# 1918 United States gubernatorial elections

United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1918, in 32 states, concurrent with the House and Senate elections, on November 5, 1918. Elections took place on September 9 in Maine.

## Results

| State | Incumbent | Party | Status | Opposing candidates |
| Alabama | Charles Henderson | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | Thomas E. Kilby (Democratic) 80.21% Dallas B. Smith (Independent) 19.79% (Democratic primary results: after second preferences) Thomas E. Kilby 36.84% William W. Brandon 34.37% Charles B. Teasley 19.37% John H. Wallace Jr. 7.99% John Purifoy 1.42% |
| Arizona | George W. P. Hunt | Democratic | Retired, Republican victory | Thomas Edward Campbell (Republican) 49.90% Fred T. Colter (Democratic) 49.25% George D. Smith (Socialist) 0.86% |
| Arkansas | Charles H. Brough | Democratic | Re-elected, 93.43% | Clay Fulks (Socialist) 6.57% (Democratic primary results) √ Charles H. Brough L. C. 'Judge' Smith [data missing] |
| California | William D. Stephens | Republican | Re-elected | William D. Stephens (Republican) 56.28% Theodore Arlington Bell (Independent) 36.48% Henry H. Roser (Socialist) 4.21% James Rolph Jr. (Democratic) (write-in) 2.99% Scattering 0.05% |
| Colorado | Julius Caldeen Gunter | Democratic | Defeated in Democratic primary, Republican victory | Oliver Henry Nelson Shoup (Republican) 51.15% Thomas J. Tynan (Democratic) 46.47% Mary L. Geffs (Socialist) 2.38% |
| Connecticut | Marcus H. Holcomb | Republican | Re-elected, 50.72% | Thomas J. Spellacy (Democratic) 45.87% Martin F. Plunkett (Socialist) 2.39% John Newton Lackey (Prohibition) 0.61% Herman Klawansky (Socialist Labor) 0.34% George A. Parsons (National) 0.07% |
| Georgia | Hugh M. Dorsey | Democratic | Re-elected, unopposed | (Democratic primary results) Hugh M. Dorsey (unopposed) |
| Idaho | Moses Alexander | Democratic | Retired, Republican victory | David W. Davis (Republican) 59.95% H. F. Samuels (Democratic) 40.05% |
| Iowa | William L. Harding | Republican | Re-elected, 50.55% | Claude R. Porter (Democratic) 46.92% Andrew Engle (Socialist) 2.10% M. L. Christian (Prohibition) 0.43% |
| Kansas | Arthur Capper | Republican | Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Republican victory | Henry J. Allen (Republican) 66.39% W. C. Lansdon (Democratic) 30.68% George W. Kleihege (Socialist) 2.94% |
| Maine (held, 9 September 1918) | Carl E. Milliken | Republican | Re-elected, 52.04% | Bertrand G. McIntire (Democratic) 47.96% |
| Massachusetts | Samuel W. McCall | Republican | Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Republican victory | Calvin Coolidge (Republican) 50.87% Richard H. Long (Democratic) 46.84% Sylvester J. McBride (Socialist) 1.84% Ingvar Paulsen (Socialist Labor) 0.45% |
| Michigan | Albert E. Sleeper | Republican | Re-elected, 61.41% | John W. Bailey (Democratic) 36.41% Ernest J. Moore (Socialist) 1.63% John S. McColl (Prohibition) 0.38% John Hinds (Socialist Labor) 0.18% |
| Minnesota | Joseph A. A. Burnquist | Republican | Re-elected, 45.04% | David H. Evans (Farmer-Labor) 30.28% Fred E. Wheaton (Democratic) 20.77% L. P. Berot (Socialist) 2.11% Olaf O. Stageberg (National) 1.80% |
| Nebraska | Keith Neville | Democratic | Defeated, 44.00% | Samuel R. McKelvie (Republican) 54.47% Julian D. Graves (Prohibition) 1.53% |
| Nevada | Emmet D. Boyle | Democratic | Re-elected, 52.08% | Tasker L. Oddie (Republican) 47.92% |
| New Hampshire | Henry W. Keyes | Republican | Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Republican victory | John H. Bartlett (Republican) 54.13% Nathaniel E. Martin (Democratic) 45.86% Scattering 0.01% |
| New Mexico | Washington Lindsey | Republican | Lost renomination, Republican victory | Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo (Republican) 50.50% Felix Garcia (Democratic) 47.70% A. H. Moulton (Socialist) 1.80% |
| New York | Charles S. Whitman | Republican | Defeated, 46.68% | Alfred E. Smith (Democratic) 47.37% Charles W. Ervin (Socialist) 5.71% Olive M. Johnson (Socialist Labor) 0.24% |
| North Dakota | Lynn J. Frazier | Republican | Re-elected, 59.75% | S. J. Doyle (Democratic) 40.26% |
| Ohio | James M. Cox | Democratic | Re-elected, 50.62% | Frank B. Willis (Republican) 49.38% |
| Oklahoma | Robert L. Williams | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | James B. A. Robertson (Democratic) 53.55% Horace G. McKeever (Republican) 42.63% Patrick S. Nagle (Socialist) 3.83% |
| Oregon | James Withycombe | Republican | Re-elected, 52.99% | Walter M. Pierce (Democratic) 42.78% Benjamin Franklin Ramp (Socialist) 4.24% |
| Pennsylvania | Martin Grove Brumbaugh | Republican | Term-limited, Republican victory | William Cameron Sproul (Republican) 61.05% Eugene C. Bonniwell (Democratic) 33.74% Edwin J. Fithian (Prohibition) 3.02% Charles Sehl (Socialist) 2.07% Robert C. Macauley Jr. (Single Tax) 0.12% |
| Rhode Island | R. Livingston Beeckman | Republican | Re-elected, 53.11% | Alberic A. Archambault (Democratic) 44.84% Ernest Sherwood (Socialist) 2.05% |
| South Carolina | Richard Irvine Manning III | Democratic | Retired, Democratic victory | Robert Archer Cooper (Democratic) unopposed (Democratic primary results) Robert Archer Cooper 57.96% John Gardiner Richards 29.24% Andrew J. Bethea 9.70% Scattering 3.10% |
| South Dakota | Peter Norbeck | Republican | Re-elected, 53.22% | Mark P. Bates (Independent) 26.12% James B. Bird (Democratic) 18.57% Knute Lewis (Independent) 1.32% Orville Anderson (Socialist) 0.77% |
| Tennessee | Thomas C. Rye | Democratic | Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Democratic victory | Albert H. Roberts (Democratic) 62.37% Hugh B. Lindsay (Republican) 37.64% |
| Texas | William Pettus Hobby | Democratic | Re-elected, 84.00% | Charles A. Boynton (Republican) 15.06% William D. Simpson (Socialist) 0.94% |
| Vermont | Horace F. Graham | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Percival Wood Clement (Republican) 67.00% William B. Mayo (Democratic) 32.75% Scattering 0.25% |
| Wisconsin | Emanuel L. Philipp | Republican | Re-elected, 46.99% | Henry A. Moehlenpah (Democratic) 33.95% Emil Seidel (Socialist) 17.35% William C. Dean (Prohibition) 1.60% Scattering 0.12% |
| Wyoming | Frank L. Houx | Democratic | Defeated, 43.90% | Robert D. Carey (Republican) 56.11% |