United States gubernatorial elections, 1975

United States Gubernatorial elections, 1975

November 1, 1975 (Louisiana)
November 4, 1975 (Kentucky and Mississippi)

4 governorships 3 states; 1 territory

	Majority party	Minority party

Party	Democratic	Republican
Last election	36 governorships	13 governorships
Seats before	36	13
Seats after	36	13
Seat change	±0	±0

Democratic holds

United States gubernatorial elections were held in three states and one territory, on November 1, 1975 in Louisiana, and three days later in Kentucky and Mississippi. No governorships changed hands in these elections, as all three southern states remained under Democratic control.

This was the first gubernatorial election in Louisiana's history which was conducted under the Nonpartisan blanket primary (AKA Jungle Primary) format.

Election results

A bolded state name features an article about the specific election.

State	Incumbent	Party	Status	Opposing Candidates
Kentucky^[1]	Julian Carroll	Democratic	Elected to full term, 62.84%	Bob Gable (Republican) 37.16%
Louisiana	Edwin Edwards	Democratic	Re-elected, 62.35%	Robert G. Jones (Democratic) 24.29% Wade O. Martin, Jr. (Democratic) 12.17% Ken Lewis (Democratic) 0.44%
Mississippi^[2]	Bill Waller	Democratic	Term-limited, Democratic victory	Cliff Finch (Democratic) 52.19% Gil Carmichael (Republican) 45.14% Henry Kirksey (Independent) 2.67%

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