Election/1999 United States gubernatorial elections (Pamela Mora)

United States gubernatorial elections were held in three states on November 2, 1999. The last regular gubernatorial elections for all three states was in 1995. Democrats had to defend their incumbent in Kentucky, with Republicans having to defend their incumbent in Louisiana, with an open seat in Mississippi. Going into these elections, Republicans held 32 to the Democrat's 18. They picked up 1 seat from an incumbent, and held the open seat.

Close races
Between 1% and 5%
 * 1) Kentucky: 3.1%
 * 2) Louisiana: 3.8%

Dark red denotes Republican races.

Kentucky
The 1999 Kentucky gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1999, to elect the governor of Kentucky. Incumbent Paul E Patton, first elected in 1995, faced state senator Dustin Meier, who won the primary with 30.7%. Despite being a close race in the polls, and being up four points on Week 44, Patton would lose re-election by 44,490 votes, 3.1%. [[File:Kentucky 1999 Governor Results (Pamela Moro).svg|thumb|295px|Counties won by candidate. Meier

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Louisiana
The 1999 Louisiana gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1999, to elect the governor of Louisiana. Incumbent Murphy Foster Jr., first elected in 1995, faced state representative Ray Burch. Both Foster and Burch advanced to the runoff on Tuesday, May 11, 1999.

Louisiana is the only state to use the non-partisan primary system, where all candidates regardless of party compete for the top two positions, who advance to the general election in November. Total Democratic votes were 364,935 (51.04%).

Jungle Primary

Foster won re-election in a narrow 3.7% margin, the closest Republican election since Dave Treen's ascension to the governor's mansion in 1979. [[File:Louisiana 1999 Governor Results.svg|thumb|295px|Parishes won by candidate. Foster

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Mississippi
The 1999 Mississippi gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1999, to elect the governor of Mississippi. Incumbent governor Kirk Fordice, first elected in 1991, was term limited under the constitution. Republican state senator Hudson Curtis will face Democratic State Senator Haley Rivas. [[File:Mississippi 1999 Governor Results (Pamela Moro).svg|thumb|245px|Counties won by candidate. Curtis

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