State executives with term limits
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There are a number of term limits to offices in the United States, which restrict the number of terms an individual can hold a certain office.
State executive offices represent a state's executive branch, charged with implementing and enforcing the laws made by state legislatures. State executive officers are ordinarily either elected or appointed by the governor. In some cases, officers are chosen by the state legislature or supreme court.
The information on state executive offices with term limits comes from the Council of State Governments and their 2021 edition of The Book of the States.[1]
Term limits by state and office
Impact of term limits on state executive elections
2024
Of the 164 state executive seats on the ballot in 2024, 46 of them are represented by incumbents who are subject to term limits. Fourteen of those incumbents are ineligible to run for re-election in 2024 due to term limits. This represents 8.5% of the total seats up for election in 2024.
2023
Of the 36 state executive offices on the ballot in 2023, 18 of them were represented by incumbents who were subject to term limits. Seven of those incumbents were ineligible to run for re-election in 2023 due to term limits. This represented 19.4 percent of the total seats up for election in 2023.
2022
Of the 308 state executive seats on the ballot in 2022, 131 of them were represented by incumbents who were subject to term limits.[2] Twenty-seven of those incumbents were ineligible to run for re-election in 2022 due to term limits. This represented 8.8% percent of the total seats up for election in 2022.
2021
Of the seven state executive offices on the ballot in 2021, four of them were represented by incumbents who were subject to term limits. One of those incumbents was ineligible to run for re-election in 2021 due to term limits. This represented 14.2 percent of the total seats up for election in 2021.
2020
Of the 171 state executive offices on the ballot in 2020, 47 of them were represented by incumbents who were subject to term limits. Eleven of those incumbents were ineligible to run for re-election in 2020 due to term limits. This represented 6.4 percent of the total seats up for election in 2020.
2019
Of the 36 state executive offices on the ballot in 2019, 18 of them were represented by incumbents who were subject to term limits. Three of those incumbents were ineligible to run for re-election in 2019 due to term limits. The three incumbents held three different offices: governor, lieutenant governor, and secretary of state.
2018
Of the 303 state executive offices on the ballot in 2018, 131 of them were represented by incumbents who were subject to term limits. Of the 36 gubernatorial seats up for election in 2018, 13 governors—two Democrats and 11 Republicans—were term-limited and therefore unable to run for re-election. In the 31 states with term limits that held state executive elections in 2018, incumbents in 18 of the states had some incumbents who were term-limited.
A total of 49 state executive officials were ineligible to run in the 2018 elections because of term limits. This represented 16 percent of the 303 total seats up for election in 2018.
See also
- States with gubernatorial term limits
- Secretaries of State with term limits
- Term limits on the ballot
- List of term limits ballot measures
- Term limits in the United States
- Executive Summary: Term limits and reading the fine print
External links
- Book of the States from the Council of State Governments
- Table 4.9: Constitutional and Statutory Provisions for Number of Consecutive Terms of Elected State Officials from the Book of the States 2016
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Council of State Governments, "Book of the States 2021," accessed March 4, 2021
- ↑ This does not include executive offices in the U.S. Territories, but it does include executive offices in Washington, D.C.
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