List of Democratic nominees for Governor of Kentucky
# 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

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

