1998 Arizona gubernatorial election

1998 Arizona gubernatorial election

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Nominee Jane Dee Hull Paul Johnson
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote 620,188 361,552
Percentage 60.9% 35.5%

County results
Hull:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%
Johnson:      50–60%

Governor before election

Jane Dee Hull
Republican

Elected Governor

Jane Dee Hull
Republican

The 1998 Arizona gubernatorial election took place on November 3, 1998, for the post of Governor of Arizona. Jane Dee Hull, the incumbent Republican Governor of Arizona, defeated the Democratic nominee and Mayor of Phoenix, Paul Johnson in a landslide victory. Hull became the first woman to win a gubernatorial election in Arizona, although not the first woman to serve as governor of Arizona, (a distinction held by Democrat Rose Mofford, who ascended to the position in 1988 upon Republican Evan Mecham's impeachment and removal from office, and who served until 1990, declining to run for a full term).