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Gubernatorial Elections - Next one 2018

The 2018 New York gubernatorial election will take place on November 6, 2018, to elect the Governor of New York, as well as elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.

The amount of signatures that you need to get for Independent Nominating Petition in any given year is based on the last Gubernational election.

§ 6–142 ELECTION LAW

2. An independent nominating petition for the nomination of candidates for an office to be filled by the voters of any other political unit must be signed by voters numbering five percent of the total number of votes cast for governor at the last gubernatorial election in such unit, excluding blank and void votes, except that not more than three thousand five hundred signatures shall be required upon any such petition for any office to be filled in any political subdivision of the state wholly outside the city of New York, and not more than the following numbers of signatures shall be required upon any such petition for the following public offices respectively:


The colored states in the map above have contested governor races in 2018 (New Jersey and Virginia elect new governors in 2017). The red states currently have a sitting Republican Governor and blue states have a sitting Democratic Governor. Alaska is also a contested state with a sitting Independent Governor. Here’s the full list of states with gubernatorial elections in 2018:

  • Alabama
  • Alaska
  • Arizona
  • Arkansas
  • California
  • Colorado
  • Connecticut
  • Florida
  • Georgia
  • Hawaii
  • Idaho
  • Illinois
  • Iowa
  • Kansas
  • Maine
  • Maryland
  • Massachusetts
  • Michigan
  • Minnesota
  • Nebraska
  • New Hampshire
  • New Jersey (election in 2017)
  • New Mexico
  • New York
  • Nevada
  • Ohio
  • Oklahoma
  • Oregon
  • Pennsylvania
  • Rhode Island
  • South Carolina
  • South Dakota
  • Texas
  • Tennessee
  • Vermont
  • Virginia (election in 2017)
  • Wisconsin
  • Wyoming

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