The 1998 Georgia Gubernatorial Election was held on November 3, 1998. State Representative

Georgia House of Representatives

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 and former state Senator Roy Barnes

Roy Barnes

Roy Eugene Barnes served as the 80th Governor of Georgia from January 1999 until January 2003. Barnes was also a candidate for Governor of Georgia in the 2010 election....

 (D) won election for Governor after popular Incumbent Governor (and future U.S. Senator) Zell Miller

Zell Miller

Zell Bryan Miller is an American politician from the US state of Georgia. A Democrat, Miller served as Lieutenant Governor from 1975 to 1991, 79th Governor of Georgia from 1991 to 1999, and as United States Senator from 2000 to 2005....

 was term-limited. Barnes defeated Businessman Guy Millner

Guy Millner

Guy W. Millner is an American multi-millionaire businessman who ran as a Republican for governor of Georgia in 1994, United States Senator from Georgia in 1996 and Governor of Georgia in 1998, losing all three races....

 (R) in the latter's third and final campaign for public office. Despite narrow loses to Miller in 1994 for governor

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The 1994 Georgia Gubernatorial Election was held on November 8, 1994. Governor Zell Miller survived a strong challenge from Businessman Guy Millner to win re-election. This race was the second closest gubernatorial election in Georgian history since Reconstruction due to the strong Republican...

 and Max Cleland in 1996 for the U.S. Senate

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The 1996 United States Senate election in Georgia. was held on November 5, 1996. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Sam Nunn decided to retire. Democrat Max Cleland won the open seat by a little over thirty thousand votes.-Results:...

, Millner fared poorly in this election losing to Barnes 52.5% to 44.1%, having lost largely due to being dragged by the unpopularity of Mitch Skandalakis

Mitch Skandalakis

Demetrios John "Mitch" Skandalakis is a former American Republican politician from Georgia who rose quickly to national prominence in the early 1990s. He upset an established candidate to become chairman of a county board of commissioners, and in 1998 ran for lieutenant-governor, an election he...

 (R), who was running for Lieutenant Governor

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The Lieutenant Governor of Georgia is a constitutional officer of the state, elected to a 4-year term by popular vote. Unlike some states, the lieutenant governor is elected on a separate ticket from the state Governor....

 that year.