Governor Rick Perry recently announced that he will not seek re-election in 2014, leaving an open race for Texas governor in which the incumbent is not running. The last open race for Texas governor occurred in 1990, when Governor Bill Clements did not seek re-election. We examined records going back to the first Texas primary in 1906 to see which other open races for governor have occurred.
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Election
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Incumbent governor
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Winner
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| 1990 election | William P. Clements | Ann. W. Richards |
| 1968 election | John B. Connally, Jr. | Preston Smith |
| 1956 election | Robert Allan Shivers | Price Daniel, Sr. |
| 1946 election | Coke R. Stevenson | Beauford H. Jester |
| 1938 election | James V. Allred | W. Lee O'Daniel |
| 1934 election | Miriam Ferguson | James V. Allred |
| 1930 election | Daniel J. Moody, Jr. | Ross S. Sterling |
| 1924 election | Pat M. Neff | Miriam Ferguson |
| 1920 election | William P. Hobby | Pat M. Neff |
| 1914 election | Oscar Branch Colquitt | James E. Ferguson |
| 1910 election | Thomas Mitchell Campbell | Oscar Branch Colquitt |
| 1906 election | S.W.T. Lanham | Thomas Mitchell Campbell |
Election information obtained from the Texas Almanac.
