In many states where the following positions are elected offices, voters elected state executive branch offices (including Lieutenant Governors (though some will be voted for on the same ticket as the gubernatorial nominee), Secretary of state, state Treasurer, state Auditor, state Attorney General, state
Superintendent of Education,
Commissioners of Insurance, Agriculture or,
Labor, etc.) and state judicial branch offices (seats on state Supreme Courts and, in some states, state appellate courts).