1918 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election
The 1918 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election occurred on November 5, 1918. Incumbent Republican governor Martin Brumbaugh was not a candidate for re-election. Republican candidate William Sproul defeated Democratic candidate Eugene C. Bonniwell to become Governor of Pennsylvania.
Democratic primary
Candidates
- Eugene C. Bonniwell, judge of the Philadelphia Municipal Court
- Joseph F. Guffey, business executive
- John Butch McDevitt
Republican primary
Candidates
- Robert Patton Habgood
- J. Denny O'Neil
- William Sproul, member of the Pennsylvania State Senate
- Asa A. Weimer