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1998 New Hampshire gubernatorial election
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1998 New Hampshire gubernatorial election New Hampshire presidential no 1996 New Hampshire gubernatorial election 1996 2000 New Hampshire gubernatorial election 2000 November 3, 1998 File:Jeanne Shaheen, official Senate portrait cropped.jpg 150x150px Jeanne Shaheen Democratic Party (United States) 210,769 66.08% File:3x4.svg Jay Lucas Republican Party (United States) 98,473 30.88% Governor x245px County results x245px Municipality results Shaheen: #a5b0ff 40–50% #7996e2 50–60% #6674de 60–70% #584cde 70–80% #3933e5 80–90% #0d056c >90%Lucas: #ffb2b2 40–50% #e27f7f 50–60% Jeanne Shaheen Democratic Party (United States) Jeanne Shaheen Democratic Party (United States)
The 1998 New Hampshire gubernatorial election took place on November 3, 1998 to elect the governor of New Hampshire. Democratic incumbent Jeanne Shaheen was re-elected to a second term in office over Jay Lucas in a landslide.
Republican primary
Candidates
Emile Beaulieu, former mayor of Manchester
Jim Rubens, state senator from Hanover
Jay Lucas
General election
Candidates
Ken Blevens (Libertarian)
Jay Lucas (Republican)
Jeanne Shaheen, incumbent governor since 1997 (Democratic)
Polling
Poll source Date(s)administered SamplesizeKey:A – all adultsRV – registered votersLV – likely votersV – unclear Marginof error JeanneShaheen (D) JayLucas (R) UndecidedBecker InstituteFiveThirtyEight's Pollster Ratings Raw Polls File https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fivethirtyeight/data/refs/heads/master/pollster-ratings/2023/raw-polls.csv October 15, 2026 GitHub FiveThirtyEightCNN AllPolitics Election '98 - New Hampshire 1998 Polls https://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/1998/states/NH/polls/NH98G.html CNN 27 June 2025 https://archive.today/20250627200220/https://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/1998/states/NH/polls/NH98G.html 27 June 2025 liveOctober 16–18, 1998355 (LV)± 5.0%67%22%11%Mason-Dixon Polling & StrategySeptember 28–29, 1998627 (LV)± 4.0%54%34%12%American Research GroupSeptember 9–10, 1998634 (LV)± 4.0%53%35%12%RKM ResearchSeptember 9–10, 1998494 (RV)± 4.4%65%24%11%Mason-Dixon Polling & StrategyJune 29–30, 1998621 (LV)± 4.0%57%22%21%RKM ResearchJune 26–28, 1998489 (RV)± 4.0%61%21%18%
Results
New Hampshire gubernatorial election, 1998http://sos.nh.gov/1998GovGen.aspx?id=3373 Governor - NHSOS New Hampshire Secretary of State https://web.archive.org/web/20131102184336/http://sos.nh.gov/1998GovGen.aspx?id=3373 2013-11-02 dead
Democratic Party (United States)
Jeanne Shaheen (inc.)
210,769
66.08%
+8.91%
Republican Party (United States)
Jay Lucas
98,473
30.88%
-8.62%
Libertarian Party (US)
Ken Blevens
8,655
2.71%
+1.51%
Write-ins
1,043
0.33%
112,296
35.21%
+17.53%
318,940
Democratic Party (United States)
Notes
References
See also
New Hampshire
1998
Gubernatorial