Republicans won the most governorships up in 1998.

36 governor's races on the ballot — Democrats won 11, Republicans 23, others 2. Each state below links to its candidate results.

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Results by state

Every row links to the state's full governor result with its county map.

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State	Won	Governor-elect	Margin	Pres. 1996	Votes
Alabama	D	Don Siegelman	+15.8%	R+7.0	1,298,591
Alaska	D	Tony Knowles	+33.0%	R+17.5	205,959
Arizona	R	Jane Dee Hull	−25.4%	D+2.2	981,740
Arkansas	R	Mike Huckabee	−21.1%	D+16.9	694,912
California	D	Gray Davis	+19.6%	D+12.9	8,078,732
Colorado	R	Bill Owens	−0.6%	R+1.4	1,288,107
Connecticut	R	John G. Rowland	−27.5%	D+18.1	982,894
Florida	R	Jeb Bush	−10.6%	D+5.7	3,964,159
Georgia	D	Roy Barnes	+8.4%	R+1.2	1,731,277
Hawaii	D	Ben Cayetano	+1.3%	D+25.3	403,158
Idaho	R	Dirk Kempthorne	−38.6%	R+18.5	368,910
Illinois	R	George Ryan	−3.6%	D+17.5	3,308,285
Iowa	D	Tom Vilsack	+5.8%	D+10.3	945,018
Kansas	R	Bill Graves	−50.7%	R+18.2	713,125
Maine	O	Angus King	+0.0%	D+20.9	405,716
Maryland	D	Parris Glendening	+10.3%	D+16.0	1,535,329
Massachusetts	R	Paul Cellucci	−3.4%	D+33.4	1,869,003
Michigan	R	John Engler	−24.4%	D+13.2	3,026,579
Minnesota	O	Jesse Ventura	+0.0%	D+16.1	2,078,591
Nebraska	R	Mike Johanns	−7.9%	R+18.7	544,588
Nevada	R	Kenny Guinn	−9.6%	D+1.0	406,173
New Hampshire	D	Jeanne Shaheen	+35.2%	D+10.3	309,242
New Mexico	R	Gary Johnson	−9.1%	D+7.3	498,703
New York	R	George Pataki	−21.2%	D+28.9	4,506,364
Ohio	R	Bob Taft	−5.4%	D+6.4	3,177,677
Oklahoma	R	Frank Keating	−17.0%	R+7.8	863,050
Oregon	D	John Kitzhaber	+34.4%	D+8.1	1,051,062
Pennsylvania	R	Tom Ridge	−26.4%	D+9.2	2,991,350
Rhode Island	R	Lincoln Almond	−8.9%	D+32.9	304,535
South Carolina	D	Jim Hodges	+8.0%	R+6.0	1,054,158
South Dakota	R	Bill Janklow	−31.1%	R+3.5	252,094
Tennessee	R	Don Sundquist	−39.1%	D+2.4	957,723
Texas	R	George W. Bush	−37.0%	R+4.9	3,716,413
Vermont	D	Howard Dean	+14.6%	D+22.3	211,151
Wisconsin	R	Tommy Thompson	−21.0%	D+10.3	1,727,269
Wyoming	R	Jim Geringer	−15.1%	R+13.0	167,989