November 8, 1898 (1898-11-08) 1900 → F. C. Robinson John T. Kean 37,319 36,919 Start date November 8, 1898 | Kirk G. Phillips Knute Lewis John T. Kean F. J. Carlisle 36,919 891 | |
![]() | ||
Winner Andrew E Lee |
The 1898 South Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1898, to elect a Governor of South Dakota to a two-year term. Incumbent Governor Andrew E. Lee ran on the Fusion Party ticket (as opposed to the People's Party ticket, on which he had won in 1896) and was re-elected, defeating Republican nominee Kirk G. Phillips and Prohibition Party candidate Knute Lewis.
Lee won by 370 votes or 0.54%, the second-smallest margin in South Dakota gubernatorial election history (beaten only by Lee's election in 1896, which he won by 319 votes or 0.39%). As with the previous election, the Prohibitionist candidate polled lowly but polled enough that if their votes went either way, the race would have been changed.
References
South Dakota gubernatorial election, 1898 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA