Oregon gubernatorial election, 1898

June 6, 1898

County results

Governor before election

William Paine Lord
Republican

Elected Governor

T. T. Geer
Republican

The 1898 Oregon gubernatorial election took place on June 6, 1898 to elect the governor of the U.S. state of Oregon. The election matched Republican Theodore Thurston Geer against Democratic State Senator W. R. King.^[1]

Geer was the tenth governor since statehood, but the first native Oregonian to hold that position.^[2]

Results

Oregon gubernatorial election, 1898^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Theodore Thurston Geer	45,094	53.22
	Democratic	W. R. King	34,452	40.77
	Populist	John C. Luce	2,878	3.4
	Prohibition	H. M. Clinton	2,219	2.62
Total votes			84,643	100
	Republican hold

↑ Fifty Years in Oregon
↑ Corning, Howard M. Dictionary of Oregon History. Binfords & Mort Publishing, 1956.
↑ "Our Campaigns - OR Governor Race - Jun 06, 1898". Retrieved April 16, 2016.

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