Election Name: | 1994 Wyoming gubernatorial election |
Country: | Wyoming |
Type: | presidential |
Turnout: | 84.51% Registered 4.52% 44.31% of Total Population 9.01% |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1990 Wyoming gubernatorial election |
Previous Year: | 1990 |
Next Election: | 1998 Wyoming gubernatorial election |
Next Year: | 1998 |
Image1: | File:Jim Geringer - TEDx Oil Spill - Washington, DC (cropped).jpg |
Nominee1: | Jim Geringer |
Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
Popular Vote1: | 118,016 |
Percentage1: | 58.72% |
Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
Nominee2: | Kathy Karpan |
Popular Vote2: | 80,747 |
Percentage2: | 40.17% |
Map Size: | 250px |
Governor | |
Before Election: | Mike Sullivan |
Before Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
After Election: | Jim Geringer |
After Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
The 1994 Wyoming gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 1994. Incumbent Democratic Governor Mike Sullivan was unable to seek a third term because of newly imposed term limits, and instead ran for the U.S. Senate. State Senate President Jim Geringer won the Republican primary and faced Secretary of State Kathy Karpan, the Democratic nominee, in the general election. Aided by the nationwide Republican wave, Geringer defeated Karpan in a landslide, marking the first time since Governor Stanley Hathaway's re-election in 1970 that a Republican won a gubernatorial election in Wyoming.
Karpan won the nomination unopposed.