1998 general · November 3, 1998

1998 Governors election results

Name: 1998 Governors election results
Creator: 99chambers

Every Governors race in the 1998 general election, state by state: winners, margins and seats that changed party.

Races36

Changed party10

Unopposed0%0 races

Governors

D 11 · R 23 · Other 2

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
Alabama	Don Siegelman (D)	15.6	Flipped
Alaska	Tony Knowles (D)	33.0
Arizona	Jane Dee Hull (R)	26.3
Arkansas	Mike Huckabee (R)	21.5	Flipped
California	Gray Davis (D)	20.3	Flipped
Colorado	Bill Owens (R)	0.6	Flipped
Connecticut	John Rowland (R)	27.9
Florida	Jeb Bush (R)	10.5	Flipped
Georgia	Roy E. Barnes (D)	8.7
Hawaii	Benjamin J. Cayetano (D)	1.3
Idaho	Dirk Kempthorne (R)	39.9
Illinois	George H. Ryan (R)	3.6
Iowa	Tom Vilsack (D)	5.9	Flipped
Kansas	Bill Graves (R)	52.8
Maine	Angus S. King, Jr. (IND)	39.7
Maryland	Parris N. Glendening (D)	10.3
Massachusetts	Argeo Paul Cellucci (R)	3.5
Michigan	John Engler (R)	24.4
Minnesota	Jesse Ventura (REF)	2.7	Flipped
Nebraska	Mike Johanns (R)	7.9	Flipped
Nevada	Kenny Guinn (R)	9.9	Flipped
New Hampshire	Jeanne Shaheen (D)	36.3
New Mexico	Gary E. Johnson (R)	9.1
New York	George Pataki (R)	21.2
Ohio	Robert Alphonso Taft (R)	5.4
Oklahoma	Frank Keating (R)	17.1
Oregon	John Kitzhaber (D)	34.5
Pennsylvania	Thomas Ridge (R)	26.4
Rhode Island	Lincoln Almond (R)	8.8
South Carolina	James H. Hodges (D)	8.2	Flipped
South Dakota	William Janklow (R)	32.2
Tennessee	Donald Sundquist (R)	39.9
Texas	George W. Bush (R)	37.3
Vermont	Howard Dean (D)	15.0
Wisconsin	Tommy G. Thompson (R)	21.3
Wyoming	Jim Geringer (R)	15.8

Results are each source's final count; margins are the winner's lead over the runner-up in points of the vote. Source: Algara, Carlos; Amlani, Sharif (Harvard Dataverse); English Wikipedia