1930 United States gubernatorial elections
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United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1930, in 33 states, concurrent with the House and Senate elections, on November 4, 1930. Elections took place on September 8 in Maine.
Results
[edit]State | Incumbent | Party | Status | Opposing candidates |
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Alabama | Bibb Graves | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | Benjamin M. Miller (Democratic) 61.82% Hugh A. Locke (Independent) 38.18% [1] |
Arizona | John C. Phillips | Republican | Defeated, 48.61% | George W. P. Hunt (Democratic) 51.39% [2] |
Arkansas | Harvey Parnell | Democratic | Re-elected, 81.18% | J. O. Livesay (Republican) 18.82% [3] |
California | Clement C. Young | Republican | Defeated in Republican primary, Republican victory | James Rolph Jr. (Republican) 72.15% Milton K. Young (Democratic) 24.11% Upton Sinclair (Socialist) 3.64% Scattering 0.09% [4] |
Colorado | William H. Adams | Democratic | Re-elected, 60.41% | Robert F. Rockwell (Republican) 38.06% Claud A. Bushnell (Socialist) 0.68% Lizabeth A. Williams (Farmer Labor) 0.44% William R. Dietrich (Communist) 0.24% Walter Moore (Liberal) 0.10% Perry M. Jones (Commonwealth Land) 0.08% [5] |
Connecticut | John H. Trumbull | Republican | Retired, Democratic victory | Wilbur L. Cross (Democratic) 49.91% Ernest E. Rogers (Republican) 48.64% Jasper McLevy (Socialist) 1.09% Robert S. Kling (Communist) 0.35% [6] |
Georgia | Lamartine Griffin Hardman | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | Richard B. Russell Jr. (Democratic) 100.00% [7] (Democratic primary run-off results) Richard B. Russell Jr. 67.85% George Henry Carswell 32.15% [8] |
Idaho | H. C. Baldridge | Republican | Retired, Democratic victory | C. Ben Ross (Democratic) 56.03% John McMurray (Republican) 43.98% [9] |
Iowa | John Hammill | Republican | Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Republican victory | Dan W. Turner (Republican) 65.74% Fred P. Hagemann (Democratic) 33.60% John M. Smith (Farmer Labor) 0.45% William Patten (Communist) 0.22% [10] |
Kansas | Clyde M. Reed | Republican | Defeated in Republican primary, Democratic victory | Harry H. Woodring (Democratic) 34.96% Frank Haucke (Republican) 34.92% John R. Brinkley (Independent) (write-in) 29.50% J. B. Shields (Socialist) 0.62% [11] |
Maine (held, 8 September 1930) |
William T. Gardiner | Republican | Re-elected, 55.06% | Edward C. Moran Jr. (Democratic) 44.94% [12] |
Maryland | Albert C. Ritchie | Democratic | Re-elected, 55.96% | William F. Broening (Republican) 42.78% Elisabeth Gilman (Socialist) 0.82% Robert W. Stevens (Labor) 0.27% Samuel Parker (Communist) 0.17% [13] |
Massachusetts | Frank G. Allen | Republican | Defeated, 48.18% | Joseph B. Ely (Democratic) 49.54% John W. Aiken (Socialist Labor) 1.19% Alfred B. Lewis (Socialist) 0.67% Harry J. Canter (Communist) 0.41% [14] |
Michigan | Fred W. Green | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Wilber M. Brucker (Republican) 56.88% William A. Comstock (Democratic) 42.03% Joseph Billups (Workers) 0.47% George M. Campbell (Socialist) 0.46% Duly McCone (Prohibition) 0.16% [15] |
Minnesota | Theodore Christianson | Republican | Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Farmer-Labor victory | Floyd B. Olson (Farmer-Labor) 59.34% Raymond Park Chase (Republican) 36.31% Edward Indrehus (Democratic) 3.65% Karl Reeve (Communist) 0.70% [16] |
Nebraska | Arthur J. Weaver | Republican | Defeated, 49.25% | Charles W. Bryan (Democratic) 50.75% [17] |
Nevada | Frederick B. Balzar | Republican | Re-elected, 53.25% | Charles L. Richards (Democratic) 46.75% [18] |
New Hampshire | Charles W. Tobey | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | John G. Winant (Republican) 57.98% Albert W. Noone (Democratic) 41.80% Fred B. Chase (Communist) 0.22% [19] |
New Mexico | Richard C. Dillon | Republican | Term-limited, Democratic victory | Arthur Seligman (Democratic) 53.17% Clarence M. Botts (Republican) 46.60% Sam Butler (Socialist) 0.23% [20] |
New York | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Democratic | Re-elected, 56.49% | Charles H. Tuttle (Republican) 33.36% Robert P. Carroll (Law Preservation) 6.08% Louis Waldman (Socialist) 3.21% William Z. Foster (Communist) 0.58% Jeremiah D. Crowley (Socialist Labor) 0.29% [21] |
North Dakota | George F. Shafer | Republican | Re-elected, 73.62% | Pierce Blewett (Democratic) 23.20% Pat J. Barrett (Communist) 3.18% [22] |
Ohio | Myers Y. Cooper | Republican | Defeated, 47.20% | George White (Democratic) 52.80% [23] |
Oklahoma | William J. Holloway | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | William H. Murray (Democratic) 59.05% Ira A. Hill (Republican) 40.79% B. G. Bingham (Independent) 0.11% John Franing (Independent) 0.06% [24] |
Oregon | A. W. Norblad | Republican | Defeated in Republican primary, Independent victory | Julius L. Meier (Independent) 54.51% Ed F. Bailey (Democratic) 25.10% Phil Metschan (Republican) 18.83% Albert Streiff (Socialist) 1.57% [25] |
Pennsylvania | John Stuchell Fisher | Republican | Term-limited, Republican victory | Gifford Pinchot (Republican) 50.77% John M. Hemphill (Democratic) 47.98% James Hudson Maurer (Socialist) 1.00% Frank Mozer (Communist) 0.25% [26] |
Rhode Island | Norman S. Case | Republican | Re-elected, 50.53% | Theodore F. Green (Democratic) 48.95% Charles H. Dana (Socialist) 0.53% [27] |
South Carolina | John Gardiner Richards Jr. | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | Ibra Charles Blackwood (Democratic) 100.00% [28] (Democratic primary run-off results) Ibra Charles Blackwood 50.21% Olin Johnston 49.80% [29] |
South Dakota | William J. Bulow | Democratic | Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Republican victory | Warren E. Green (Republican) 52.97% D. A. McCullough (Democratic) 46.23% Helen Tangen (Independent) 0.80% [30] |
Tennessee | Henry H. Horton | Democratic | Re-elected, 63.84% | C. Arthur Bruce (Republican) 35.62% Samuel Borenstein (Independent) 0.54% [31] |
Texas | Dan Moody | Democratic | Retired, Democratic victory | Ross S. Sterling (Democratic) 79.98% William E. Talbot (Republican) 19.69% L. L. Rhodes (Socialist) 0.26% J. Stedham (Communist) 0.07% [32] |
Vermont | John E. Weeks | Republican | Retired to run for U.S. House, Republican victory | Stanley Calef Wilson (Republican) 70.98% Park H. Pollard (Democratic) 28.94% Scattering 0.09% [33] |
Wisconsin | Walter J. Kohler Sr. | Republican | Defeated in Republican primary, Republican victory | Philip La Follette (Republican) 64.76% Charles E. Hammersley (Democratic) 28.02% Frank B. Metcalfe (Socialist) 4.22% Alfred B. Taynton (Prohibition) 2.44% Fred B. Blair (Independent Communist) 0.49% Scattering 0.07% [34] |
Wyoming | Frank C. Emerson | Republican | Re-elected, 50.58% | Leslie A. Miller (Democratic) 49.42% [35] |
See also
[edit]References
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