1895 New Jersey gubernatorial election

The 1895 New Jersey gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1895. Republican nominee John W. Griggs defeated Democratic nominee Alexander T. McGill with 52.28% of the vote.

Griggs was the first Republican elected Governor of New Jersey since Marcus Lawrence Ward in 1865. His election culminated a political realignment in the state from slightly-but-solidly Democratic to Republican; Republicans would not lose another gubernatorial election until 1910.

Candidates

 * John J. Gardner, U.S. Representative from Atlantic City
 * John W. Griggs, State Senator for Passaic County
 * John Kean, former U.S. Representative from Elizabeth and nominee for Governor in 1892
 * Maurice Rogers, State Senator for Camden County
 * Foster McGowan Voorhees, State Senator for Union County
 * Elias S. Ward, Newark businessman

Candidates

 * William B. Ellis (Populist)
 * John W. Griggs, State Senator for Passaic County (Republican)
 * George B. Keim (Socialist Labor)
 * Alexander T. McGill, Chancellor of New Jersey (Democratic)
 * Henry W. Wilbur (Prohibition)