Minnesota Governor election result
November 3, 1998
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
Notes
Minnesota's governor, Jesse Ventura, was elected 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 doesn't have any threshold support requirement or a runoff process.
Since Ventura considered himself centrist, it is likely he may have also won a Top-Two_runoff process, but we'll never know.
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