Results Accumulated and Provided by the Office of the Secretary of State - Election Division

 GOVERNOR AND LT. GOVERNOR 4055 prcts of 4055 reporting or 100.0% PARTY CANDIDATE NAME VOTES CAST % OF VOTES ===== ============================== ========== ========== RP JESSE VENTURA AND MAE SCHUNK 773713 37.0 R NORM COLEMAN AND GEN OLSON 717350 34.3 DFL HUBERT H "SKIP" HUMPHREY III A 587528 28.1 GPM KEN PENTEL AND SUSAN JASPER 7034 0.3 LIB FRANK GERMANN AND MICHAEL C. S 1932 0.1 GRP CHRIS WRIGHT AND D.G. PAULSEN 1727 0.1 SWP THOMAS FISKE AND JOHN HAWKINS 787 0.0 TPC FANCY RAY MCCLONEY AND (MOM) T 919 0.0 NP WRITE IN 776 0.0 

Notes

Jessie Ventura was elected governor by only 37% of the vote. Jesse Ventura Jesse Ventura (born July 15, 1951, as James George Janos, which is still his legal name) was elected the 38th Governor of Minnesota on November 3, 1998, after a career as Navy SEAL, professional wrestler, actor, mayor, and radio talk show host. ...

Ventura ran under the Reform Party, and successfully beat candidates from the generally stronger parties: Republican's Norm Coleman and DFL's Hubert H. "Skip" Humphrey III The Reform Party of the United States of America (abbreviated Reform Party USA or RPUSA) is a political party in the United States, founded by Ross Perot in 1995 under the belief that Americans were disillusioned with the state of politics--as being corrupt and unable to deal with vital... Norm Coleman Norman Bertram Norm Coleman (born August 17, 1949) is an American politician and Republican U.S. Senator from Minnesota since 2003. ... The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) was created on April 15, 1944 when the Minnesota Democratic Party and Farmer-Labor Party merged to create the DFL. Hubert H. Humphrey was instrumental in this merger. ... Hubert Horatio Skip Humphrey III is the son of former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey II and Muriel Humphrey. ...

Minnesota elects by plurality doesn't have any threshold support requirement or a runoff process. The first-past-the-post electoral system is a voting system for single-member districts, variously called first-past-the-post (FPTP or FPP), winner-take-all, plurality voting, or relative majority. ...

Since Ventura considered himself centrist, it is likely he may have also won a Top-Two runoff process. Runoff voting is a voting system used in single-seat elections. ...

External link

• http://www.sos.state.mn.us/election/genstate.pdfa