial elections

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1907 United States gubernatorial elections
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  1906 November 5, 1907;
September 17, 1907 (OK);
April 21, 1908 (LA)
1908  

8 governorships
 Majority partyMinority party
 
Party Republican Democratic
Seats before2519
Seats after2619
Seat changeIncrease2.svg1Steady2.svg
Seats up25
Seats won35

 Third party
 
Party Silver
Seats before1
Seats after1
Seat changeSteady2.svg
Seats up0
Seats won0

1907 United States gubernatorial elections results map.svg
     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, which it would abandon in 1949. Massachusetts and Rhode Island both elected its governors to a single-year term; this was the last time Rhode Island elected its governors to a single-year term, switching to two years from the 1912 election.

Oklahoma held its first gubernatorial election on achieving statehood.

Results

StateIncumbentPartyStatusOpposing candidates
Kentucky J. C. W. Beckham DemocraticTerm-limited, Republican victory Augustus E. Willson (Republican) 51.17%
S. 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 DemocraticTerm-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 DemocraticRetired, 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. RepublicanRe-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 DemocraticTerm-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 RepublicanTerm-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 DemocraticRe-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]

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