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United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1928, in 35 states, concurrent with the House, Senate elections and presidential election, on November 6, 1928. Elections took place on September 10 in Maine.
| State | Incumbent | Party | Status | Opposing candidates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | George W. P. Hunt | Democratic | Defeated, 48.16% | John C. Phillips (Republican) 51.71% William O'Brien (Workers) 0.13% [1] |
| Arkansas | Harvey J. Parnell | Democratic | Re-elected, 77.31% | Drew Bowers (Republican) 22.69% [2] |
| Colorado | William H. Adams | Democratic | Re-elected, 67.05% | William Louis Boatright (Republican) 31.85% Samuel A. Garth (Socialist) 0.52% Vera Jane Pease (Farmer Labor) 0.34% George J. Saul (Workers) 0.24% [3] |
| Connecticut | John H. Trumbull | Republican | Re-elected, 53.57% | Charles G. Morris (Democratic) 45.61% Jasper McLevy (Socialist) 0.58% William Mackenzie (Farmer Labor) 0.14% Michael P. O'Lean (Socialist Labor) 0.11% [4] |
| Delaware | Robert P. Robinson | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | C. Douglass Buck (Republican) 61.23% Charles M. Wharton (Democratic) 38.77% [5] |
| Florida | John W. Martin | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | Doyle E. Carlton (Democratic) 60.97% W. J. Howey (Republican) 39.03% [6] |
| Georgia | Lamartine G. Hardman | Democratic | Re-elected, 100.00% [7] | (Democratic primary results) Lamartine G. Hardman 58.54% Eurith D. Rivers 41.46% [8] |
| Idaho | H. C. Baldridge | Republican | Re-elected, 57.82% | C. Ben Ross (Democratic) 41.58% Thomas J. Coonrod (Socialist) 0.60% [9] |
| Illinois | Len Small | Republican | Defeated in Republican primary, Republican victory | Louis L. Emmerson (Republican) 56.76% Floyd E. Thompson (Democratic) 42.66% George Koop (Socialist) 0.43% William F. Kruse (Communist) 0.11% J. E. Procum (Socialist Labor) 0.05% [10] |
| Indiana | Edward L. Jackson | Republican | Term-limited, Republican victory | Harry G. Leslie (Republican) 51.25% Frank C. Dailey (Democratic) 48.10% Albert Stanley (Prohibition) 0.36% Clarence E. Bond (Socialist) 0.23% Cassimer Benward (Socialist Labor) 0.03% Harry W. Garner (Workers) 0.02% Henry O. Shaw (National) 0.01% [11] |
| Iowa | John Hammill | Republican | Re-elected, 62.79% | L. W. Housel (Democratic) 37.21% [12] |
| Kansas | Benjamin S. Paulen | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Clyde M. Reed (Republican) 65.60% Chauncey B. Little (Democratic) 33.20% Henry L. Peterson (Socialist) 1.20% [13] |
| Maine (held, 10 September 1928) | Owen Brewster | Republican | Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Republican victory | William T. Gardiner (Republican) 69.31% Edward C. Moran Jr. (Democratic) 30.70% [14] |
| Massachusetts | Alvan T. Fuller | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Frank G. Allen (Republican) 50.06% Charles H. Cole (Democratic) 48.81% Mary Donovan Hapgood (Socialist) 0.49% Chester W. Bixby (Workers) 0.29% Washington Cook (Prohibition) 0.20% Stephen Surridge (Socialist Labor) 0.09% Edith Hamilton MacFadden (Independent) 0.06% [15] |
| Michigan | Fred W. Green | Republican | Re-elected, 69.94% | William A. Comstock (Democratic) 29.44% Guy H. Lockwood (Socialist) 0.21% Ervin D. Brooks (Prohibition) 0.19% William Reynolds (Communist) 0.19% Paul Dinger (Socialist Labor) 0.05% [16] |
| Minnesota | Theodore Christianson | Republican | Re-elected, 55.00% | Ernest Lundeen (Farmer-Labor) 22.72% Andrew Nelson (Democratic) 21.38% J. O. Bentall (Communist) 0.58% Harris A. Brandborg (Industrial) 0.33% [17] |
| Missouri | Samuel Aaron Baker | Republican | Term-limited, Republican victory | Henry S. Caulfield (Republican) 51.63% Francis M. Wilson (Democratic) 48.17% Joseph G. Hodges (Socialist) 0.16% W. G. Brandenburg (Prohibition) 0.03% Edward G. Middlecoff (Socialist Labor) 0.02% [18] |
| Montana | John E. Erickson | Democratic | Re-elected, 58.65% | Wellington D. Rankin (Republican) 40.95% W. R. Duncan (Socialist) 0.40% [19] |
| Nebraska | Adam McMullen | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Arthur J. Weaver (Republican) 56.98% Charles W. Bryan (Democratic) 42.63% F. Phillip Haffner (Socialist) 0.39% [20] |
| New Hampshire | Huntley N. Spaulding | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Charles W. Tobey (Republican) 57.50% Eaton D. Sargent (Democratic) 42.32% Frank T. Butler (Socialist) 0.11% Henry C. Iram (Workers) 0.07% [21] |
| New Jersey | A. Harry Moore | Democratic | Term-limited, Republican victory | Morgan F. Larson (Republican) 54.88% William L. Dill (Democratic) 44.74% Eugene A. Smith (National Prohibition) 0.14% W. K. Tallman (Socialist) 0.14% Scott Nearing (Workers) 0.08% John C. Butterworth (Socialist Labor) 0.02% [22] |
| New Mexico | Richard C. Dillon | Republican | Re-elected, 55.61% | Robert C. Dow (Democratic) 44.30% John W. Blackburn (Independent) 0.08% [23] |
| New York | Alfred E. Smith | Democratic | Retired to run for U.S. President, Democratic hold | Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic) 48.96% Albert Ottinger (Republican) 48.36% Louis Waldman (Socialist) 2.34% William F. Dunne (Workers) 0.25% Charles Hunter Corregan (Socialist Labor) 0.10% [24] |
| North Carolina | Angus Wilton McLean | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | O. Max Gardner (Democratic) 55.57% Herbert F. Seawell (Republican) 44.43% [25] |
| North Dakota | Walter Jeremiah Maddock | Republican | Ran for re-election as a Democrat, defeated, 43.15% | George F. Shafer (Republican) 56.50% K. P. Loesch (Farmer Labor) 0.36% [26] |
| Ohio | A. Victor Donahey | Democratic | Retired, Republican victory | Myers Y. Cooper (Republican) 54.79% Martin L. Davey (Democratic) 44.74% Joseph W. Sharts (Socialist) 0.29% William Patterson (Communist) 0.09% John D. Goerke (Socialist Labor) 0.05% Frank W. Stanton (Prohibition) 0.04% [27] |
| Rhode Island | Norman S. Case | Republican | Re-elected, 51.59% | Alberic A. Archambault (Democratic) 48.13% Charles F. Bishop (Socialist Labor) 0.16% Edward W. Theinert (Workers) 0.12% [28] |
| South Dakota | William J. Bulow | Democratic | Re-elected, 52.48% | Buell F. Jones (Republican) 46.94% John G. Sumption (Farmer Labor) 0.58% [29] |
| Tennessee | Henry H. Horton | Democratic | Re-elected, 61.06% | Raleigh Hopkins (Republican) 38.95% [30] |
| Texas | Daniel Moody | Democratic | Re-elected, 82.43% | W. H. Holmes (Republican) 17.44% L. L. Rhodes (Socialist) 0.11% J. Stedham (Communist) 0.02% [31] |
| Utah | George H. Dern | Democratic | Re-elected, 58.50% | William Henry Wattis (Republican) 41.08% D. C. Dora (Socialist) 0.42% [32] |
| Vermont | John Eliakim Weeks | Republican | Re-elected, 73.53% | Harry C. Shurtleff (Democratic) 25.98% Frank M. Post (Prohibition) 0.47% Scattering 0.02% [33] |
| Washington | Roland Hill Hartley | Republican | Re-elected, 56.22% | A. Scott Bullitt (Democratic) 42.73% James F. Stark (Socialist Labor) 0.67% Walter Price (Socialist) 0.25% Aaron Fislerman (Communist) 0.14% [34] |
| West Virginia | Howard M. Gore | Republican | Term-limited, Republican victory | William Gustavus Conley (Republican) 53.73% J. Alfred Taylor (Democratic) 46.10% J. H. Snider (Socialist) 0.18% [35] |
| Wisconsin | Fred R. Zimmerman | Republican | Defeated in Republican primary, Republican victory | Walter J. Kohler Sr. (Republican) 55.38% Albert George Schmedeman (Democratic) 39.87% Otto R. Hauser (Socialist) 3.73% Adolph R. Bucknam (Prohibition) 0.66% Joseph Ehrhardt (Socialist Labor) 0.20% Alvar J. Hayes (Communist) 0.14% Scattering 0.03% [36] |
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