Mississippi gubernatorial election, 1999
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The 1999 Mississippi gubernatorial election took place on November 4, 1999, in order to elect the Governor of Mississippi. Incumbent Republican Kirk Fordice was term-limited, and could not seek a third term. As of 2017, this is the most recent time in which a Democrat was elected Governor of Mississippi.
Lieutenant Governor Ronnie Musgrove won the Democratic primary, defeating former Commissioner of Public Safety Jim Roberts and 5 other candidates.
Former U.S. Representative Michael Parker won the Republican primary, defeating former Lieutenant Governor Eddie Briggs and 4 other candidates.
Parker had almost 9,000 fewer votes than Musgrove. However, due to the presence of two minor candidates, Musgrove came up a few thousand votes short of a majority. Under an 1890 law, the first tiebreaker was whoever won the most state electoral votes (based on state House of Representatives districts). Each candidate won 61 of the 122 state electoral votes. The election was thus decided by the Mississippi House of Representatives, where the Democrats had a supermajority at the time. However, Parker refused to concede, and the House elected Musgrove 86-36 along partisan lines.
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