Oregon gubernatorial special election, 1948

Oregon gubernatorial special election, 1948
Oregon
November 2, 1948

 
Nominee Douglas McKay Lew Wallace
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote 271,295 226,958
Percentage 53.2% 44.5%

County results
Governor before election

John Hubert Hall
Republican

 Elected Governor

Charles A. Sprague
Republican

The 1948 Oregon gubernatorial special election took place on November 2, 1948 to elect the governor of the U.S. state of Oregon. A special election was needed due to the death of governor Earl Snell, who was killed in a plane crash on October 28, 1947.

Campaign

Incumbent governor John Hubert Hall, who took over after Snell's death until the election, lost the Republican nomination 51.13-48.87%, to state senator Douglas McKay, and the Democrats nominated state senator Lew Wallace, who had previously lost to Earl Snell in the 1942 gubernatorial election in a landslide.

In the general election, McKay won the election with 53.23% to Wallace's 44.53%, and was sworn in as Oregon's 25th governor on January 10, 1949.

Results

Oregon gubernatorial election, 1948[1]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Douglas McKay 271,295 53.23
Democratic Lew Wallace 226,958 44.53
Independent Wendell E. Barnett 11,380 2.23
Total votes 509,633 100
Republican hold

References

  1. ↑ "OR Governor Race - Nov 02, 1948". Our Campaigns. Retrieved November 16, 2011.


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