2024 Missouri gubernatorial election

The 2024 Missouri gubernatorial election will be held on November 5, 2024, to elect the governor of Missouri, concurrently with the 2024 U.S. presidential election, as well as elections to the United States Senate, the United States House of Representatives, and various state and local elections. Incumbent Republican Governor Mike Parson is term-limited and cannot seek re-election to a second full term in office due to having served more than two years of predecessor Eric Greitens' unexpired term following his resignation in June 2018. Primary elections will take place on August 6, 2024.

The former bellwether state has politically trended rightward in recent years and is today a Republican stronghold at both the federal and state levels. The last Democrat to hold the office of governor in Missouri is Jay Nixon who comfortably won re-election in 2012. In 2020, Parson won by 16.41% in the first election in which Missouri elected a Republican for governor by double digits since 1988.

Declared

 * Jay Ashcroft, Missouri Secretary of State (2017–present) and son of former governor John Ashcroft
 * Bill Eigel, state senator from the 23rd district (2017–present)
 * Darren Grant
 * Jeremy Gundel, write-in candidate for lieutenant governor in 2020
 * Mike Kehoe, Lieutenant Governor of Missouri (2018–present)
 * Darrell McClanahan, stay-at-home parent, honorary KKK member, and candidate for U.S. Senate in 2022
 * Robert Olson, candidate for U.S. Senate in 2022
 * Amber Thomsen
 * Chris Wright, businessman and former police officer

Declared

 * Sheryl Gladney, customer service agent
 * Mike Hamra, restaurant conglomerate owner
 * Hollis Laster
 * Eric Morrison, pastor and candidate for governor in 2016 and 2020
 * Crystal Quade, Minority Leader of the Missouri House of Representatives (2019–present) from the 132nd district (2017–present)

Disqualified

 * Sarah Unsicker, state representative from the 83rd district

Declared

 * Bill Slantz (Libertarian), former chair of the Missouri Libertarian Party, perennial candidate, and nominee for governor in 2020

Polling

 * Mike Kehoe vs. Crystal Quade
 * Jay Ashcroft vs. Crystal Quade
 * Bill Eigel vs. Crystal Quade
 * Mike Kehoe vs. Mike Hamra
 * Jay Ashcroft vs. Mike Hamra
 * Bill Eigel vs. Mike Hamra