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Election 1998 Results

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1998 Pennsylvania governor election

Tom Ridge (Republican) beat Ivan Itkin (Democrat) in Pennsylvania in 1998, 57.4% to 31.0%, a margin of 26.4 points and 798,099 votes.

The Republican hold continued from 1994, when Tom Ridge also won.

Republicans led in 66 of the 67 counties and Democrats in 1. The largest, Allegheny, cast 351,718 votes and went to the Republican by 11.7 points. The closest was Cameron, where 33 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Governor

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Tom Ridge won Republican 1,736,844 57.4%
Ivan Itkin Democratic 938,745 31.0%
Peg Luksik Constitution 315,761 10.4%
All other candidates 33,672 1.1%
Total3,025,022

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Allegheny 127,994 36.4% 169,316 48.1% 54,408 351,718 R+11.7
Philadelphia 183,066 59.6% 107,731 35.1% 16,473 307,270 D+24.5
Montgomery 62,734 29.8% 129,376 61.4% 18,526 210,636 R+31.6
Delaware 42,283 27.4% 97,746 63.3% 14,344 154,373 R+35.9
Bucks 39,210 27.1% 93,697 64.8% 11,576 144,483 R+37.7
Chester 21,337 21.0% 68,572 67.6% 11,500 101,409 R+46.6
Lancaster 15,891 15.9% 72,198 72.1% 12,010 100,099 R+56.3
Westmoreland 32,375 32.5% 44,331 44.5% 22,829 99,535 R+12.0
York 16,825 19.5% 62,657 72.5% 6,983 86,465 R+53.0
Berks 21,336 26.8% 49,716 62.5% 8,479 79,531 R+35.7
Erie 16,783 21.8% 49,027 63.7% 11,174 76,984 R+41.9
Lehigh 22,472 29.3% 50,526 65.8% 3,800 76,798 R+36.5
Luzerne 23,827 31.9% 44,030 59.0% 6,827 74,684 R+27.1
Lackawanna 25,297 38.2% 35,039 53.0% 5,823 66,159 R+14.7
Northampton 20,461 31.0% 42,352 64.2% 3,204 66,017 R+33.2
Dauphin 13,203 21.4% 39,914 64.8% 8,486 61,603 R+43.4
Cumberland 8,610 16.2% 37,801 70.9% 6,882 53,293 R+54.8
Beaver 19,879 37.5% 24,993 47.1% 8,146 53,018 R+9.6
Washington 20,050 38.3% 22,825 43.6% 9,518 52,393 R+5.3
Cambria 12,675 28.2% 22,266 49.5% 10,034 44,975 R+21.3
Butler 10,593 23.8% 22,839 51.2% 11,154 44,586 R+27.5
Schuylkill 12,108 27.3% 27,992 63.1% 4,233 44,333 R+35.8
Franklin 6,527 20.9% 21,793 69.7% 2,959 31,279 R+48.8
Centre 7,295 23.6% 20,175 65.1% 3,497 30,967 R+41.6
Mercer 10,349 34.2% 15,958 52.8% 3,931 30,238 R+18.5
Fayette 12,863 42.7% 13,215 43.9% 4,041 30,119 R+1.2
Lycoming 6,058 20.9% 20,511 70.8% 2,382 28,951 R+49.9
Blair 4,410 15.7% 19,025 67.5% 4,734 28,169 R+51.9
Lebanon 4,775 17.1% 20,263 72.7% 2,835 27,873 R+55.6
Monroe 7,160 27.4% 17,243 66.0% 1,733 26,136 R+38.6
Lawrence 9,259 36.3% 13,115 51.5% 3,110 25,484 R+15.1
Somerset 5,676 23.4% 14,829 61.1% 3,747 24,252 R+37.7
Indiana 6,910 29.9% 11,733 50.7% 4,486 23,129 R+20.9
Northumberland 7,051 30.9% 13,468 58.9% 2,328 22,847 R+28.1
Crawford 4,786 21.8% 13,875 63.3% 3,260 21,921 R+41.5
Clearfield 5,598 27.5% 11,437 56.1% 3,350 20,385 R+28.6
Adams 3,682 18.4% 14,810 73.8% 1,568 20,060 R+55.5
Armstrong 4,900 27.6% 8,641 48.7% 4,197 17,738 R+21.1
Bradford 3,041 18.1% 12,534 74.7% 1,205 16,780 R+56.6
Venango 3,595 23.5% 9,643 63.0% 2,078 15,316 R+39.5
Columbia 4,175 29.0% 8,720 60.6% 1,500 14,395 R+31.6
Carbon 5,246 38.4% 7,503 55.0% 899 13,648 R+16.5
Susquehanna 2,830 21.8% 9,330 71.8% 837 12,997 R+50.0
Wayne 2,892 23.5% 8,692 70.6% 732 12,316 R+47.1
Bedford 2,322 19.3% 8,232 68.2% 1,508 12,062 R+49.0
Jefferson 2,473 22.1% 6,493 58.1% 2,213 11,179 R+36.0
Warren 2,301 20.7% 6,760 60.7% 2,074 11,135 R+40.0
Clarion 2,112 20.6% 5,861 57.2% 2,271 10,244 R+36.6
Perry 1,487 14.6% 7,023 68.8% 1,693 10,203 R+54.3
Pike 2,726 27.3% 6,843 68.5% 428 9,997 R+41.2
Tioga 2,071 20.9% 7,000 70.5% 852 9,923 R+49.7
McKean 2,086 21.2% 6,742 68.4% 1,024 9,852 R+47.3
Mifflin 2,010 20.6% 6,914 71.0% 812 9,736 R+50.4
Huntingdon 1,936 20.2% 6,253 65.3% 1,394 9,583 R+45.0
Wyoming 1,682 18.0% 6,965 74.5% 697 9,344 R+56.5
Greene 3,900 42.5% 4,211 45.9% 1,067 9,178 R+3.4
Elk 2,500 27.3% 4,520 49.4% 2,124 9,144 R+22.1
Clinton 2,656 30.9% 5,348 62.3% 583 8,587 R+31.3
Snyder 1,405 17.7% 5,565 69.9% 986 7,956 R+52.3
Union 1,700 21.5% 5,395 68.2% 815 7,910 R+46.7
Juniata 1,266 21.2% 3,947 66.0% 769 5,982 R+44.8
Potter 963 21.1% 3,121 68.5% 470 4,554 R+47.4
Montour 1,012 24.1% 2,700 64.2% 495 4,207 R+40.1
Fulton 885 26.5% 2,210 66.2% 241 3,336 R+39.7
Sullivan 524 22.7% 1,609 69.6% 178 2,311 R+46.9
Cameron 266 16.5% 688 42.8% 655 1,609 R+26.2
Forest 375 24.2% 987 63.8% 185 1,547 R+39.6

Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

Pennsylvania governor elections we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2022 Josh Shapiro (D) D+14.8
2018 Thomas W Wolf (D) D+17.1
2014 Thomas W. Wolf (D) D+9.9
2010 Tom Corbett (R) R+9.0
2006 Edward G. Rendell (D) D+20.7
2002 Edward G. Rendell (D) D+9.0
1998 Tom Ridge (R) R+26.4
1994 Tom Ridge (R) R+5.5
1990 Robert Casey (D) D+35.3
1986 Robert Casey (D) D+2.3
1982 Richard Thornburgh (R) R+2.7
1978 Richard Thornburgh (R) R+6.1
1974 Milton J. Shapp (D) D+8.6
1970 Milton J. Shapp (D) D+13.5
1966 Raymond P. Shafer (R) R+6.0
1962 William W. Scranton (R) R+11.1
1958 David L. Lawrence (D) D+1.9
1954 George M. Leader (D) D+7.5
1950 John S. Fine (R) R+2.4
1946 James H. Duff (R) R+17.8
1942 Edward Martin (R) R+8.5
1938 Arthur H. James (R) R+7.6
1934 George H. Earle (D) D+2.2
1930 Gifford Pinchot (R) R+2.8
1926 John Stuchell Fisher (R) R+49.0
1922 Gifford Pinchot (R) R+17.1
1918 William Cameron Sproul (R) R+27.3
1914 Martin Grove Brumbaugh (R) R+12.2
1910 John K. Tener (R) R+28.7
1906 Edwin Sydney Stuart (R) R+4.8
1902 Samuel W. Pennypacker (R) R+13.0
1898 William A. Stone (R) R+12.1
1894 Daniel H. Hastings (R) R+25.3
1890 Robert E. Pattison (D) D+1.8
1886 James A. Beaver (R) R+5.2
1882 Robert E. Pattison (D) D+5.4
1878 Henry Martyn Hoyt (R) R+3.2
1875 John Frederick Hartranft (R) R+2.0
1872 John Frederick Hartranft (R) R+5.3
1869 John White Geary (R) R+0.8
1866 John White Geary (R) R+2.9