Minnesota Governor 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 ===== ============================== ========== ========== 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
Jessie 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 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.