The 1944 Montana gubernatorial election took place on November 7, 1944. Incumbent
Governor of MontanaSam C. Ford, who was first elected Governor in
1940, ran for re-election. He won the
Republican primary and moved on to the general election, where he was opposed by
Leif Erickson, a former
Chief Justice of the Montana Supreme Court and the
Democratic nominee. Although then-President
Franklin D. Roosevelt comfortably won the
state in that year's
presidential election, Ford defeated Erickson by a wide margin to win his second and final term as governor. This election is the first time that an incumbent Republican Governor of Montana was re-elected or won re-election.