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