Minnesota gubernatorial election, 1998

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Results Accumulated and Provided by the Office of the Secretary of State - Election Division

GOVERNOR AND LT. GOVERNOR
4055 prcts of 4055 reporting or 100.0%
PARTY CANDIDATE NAME                  VOTES CAST % OF VOTES
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RP    JESSE VENTURA AND MAE SCHUNK    773713    37.0
R     NORM COLEMAN AND GEN OLSON      717350    34.3
DFL   HUBERT H "SKIP" HUMPHREY III A  587528    28.1
GPM   KEN PENTEL AND SUSAN JASPER       7034     0.3
LIB   FRANK GERMANN AND MICHAEL C. S    1932     0.1
GRP   CHRIS WRIGHT AND D.G. PAULSEN     1727     0.1
SWP   THOMAS FISKE AND JOHN HAWKINS      787     0.0
TPC   FANCY RAY MCCLONEY AND (MOM) T     919     0.0
NP    WRITE IN                           776     0.0

[edit] Notes

Jesse Ventura was elected governor by only 37% of the vote.

Ventura ran under the Reform Party, and successfully beat candidates from the generally stronger parties: Republican's Norm Coleman and DFL's Hubert H. "Skip" Humphrey III.

Minnesota elects by plurality and doesn't have any threshold support requirement or a runoff process.

List of Minnesota gubernatorial elections