BEFORE · CURRENT STATE LEADERSHIP
Who governs your state?
Explore the 50 governors serving as of November 5, 2026. Select a state on the map, see its governor and party, then compare this roster with the expected lineup after the 2026 elections.
2026Publication snapshot
50 states
The current governor remains in office until the applicable transition or succession. This before view shows serving officeholders, including governors whose successors have been projected. The after page uses election evidence and labels those transitions separately.
50 STATES · ONE NATIONAL VIEW
The governors serving today.
Select a state to see its governor.
The full table follows the map.
50 of 50 states · officeholders checked November 5, 2026
Map boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundaries, redistributed by U.S. Atlas. Alaska and Hawaii are inset. Officeholder and election sources are listed below; map geometry is independent of those dates.
THE COMPLETE STATE DIRECTORY
All 50 state governors.
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The source is part of the comparison.
Current officeholders and party affiliations: National Governors Association current directory and its linked governors roster, checked November 5, 2026. Governor and election information is separate from the 2024 ACS state demographic authority.
The after view uses individually linked Associated Press race-call reports, including syndicated AP reports, or named public-radio reports explicitly reporting an AP call. An unverified aggregation, a candidate’s own declaration, or a vote-count lead is not treated as a verified projection. A projected winner is pending official certification and scheduled inauguration.
Alaska and Kansas have no successor assigned in this edition because the checked primary reporting did not verify a call. The page records a dated evidence snapshot and does not update automatically as ballots are counted. Fourteen states have no regular 2026 governor election; their expected continuation is subject to normal succession and any later election.
Demographic rankings describe states during the 2020–2024 ACS reference period. The governor maps do not attribute those conditions to a particular administration or establish that party control caused an economic outcome.
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