Morning Consult, a polling and data analysis company, issued its annual list showing the popularity of each of the 50 governors in America.
The data shows that Republican Gov. Phil Scott of Vermont is the most popular governor in America, with a 76% approval rating, and that Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy is the seventh most poplar, with a 63% approval rating.
Seven of the top 10 most popular governors are Republicans.
At the bottom of the popularity list is Democrat Gov. Tina Kotek of Oregon, with 45%; and Democrat Gov. Katie Hobbs of Arizona, at 47% approval.
Six of the 10 least-popular governors are Democrats.
The top 10 most approved-of governors are: Scott (R-VT): 76% Gordon (R-WY): 69% Green (D-HI): 64% Sununu (R-NH): 64% Beshear (D-KY): 64% Noem (R-SD): 63% Dunleavy (R-AK): 62% Ivey (R-AL): 62% Lamont (D-CT): 62% Justice (R-WV): 62% *April 1-Jun. 30, 2023
Dunleavy is more popular now than he was in 2021, according to the Morning Consult poll, which ranked him 16th most popular that year, even though a partisan group of Democrats had made a valiant effort to recall him from 2019 through 2021, an effort that failed because the group could not get enough signatures.
And he’s far more popular than Gov. Bill Walker was in the Morning Consult poll in 2017. Walker was the fifth least approved of governor in the nation that year. He lost the next year to Dunleavy.
