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United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1893, in five states.
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Virginia holds its gubernatorial elections in odd numbered years, every 4 years, following the United States presidential election year. Massachusetts and Rhode Island at this time held gubernatorial elections every year. They would abandon this practice in 1920 and 1912, respectively. Iowa and Ohio at this time held gubernatorial elections in every odd numbered year.
State | Incumbent | Party | Status | Opposing candidates |
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Iowa | Horace Boies | Democratic | Defeated, 42.00% | Frank D. Jackson (Republican) 49.74% J. M. Joseph (Populist) 5.77% Bennett Mitchell (Prohibition) 2.49% [1] |
Massachusetts | William E. Russell | Democratic | Retired, Republican victory | Frederic T. Greenhalge (Republican) 52.77% John E. Russell (Democratic) 42.99% Louis Albert Banks (Prohibition) 2.34% George H. Cary (Populist) 1.34% Patrick F. O'Neil (Socialist Labor) 0.56% [2] |
Ohio | William McKinley | Republican | Re-elected, 52.61% | Lawrence T. Neal (Democratic) 42.78% Gideon P. Macklin (Prohibition) 2.72% Edward J. Bracken (Populist) 1.89% [3][4] |
Rhode Island (held, 5 April 1893) |
Daniel Russell Brown | Republican | No election[lower-alpha 1], 46.24% | David Sherman Baker, Jr. (Democratic) 46.63% Henry B. Metcalf (Prohibition) 6.92% Scattering 0.22% [10][11][12] |
Virginia | Philip W. McKinney | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | Charles Triplett O'Ferrall (Democratic) 59.19% Edmund R. Cocke (Populist) 37.58% James R, Miller (Prohibition) 3.22% Scattering 0.01% [13][14] |
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