United States gubernatorial elections, 1979

United States Gubernatorial elections, 1979

October 27, 1979 (Louisiana primary)
November 6, 1979 (Kentucky and Mississippi)
December 8, 1979 (Louisiana general election)

4 governorships 3 states; 1 territory

	Majority party	Minority party

Party	Democratic	Republican
Last election	32 governorships	18 governorships
Seats before	32	18
Seats after	31	19
Seat change	-1	+1

United States gubernatorial elections were held in the fall of 1979, in three states and one territory.

Republicans gained one gubernatorial seat in this year with Dave Treen's victory in Louisiana who as a result became the first Republican Governor of that state since Reconstruction. Treen led a field of six major candidates in the October 27 primary, and narrowly edged state senator Louis Lambert in the December 8 general election (or "runoff").

Democrats held control of the governor's mansions in Kentucky and Mississippi in the November 6 general elections.

Election results

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

State	Incumbent	Party	Status	Opposing Candidates
Kentucky^[1]	Julian Carroll	Democratic	Term-limited, Democratic victory	John Y. Brown, Jr. (Democratic) 59.41% Louie B. Nunn (Republican) 40.59%
Louisiana	Edwin Edwards	Democratic	Term-limited, Republican victory	Dave Treen (Republican) 21.79% (50.35% in Runoff) Louis Lambert (Democratic) 20.74% (49.65% in Runoff) Jimmy Fitzmorris (Democratic) 20.56% Paul Hardy (Democratic) 16.62% E. L. Henry (Democratic) 9.94% Edgar G. "Sonny" Mouton, Jr. (Democratic) 9.103% L. D. Knox (Democratic) 0.46%
Mississippi^[2]	Cliff Finch	Democratic	Term-limited, Democratic victory	William Winter (Democratic) 61.07% Gil Carmichael (Republican) 38.93%

References

United States gubernatorial elections

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