1998 Alaska gubernatorial election
Election for the governorship of the U.S. state of Alaska / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For related races, see 1998 United States gubernatorial elections.
The 1998 Alaska gubernatorial general election took place on November 3, 1998. The election resulted in a landslide for the Democratic incumbent, Tony Knowles, who had won the 1994 gubernatorial election by only 536 votes.[1][2] Jim Sykes, founder of the Green Party of Alaska, ran on that party's ticket, but Desa Jacobsson later replaced him on the ballot.
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Knowles was the first incumbent governor to attain re-election since 1978 and the last until 2022.[3] As of 2023[update], this was the last time a Democrat was elected Governor of Alaska.