| Election Name: | 1893 United States gubernatorial elections |
| Country: | United States |
| Flag Year: | 1891 |
| Type: | legislative |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1892 United States gubernatorial elections |
| Previous Year: | 1892 |
| Next Election: | 1894 United States gubernatorial elections |
| Next Year: | 1894 |
| 1Blank: | Seats up |
| 2Blank: | Seats won |
| Seats For Election: | 5 governorships |
| Election Date: | November 7, 1893; April 5, 1893 (RI) |
| Party1: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Seats Before1: | 27 |
| Seats After1: | 25 |
| Seat Change1: | 2 |
| 1Data1: | 3 |
| 2Data1: | 1 |
| Party2: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Seats Before2: | 14 |
| Seats After2: | 16 |
| Seat Change2: | 2 |
| 1Data2: | 2 |
| 2Data2: | 4 |
| Party4: | Populist Party (United States) |
| Seats Before4: | 3 |
| Seats After4: | 3 |
| 1Data4: | 0 |
| 2Data4: | 0 |
| Map Size: | 324px |
United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1893, in five states.
Virginia holds its gubernatorial elections in odd numbered years, every 4 years, following the United States presidential election year. Massachusetts and Rhode Island at this time held gubernatorial elections every year. They would abandon this practice in 1920 and 1912, respectively. Iowa and Ohio at this time held gubernatorial elections in every odd numbered year.
| State | Incumbent | Party | Status | Opposing candidates | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | Horace Boies | Democratic | Defeated, 42.00% | Frank D. Jackson (Republican) 49.74% J. M. Joseph (Populist) 5.77% Bennett Mitchell (Prohibition) 2.49% [1] | |
| Massachusetts | William E. Russell | Democratic | Retired, Republican victory | Frederic T. Greenhalge (Republican) 52.77% John E. Russell (Democratic) 42.99% Louis Albert Banks (Prohibition) 2.34% George H. Cary (Populist) 1.34% Patrick F. O'Neil (Socialist Labor) 0.56% [2] | |
| Ohio | William McKinley | Republican | Re-elected, 52.61% | Lawrence T. Neal (Democratic) 42.78% Gideon P. Macklin (Prohibition) 2.72% Edward J. Bracken (Populist) 1.89% [3] [4] | |
| Rhode Island (held, 5 April 1893) | Daniel Russell Brown | Republican | No election, 46.24% | David Sherman Baker, Jr. (Democratic) 46.63% Henry B. Metcalf (Prohibition) 6.92% Scattering 0.22% [5] [6] [7] | |
| Virginia | Philip W. McKinney | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | Charles Triplett O'Ferrall (Democratic) 59.19% Edmund R. Cocke (Populist) 37.58% James R, Miller (Prohibition) 3.22% Scattering 0.01% [8] [9] |