2025 United States gubernatorial elections

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2 governorships
Majority party Minority party   Party Republican Democratic Seats before 27 23 Seats up 1 1
Term-limited Republican     Term-limited Democrat      No election

United States gubernatorial elections are scheduled to be held on November 4, 2025 in two states:New Jersey andVirginia. These elections will be held as part of the2025 United States elections. The last gubernatorial elections for New Jersey and Virginia were in2021. Both incumbents are ineligible to run for election again due to term limits. More states may hold elections due to a gubernatorial vacancy (depending on a state's constitution) or recall of a governor.^[1][2]

In2024, Democratic nomineeKamala Harris won both states by slightly less than six percent.

Going into the election, there are 27 Republican governors and 23 Democratic governors in the United States. This class of governors is made up of one Republican and one Democrat. Republicans are defending one governorship in a state thatKamala Harris won in 2024 (Virginia). Democrats are defending one governorship in a state that Harris won (New Jersey).

Several sites and individuals publish predictions of competitive seats. These predictions looked at factors such as the strength of theincumbent (if the incumbent is running for re-election), the strength of the candidates, and the partisan leanings of the state (reflected in part by the state'sCook Partisan Voting Index rating). The predictions assigned ratings to each seat, with the rating indicating a party's predicted advantage in winning that seat.

Most election predictors use:

• "tossup": no advantage
• "tilt" (used by some predictors): advantage that is not quite as strong as "lean"
• "lean": slight advantage
• "likely": significant, but surmountable, advantage
• "safe" or "solid": near-certain chance of victory

New Jersey gubernatorial election

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Nominee Mikie Sherrill Jack Ciattarelli Party Democratic Republican Running mate Dale Caldwell Jim Gannon

County results

IncumbentGovernor Phil Murphy Democratic

GovernorPhil Murphy was elected to a second term in2021 with 51.2% of the vote. He will beterm-limited by theNew Jersey Constitution and cannot seek re-election for a third consecutive term.Jersey CitymayorSteven Fulop, formerNew Jersey Senate presidentStephen Sweeney, U.S. RepresentativesJosh Gottheimer andMikie Sherrill, andNewarkmayorRas Baraka ran for the Democratic nomination.^{[16][17][18][19][13]} Ultimately, Sherrill won the Democratic nomination on June 10. Former state AssemblymanJack Ciattarelli, who was the Republican nominee in2021, is the Republican nominee.

Virginia gubernatorial election

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Nominee Winsome Earle-Sears Abigail Spanberger Party Republican Democratic

County and independent city results

IncumbentGovernor Glenn Youngkin Republican

GovernorGlenn Youngkin was elected in2021 with 50.6% of the vote. He will beterm-limited by theVirginia Constitution and cannot seek election to a second consecutive term.Lieutenant GovernorWinsome Earle-Sears is the Republican nominee.^[20] FormerU.S. Representative forVirginia's 7th congressional districtAbigail Spanberger is the Democratic nominee.^[21] Both candidates won their respective party’s nominations unopposed. The winner of this election will become the firstfemale governor in Virginia's history.

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