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1891 United States gubernatorial elections

← 1890

November 3, 1891;
August 3, 1891 (KY);
April 1, 1891 (RI)

1892 →

7 governorships

	Majority party	Minority party

Party	Democratic	Republican
Seats before	27	17^[a]
Seats after	25	19
Seat change	2	2
Seats up	7	0
Seats won	5	2

Democratic gain Democratic hold
Republican gain Republican hold

United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1891, in seven states.

Kentucky andMaryland held their gubernatorial elections inodd numbered years, every 4 years, preceding theUnited States presidential election year.Massachusetts andRhode Island both elected their respective governors to a single-year term. They would abandon this practice in 1920 and 1912, respectively.Iowa andOhio at this time held gubernatorial elections in every odd numbered year.

New York at this time elected its governors to a three-year term. This was the last election in which this was the case. The state switched to two-year terms from the1894 elections.

InKentucky, the gubernatorial election was held in August for the last time; thenext gubernatorial election would be held onthe same day as federal elections.

Results

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State	Incumbent	Party	Status	Opposing candidates
Iowa	Horace Boies	Democratic	Re-elected, 49.38%	Hiram C. Wheeler (Republican) 47.43% A. J. Westfall (Populist) 2.97% Isaac T. Gibson (Prohibition) 0.22% ^[1]^[2]
Kentucky (held, 3 August 1891)	Simon Bolivar Buckner	Democratic	Term-limited, Democratic victory	John Y. Brown (Democratic) 49.85% Andrew T. Wood (Republican) 40.14% S. B. Erwin (Populist) 8.86% Josiah Harris (Prohibition) 1.14% ^[3]
Maryland	Elihu Emory Jackson	Democratic	Retired, Democratic victory	Frank Brown (Democratic) 56.52% William J. Vannort (Republican) 40.82% Edwin Higgins (Prohibition) 2.67% ^[4]^[5]
Massachusetts	William E. Russell	Democratic	Re-elected, 49.12%	Charles Herbert Allen (Republican) 47.11% Charles E. Kimball (Prohibition) 2.79% Henry Winn (Populist) 0.54% Harry W. Robinson (Socialist Labor) 0.44% ^[6]^[7]
New York	David B. Hill	Democratic	Retired to take upseat in the U.S. Senate, Democratic victory	Roswell P. Flower (Democratic) 50.13% Jacob Sloat Fassett (Republican) 46.00% Joseph W. Bruce^[8] (Prohibition) 2.61% Daniel De Leon (Socialist Labor) 1.26% ^[9]^[10]^[11]
Ohio	James E. Campbell	Democratic	Defeated, 45.90%	William McKinley (Republican) 48.61% John Seitz (Populist) 2.95% John J. Ashenhurst (Prohibition) 2.54% ^[12]^[13]
Rhode Island (held, 1 April 1891)	John W. Davis	Democratic	Defeated, 48.95%^[b]	Herbert W. Ladd (Republican) 46.19% John H. Larry (Prohibition) 4.02% Franklin E. Burton (National) 0.85% ^[14]^[15]

References

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^"IA Governor, 1891". Our Campaigns. RetrievedNovember 20, 2020.
^Journal of the Senate of the Twenty-Fourth General Assembly of the State of Iowa, which convened at the Capitol at Des Moines, January 11, 1892. Des Moines: G. H. Ragsdale, State Printer. 1892. p. 31.
^"KY Governor, 1891". Our Campaigns. RetrievedNovember 20, 2020.
^"MD Governor, 1891". Our Campaigns. RetrievedNovember 20, 2020.
^Journal of the Proceedings of the Senate of Maryland, January Session, 1892. Annapolis: Chas. H. Baughman & Co., State Printers. 1892. p. 21.
^"MA Governor, 1891". Our Campaigns. RetrievedNovember 20, 2020.
^Coolidge, Henry D.; McLaughlin, Edward A. (1892).Manual for the use of the General Court, &c. Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Company, State Printers. p. 360.
^Makeley, Jonathan."History of the Prohibition Party in New York". RetrievedNovember 20, 2020.
^"NY Governor, 1891". Our Campaigns. RetrievedNovember 20, 2020.
^Eisenstadt, Peter, ed. (2005).The Encyclopedia of New York State. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. p. 674.ISBN 0-8156-0808-X.
^Brown, Roscoe C. E. (1922). Smith, Ray B. (ed.).History of the State of New York, Political and Governmental. Vol. III. Syracuse, N.Y.: The Syracuse Press, Inc. p. 365.
^"OH Governor, 1891". Our Campaigns. RetrievedNovember 20, 2020.
^The Journal of the Senate of the State of Ohio, for the Regular Session of the Seventieth General Assembly, commencing on Monday, January 4th, 1892. Vol. LXXXIX. Columbus, Ohio: The Westbote Co., State Printers. 1892. p. 20.
^"RI Governor, 1891". Our Campaigns. RetrievedNovember 20, 2020.
^Geo. H. Utter, Secretary of State (1891).Manual, with Rules and Orders, for the use of the General Assembly, of the State of Rhode Island. 1891-1892. Providence. R.I.: K. L. Freeman & Son, State Printers. p. 106.

Notes

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^John Milton Thayer (R) succeeded Nebraska GovernorJames E. Boyd (D) who was removed from office by the Nebraska Supreme Court in May 1891. Boyd's citizenship would be upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court and he would be restored to office in February 1892.
^Since no candidate received 50% of the vote, the state legislature decided the election. Ladd was elected.

Bibliography

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Glashan, Roy R. (1979).American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978. Meckler Books.ISBN 0-930466-17-9.
Gubernatorial Elections, 1787-1997. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Inc. 1998.ISBN 1-56802-396-0.
Dubin, Michael J. (2014).United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1861-1911: The Official Results by State and County. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland.ISBN 978-0-7864-4722-0.
The World Almanac, 1892. New York, NY: The Press Publishing Co. 1892.
McPherson, Edward, ed. (1892).The Tribune Almanac and Political Register for 1892. New York, NY: The Tribune Association.

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