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Wyoming gubernatorial election, 2010

Wyoming gubernatorial election, 2010
Wyoming
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Nominee Matt Mead Leslie Petersen Taylor Haynes
Party Republican Democratic Independent
Popular vote 123,780 43,240 13,796
Percentage 65.68% 22.94% 7.32%

Wyoming election results by county, all Republican.png
County results

Governor before election

Dave Freudenthal
Democratic

Elected Governor

Matt Mead
Republican


Dave Freudenthal
Democratic

Matt Mead
Republican

The 2010 Wyoming gubernatorial election was held on Tuesday, November 2, 2010 to elect the Governor of Wyoming, who will serve a four-year term to begin in January 2011. Party primaries were held on August 17.

While it was initially thought that term limits would prevent incumbent Democratic Governor Dave Freudenthal from running for re-election, the constitutionality of the term limit law has been questioned, leaving the possibility that if Freudenthal had successfully challenged the law, he might have been able to run for a third term. On March 4, 2010, Freudenthal announced he would not run for a third term.

Republican candidate Matt Mead defeated Democratic candidate Leslie Petersen in the general election.


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