List of Democratic nominees for Governor of Kentucky

Democratic nominees for Governor of Kentucky:

• 1828 William T. Barry
• 1832 John Breathitt
• 1836 Matthew Flournoy
• 1840 Richard French
• 1844 William O. Butler
• 1848 Lazarus W. Powell
• 1851 Lazarus W. Powell
• 1855 Beverly L. Clarke
• 1859 Beriah Magoffin
• 1863 Charles A. Wickliffe
• 1867 John L. Helm
• 1871 Preston H. Leslie
• 1875 James B. McCreary
• 1879 Luke P. Blackburn
• 1883 J. Proctor Knott
• 1887 Simon B. Buckner
• 1891 John Young Brown
• 1895 P. Wat Hardin
• 1899 William Goebel
• 1903 J. C. W. Beckham
• 1907 Samuel W. Hager
• 1911 James B. McCreary
• 1915 Augustus O. Stanley
• 1919 James D. Black
• 1923 William J. Fields
• 1927 J. C. W. Beckham
• 1931 Ruby Laffoon
• 1935 Happy Chandler
• 1939 Keen Johnson
• 1943 J. Lyter Donaldson
• 1947 Earle C. Clements
• 1951 Lawrence Wetherby
• 1955 Happy Chandler
• 1959 Bert T. Combs
• 1963 Edward T. Breathitt
• 1967 Henry Ward (Kentucky)
• 1971 Wendell H. Ford
• 1975 Julian Carroll
• 1979 John Y. Brown, Jr.
• 1983 Martha Layne Collins
• 1987 Wallace G. Wilkinson
• 1991 Brereton Jones
• 1995 Paul E. Patton
• 1999 Paul E. Patton
• 2003 Ben Chandler
• 2007 Steve Beshear
• 2011 Steve Beshear
• 2015 Jack Conway (Nominated at the May 19, 2015 primary election with the general election scheduled for November 3, 2015.)

All except those in italics won the general election and were elected Governor of Kentucky.