Governor elections in the United States are held at different cadences by state. Here are the core patterns:

• Most states: every four years. This applies to 48 of the 50 states.
• Two states: New Hampshire and Vermont. Governors there are elected to two-year terms.
• A minority of states historically hold elections in different cycles (for example, some align with presidential election years or midterm years), but the dominant pattern is four-year terms with the two 2-year-term exceptions noted above.

If you’d like, I can summarize a state-by-state schedule or provide a quick reference for which states vote in which years for a given election cycle.