| Election Name: | 1928 United States gubernatorial elections |
| Country: | United States |
| Flag Year: | 1912 |
| Type: | legislative |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1927 United States gubernatorial elections |
| Previous Year: | 1927 |
| Next Election: | 1929 United States gubernatorial elections |
| Next Year: | 1929 |
| 1Blank: | Seats up |
| 2Blank: | Seats won |
| Seats For Election: | 35 governorships |
| Election Date: | November 6, 1928; September 10, 1928 (ME) |
| Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Seats Before1: | 27 |
| Seats After1: | 30 |
| Seat Change1: | 3 |
| 1Data1: | 21 |
| 2Data1: | 24 |
| Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Seats Before2: | 21 |
| Seats After2: | 18 |
| Seat Change2: | 3 |
| 1Data2: | 14 |
| 2Data2: | 11 |
| Map Size: | 324px |
United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1928, in 35 states, concurrent with the House, Senate elections and presidential election, on November 6, 1928. Elections took place on September 10 in Maine.
| State | Incumbent | Party | Status | Opposing candidates | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | Democratic | Defeated, 48.16% | John C. Phillips (Republican) 51.71% William O'Brien (Workers) 0.13% [1] | ||
| Arkansas | Harvey J. Parnell | Democratic | Re-elected, 77.31% | Drew Bowers (Republican) 22.69% [2] | |
| Colorado | William H. Adams | Democratic | Re-elected, 67.05% | William Louis Boatright (Republican) 31.85% Samuel A. Garth (Socialist) 0.52% Vera Jane Pease (Farmer Labor) 0.34% George J. Saul (Workers) 0.24% [3] | |
| Connecticut | John H. Trumbull | Republican | Re-elected, 53.57% | Charles G. Morris (Democratic) 45.61% Jasper McLevy (Socialist) 0.58% William Mackenzie (Farmer Labor) 0.14% Michael P. O'Lean (Socialist Labor) 0.11% [4] | |
| Delaware | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | C. Douglass Buck (Republican) 61.23% Charles M. Wharton (Democratic) 38.77% [5] | ||
| Florida | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | Doyle E. Carlton (Democratic) 60.97% W. J. Howey (Republican) 39.03% [6] | ||
| Georgia | Lamartine G. Hardman | Democratic | Re-elected, 100.00% [7] | (Democratic primary results) Lamartine G. Hardman 58.54% Eurith D. Rivers 41.46% [8] | |
| Idaho | H. C. Baldridge | Republican | Re-elected, 57.82% | C. Ben Ross (Democratic) 41.58% Thomas J. Coonrod (Socialist) 0.60% [9] | |
| Illinois | Republican | Defeated in Republican primary, Republican victory | Louis L. Emmerson (Republican) 56.76% Floyd E. Thompson (Democratic) 42.66% George Koop (Socialist) 0.43% William F. Kruse (Communist) 0.11% J. E. Procum (Socialist Labor) 0.05% [10] | ||
| Indiana | Republican | Term-limited, Republican victory | Harry G. Leslie (Republican) 51.25% Frank C. Dailey (Democratic) 48.10% Albert Stanley (Prohibition) 0.36% Clarence E. Bond (Socialist) 0.23% Cassimer Benward (Socialist Labor) 0.03% Harry W. Garner (Workers) 0.02% Henry O. Shaw (National) 0.01% [11] | ||
| Iowa | John Hammill | Republican | Re-elected, 62.79% | L. W. Housel (Democratic) 37.21% [12] | |
| Kansas | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Clyde M. Reed (Republican) 65.60% Chauncey B. Little (Democratic) 33.20% Henry L. Peterson (Socialist) 1.20% [13] | ||
| Maine (held, 10 September 1928) | Republican | Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Republican victory | William T. Gardiner (Republican) 69.31% Edward C. Moran Jr. (Democratic) 30.70% [14] | ||
| Massachusetts | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Frank G. Allen (Republican) 50.06% Charles H. Cole (Democratic) 48.81% Mary Donovan Hapgood (Socialist) 0.49% Chester W. Bixby (Workers) 0.29% Washington Cook (Prohibition) 0.20% Stephen Surridge (Socialist Labor) 0.09% Edith Hamilton MacFadden (Independent) 0.06% [15] | ||
| Michigan | Fred W. Green | Republican | Re-elected, 69.94% | William A. Comstock (Democratic) 29.44% Guy H. Lockwood (Socialist) 0.21% Ervin D. Brooks (Prohibition) 0.19% William Reynolds (Communist) 0.19% Paul Dinger (Socialist Labor) 0.05% [16] | |
| Minnesota | Theodore Christianson | Republican | Re-elected, 55.00% | Ernest Lundeen (Farmer-Labor) 22.72% Andrew Nelson (Democratic) 21.38% J. O. Bentall (Communist) 0.58% Harris A. Brandborg (Industrial) 0.33% [17] | |
| Missouri | Republican | Term-limited, Republican victory | Henry S. Caulfield (Republican) 51.63% Francis M. Wilson (Democratic) 48.17% Joseph G. Hodges (Socialist) 0.16% W. G. Brandenburg (Prohibition) 0.03% Edward G. Middlecoff (Socialist Labor) 0.02% [18] | ||
| Montana | John E. Erickson | Democratic | Re-elected, 58.65% | Wellington D. Rankin (Republican) 40.95% W. R. Duncan (Socialist) 0.40% [19] | |
| Nebraska | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Arthur J. Weaver (Republican) 56.98% Charles W. Bryan (Democratic) 42.63% F. Phillip Haffner (Socialist) 0.39% [20] | ||
| New Hampshire | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Charles W. Tobey (Republican) 57.50% Eaton D. Sargent (Democratic) 42.32% Frank T. Butler (Socialist) 0.11% Henry C. Iram (Workers) 0.07% [21] | ||
| New Jersey | Democratic | Term-limited, Republican victory | Morgan F. Larson (Republican) 54.88% William L. Dill (Democratic) 44.74% Eugene A. Smith (National Prohibition) 0.14% W. K. Tallman (Socialist) 0.14% Scott Nearing (Workers) 0.08% John C. Butterworth (Socialist Labor) 0.02% [22] | ||
| New Mexico | Richard C. Dillon | Republican | Re-elected, 55.61% | Robert C. Dow (Democratic) 44.30% John W. Blackburn (Independent) 0.08% [23] | |
| New York | Democratic | Retired to run for U.S. President, Democratic hold | Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic) 48.96% Albert Ottinger (Republican) 48.36% Louis Waldman (Socialist) 2.34% William F. Dunne (Workers) 0.25% Charles Hunter Corregan (Socialist Labor) 0.10% [24] | ||
| North Carolina | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | O. Max Gardner (Democratic) 55.57% Herbert F. Seawell (Republican) 44.43% [25] | ||
| North Dakota | Republican | Ran for re-election as a Democrat, defeated, 43.15% | George F. Shafer (Republican) 56.50% K. P. Loesch (Farmer Labor) 0.36% [26] | ||
| Ohio | Democratic | Retired, Republican victory | Myers Y. Cooper (Republican) 54.79% Martin L. Davey (Democratic) 44.74% Joseph W. Sharts (Socialist) 0.29% William Patterson (Communist) 0.09% John D. Goerke (Socialist Labor) 0.05% Frank W. Stanton (Prohibition) 0.04% [27] | ||
| Rhode Island | Norman S. Case | Republican | Re-elected, 51.59% | Alberic A. Archambault (Democratic) 48.13% Charles F. Bishop (Socialist Labor) 0.16% Edward W. Theinert (Workers) 0.12% [28] | |
| South Dakota | William J. Bulow | Democratic | Re-elected, 52.48% | Buell F. Jones (Republican) 46.94% John G. Sumption (Farmer Labor) 0.58% [29] | |
| Tennessee | Henry H. Horton | Democratic | Re-elected, 61.06% | Raleigh Hopkins (Republican) 38.95% [30] | |
| Texas | Daniel Moody | Democratic | Re-elected, 82.43% | W. H. Holmes (Republican) 17.44% L. L. Rhodes (Socialist) 0.11% J. Stedham (Communist) 0.02% [31] | |
| Utah | George H. Dern | Democratic | Re-elected, 58.50% | William Henry Wattis (Republican) 41.08% D. C. Dora (Socialist) 0.42% [32] | |
| Vermont | John Eliakim Weeks | Republican | Re-elected, 73.53% | Harry C. Shurtleff (Democratic) 25.98% Frank M. Post (Prohibition) 0.47% Scattering 0.02% [33] | |
| Washington | Roland Hill Hartley | Republican | Re-elected, 56.22% | A. Scott Bullitt (Democratic) 42.73% James F. Stark (Socialist Labor) 0.67% Walter Price (Socialist) 0.25% Aaron Fislerman (Communist) 0.14% [34] | |
| West Virginia | Republican | Term-limited, Republican victory | William Gustavus Conley (Republican) 53.73% J. Alfred Taylor (Democratic) 46.10% J. H. Snider (Socialist) 0.18% [35] | ||
| Wisconsin | Republican | Defeated in Republican primary, Republican victory | Walter J. Kohler Sr. (Republican) 55.38% Albert George Schmedeman (Democratic) 39.87% Otto R. Hauser (Socialist) 3.73% Adolph R. Bucknam (Prohibition) 0.66% Joseph Ehrhardt (Socialist Labor) 0.20% Alvar J. Hayes (Communist) 0.14% Scattering 0.03% [36] |