# 1962 United States gubernatorial elections

United States gubernatorial elections were held 6 November 1962 in 35 states, concurrent with the House and Senate elections.
In Minnesota, the governor was elected to a 4-year term for the first time, instead of a 2-year term. In North Dakota, this was the last election on a 2-year cycle, before switching to a 4-year term for governors.
The Democratic and Republican parties each gained seven governorships from the other party, leaving the overall partisan balance unchanged.

## Results

| State | Incumbent | Party | Status | Opposing candidates |
| Alabama | John Malcolm Patterson | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | George Wallace (Democratic) 96.27% Frank P. Walls (Republican) 3.73% |
| Alaska | William A. Egan | Democratic | Re-elected, 52.27% | Mike Stepovich (Republican) 47.73% |
| Arizona | Paul Fannin | Republican | Re-elected, 54.83% | Samuel Pearson Goddard Jr. (Democratic) 45.17% |
| Arkansas | Orval Faubus | Democratic | Re-elected, 73.27% | Willis Ricketts (Republican) 26.73% |
| California | Pat Brown | Democratic | Re-elected, 51.92% | Richard Nixon (Republican) 46.85% Robert L. Wyckoff (Prohibition) 1.12% Scattering 0.10% |
| Colorado | Stephen McNichols | Democratic | Defeated, 42.64% | John Arthur Love (Republican) 56.67% Louis K. Stephens (Socialist Labor) 0.41% Stephen L. DeArvil (Independent) 0.28% |
| Connecticut | John N. Dempsey | Democratic | Re-elected, 53.21% | John deKoven Alsop (Republican) 46.79% |
| Georgia | Ernest Vandiver | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | Carl Sanders (Democratic) 99.95% Write-ins 0.05% |
| Hawaii | William F. Quinn | Republican | Defeated, 41.68% | John A. Burns (Democratic) 58.32% |
| Idaho | Robert E. Smylie | Republican | Re-elected, 54.64% | Vernon K. Smith (Democratic) 45.36% |
| Iowa | Norman A. Erbe | Republican | Defeated, 47.44% | Harold Hughes (Democratic) 52.56% |
| Kansas | John Anderson Jr. | Republican | Re-elected, 53.42% | Dale E. Saffels (Democratic) 45.60% Vearl Bacon (Prohibition) 0.98% |
| Maine | John H. Reed | Republican | Re-elected, 50.08% | Maynard C. Dolloff (Democratic) 49.92% |
| Maryland | J. Millard Tawes | Democratic | Re-elected, 55.64% | Frank Small Jr. (Republican) 44.36% |
| Massachusetts | John Volpe | Republican | Defeated, 49.71% | Endicott Peabody (Democratic) 49.92% Henning A. Blomen (Socialist Labor) 0.26% Guy S. Williams (Prohibition) 0.11% |
| Michigan | John Swainson | Democratic | Defeated, 48.45% | George W. Romney (Republican) 51.36% James Sim (Socialist Labor) 0.19% |
| Minnesota | Elmer L. Andersen | Republican | Defeated, 49.706% | Karl Rolvaag (DFL) 49.714% William Braatz (Industrial Government) 0.58% |
| Nebraska | Frank B. Morrison | Democratic | Re-elected, 52.23% | Fred A. Seaton (Republican) 47.76% Scattering 0.01% |
| Nevada | Grant Sawyer | Democratic | Re-elected, 66.84% | Oran K. Gragson (Republican) 33.16% |
| New Hampshire | Wesley Powell | Republican | Defeated in Republican primary, Democratic victory | John W. King (Democratic) 58.89% John Pillsbury (Republican) 41.11% |
| New Mexico | Edwin L. Mechem | Republican | Defeated, 47.01% | Jack M. Campbell (Democratic) 52.98% Scattering 0.01% |
| New York | Nelson Rockefeller | Republican | Re-elected, 53.08% | Robert Morgenthau (Democratic) 43.97% David H. Jaquith (Conservative) 2.44% Richard Garza (Socialist Workers) 0.34% Eric Hass (Socialist Labor) 0.17% |
| North Dakota | William L. Guy | D-NPL | Re-elected, 50.44% | Mark Andrews (Republican) 49.56% |
| Ohio | Michael DiSalle | Democratic | Defeated, 41.08% | Jim Rhodes (Republican) 58.92% |
| Oklahoma | J. Howard Edmondson | Democratic | Term-limited, Republican victory | Henry Bellmon (Republican) 55.27% W. P. Atkinson (Democratic) 44.43% Richard Zavitz (Independent) 0.29% |
| Oregon | Mark Hatfield | Republican | Re-elected, 54.20% | Robert Y. Thornton (Democratic) 41.63% Robert H. Wampler (Independent) 4.10% Scattering 0.06% |
| Pennsylvania | David L. Lawrence | Democratic | Term-limited, Republican victory | William Scranton (Republican) 55.39% Richardson Dilworth (Democratic) 44.28% George Sam Taylor (Socialist Labor) 0.33% |
| Rhode Island | John A. Notte Jr. | Democratic | Defeated, 49.94% | John Chafee (Republican) 50.06% |
| South Carolina | Fritz Hollings | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | Donald S. Russell (Democratic) 100.00% |
| South Dakota | Archie M. Gubbrud | Republican | Re-elected, 56.10% | Ralph Herseth (Democratic) 43.90% |
| Tennessee | Buford Ellington | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | Frank G. Clement (Democratic) 50.85% William Anderson (Independent) 32.83% Hubert David Patty (Republican) 16.09% E. B. Bowles (Independent) 0.23% |
| Texas | Price Daniel | Democratic | Defeated in Democratic primary, Democratic victory | John Connally (Democratic) 53.98% Jack Cox (Republican) 45.57% Jack Carswell (Constitution) 0.45% |
| Vermont | F. Ray Keyser Jr. | Republican | Defeated, 49.46% | Philip H. Hoff (Democratic) 50.54% |
| Wisconsin | Gaylord Nelson | Democratic | Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Democratic victory | John W. Reynolds Jr. (Democratic) 50.37% Philip G. Kuehn (Republican) 49.43% Adolf Wiggert (Independent) 0.20% |
| Wyoming | Jack R. Gage | Democratic | Defeated, 45.53% | Clifford Hansen (Republican) 54.47% |