1898 Gubernatorial General Election Results

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Gubernatorial
Candidate

Political
Party

Popular Vote

Theodore Thurston Geer

Republican

45,093

53.22%

William R. King

Democratic

34,542

40.77%

John C. Luce

People's

2,878

3.40%

H. M. Clinton

Prohibition

2,219

2.62%

Turnout

Maps

Election Notes:

The 1899 House Journal appears to have a misprint for Geer's vote in Tillamook County, giving his total there as 636. This causes Geer's county totals to be off from the statewide total by 1 vote. The compilation Oregon Votes 1858-1972, available at the Oregon Historical Society in Portland, gives the Geer figure in Tillamook County as 635, which allows the totals to match.

Demographic Data

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Data Sources:

Source for Popular Vote data: Oregon Legislative Assembly. Journal of House of the Twentieth Legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon, Oregon Legislative Assembly (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433019341571&view=1up&seq=36) (accessed 14 Sep 2023)
Source for Population data: U.S. Census Bureau.

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