# 1930 United States gubernatorial elections

United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1930, in 33 states, concurrent with the House and Senate elections, on November 4, 1930. Elections took place on September 8 in Maine.

## Results

| State | Incumbent | Party | Status | Opposing candidates |
| Alabama | Bibb Graves | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | Benjamin M. Miller (Democratic) 61.82% Hugh A. Locke (Independent) 38.18% |
| Arizona | John C. Phillips | Republican | Defeated, 48.61% | George W. P. Hunt (Democratic) 51.39% |
| Arkansas | Harvey Parnell | Democratic | Re-elected, 81.18% | J. O. Livesay (Republican) 18.82% |
| California | Clement C. Young | Republican | Defeated in Republican primary, Republican victory | James Rolph Jr. (Republican) 72.15% Milton K. Young (Democratic) 24.11% Upton Sinclair (Socialist) 3.64% Scattering 0.09% |
| Colorado | William H. Adams | Democratic | Re-elected, 60.41% | Robert F. Rockwell (Republican) 38.06% Claud A. Bushnell (Socialist) 0.68% Lizabeth A. Williams (Farmer Labor) 0.44% William R. Dietrich (Communist) 0.24% Walter Moore (Liberal) 0.10% Perry M. Jones (Commonwealth Land) 0.08% |
| Connecticut | John H. Trumbull | Republican | Retired, Democratic victory | Wilbur L. Cross (Democratic) 49.91% Ernest E. Rogers (Republican) 48.64% Jasper McLevy (Socialist) 1.09% Robert S. Kling (Communist) 0.35% |
| Georgia | Lamartine Griffin Hardman | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | Richard B. Russell Jr. (Democratic) 100.00% (Democratic primary run-off results) Richard B. Russell Jr. 67.85% George Henry Carswell 32.15% |
| Idaho | H. C. Baldridge | Republican | Retired, Democratic victory | C. Ben Ross (Democratic) 56.03% John McMurray (Republican) 43.98% |
| Iowa | John Hammill | Republican | Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Republican victory | Dan W. Turner (Republican) 65.74% Fred P. Hagemann (Democratic) 33.60% John M. Smith (Farmer Labor) 0.45% William Patten (Communist) 0.22% |
| Kansas | Clyde M. Reed | Republican | Defeated in Republican primary, Democratic victory | Harry H. Woodring (Democratic) 34.96% Frank Haucke (Republican) 34.92% John R. Brinkley (Independent) (write-in) 29.50% J. B. Shields (Socialist) 0.62% |
| Maine (held, 8 September 1930) | William T. Gardiner | Republican | Re-elected, 55.06% | Edward C. Moran Jr. (Democratic) 44.94% |
| Maryland | Albert C. Ritchie | Democratic | Re-elected, 55.96% | William F. Broening (Republican) 42.78% Elisabeth Gilman (Socialist) 0.82% Robert W. Stevens (Labor) 0.27% Samuel Parker (Communist) 0.17% |
| Massachusetts | Frank G. Allen | Republican | Defeated, 48.18% | Joseph B. Ely (Democratic) 49.54% John W. Aiken (Socialist Labor) 1.19% Alfred B. Lewis (Socialist) 0.67% Harry J. Canter (Communist) 0.41% |
| Michigan | Fred W. Green | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Wilber M. Brucker (Republican) 56.88% William A. Comstock (Democratic) 42.03% Joseph Billups (Workers) 0.47% George M. Campbell (Socialist) 0.46% Duly McCone (Prohibition) 0.16% |
| Minnesota | Theodore Christianson | Republican | Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Farmer-Labor victory | Floyd B. Olson (Farmer-Labor) 59.34% Raymond Park Chase (Republican) 36.31% Edward Indrehus (Democratic) 3.65% Karl Reeve (Communist) 0.70% |
| Nebraska | Arthur J. Weaver | Republican | Defeated, 49.25% | Charles W. Bryan (Democratic) 50.75% |
| Nevada | Frederick B. Balzar | Republican | Re-elected, 53.25% | Charles L. Richards (Democratic) 46.75% |
| New Hampshire | Charles W. Tobey | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | John G. Winant (Republican) 57.98% Albert W. Noone (Democratic) 41.80% Fred B. Chase (Communist) 0.22% |
| New Mexico | Richard C. Dillon | Republican | Term-limited, Democratic victory | Arthur Seligman (Democratic) 53.17% Clarence M. Botts (Republican) 46.60% Sam Butler (Socialist) 0.23% |
| New York | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Democratic | Re-elected, 56.49% | Charles H. Tuttle (Republican) 33.36% Robert P. Carroll (Law Preservation) 6.08% Louis Waldman (Socialist) 3.21% William Z. Foster (Communist) 0.58% Jeremiah D. Crowley (Socialist Labor) 0.29% |
| North Dakota | George F. Shafer | Republican | Re-elected, 73.62% | Pierce Blewett (Democratic) 23.20% Pat J. Barrett (Communist) 3.18% |
| Ohio | Myers Y. Cooper | Republican | Defeated, 47.20% | George White (Democratic) 52.80% |
| Oklahoma | William J. Holloway | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | William H. Murray (Democratic) 59.05% Ira A. Hill (Republican) 40.79% B. G. Bingham (Independent) 0.11% John Franing (Independent) 0.06% |
| Oregon | A. W. Norblad | Republican | Defeated in Republican primary, Independent victory | Julius L. Meier (Independent) 54.51% Ed F. Bailey (Democratic) 25.10% Phil Metschan (Republican) 18.83% Albert Streiff (Socialist) 1.57% |
| Pennsylvania | John Stuchell Fisher | Republican | Term-limited, Republican victory | Gifford Pinchot (Republican) 50.77% John M. Hemphill (Democratic) 47.98% James Hudson Maurer (Socialist) 1.00% Frank Mozer (Communist) 0.25% |
| Rhode Island | Norman S. Case | Republican | Re-elected, 50.53% | Theodore F. Green (Democratic) 48.95% Charles H. Dana (Socialist) 0.53% |
| South Carolina | John Gardiner Richards Jr. | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | Ibra Charles Blackwood (Democratic) 100.00% (Democratic primary run-off results) Ibra Charles Blackwood 50.21% Olin Johnston 49.80% |
| South Dakota | William J. Bulow | Democratic | Retired to run for U.S. Senate, Republican victory | Warren E. Green (Republican) 52.97% D. A. McCullough (Democratic) 46.23% Helen Tangen (Independent) 0.80% |
| Tennessee | Henry H. Horton | Democratic | Re-elected, 63.84% | C. Arthur Bruce (Republican) 35.62% Samuel Borenstein (Independent) 0.54% |
| Texas | Dan Moody | Democratic | Retired, Democratic victory | Ross S. Sterling (Democratic) 79.98% William E. Talbot (Republican) 19.69% L. L. Rhodes (Socialist) 0.26% J. Stedham (Communist) 0.07% |
| Vermont | John E. Weeks | Republican | Retired to run for U.S. House, Republican victory | Stanley Calef Wilson (Republican) 70.98% Park H. Pollard (Democratic) 28.94% Scattering 0.09% |
| Wisconsin | Walter J. Kohler Sr. | Republican | Defeated in Republican primary, Republican victory | Philip La Follette (Republican) 64.76% Charles E. Hammersley (Democratic) 28.02% Frank B. Metcalfe (Socialist) 4.22% Alfred B. Taynton (Prohibition) 2.44% Fred B. Blair (Independent Communist) 0.49% Scattering 0.07% |
| Wyoming | Frank C. Emerson | Republican | Re-elected, 50.58% | Leslie A. Miller (Democratic) 49.42% |