The 1998 United States Senate election in Georgia was held November 3, 1998. Incumbent
Republican U.S. Senator
Paul Coverdell
Paul Douglas Coverdell (January 20, 1939 – July 18, 2000) was an American politician who served as a United States senator from Georgia from 1993 until his death in 2000. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the director o ...
won a second term in office,
becoming the first of his party to ever win reelection to the U.S. Senate from Georgia. Coverdell would remain in the Senate until his death on July 18, 2000.
Democratic primary
Candidates
*
Michael Coles, co-founder of
Great American Cookies and nominee for U.S. Representative in
1996
1996 was designated as:
* International Year for the Eradication of Poverty
Events January
* January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
* Jimmy Allen Boyd, businessman
Results
General election
Candidates
*
Michael Coles, businessman and co-founder of
Great American Cookies (Democratic)
*
Paul Coverdell
Paul Douglas Coverdell (January 20, 1939 – July 18, 2000) was an American politician who served as a United States senator from Georgia from 1993 until his death in 2000. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the director o ...
, incumbent U.S. Senator (Republican)
* Daniel Fein (Socialist Workers) (write-in)
* Bert Loftman (Libertarian)
Polling
Results
See also
*
1998 United States Senate elections
Notes
;Partisan clients
References
{{United States elections, 1998
Georgia
Georgia most commonly refers to:
* Georgia (country), a country in the South Caucasus
* Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the southeastern United States
Georgia may also refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Georgia (name), a list of pe ...
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...
United States Senate
The United States Senate is a chamber of the Bicameralism, bicameral United States Congress; it is the upper house, with the United States House of Representatives, U.S. House of Representatives being the lower house. Together, the Senate and ...