| Election Name: | 1894 United States gubernatorial elections |
| Country: | United States |
| Flag Year: | 1891 |
| Type: | legislative |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1893 United States gubernatorial elections |
| Previous Year: | 1893 |
| Next Election: | 1895 United States gubernatorial elections |
| Next Year: | 1895 |
| 1Blank: | Seats up |
| 2Blank: | Seats won |
| Seats For Election: | 28 governorships |
| Election Date: | November 6, 1894 |
| Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Seats Before1: | 16 |
| Seats After1: | 23 |
| Seat Change1: | 7 |
| 1Data1: | 12 |
| 2Data1: | 19 |
| Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Seats Before2: | 25 |
| Seats After2: | 19 |
| Seat Change2: | 6 |
| 1Data2: | 13 |
| 2Data2: | 7 |
| Party4: | Populist Party (United States) |
| Seats Before4: | 3 |
| Seats After4: | 1 |
| Seat Change4: | 2 |
| 1Data4: | 3 |
| 2Data4: | 1 |
| Party5: | Silver Party |
| Seats Before5: | 0 |
| Seats After5: | 1 |
| Seat Change5: | 1 |
| 1Data5: | 0 |
| 2Data5: | 1 |
| Map Size: | 324px |
United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1894, in 28 states, concurrent with the House and Senate elections, on November 6, 1894 (except in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Maine, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont, which held early elections).
In New York, the governor was elected to a two-year term for the first time, instead of a three-year term.
| State | Incumbent | Party | Status | Opposing candidates | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama (held, 6 August 1894) | Thomas G. Jones | Democratic | Retired, Democratic victory | William C. Oates (Democratic) 57.10% Reuben F. Kolb (Populist) 42.90% [1] | |
| Arkansas (held, 3 September 1894) | Democratic | Retired, Democratic victory | James Paul Clarke (Democratic) 58.91% Harmon L. Remmel (Republican) 20.54% David E. Barker (Populist) 19.33% J. W. Miller (Prohibition) 1.22% [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] | ||
| California | Henry Markham | Republican | Retired, Democratic victory | James Budd (Democratic) 39.34% Morris M. Estee (Republican) 38.92% J. V. Webster (Populist) 18.03% Henry French (Prohibition) 3.71% [7] | |
| Colorado | Davis Hanson Waite | Populist | Defeated, 41.38% | Albert McIntire (Republican) 51.66% Charles S. Thomas (Democratic) 4.61% George Richardson (Prohibition) 2.35% [8] [9] [10] [11] | |
| Connecticut | Democratic | Retired, Republican victory | Owen Vincent Coffin (Republican) 54.18% Ernest Cady (Democratic) 42.77% DeWitt C. Pond (Prohibition) 1.49% Edwin C. Bingham (Populist) 1.00% James F. Tuckey (Socialist Labor) 0.55% Scattering 0.01% [12] | ||
| Delaware | Robert J. Reynolds | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | Joshua H. Marvil (Republican) 50.81% Ebe W. Tunnell (Democratic) 47.69% Thomas J. Perry (Prohibition) 1.51% [13] | |
| Georgia (held, 3 October 1894) | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | William Yates Atkinson (Democratic) 55.54% James K. Hines (Populist) 44.46% [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] | ||
| Idaho | William J. McConnell | Republican | Re-elected, 41.51% | James W. Ballantine (Populist) 28.96% Edward A. Stevenson (Democratic) 28.70% Henry C. McFarland (Prohibition) 0.83% [19] | |
| Kansas | Lorenzo D. Lewelling | Populist | Defeated, 39.54% | Edmund Needham Morrill (Republican) 49.69% David Overmyer (Democratic) 8.93% I. O. Pickering (Prohibition) 1.84% [20] [21] | |
| Maine (held, 10 September 1894) | Henry B. Cleaves | Republican | Re-elected, 64.32% | Charles Fletcher Johnson (Democratic) 28.21% Luther C. Bateman (Populist) 4.94% Ira G. Hersey (Prohibition) 2.52% [22] [23] | |
| Massachusetts | Frederic T. Greenhalge | Republican | Re-elected, 56.45% | John E. Russell (Democratic) 36.95% Alfred W. Richardson (Prohibition) 2.97% George H. Cary (Populist) 2.69% David G. Taylor (Socialist Labor) 0.93% [24] | |
| Michigan | John Treadway Rich | Republican | Re-elected, 56.89% | Spencer O. Fisher (Democratic) 31.37% Alva M. Nichols (Populist) 7.20% Albert M. Todd (Prohibition) 4.51% Scattering 0.04% [25] [26] [27] [28] | |
| Minnesota | Knute Nelson | Republican | Re-elected, 49.94% | Sidney M. Owen (Populist) 29.67% George Loomis Becker (Democratic) 18.09% Hans S. Hilleboe (Prohibition) 2.31% [29] [30] | |
| Nebraska | Lorenzo Crounse | Republican | Retired, Populist victory | Silas A. Holcomb (Populist) 47.98% Thomas Jefferson Majors (Republican) 46.41% P. Sturdevant (Straight-Out Democrat) 3.43% E. A. Gerrard (Prohibition) 2.18% [31] [32] | |
| Nevada | Roswell K. Colcord | Republican | John Edward Jones (Silver) 49.87% Abner Coburn Cleveland (Republican) 36.87% George Peckham (Populist) 6.79% Theodore Winters (Democratic) 6.47% [33] | ||
| New Hampshire | John Butler Smith | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Charles A. Busiel (Republican) 55.98% Henry O. Kent (Democratic) 40.89% Daniel C. Knowles (Prohibition) 2.11% George D. Epps (Populist) 1.00% Scattering 0.03% [34] [35] | |
| New York | Democratic | Retired, Republican victory | Levi P. Morton (Republican) 52.82% David B. Hill (Democratic) 40.58% Everett P. Wheeler (Reform Democrat) 2.13% Francis E. Baldwin (Prohibition) 1.84% Charles H. Matchett (Socialist Labor) 1.24% Charles B. Matthews (Populist) 0.87% Scattering 0.51% [36] [37] | ||
| North Dakota | Populist | Retired, Republican victory | Roger Allin (Republican) 57.49% Elmer D. Wallace (Populist) 22.67% F. M. Kinter (Democratic) 19.84%[38] [39] [40] | ||
| Oregon (held, 4 June 1894) | Sylvester Pennoyer | Democratic | Term limited, Republican victory | William Paine Lord (Republican) 47.23% Nathan Pierce (Populist) 29.99% William Galloway (Democratic) 20.51% James Kennedy (Prohibition) 2.26% [41] [42] | |
| Pennsylvania | Robert E. Pattison | Democratic | Term limited, Republican victory | Daniel H. Hastings (Republican) 60.32% William M. Singerly (Democratic) 34.98% Charles L. Hawley (Prohibition) 2.46% Jerome T. Ailman (Populist) 2.04% Thomas H. Grundy (Socialist Labor) 0.18% Scattering 0.01% [43] | |
| Rhode Island (held, 4 April 1894) | D. Russell Brown | Republican | Re-elected, 53.15% | David S. Baker (Democratic) 41.28% Henry B. Metcalf (Prohibition) 4.08% Charles G. Baylor (Socialist Labor) 1.08% Henry A. Burlingame (Populist) 0.41% [44] | |
| South Carolina | Benjamin Tillman | Democratic | Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Democratic victory | John Gary Evans (Democratic) 69.57% Sampson Pope (Populist) 30.43% [45] | |
| South Dakota | Charles H. Sheldon | Republican | Re-elected, 52.64% | Isaac Howe (Populist) 34.63% James A. Ward (Democratic) 11.41% M. H. Alexander (Prohibition) 1.32% [46] [47] [48] | |
| Tennessee | Peter Turney | Democratic | Re-elected after disputed election | (Original result) Henry Clay Evans (Republican) 45.20% Peter Turney (Democratic) 44.87% A. L. Mims (Populist) 9.93% [49] [50] [51] [52] [53] [54] [55] [56] (Result declared by General Assembly) Peter Turney (Democratic) 45.06% Henry Clay Evans (Republican) 43.94% A. L. Mims (Populist) 11.00% [57] [58] [59] | |
| Texas | Jim Hogg | Democratic | Retired, Democratic victory | Charles A. Culberson (Democratic) 49.01% Thomas L. Nugent (Populist) 36.13% W. K. Makemason (Republican) 12.90% J. B. Schmitz (Lily-White Republican) 1.19% J. M. Dunn (Prohibition) 0.52% Scattering 0.25% [60] [61] | |
| Vermont (held, 4 September 1894) | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Urban A. Woodbury (Republican) 73.54% George W. Smith (Democratic) 24.38% Thomas S. McGinnis (Populist) 1.28% Rodney Whittemore (Prohibition) 0.79% Scattering 0.02% [62] [63] | ||
| Wisconsin | George Wilbur Peck | Democratic | Defeated, 37.89% | William H. Upham (Republican) 52.24% D. Frank Powell (Populist) 6.82% John F. Cleghorn (Prohibition) 2.99% Scattering 0.05% [64] [65] | |
| Wyoming | John Eugene Osborne | Democratic | William A. Richards (Republican) 52.61% William H. Holliday (Democratic) 36.11% Lewis C. Tidball (Populist) 11.28% [66] |