Americans really love their governors Pollsters differ on how much, but most hold high approval ratings.

Texas Gov. Abbott’s recent decision to consider redrawing his state’s congressional districts has prompted Democrats to issue ...

The maps in two of those states — Connecticut and North Carolina — aren’t subject to gubernatorial approval. 2018 will be the last chance to elect 26 of those governors before the next ...

In this installment of “Model Talk” on the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Nate Silver and Galen Druke break down why there is a gap between many states’ Senate and governor forecasts and ...

Governors have the ability to block — or sign off on — election law changes and election-subversion efforts ahead of the 2024 presidential election, and they are also usually the ones making ...

We can quantify each governor’s “ Popularity Above Replacement Governor ” (or PARG) by measuring the distance between their net approval rating and their state’s partisan lean.

Election Day is Tuesday, and the latest polling shows Republican Glenn Youngkin with a small lead over Democrat Terry McAuliffe in Virginia’s gubernatorial race… ...

From the launch of our governors forecast, three purplish states with no incumbent governor running — Maine, Michigan and Minnesota — have all sat firmly in the Democratic column. Democrats ...

Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. After about a three-year hiatus, FiveThirtyEight’s Popularity Above Replacement Senator and Popularity Abov… ...