1992 United States gubernatorial elections

1992 United States gubernatorial elections

November 3, 1992

14 governorships
12 states; 2 territories
  Majority party Minority party
 
Party Democratic Republican
Seats before 28 20
Seats after 30 18
Seat change 2 2
Popular vote 7,038,490 5,538,502
Percentage 53.83% 42.36%
Seats up 6 6
Seats won 8 4

     Democratic gain      Democratic hold
     Republican gain      Republican hold
     New Progressive gain      Nonpartisan

United States gubernatorial elections were held on November 3, 1992, in 12 states and two territories. Going into the elections, six of the seats were held by Democrats and six by Republicans. After the elections, Democrats held eight seats and Republicans held four. The elections coincided with the presidential election.

This was the last year in which Rhode Island held a gubernatorial election in the same year as the presidential election. The length of gubernatorial terms for Rhode Island's governor would be extended from two to four years, with elections taking place in midterm election years.

This is the only series of elections in the overall 1992 election cycle that Democrats retained a majority of seats while simultaneously picking up new seats, while in Congress, Democrats lost 9 seats in the House of Representatives and neither party netted gains in the Senate despite the Democrats easily holding a comfortable majority in both houses, and Bill Clinton taking advantage of Ross Perot siphoning off more Republican voters from George H. W. Bush than Democratic voters from him, which helped Clinton crush the electoral college in a landslide but underperformed Michael Dukakis in the popular vote by 2.7 percentage points, but still won by a plurality.