Christie can also call a special election for the senate seat before the gubernatorial election in November.
Only 29% of the voting-age population bothered to vote at the last gubernatorial election.
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Voter turnout was 44.6%, the lowest ever recorded in an Osaka gubernatorial election.
The new justice minister comes from the notoriously corrupt state of Alagoas, but that too eases a gubernatorial election.
Enter the state attorney-general, Mike Fisher, an ambitious Republican looking to boost flagging support ahead of the November gubernatorial election.
The paper's endorsements, strangely enough for Democratic union-backed candidates, failed in the recent mayoral campaign and the last gubernatorial election.
No recent Californian gubernatorial election has turned on such a small margin.
Mr Schwarzenegger was hardly the only governor being inaugurated this week: last November was a bumper gubernatorial election, with races in 36 states.
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With the retirement of Republican Gov. Jim Edgar, Poshard was the Democratic party's best opportunity to win a gubernatorial election in the state since 1972.
More international-minded candidates raised the issue during Tokyo's recent gubernatorial election.
In 2006 Roseana Sarney lost the gubernatorial election to Jackson Lago.
Madigan is weighing a Democratic primary challenge against Quinn in next year's gubernatorial election but said Wednesday that she had not yet decided whether to run.
In the 2010 gubernatorial election, Mr Kasich defeated the Democratic incumbent by promising to address a large budget deficit and stem a tide of job losses.
Republican Gov. Tom Kean, who had won the closest gubernatorial election in state history only a few months before, opted to appoint a placeholder as a gesture of goodwill.
The referendum was a setback for Mr Rossello, who favoured full statehood, and it may explain his eagerness to take up a popular local issue in time for next year's gubernatorial election.
Following the conclusion of the gubernatorial election in Okinawa, I shall be making my maximum efforts on the basis of the May 28th Japan-U.S. agreement, and that I shall be making my utmost efforts.
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Ota Fusae, 48, a former official at the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, defeated two major rivals in a gubernatorial election in Osaka Prefecture to become the country's first female prefectural governor, and one of the youngest, too.
Increased political participation was evident earlier this year when the gubernatorial recall election, along with Proposition 54, which sought to end classification by race and ethnicity, dominated the political scene in California.
Kennedy asked Gov. Deval Patrick and state leaders to "amend the law through the normal legislative process to provide for a temporary gubernatorial appointment until the special election occurs, " according to the letter, dated July 2.
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During the 2010 election cycle, King moderated gubernatorial debates in Massachusetts and Florida.
It's hard to know if similar dynamics will play out in a gubernatorial race in an off-year election, when no federal candidates are on the ballot.
Leading up to Election Day, the most competitive gubernatorial race of 2008 was a rematch from four years ago.
Anger could also be a factor in New Jersey and Virginia, the only two states that hold gubernatorial contests in the year after a presidential election.
Palin has delivered on change in Alaskan politics---she defeated an incumbent governor in the gubernatorial primary and a former governor during the 2006 election.
But Democrats point out that Whitman's two gubernatorial victories - one over Florio and her re-election win over state Sen.
But 2006 "was a horrible election year" for Republicans in Pennsylvania, with the gubernatorial candidate losing by 21 points and a historic defeat in the state legislature.
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But the settlement is likely to do a lot more for Spitzer's gubernatorial ambitions as he gears up for next month's general election than it does for the 66, 000 state teachers ripped off by ING and their own union.
Democrats had better luck in gubernatorial races capturing offices in both New Jersey and Virginia in Tuesday's off-year election, wresting control of both offices from Republican hands.
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