United States gubernatorial elections, 2012
- Indiana, North Dakota, Utah - defended by Republicans
- Montana, Washington, New Hampshire, Missouri, Vermont, West Virginia, Delaware - defended by the Democrats
- North Carolina - gained by the Republicans from the Democrats
- Wisconsin - Recall election: defended by Republican incumbent
The gubernatorial elections in the United States in 2012 were held in 11 states in the United States and in American Samoa and Puerto Rico. There was also a so-called recall election in Wisconsin. The election date for the 13 gubernatorial elections was November 6, 2012, the election date of the recall election in Wisconsin was June 5, 2012. On November 6, also the presidential election and the congressional elections were held. In Puerto Rico was on this day also a referendum on the future status of Puerto Rico instead.
Starting position
Three of the 13 governors did not stand again for re-election. These were John Lynch (New Hampshire, Democrat ), Beverly Perdue, North Carolina ( Democrat ) and Christine Gregoire (Washington, Democrat ). Three other incumbent governors could not run again due to term limit ( a constitutional term limit). These were Togiola Tulafono ( American Samoa, Democrat ), Brian Schweitzer (Montana, Democrat ) and Mitch Daniels (Indiana, Republican). The remaining seven governors lined up again for re-election; by the Democrats, these were Jack Markell (Delaware), Jay Nixon (Missouri ), Peter Shumlin (Vermont ) and Earl Ray Tomblin (West Virginia) and the Republican Jack Dalrymple (North Dakota), Luis Fortuño (Puerto Rico) and Gary R. Herbert (Utah ).
Election and election results
American Samoa
The current incumbent Togiola Talalelei A. Tulafono could not be standing for election due to term limits. Six candidates stood for election. In the elections on November 6, none of the candidates could unite the absolute majority of votes. The independent candidate Lolo Letalu Matalasi Moliga and the candidate of the Democratic Party Faoa Aitofele Samaya faced each other in the run-off election on November 20. Moliga prevailed with 52.9 % of the vote and took office on January 3, 2013. Vice Governor was Lemanu Peleti Mauga.
Montana
The popular Democratic incumbent Brian Schweitzer could not run again in the applicable rather conservative - rural Montana State because of term limit restriction. For the Democrats Steve Bullock went into the race, the John Walsh, a general of the Montana National Guard chose a candidate for the office of Lieutenant Governor. His Republican opponent was Rick Hill with his running mate Jon Sonju. As a third candidate came to Ron VanDevender of the Libertarian Party. The election was decided very scarce for the Democratic candidate.
New Hampshire
North Carolina
Washington
Indiana
Delaware
Missouri
Vermont
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Tom Barrett (DEM), the challenger
- Republican
- Democrats
The gubernatorial election in the state of Wisconsin already took place on June 5, 2012. It was a so-called recall election, which had been brought by the Democrats to deselect the in office only since 17 months Republican Governor Scott Walker in the middle of his term. Walker was encountered because of its resistance to austerity, in particular its cuts for public employees were extremely unpopular. As part of the austerity measures there were mass protests, especially in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison, which included at the height of more than 100,000 participants. The Democrats Tom Barrett, Mayor of Milwaukee launched a signature campaign and collected 900,000 signatures ( 360,000 more than required) for early holding of an election for governor. After an intensive and relatively costly ( estimated $ 80 million, compared to $ 37 million in the gubernatorial election in 2010 ) election was won by the incumbent Walker and his running mate Rebecca Kleefisch choosing a surprising degree with 1,335,585 votes ( 53.1 %) against 1,164 .480 ( 46.3 %) for the duo Tom Barrett / Mahlon Mitchell of the Democratic Party.