List of Democratic nominees for Governor of Kentucky

Democratic nominees for Governor of Kentucky:

• 1828 William T. Barry
• 1832 John Breathitt
• 1836
• 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
• 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

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