sentences:  2009 United States gubernatorial elections
  
  United States gubernatorial elections were held on November 3, 2009 in the states of New Jersey and Virginia as well as in the U.S. commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands on November 7, 2009.Both state governorships were previously held by Democrats elected in 2005, and were both won by Republicans in 2009; the local Covenant Party maintained control of the governorship of the Marianas.