2040 Missouri Governor Election

The 2040 Missouri Governor Election took place on November 3rd, 2040. The Republicans nominated state senator Julian Warren and private detective Wyatt Page as his running mate. The Democrats nominated potlical activist Gabriel Simon with state representative Valerie Bowen as his running mate. The Libertarians nominated entrepeneur Carter Cross with poltical activist Thomas Moss. Warren won 1,501,291 votes, Simon won 1,323,456 votes, and Cross won 30,349 votes. In all 2,855,096 votes were cast in this election.

## Primaries

#### Republican Party Primary

The candidates for the Republican primary were state senator Juilan Warren, private dectective Wyatt Page, and state representative Jim Norton. Warren campaigned on lowering taxes, anti abortion, and keeping the government out of healthcare. Page campaigned on lowering taxes, keeping the government out of healthcare, and pro-gun rights. Jim Norton ran a moderate campaign and campaigned on common sense gun control laws, adding public options to healthcare, and funding of roads, bridges, and new pipes. Warren won the primary taking 470,675 votes, Page won 130,948 votes, and Norton won 81,745 votes. Warren won mainly because he had more name recognition. Norton won two more liberal counties because he ran a moderate campaign. Warren won 68.9% of the vote, Page won 19.2% of the vote, and Norton won 12% of the vote.

#### Democratic Party Primary

The candidates for the Democratic primary were potlical activist Gabriel Simon and state representative Valerie Bowen. Simon campaigned on increasing funding for health, infrastructure, and raising taxes on wealthy. Bowen campaigned on increasing funding for education, rasing teacher salaries, and hiring more social workers. Simon won the primary with 301,344 votes to Bowen's 231,052 votes. Simon won because he appealed to a broader amount of people. Simon won 56.6% of the vote to Bowen's 43.4% of the vote.

#### Libertarian Party Primary

The candidates for the Libertarian primary were entrepeneur Carter Cross, gun rights actvist Leo Davis, and poltical activist Landon White. Cross campaigned on reducing government interference. Davis campaigned on reducing governemnt interference and gun rights. White campaigned on his personal working class background and how the two parties failed the Missouri people. Cross won the primary with 3,349 votes, Davis got 3,103 votes, and White got 2,946 votes. Cross won 35.6% of the vote, Davis won 33% of the vote, and White won 31.4% of the vote.

## General Election

#### Main Issues in the 2040 Missouri Governor Election

##### Health

Warren campaigned that the governement will give increase funding for healthcare just a little bit. Simon campaigned that healthcare would be his top priority and wanted huge increases in funding for health. Cross campaigned that he would give no more funding for health unless it was an emergency. Cross wanted a balanced budget.

##### Gun Rights

Warren campaigned that he strongly supports gun rights and said he was open to rolling back gun control measures. Simon campagiend that he supprots common sense gun control laws. Warren often attacked Simon over his support of common sense gun laws saying it was unconstitutional. Cross supported rolling back gun control measures and in response to school shootings he would add more police officers to schools.

#### Polling

2040 Missouri Governor Election
 Fivethirtyeight
 The Cook Political Report

## Results

Julian Warren won the election taking 52.6% of the vote, Gabriel Simon took 46.4% of the vote, and Carter Cross took 1.1% of the vote. Warren did way worse than most polls showed, showing the polls underestimated Democrat support in Missouri. Simon and Cross did better than polls expected. Turnout was 65.8% in this election.