1952 United States gubernatorial elections

1952 United States gubernatorial elections

←  1951 November 4, 1952; September 8, 1952 (ME) 1953  →
30 governorships
Majority party Minority party   Party Republican Democratic Seats before 25 23 Seats after 30 18 Seat change 5 5 Seats up 15 15 Seats won 20 10
Democratic hold      Republican hold     Republican gain      No election

United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1952, in 30 states, concurrent with the House, Senate elections and the presidential election, on November 4, 1952. Elections took place on September 8 in Maine. This was the last 2-year gubernatorial election Tennessee held, as they would switch from 2-year to 4-year terms in 1954.

Results

State	Incumbent	Party	Status	Opposing candidates
Arizona	John Howard Pyle	Republican	Re-elected, 60.16%	Joe C. Haldiman (Democratic) 39.84% [1]
Arkansas	Sid McMath	Democratic	Defeated in primary, Democratic victory	Francis Cherry (Democratic) 87.41% Jefferson W. Speck (Republican) 12.59% [2]
Colorado	Daniel I. J. Thornton	Republican	Re-elected, 57.08%	John W. Metzger (Democratic) 42.42% Louis K. Stephens (Socialist Labor) 0.50% [3]
Delaware	Elbert N. Carvel	Democratic	Defeated, 47.89%	J. Caleb Boggs (Republican) 52.11% [4]
Florida	Fuller Warren	Democratic	Term limited, Democratic victory	Daniel T. McCarty (Democratic) 74.83% Harry S. Swan (Republican) 25.17% Scattering 0.01% [5]
Illinois	Adlai Stevenson II	Democratic	Won primary but retired to run for U.S. President, Republican victory	William Stratton (Republican) 52.48% Sherwood Dixon (Democratic) 47.32% Louis Fisher (Socialist Labor) 0.20% [6]
Indiana	Henry F. Schricker	Democratic	Term limited, Republican victory	George N. Craig (Republican) 55.68% John A. Watkins (Democratic) 43.58% Lester N. Abel (Prohibition) 0.65% Samuel Boorda (Progressive) 0.05% Charles Ginsberg (Socialist Labor) 0.04% [7]
Iowa	William S. Beardsley	Republican	Re-elected, 51.90%	Herschel C. Loveless (Democratic) 47.78% Z. Everett Kellum (Prohibition) 0.23% Ernest J. Seemann (Republican Vigilantes) 0.10% [8]
Kansas	Edward F. Arn	Republican	Re-elected, 56.34%	Charles Rooney (Democratic) 41.68% David C. White (Prohibition) 1.76% W. W. Tamplin (Socialist) 0.22% [9]
Maine (held, 8 September 1952)	Frederick G. Payne	Republican	Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Republican victory	Burton M. Cross (Republican) 51.74% James C. Oliver (Democratic) 33.22% Neil S. Bishop (Independent Republican) 14.38% Henry W. Boyker (Independent) 0.66% [10]
Massachusetts	Paul A. Dever	Democratic	Defeated, 49.29%	Christian Herter (Republican) 49.91% Florence H. Luscomb (Peace Progressive) 0.32% Larence Gilfedder (Socialist Labor) 0.26% Guy S. Williams (Prohibition) 0.22% [11]
Michigan	G. Mennen Williams	Democratic	Re-elected, 49.96%	Frederick M. Alger Jr. (Republican) 49.66% Earle Harold Munn (Prohibition) 0.31% Theos A. Grove (Socialist Labor) 0.04% Howard Lerner (Socialist Workers) 0.02% [12]
Minnesota	C. Elmer Anderson	Republican	Re-elected, 55.34%	Orville Freeman (DFL) 44.01% Martin Frederickson (Progressive) 0.37% Eldrid H. Bauers (Socialist Labor) 0.29% [13]
Missouri	Forrest Smith	Democratic	Term limited, Democratic victory	Phil M. Donnelly (Democratic) 52.55% Howard Elliott (Republican) 47.37% Howard Edsell (Progressive) 0.05% Maurice R. Wheeler (Socialist) 0.02% Don Lohbeck (Christian Nationalist) 0.01% Clara Hayes (Socialist Labor) 0.01% [14]
Montana	John W. Bonner	Democratic	Defeated, 49.04%	J. Hugo Aronson (Republican) 50.96% [15]
Nebraska	Val Peterson	Republican	Retired, Republican victory	Robert B. Crosby (Republican) 61.44% Walter R. Raecke (Democratic) 38.56% [16]
New Hampshire	Sherman Adams	Republican	Retired, Republican victory	Hugh Gregg (Republican) 63.15% William H. Craig (Democratic) 36.85% [17]
New Mexico	Edwin L. Mechem	Republican	Re-elected, 53.77%	Everett Grantham (Democratic) 46.24% [18]
North Carolina	W. Kerr Scott	Democratic	Term limited, Democratic victory	William B. Umstead (Democratic) 67.50% Herbert F. Seawell Jr. (Republican) 32.50% [19]
North Dakota	Norman Brunsdale	Republican	Re-elected, 78.74%	Ole C. Johnson (Democratic) 21.26% [20]
Ohio	Frank Lausche	Democratic	Re-elected, 55.90%	Charles Phelps Taft II (Republican) 44.10% [21]
Rhode Island	Dennis J. Roberts	Democratic	Re-elected, 52.62%	Raoul Archambault Jr. (Republican) 47.38% [22]
South Dakota	Sigurd Anderson	Republican	Re-elected, 70.15%	Sherman A. Iverson (Democratic) 29.85% [23]
Tennessee	Gordon Browning	Democratic	Defeated in primary, Democratic victory	Frank G. Clement (Democratic) 79.37% R. Beecher Witt (Republican) 20.62% Scattering 0.01% [24]
Texas	Allan Shivers	Democratic	Re-elected, 98.05%	Scattering 1.95% [25]
Utah	J. Bracken Lee	Republican	Re-elected, 55.09%	Earl J. Glade (Democratic) 44.91% [26]
Vermont	Lee E. Emerson	Republican	Re-elected, 51.93%	Robert W. Larrow (Democratic) 39.81% Henry D. Vail (Independent, write-in) 8.25% Scattering 0.02% [27]
Washington	Arthur B. Langlie	Republican	Re-elected, 52.65%	Hugh Mitchell (Democratic) 47.35% [28]
West Virginia	Okey Patteson	Democratic	Term limited, Democratic victory	William C. Marland (Democratic) 51.54% Rush Holt Sr. (Republican) 48.46% [29]
Wisconsin	Walter J. Kohler Jr.	Republican	Re-elected, 62.50%	William Proxmire (Democratic) 37.27% Michael Essin (Independent Progressive) 0.23% [30]

See also

• 1952 United States elections
  • 1952 United States presidential election
  • 1952 United States Senate elections
  • 1952 United States House of Representatives elections

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