2021 United States gubernatorial elections

2021 United States gubernatorial elections

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3 governorships (including a recall election in California)
Majority party Minority party   Party Republican Democratic Seats before 27 23 Seats after 28 22 Seat change 1 1 Popular vote 2,918,691[a] 2,939,475[a] Percentage 49.43%[a] 49.79%[a] Seats up 0 3 Seats won 1 2
Map of the results      Democratic hold      Republican gain      No election

United States gubernatorial elections were held on November 2, 2021, in two states, New Jersey and Virginia, and a recall election was held in California on September 14. These elections form part of the 2021 United States elections. The last gubernatorial elections for New Jersey and Virginia were in 2017, and the last regular gubernatorial election for California was in 2018. Going into the elections, all three seats were held by Democrats.

In Virginia, term-limited incumbent Ralph Northam was succeeded by Republican businessman Glenn Youngkin. In New Jersey, incumbent Phil Murphy won re-election. In California, an unsuccessful special election to recall incumbent Gavin Newsom was held on September 14, 2021.^[1][2]

Despite failing to flip the state, Republican nominee Jack Ciattarelli had actually swung the state of New Jersey slightly more Republican from the 2020 presidential election than fellow Republican Glenn Youngkin did in the election in Virginia, where he managed to flip the seat. This was the first time since 1981, that every gubernatorial election in this cycle was won by single digits. This was the first time since 1977 that Democrats won in New Jersey and Republicans won in Virginia.

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