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Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms won Georgia’s gubernatorial election, Republican Byron Donalds won in Florida, Democrat David Crowley won in Wisconsin, and Democrat Wes Moore won reelection in Maryland in the 2026 midterm elections.
Bottoms will become the first Black woman elected governor in the United States and Georgia’s first female governor. Donalds will become Florida’s first Black governor and the first Black Republican elected governor nationally. Crowley will be Wisconsin’s first Black governor.
Moore, Maryland’s first Black governor when he was elected in 2022, won a second term. The results bring the number of Black elected governors to at least four, after three people had previously been elected to the office nationwide.
In Nevada, Democrat Aaron Ford was leading Republican incumbent Joe Lombardo, but the race had not been called. If Ford wins, he would become Nevada’s first Black governor and the first Black governor elected west of the Mississippi River.
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