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The Iowa gubernatorial election of 1998 took place on November 5 1998. Incumbent Republican Governor of Iowa Terry Branstad did not seek re-election to a fifth term therefore creating an open seat. To replace him State Senator Tom Vilsack narrowly won the nomination of the Democratic Party while former United States Congressman Jim Ross Lightfoot who was previously the Republican nominee for the United States Senate in 1996 won his party’s nomination.
