1998 Alaska gubernatorial election

none related races 1998 United States gubernatorial elections January 2025 September 2023 1998 Alaska gubernatorial election Alaska presidential no 1994 Alaska gubernatorial election 1994 2002 Alaska gubernatorial election 2002 November 3, 1998 File:GovTonyKnowles (cropped).jpg 0.55 Tony Knowles Democratic Party (United States) Fran Ulmer 112,879 51.27% File:Robin L. Taylor.png Robin L. Taylor(write-in) Republican Party (United States) none 40,209 18.26% File:John_Howard_Lindauer_portrait.jpg John H. Lindauer Republican Party (United States) Jerry Ward 39,331 17.86% File:Ray Metcalfe.jpg Ray Metcalfe Republican Moderate E37D6E Clyde Baxley 13,540 6.15% 1998 Alaska gubernatorial election by State House District.svg 325px Results by state house districtKnowles: #bdd3ff 30–40% #a5b0ff 40–50% #7996e2 50–60% #6674de 60–70% #584cde 70–80%Write-In:Since the vast majority of the write-in votes were towards Republican Robin L. Taylor, he likely won the Ketchikan district. However, the original election report does not separate the write-in votes by candidate, so it cannot be known for sure. #FFB580 40–50% Governor Tony Knowles Alaska Democratic Party Tony Knowles Alaska Democratic Party The 1998 Alaska gubernatorial general election took place on November 3, 1998. The election resulted in a landslide for the Democratic incumbent, Tony Knowles, who had won the 1994 gubernatorial election by only 536 votes.http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/08/17/ap/alaska/index.html?eref=sitesearchJune 2011https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/04/us/the-1998-elections-state-by-state-west-alaska.html THE 1998 ELECTIONS: STATE BY STATE -- WEST; ALASKA Robert Pear The New York Times 1998-11-04 Jim Sykes, founder of the Green Party of Alaska, ran on that party's ticket, but Desa Jacobsson later replaced him on the ballot. Knowles was the first incumbent governor to attain re-election since 1978 and the last until 2022.http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/11/03/election/governors/alaska/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20070213012848/http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/11/03/election/governors/alaska/index.html dead 13 February 2007 Knowles wins rare 2nd term in Alaska - November 3, 1998 CNN 13 February 2007 As of , this was the last time a Democrat was elected Governor of Alaska. Open primary Incumbent Governor Tony Knowles easily won the Democratic nomination over two minor challengers. On the Republican side, three major candidates jockeyed for the nomination: businessman John Howard Lindauer, state senator Robin L. Taylor, and Wayne A. Ross. Lindauer won the open primary election, with Taylor coming in second. Ray Metcalfe, a defecting Republican who had founded the Republican Moderate Party of Alaska, also ran, along with Green Party candidate Jim Sykes and three candidates from the Alaskan Independence Party. Desa Jacobsson replaced Sykes as the Green Party candidate in the general election. 1998 open primary for Alaska governorhttp://www.elections.alaska.gov/elect98/primary/presults.htm 1998 PRIMARY ELECTION RESULTS Alaska Division of Elections 14 April 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090514230931/http://www.elections.alaska.gov/elect98/primary/presults.htm 14 May 2009 dead Alaska Democratic Party Tony Knowles (inc.) 38,788 35.57 Republican Party of Alaska John Lindauer 25,070 22.99 Republican Party of Alaska Robin Taylor 17,679 16.21 Republican Party of Alaska Wayne Ross 17,445 16.00 Alaska Democratic Party Nels Anderson, Jr. 3,387 3.11 Green Party of Alaska Jim Sykes 2,251 2.06 Alaska Democratic Party Don Wright 1,494 1.37 Republican Moderate Party of Alaska Ray Metcalfe 1,157 1.06 Alaskan Independence Party Sylvia Sullivan 981 0.90 Alaskan Independence Party Harold Haldane 466 0.43 Alaskan Independence Party Robert Gigler 339 0.31 109,057 100.00 Fran Ulmer and Jerry Ward won the Democratic and Republican nominations for lieutenant governor, respectively. Clyde Baxley won the Republican Moderate nomination. Despite the results of the primary, the Green Party nominee in the general election was Mike Milligan, while Alaskan Independence Party candidate Sylvia Sullivan did not have an official running mate.1998 open primary for lieutenant governorhttp://www.elections.alaska.gov/elect98/primary/presults.htm 1998 PRIMARY ELECTION RESULTS Alaska Division of Elections 14 April 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090514230931/http://www.elections.alaska.gov/elect98/primary/presults.htm 14 May 2009 dead Alaska Democratic Party Fran Ulmer (inc.) 44,998 42.35 Republican Party of Alaska Jerry Ward 28,261 26.60 Republican Party of Alaska Virginia Collins 13,089 12.32 Republican Party of Alaska Don Smith 8,230 7.75 Republican Party of Alaska Doyle Holmes 5,764 5.43 Alaskan Independence Party David Harrison 2,923 2.75 Green Party of Alaska Dan Winn 2,006 1.89 Republican Moderate Party of Alaska Clyde Baxley 973 0.92 106,244 100.00 Campaign Lindauer's campaign faltered late in the race as a result of his failure to disclose that his wife, a wealthy Chicago lawyer, had financed the bulk of his campaign. As a result of this revelation, the Republicans withdrew their support of Lindauer and backed Robin Taylor, the runner-up in the Republican primary, as a write-in candidate. Due to the lateness of this change, the Republicans unsuccessfully attempted to obtain a court order to delay the election.http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/10/30/alaska.delay.ap/ https://web.archive.org/web/20060516170122/http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/10/30/alaska.delay.ap/ dead 16 May 2006 Alaska GOP wants election delayed - October 30, 1998 CNN 16 May 2006 The collapse of Lindauer's campaign resulted in a three-way split of the Republican vote between him, Taylor, and the Republican Moderate Metcalfe. Knowles defeated Taylor, his closest opponent, by 33%, the widest margin of victory for a gubernatorial candidate in Alaska history. Moreover, if Taylor's and Lindauer's totals are added together, Knowles defeated the two Republicans combined by 16% – still the widest margin in Alaska history until 2010. This was also the first time since 1970 that any candidate won an outright majority of the vote in an Alaska gubernatorial election. Results 1998 Alaska gubernatorial electionElection Summary Report: State of Alaska 1998 General Election Official Results http://www.elections.alaska.gov/elect98/general/results.htm dead https://web.archive.org/web/20081127103119/http://www.elections.alaska.gov/elect98/general/results.htm 2008-11-27 Alaska Democratic Party Tony Knowles (incumbent) 112,879 51.27 +10.2 Republican Write-in #e9141d Robin L. Taylor 40,209 18.26 +18.2 Republican Party of Alaska John Howard Lindauer 39,331 17.86 -22.9 Republican Moderate Party of Alaska Ray Metcalfe 13,540 6.15 N/A Green Party of Alaska Desa Jacobsson 6,618 3.01 -1.1 Alaskan Independence Party Sylvia Sullivan 4,238 1.92 -11.8 Write-in Others 3,362 1.53 +1.4 72,670 33.01 +32.7 220,177 48.57 -14.9 Democratic Party (United States) +32.7 Notes References Governor 1998 Alaska Category:November 1998 in the United States