1898 California gubernatorial election

1898 California gubernatorial election

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Nominee Henry Gage James G. Maguire Party Republican Democratic Alliance Fusion Popular vote 148,354 129,261 Percentage 51.68% 45.03%

County results Gage:     40-50%     50-60%     60-70% Maguire:     40-50%     50-60%     60-70%

Governor before election James Budd Democratic Elected Governor Henry Gage Republican

The 1898 California gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1898, to elect the Governor of California. Republican lawyer Henry Gage defeated Democratic-Fusion ^[1] Congressman James G. Maguire. For the eighth time in nine elections, the incumbent party failed to retain the governorship. However, that string of flips ended with this election as Republicans won the next nine consecutive gubernatorial elections in California. ^[a]

Results

California gubernatorial election, 1898 ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Henry Gage	148,354	51.68%	+12.76%
	Democratic	James G. Maguire	129,261	45.03%	+5.69%
	Socialist Labor	Job Harriman	5,143	1.79	+1.79%
	Prohibition	Joseph E. McComas	4,297	1.50	−2.21%
		Scattering	9	0.00%
Majority			19,093	6.65%
Total votes			287,064	100.00%
	Republican gain from Democratic		Swing	+7.07%

Results by county

County	Henry Gage Republican		James G. Maguire Democratic		Job Harriman Socialist Labor		Joseph E. McComas Prohibition		Scattering Write-in		Margin		Total votes cast [2]
	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%
Alameda	12,080	57.24%	8,308	39.37%	496	2.35%	220	1.04%	1	0.00%	3,772	17.87%	21,105
Alpine	64	69.57%	28	30.43%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	36	39.13%	92
Amador	1,351	49.93%	1,304	48.19%	24	0.89%	27	1.00%	0	0.00%	47	1.74%	2,706
Butte	2,245	51.38%	2,012	46.05%	43	0.98%	69	1.58%	0	0.00%	233	5.33%	4,369
Calaveras	1,609	52.24%	1,432	46.49%	23	0.75%	16	0.52%	0	0.00%	177	5.75%	3,080
Colusa	664	37.14%	1,076	60.18%	30	1.68%	18	1.01%	0	0.00%	-412	-23.04%	1,788
Contra Costa	1,893	55.42%	1,472	43.09%	22	0.64%	29	0.85%	0	0.00%	421	12.32%	3,416
Del Norte	354	51.98%	305	44.79%	13	1.91%	9	1.32%	0	0.00%	49	7.20%	681
El Dorado	1,332	47.45%	1,415	50.41%	34	1.21%	26	0.93%	0	0.00%	-83	-2.96%	2,807
Fresno	2,783	43.20%	3,390	52.62%	117	1.82%	152	2.36%	0	0.00%	-607	-9.42%	6,442
Glenn	561	39.79%	828	58.72%	7	0.50%	14	0.99%	0	0.00%	-267	-18.94%	1,410
Humboldt	3,171	56.78%	2,207	39.52%	123	2.20%	84	1.50%	0	0.00%	964	17.26%	5,585
Inyo	478	47.05%	508	50.00%	13	1.28%	17	1.67%	0	0.00%	-30	-2.95%	1,016
Kern	1,723	46.61%	1,886	51.01%	67	1.81%	21	0.57%	0	0.00%	-163	-4.41%	3,697
Kings	918	49.51%	898	48.44%	11	0.59%	27	1.46%	0	0.00%	20	1.08%	1,854
Lake	627	42.83%	757	51.71%	30	2.05%	50	3.42%	0	0.00%	-130	-8.88%	1,464
Lassen	558	54.39%	438	42.69%	16	1.56%	14	1.36%	0	0.00%	120	11.70%	1,026
Los Angeles	14,983	52.29%	12,052	42.06%	479	1.67%	1,138	3.97%	0	0.00%	2,931	10.23%	28,652
Madera	558	41.15%	765	56.42%	17	1.25%	16	1.18%	0	0.00%	-207	-15.27%	1,356
Marin	1,345	57.36%	945	40.30%	47	2.00%	8	0.34%	0	0.00%	400	17.06%	2,345
Mariposa	521	40.08%	747	57.46%	13	1.00%	19	1.46%	0	0.00%	-226	-17.38%	1,300
Mendocino	2,004	46.90%	2,188	51.21%	25	0.59%	56	1.31%	0	0.00%	-184	-4.31%	4,273
Merced	801	41.61%	1,074	55.79%	18	0.94%	32	1.66%	0	0.00%	-273	-14.18%	1,925
Modoc	375	39.72%	549	58.16%	12	1.27%	8	0.85%	0	0.00%	-174	-18.43%	944
Mono	335	57.66%	241	41.48%	2	0.34%	3	0.52%	0	0.00%	94	16.18%	581
Monterey	1,995	47.77%	2,050	49.09%	54	1.29%	77	1.84%	0	0.00%	-55	-1.32%	4,176
Napa	1,947	53.89%	1,578	43.68%	41	1.13%	47	1.30%	0	0.00%	369	10.21%	3,613
Nevada	2,577	55.80%	1,971	42.68%	19	0.41%	50	1.08%	1	0.02%	606	13.12%	4,618
Orange	1,992	50.03%	1,781	44.73%	32	0.80%	177	4.45%	0	0.00%	211	5.30%	3,982
Placer	2,216	54.25%	1,808	44.26%	26	0.64%	34	0.83%	1	0.02%	408	9.99%	4,085
Plumas	660	54.10%	544	44.59%	8	0.66%	8	0.66%	0	0.00%	116	9.51%	1,220
Riverside	2,118	54.53%	1,518	39.08%	69	1.78%	179	4.61%	0	0.00%	600	15.45%	3,884
Sacramento	5,689	61.42%	3,414	36.86%	102	1.10%	57	0.62%	0	0.00%	2,275	24.56%	9,262
San Benito	738	42.05%	984	56.07%	14	0.80%	19	1.08%	0	0.00%	-246	-14.02%	1,755
San Bernardino	2,688	48.74%	2,506	45.44%	98	1.78%	223	4.04%	0	0.00%	182	3.30%	5,515
San Diego	3,506	49.26%	3,259	45.79%	208	2.92%	144	2.02%	0	0.00%	247	3.47%	7,117
San Francisco	28,218	51.90%	24,632	45.30%	1,388	2.55%	134	0.25%	0	0.00%	3,586	6.60%	54,372
San Joaquin	3,894	54.73%	3,018	42.42%	121	1.70%	80	1.12%	2	0.03%	876	12.31%	7,115
San Luis Obispo	1,657	46.27%	1,828	51.05%	31	0.87%	65	1.82%	0	0.00%	-171	-4.78%	3,581
San Mateo	1,587	58.03%	1,098	40.15%	36	1.32%	14	0.51%	0	0.00%	489	17.88%	2,735
Santa Barbara	2,072	51.83%	1,736	43.42%	95	2.38%	95	2.38%	0	0.00%	336	8.40%	3,998
Santa Clara	6,821	56.02%	4,883	40.11%	292	2.40%	179	1.47%	0	0.00%	1,938	15.92%	12,175
Santa Cruz	2,149	48.83%	2,081	47.28%	93	2.11%	78	1.77%	0	0.00%	68	1.55%	4,401
Shasta	1,598	42.62%	2,028	54.09%	71	1.89%	52	1.39%	0	0.00%	-430	-11.47%	3,749
Sierra	757	60.71%	480	38.49%	5	0.40%	4	0.32%	1	0.08%	277	22.21%	1,247
Siskiyou	1,737	49.37%	1,722	48.95%	38	1.08%	21	0.60%	0	0.00%	15	0.43%	3,518
Solano	3,005	55.50%	2,262	41.78%	95	1.75%	52	0.96%	0	0.00%	743	13.72%	5,414
Sonoma	4,063	51.87%	3,587	45.79%	100	1.28%	83	1.06%	0	0.00%	476	6.08%	7,833
Stanislaus	1,127	44.69%	1,336	52.97%	21	0.83%	38	1.51%	0	0.00%	-209	-8.29%	2,522
Sutter	880	54.42%	704	43.54%	13	0.80%	20	1.24%	0	0.00%	176	10.88%	1,617
Tehama	1,088	47.35%	1,170	50.91%	25	1.09%	15	0.65%	0	0.00%	-82	-3.57%	2,298
Trinity	687	53.17%	584	45.20%	14	1.08%	7	0.54%	0	0.00%	103	7.97%	1,292
Tulare	1,725	40.58%	2,245	52.81%	204	4.80%	74	1.74%	3	0.07%	-520	-12.23%	4,251
Tuolumne	1,219	41.92%	1,598	54.95%	42	1.44%	49	1.69%	0	0.00%	-379	-13.03%	2,908
Ventura	1,643	52.16%	1,369	43.46%	57	1.81%	81	2.57%	0	0.00%	274	8.70%	3,150
Yolo	1,695	49.46%	1,651	48.18%	33	0.96%	48	1.40%	0	0.00%	44	1.28%	3,427
Yuba	1,273	54.87%	1,011	43.58%	16	0.69%	20	0.86%	0	0.00%	262	11.29%	2,320
Total	148,354	51.68%	129,261	45.03%	5,143	1.79%	4,297	1.50%	9	0.00%	19,093	6.65%	287,064

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

• Amador ^[b]
• San Francisco
• San Joaquin
• Santa Clara
• Yolo

Counties that flipped from People's to Republican

• Humboldt

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

• Inyo
• Monterey
• San Luis Obispo
• Tehama

Counties that flipped from People's to Democratic

• Shasta

Notes

1. Hiram Johnson was reelected in 1914 on the Progressive ticket, but had originally been elected as a Republican in 1910 and resumed that party affiliation for the US Senate election in 1916
2. Was tied in 1894; flip from Democratic is relative to 1890

References

1. "Maguire by acclamation". San Francisco Call . San Francisco. August 19, 1898. Retrieved October 17, 2024.
2. California Secretary of State. California Blue Book, or State Roster 1899. Sacramento, California: State Printing Office. p. 227. Retrieved July 18, 2024.