Democratic nominees for Governor of Kentucky:
1828 William T. Barry
1832 John Breathitt
1836 Matthew Flournoy
1840 Richard French
1844 William O. Butler
1848 Lazarus W. Powell
1851 Lazarus W. Powell
1855 Beverly L. Clarke
1859 Beriah Magoffin
1863 Charles A. Wickliffe
1867 John L. Helm
1871 Preston H. Leslie
1875 James B. McCreary
1879 Luke P. Blackburn
1883 J. Proctor Knott
1887 Simon B. Buckner
1891 John Young Brown
1895 P. Wat Hardin
1899 William Goebel
1903 J. C. W. Beckham
1907 Samuel W. Hager
1911 James B. McCreary
1915 Augustus O. Stanley
1919 James D. Black
1923 William J. Fields
1927 J. C. W. Beckham
1931 Ruby Laffoon
1935 Happy Chandler
1939 Keen Johnson
1943 J. Lyter Donaldson
1947 Earle C. Clements
1951 Lawrence Wetherby
1955 Happy Chandler
1959 Bert T. Combs
1963 Edward T. Breathitt
1967 Henry Ward (Kentucky)
1971 Wendell H. Ford
1975 Julian Carroll
1979 John Y. Brown, Jr.
1983 Martha Layne Collins
1987 Wallace G. Wilkinson
1991 Brereton Jones
1995 Paul E. Patton
1999 Paul E. Patton
2003 Ben Chandler
2007 Steve Beshear
2011 Steve Beshear
2015 Jack Conway (Nominated at the May 19, 2015 primary election with the general election scheduled for November 3, 2015.)
All except those in italics won the general election and were elected Governor of Kentucky.
