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The 1998 Iowa gubernatorial election took place on November 5, 1998. Incumbent Republican Governor of Iowa Terry Branstad did not seek re-election to a fifth term.
To replace him,
State Senator
A state senator is a member of a state's senate in the bicameral legislature of 49 U.S. states, or a member of the unicameral Nebraska Legislature.
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Tom Vilsack narrowly won the nomination of the Democratic Party while former United States Congressman Jim Ross Lightfoot, who was previously the Republican nominee for the United States Senate in 1996
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, won his party's nomination. Lightfoot was the odds-on favorite to succeed Branstad and polling consistently showed him in the lead. However, Vilsack comfortably won the general election, becoming the first Democrat to serve as governor of Iowa in 30 years and only the fifth Democrat to hold the office in the 20th century.
Lightfoot never conceded defeat.
Democratic primary
Candidates
* Tom Vilsack, Iowa State Senator * Mark McCormick, former Iowa Supreme Court Justice (1972-1986)Results
Republican primary
Candidates
* Jim Ross Lightfoot, former United States Representative and nominee for the United States Senate in1996
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*David A. Oman, telecommunications executive, chief of staff to Governor Terry Branstad
*Paul Pate
Paul Danny Pate Jr. (born May 1, 1958) is an American businessman and politician serving as the 32nd and current Secretary of State of Iowa since 2015, previously holding the office from 1995 to 1999. Pate is the Past President of the National As ...
, Iowa Secretary of State
Results
Reform Party primary
Candidates
*Jim Hennager *Edward Moses *Jeffrey L. Hughes, Sr.Results
General election
Results
See also
* United States gubernatorial elections, 1998 *State of Iowa
Iowa () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It is bordered by six states: Wisconsin to the northeast, Illinois to the ...
* Governors of Iowa
References
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1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
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