1998 Texas gubernatorial election
The 1998 Texas gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1998, to elect the governor of Texas. Republican incumbent George W. Bush was re-elected in a landslide over Democratic Texas Land Commissioner Garry Mauro, with 68 percent of the vote. The landslide victory established Bush as the early front-runner for the 2000 Republican Party presidential nomination, which he ultimately won before winning the 2000 presidential election. Bush carried 239 counties, while Mauro carried just 15. Exit polls revealed that Bush won 27 percent of the African American vote, the highest percentage for any Republican statewide candidate in the country, and 49 percent of the Latino vote. This was the first election in which Republicans won consecutive gubernatorial elections in the state. Bush's 37-point margin of victory was the largest won by any candidate since 1964 and is, to date, the largest ever won by a Republican candidate. As of 2026, this is the most recent gubernatorial election in which...
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