United States gubernatorial elections, 2017
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Term-limited Democrat
Term-limited Republican
No election
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United States gubernatorial elections will be held on November 7, 2017 in two states. These elections form part of the 2017 United States elections. The last regular gubernatorial elections for these two states were in 2013. Both incumbents are term-limited, so both seats are open.
Several sites and individuals publish predictions of competitive seats. These predictions look at factors such as the strength of the incumbent (if the incumbent is running for re-election), the strength of the candidates, and the partisan leanings of the state (reflected in part by the state's Cook Partisan Voting Index rating). The predictions assign ratings to each seat, with the rating indicating the predicted advantage that a party has in winning that seat. Most election predictors use "tossup" to indicate that neither party has an advantage, "lean" to indicate that one party has a slight advantage, "likely" or "favored" to indicate that one party has a significant but not insurmountable advantage, and "safe" or "solid" to indicate that one party has a near-certain chance of victory. Some predictions also include a "tilt" rating that indicates that one party has an advantage that is not quite as strong as the "lean" rating would indicate.
Kim Guadagno (R)
Phil Murphy (D)
Seth Kaper-Dale (G)
Governor Chris Christie was re-elected to a second term with 60.4% of the vote in 2013. Christie is term-limited in 2017.
Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno is the gubernatorial nominee for the Republican Party.
Goldman Sachs executive and former United States Ambassador to Germany Philip D. Murphy is the Democratic Party gubernatorial nominee.
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