2024 Missouri gubernatorial election

2024 Missouri gubernatorial election

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Nominee Mike Kehoe Crystal Quade
Party Republican Democratic

Incumbent Governor

Mike Parson
Republican



The 2024 Missouri gubernatorial election will be held on November 5, 2024, to elect the governor of Missouri, concurrently with the 2024 U.S. presidential election, as well as elections to the United States Senate, the United States House of Representatives, and various state and local elections. Incumbent Republican Governor Mike Parson is term-limited and cannot seek re-election to a second full term in office due to having served more than two years of predecessor Eric Greitens' unexpired term following his resignation in June 2018. Primary elections took place on August 6, 2024.[1] Mike Kehoe, the incumbent lieutenant governor, won the Republican nomination.

A former bellwether state, Missouri has politically trended rightward in recent years and is today a Republican stronghold at both the federal and state levels. The last Democrat to hold the office of governor in Missouri is Jay Nixon, who comfortably won re-election in 2012. In 2020, Parson won by 16.41% in the state's first gubernatorial election in which a Republican won by a double-digit margin since John Ashcroft's landslide re-election in 1988. Major news organizations predict the state to soundly elect another Republican for governor in 2024. [2]

  1. ^ "2024 State Primary Election Dates". www.ncsl.org. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
  2. ^ "270toWin - 2024 Presidential Election Interactive Map". 270toWin.com. Retrieved March 25, 2024.