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November 5, 1918

General Election

Governor
Theodore A. Bell Independent 36.5% Loss
James Rolph Jr. Write-in 3% Loss
Henry H. Roser Socialist 4.2% Loss
William D. Stephens Republican 56.3% Win
 
Lieutenant Governor
Elvina S. Beals Socialist 6.4% Loss
Jo V. Snyder Democratic 39.5% Loss
C. C. Young Republican 54.1% Win
 
Secretary of State
James S. Edwards Prohibition 22.6% Loss
Frank C. Jordan Republican 77.4% Win
 
Controller
John S. Chambers Republican 75.3% Win
Horace A. Johnson Prohibition 16.7% Loss
John C. Taylor Socialist 8% Loss
 
Treasurer
H. K. Albright Socialist 7.6% Loss
T. K. Beard Prohibition 14.2% Loss
Friend William Richardson Republican 78.2% Win
 
Attorney General
Harry M. McKee Socialist 7.5% Loss
Thomas M. Stewart Prohibition 14.6% Loss
U. S. Webb Republican 77.9% Win
 
Surveyor General
W. S. Kingsbury Republican 80.7% Win
Harry V. Wheeler Prohibition 19.3% Loss
 
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Edward Hyatt Nonpartisan 46.3% Loss
Will C. Wood Nonpartisan 53.7% Win
 
SBOE1
John C. Corbett Democratic 100% Win
 
SBOE2
John Mitchell Republican 100% Win
 
SBOE3
Richard E. Collins Republican 100% Win
 
SBOE4
Phillip D. Wilson Republican 100% Win
 
CD-01
Clarence F. Lea Democratic 100% Win
 
CD-02
John E. Raker Democratic 100% Win
 
CD-03
C. F. Curry Republican 91.6% Win
Allen K. Gifford Socialist 8.4% Loss
 
CD-04
Julius Kahn Republican 86.6% Win
William Short Socialist 13.4% Loss
 
CD-05
Thomas F. Feeley Socialist 13% Loss
John I. Nolan Republican 87% Win
 
CD-06
John A. Elston Republican 88.4% Win
Luella Twining Socialist 11.6% Loss
 
CD-07
Henry E. Barbour Republican 52.1% Win
Henry Hawson Democratic 47.9% Loss
 
CD-08
E. A. Hayes Republican 47% Win
Hugh S. Hersman Democratic 53% Loss
 
CD-09
Montaville Flowers Republican 43.3% Loss
Grace Silver Henry Socialist 3.7% Loss
Charles H. Randall (I) Prohibition 53% Win
 
CD-10
Henry Z. Osborne Republican 88.2% Win
James H. Ryckman Socialist 11.8% Loss
 
CD-11
N. D. Hamilton Prohibition 27.8% Loss
William Kettner Democratic 72.2% Win
 
SD-02
Ernest W. Elfendahl Republican 50% Loss
William B. Shearer Democratic 50% Win
 
SD-04
Claude F. Purkitt Democratic 100% Win
 
SD-06
W. E. Duncan Jr. Democratic 50.4% Win
Dr. W. F. Gates Republican 49.6% Loss
 
SD-08
Herbert W. Slater Democratic 100% Win
 
SD-10
George W. Ashley Republican 46.5% Loss
Frank S. Boggs Democratic 49.4% Win
David Thomas Ross Socialist 4.1% Loss
 
SD-12
John Barry Curtin Democratic 46.4% Loss
Lewis L. Dennett Republican 53.6% Win
 
SD-14
J. Edward Morgan Socialist 17.2% Loss
Edwin H. Otis Republican 82.8% Win
 
SD-16
A. P. Anderson Republican 60.3% Win
Frank V. Cornish Democratic 27.4% Loss
George Nisbet Socialist 12.2% Loss
 
SD-18
Victor J. Canepa Republican 100% Win
 
SD-20
William Stoddard "Wild Bill" Scott Republican 100% Win
 
SD-22
John Joseph Crowley Republican 100% Win
 
SD-24
Lawrence J. Flaherty Republican 100% Win
 
SD-26
M. B. Harris Republican 100% Win
 
SD-28
Herbert C. Jones Republican 100% Win
 
SD-30
Lyman M. King Republican 100% Win
 
SD-32
J. L. C. Irwin Democratic 100% Win
 
SD-34
Charles W. Lyon Republican 62.8% Win
John P. Steele Democratic 32.2% Loss
L. Paul Zahn Socialist 4.9% Loss
 
SD-36
William J. Carr Republican 100% Win
 
SD-38
Charles H. V. Lewis Independent 26% Loss
Henry H. Yonkin Republican 74% Win
 
SD-40
Charles F. O'Neall Democratic 47.4% Loss
Ed P. Sample Republican 52.6% Win
 
AD-01
H. B. Ream Democratic 77.4% Win
Hiram Thomas Whitley Socialist 22.6% Loss
 
AD-02
Frank J. Cummings Republican 100% Win
 
AD-03
C. C. McCray Republican 50.9% Win
Byron Ogburn Democratic 49.1% Loss
 
AD-04
A. J. Mathews Republican 100% Win
 
AD-05
Harry Polsley Democratic 100% Win
 
AD-06
Charles Kasch Republican 51.6% Win
F. W. Taft Democratic 48.4% Loss
 
AD-07
Elizabeth Hughes Republican 100% Win
 
AD-08
Ed Lewis Republican 100% Win
 
AD-09
Ivan H. Parker Republican 100% Win
 
AD-10
Oscar W. Hilton Republican 100% Win
 
AD-11
Bismarck Bruck Republican 75.4% Win
W. H. Cameron Prohibition 24.6% Loss
 
AD-12
A. F. Stevens Republican 100% Win
 
AD-13
Robert Madison Republican 100% Win
 
AD-14
John W. Johnston Republican 100% Win
 
AD-15
Lee Gebhart Republican 100% Win
 
AD-16
V. M. Airola Republican 44.4% Loss
C. P. Vicini Democratic 55.6% Win
 
AD-17
James E. Manning Republican 100% Win
 
AD-18
William E. Calahan Republican 80.4% Win
J. W. Sowers Socialist 19.6% Loss
 
AD-19
David W. Miller Democratic 100% Win
 
AD-20
Miles William Beck Socialist 13.1% Loss
Charles Lamb Republican 86.9% Win
 
AD-21
Frederick C. Hawes Republican 78.8% Win
Martha Steiner Socialist 21.2% Loss
 
AD-22
Fred Bergstrom Socialist 18.2% Loss
Thomas A. Mitchell Democratic 81.8% Win
 
AD-23
Charles J. McColgan Republican 77.8% Win
Walter E. Walker Socialist 22.2% Loss
 
AD-24
William M. Collins Republican 83.2% Win
R. Giller Socialist 16.8% Loss
 
AD-25
Charles William Godsil Republican 86.8% Win
Walter Towers Socialist 13.2% Loss
 
AD-26
William J. Kenney Republican 86.1% Win
J. A. Ragsdale Socialist 13.9% Loss
 
AD-27
Nicholas J. Prendergast Republican 85.8% Win
H. Warfield Socialist 14.2% Loss
 
AD-28
Charles W. Goetting Republican 100% Win
 
AD-29
Kora Callaway Socialist 15.4% Loss
Harry F. Morrison Republican 84.6% Win
 
AD-30
Clarence W. Morris Republican 58.3% Win
Stephen M. White (II) Democratic 41.7% Loss
 
AD-31
L. H. Mooser Jr. Democratic 39.1% Loss
Albert A. Rosenshine Republican 60.9% Win
 
AD-32
George W. Warren Republican 100% Win
 
AD-33
John B. Badaracco Democratic 52% Win
Leo R. Friedman Republican 48% Loss
 
AD-34
J. Leonard Rose Republican 86.1% Win
A. H. Steward Socialist 13.9% Loss
 
AD-35
William J. Locke Republican 86.1% Win
G. E. Regula Socialist 13.9% Loss
 
AD-36
Leon E. Gray Republican 100% Win
 
AD-37
Clifton E. Brooks Republican 87.8% Win
J. O. Johnson Socialist 12.2% Loss
 
AD-38
P. B. Cowdery Socialist 18.6% Loss
Edgar S. Hurley Republican 81.4% Win
 
AD-39
Frank W. Anderson Republican 83.9% Win
W. F. Drury Socialist 16.1% Loss
 
AD-40
W. T. Drake Socialist 17.8% Loss
Arthur A. Wendering Republican 82.2% Win
 
AD-41
Herbert L. Coggins Socialist 9.9% Loss
Anna L. Saylor Republican 90.1% Win
 
AD-42
Frank Leonard Eksward Republican 100% Win
 
AD-43
Champ S. Price Republican 52.7% Win
G. W. Smith Democratic 47.3% Loss
 
AD-44
T. M. Wright Republican 100% Win
 
AD-45
Grant R. Bennett Republican 100% Win
 
AD-46
Esto B. Broughton Democratic 100% Win
 
AD-47
Maurice B. Browne Democratic 55% Win
G. Watterson Republican 45% Loss
 
AD-48
William J. Martin Republican 100% Win
 
AD-49
Guy Windrem Democratic 100% Win
 
AD-50
G. G. Jacobs Democratic 43.9% Loss
B. W. McKeen Republican 56.1% Win
 
AD-51
F. C. Huebner Republican 49.9% Loss
S. L. Strother Democratic 50.1% Win
 
AD-52
Melvin Pettit Democratic 100% Win
 
AD-53
G. H. Andrews Democratic 47.4% Loss
Carlton W. Greene Republican 52.6% Win
 
AD-54
T. E. Cochrane Republican 48.9% Loss
Oscar L. Odale Democratic 51.1% Win
 
AD-55
Charles W. Cleary Republican 52.1% Win
J. West Martin Democratic 47.9% Loss
 
AD-56
Grace S. Dorris Republican 100% Win
 
AD-57
Crombie Allen Republican 100% Win
 
AD-58
Samuel Knight Jr. Republican 100% Win
 
AD-59
William C. Oakley Democratic 54% Win
J. B. Rickard Republican 46% Loss
 
AD-60
Joseph Mayo Argabrite Democratic 100% Win
 
AD-61
A. G. Lindley Democratic 44.5% Loss
S. Robbins Socialist 6% Loss
John Robert White Jr. Republican 49.5% Win
 
AD-62
George R. Wickham Republican 100% Win
 
AD-63
Sidney T. Graves Republican 65.8% Win
W. H. Peterson Socialist 3.8% Loss
Harold "Hal" Wilson Democratic 30.4% Loss
 
AD-64
George A. Lynch Republican 89.7% Win
Julius Zuckerman Socialist 10.3% Loss
 
AD-65
J. D. Dawson Democratic 27.1% Loss
George M. Easton Republican 40.1% Win
Charles Kiesner Independent 24.7% Loss
Gus Kuentz Socialist 8.1% Loss
 
AD-66
Thomas L. Ambrose Republican 47.6% Win
Lucius Christian Dale Prohibition 10.8% Loss
L. R. E. Keeley Democratic 41.6% Loss
 
AD-67
Franklin D. Mather Republican 100% Win
 
AD-68
C. W. Guerin Independent 40.7% Loss
Henry A. Miller Republican 59.3% Win
 
AD-69
Henry W. Wright Republican 100% Win
 
AD-70
Frank F. Merriam Republican 100% Win
 
AD-71
Henry E. Carter Republican 45.7% Win
John S. Horn Democratic 42.4% Loss
Linnie M. Story Socialist 11.9% Loss
 
AD-72
Alexander P. Fleming Republican 100% Win
 
AD-73
Elmer P. Bromley Republican 81.6% Win
Edward L. Osgood Socialist 18.4% Loss
 
AD-74
Frank E. Gayhart Independent 38.8% Loss
Frederick M. Roberts Republican 49.3% Win
William J. Scully Socialist 11.9% Loss
 
AD-75
Edwin Baker Republican 88.1% Win
Iona G. Woodard Socialist 11.9% Loss
 
AD-76
Walter Eden Republican 100% Win
 
AD-77
Chester M. Kline Republican 100% Win
 
AD-78
J. Stanley Brown Republican 100% Win
 
AD-79
Fred E. Lindley Republican 100% Win
 
AD-80
W. A. Doran Republican 100% Win
 

Special Election

Special Election to fill the vacancy created by the death of State Senator Henry H. Lyon (SD-29).

SD-29
J. J. Doherty Independent 12.9% Loss
Dwight H. Hart Independent 46.4% Win
Frank H. Mouser Independent 24.7% Loss
Peter C. Philips Independent 16% Loss