1898 South Dakota gubernatorial election

none January 2025 September 2023 1898 South Dakota gubernatorial election South Dakota presidential no 1896 South Dakota gubernatorial election 1896 1900 South Dakota gubernatorial election 1900 November 8, 1898 x150px File:Andrew E. Lee.jpg Andrew E. Lee Fusion Party (South Dakota) 37,319 49.65% 3x4.svg Kirk G. Phillips Republican Party (United States) 36,949 49.16% 250px 1898 South Dakota gubernatorial election results map by county.svg County resultsLee: #AFE9AF 40–50% #73D873 50–60% #42CA42 60–70%Phillips: #ffb2b2 40–50% #e27f7f 50–60% #d75d5d 60–70% #d72f30 70–80%No Vote: #cccccc Governor of South Dakota Andrew E. Lee People's Party (United States) Andrew E. Lee Fusion Party (South Dakota) The 1898 South Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1898. Incumbent governor Andrew E. Lee, elected in 1896 as a Populist, he ran for re-election as a Fusion candidate. He was challenged by Republican nominee Kirk G. Phillips, the state treasurer. Lee narrowly defeated Phillips to win his second term as governor, but most of his Fusion allies lost their elections, leaving him as the lone statewide officeholder. Fusion conventions Prior to the separate conventions of the Democrats, Populists, and Free Silver Republicans, U.S. Senator Richard F. Pettigrew worked behind the scenes to continue the coalition's success. To ensure that anti-silver Democrats didn't bolt from the coalition, he convinced the three parties that the Democrats should be granted four positions on the statewide ticket, which the parties embraced.Lindell Terrence J. 1982 South Dakota Populism M.A. University of Nebraska–Lincoln 137–38 https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1031&context=opentheses June 11, 2021 In the end, the nominations were divvied up among the three parties as follows:June 24, 1898 Have Named the Ticket: Democrats Geta Good Share of the Offices With the Populists Mitchell Capital Mitchell, S.D. 5 https://www.newspapers.com/image/465709948/ June 11, 2021 Governor: Andrew E. Lee, Populist Lieutenant Governor: T. C. Robinson, Free Silver Republican Secretary of State: George Sparling, Populist Treasurer: Maris Taylor, Democrat Superintendent of Public Instruction: L. G. Hintz, Democrat Attorney General: C. S. Palmer, Free Silver Republican Auditor: Hugh J. Smith, Democrat Commissioner of School Lands: John Scollard, Democrat Railroad Commissioner: W. H. Tompkins, Populist Republican convention State Treasurer Kirk G. Phillips entered the Republican convention, held on August 24, 1898, in Mitchell, as the clear frontrunner for the Republican nomination. He ended up winning the nomination in a landslide, winning 449 votes to O. S. Gifford's 449 and H. M. Finnerud's 43.August 25, 1898 The Ticket is Named: A Strong Ticket Put Up at the Mitchell Convention Argus Leader Sioux Falls, S.D. 1–2 https://www.newspapers.com/image/229641915 June 11, 2021 General election Results 1898 South Dakota gubernatorial special electionNelson Nelson Heinrich Chad W. 2005 Chapter 8: Elections Legislative Manual: South Dakota, 2005 http://sdsdl-montage.auto-graphics.com/#/item-details/entities_1092?from=search-results Pierre, S.D. 617 Fusion Party (South Dakota) Andrew E. Lee (inc.) 37,319 49.65% -0.10% Republican Party (United States) Kirk G. Phillips 36,949 49.16% -0.21% Prohibition Party (United States) K. Lewis 891 1.19% +0.31% 370 0.49% +0.11% 75,159 100.00% Fusion Party (South Dakota) Republican Party (United States) References South Dakota 1898 Gubernatorial Category:November 1898 in the United States