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).