The present invention relates to the technical field of an elevator, and provides a governor of an elevator. The governor of the present invention is provided with a reset push part which is disposed on a ratchet wheel and is used for resetting the governor from a second state to a first state, wherein the reset push part and a pawl of the governor are set in such a manner that when a rope sheave rotates in a direction, the reset push part pushes the pawl to reset the pawl to a position corresponding to the first state.