2010 Iowa gubernatorial election

The 2010 Iowa gubernatorial election was held on Tuesday, November 2, 2010 to elect the governor and lieutenant governor, to serve a four-year term beginning on January 14, 2011. In Iowa, the governor and lieutenant governor are elected on the same ballot.

2010 Iowa gubernatorial election

November 2, 2010
 
Nominee Terry Branstad Chet Culver
Party Republican Democratic
Running mate Kim Reynolds Patty Judge
Popular vote 592,494 484,798
Percentage 52.8% 43.2%

County results
Branstad:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%
Culver:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%

Governor before election

Chet Culver
Democratic

Elected Governor

Terry Branstad
Republican

The two major party candidates were first-term incumbent governor Chet Culver, a Democrat, who ran for re-election with first-term incumbent lieutenant governor Patty Judge, and former four-term governor Terry Branstad, who won a three-way primary for the Republican nomination and ran with State Senator Kim Reynolds.

Branstad defeated Culver in the general election, becoming the first challenger to unseat an incumbent Iowa governor since Harold Hughes in 1962.

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