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Election 2013 Results

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2013 governor election results by state and county

Chris Christie won re-election in New Jersey by 22 points in 2013, while Democrat Terry McAuliffe narrowly took Virginia from the Republicans.

2 governor races were held in 2013. Democrats won 1 and Republicans 1.

The closest were Virginia (D+2.5) and New Jersey (R+22.1). 1 governorship changed party: Virginia to the Democrats.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

About the 2013 governor elections

New Jersey and Virginia held governor races in 2013, the first year of Barack Obama's second term, as the federal government shutdown in October and the troubled launch of the health care exchanges dominated the news. In New Jersey, Republican Governor Chris Christie beat Democratic state Senator Barbara Buono by about 22 points. Christie's handling of Hurricane Sandy the year before had raised his standing, and he ran strongly among groups that usually voted Democratic. He was seen as a leading contender for the 2016 Republican nomination. In Virginia, Democrat Terry McAuliffe, a former Democratic National Committee chairman, defeated Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli by about 2.5 points. The result broke a long pattern in which Virginia elected a governor from the party out of power in the White House. A Libertarian candidate, Robert Sarvis, also took a share of the vote.

Every race

StateDemocratVotesRepublicanVotesOthersMargin
New Jersey Barbara Buono809,978 (38.2%) Chris Christie1,278,932 (60.3%) 31,956 R+22.1
Virginia flip Terry McAuliffe1,069,789 (47.7%) Ken Cuccinelli1,013,354 (45.2%) Robert Sarvis (Libertarian) 146,084 (6.5%)
D+2.5

Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Margins are Democrat minus Republican, of all votes. Certified results, from the states' own archives, the MIT Election Data and Science Lab, Heideman (2026) and Algara & Amlani (2021). How these results were checked.

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