The 2018 election for

lieutenant governor of Idaho The Lieutenant governor (United States), lieutenant governor of Idaho is a constitutional statewide elected office in the U.S. state of Idaho. According to the Idaho Constitution, the officeholder is elected to a four-year term. The current lieu ...

took place on November 6, 2018. The primary election to select the candidates from each party to run in the general election took place on May 15, 2018. Lieutenant governors serve a four-year term or terms. In 2018, the incumbent lieutenant governor,

Brad Little Bradley Jay Little (born February 15, 1954) is an American politician serving as the 33rd governor of Idaho since January 2019. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he served as the 42nd Lieutenant Governor of Idaho ...

, won the Republican nomination for governor and declined to run for re-election in order to run for governor.

Democratic primary candidates

* Kristin Collum of

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* Jim Fabe of

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Results

Kristin Collum received 52,417 votes and 88.2% of the votes, and Jim Fabe received 6,987 votes and 11.8% of the votes.

Republican primary candidates

Declared candidates

Marv Hagedorn Marv Hagedorn (born March 2, 1956, in Omak, Washington) has been Idaho's Veterans Division administrator since July 30, 2018. Hagedorn was a Republican Idaho Senator representing District 14 from 2012 to 2018. He previously was an Idaho State ...

Meridian, Idaho Meridian is a city located in Ada County, Idaho, Ada County, Idaho, United States. The population was 117,635 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List of cities in Idaho, 2nd most populous city in the county and Idaho a ...

Janice McGeachin Janice Kyes McGeachin (; born January 18, 1963) is an American politician and businesswoman who served as the 43rd lieutenant governor of Idaho from 2019 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party, she was previously a member of the Idaho House o ...

Idaho Falls, Idaho Idaho Falls is the fourth most populous city in Idaho and the county seat of Bonneville County. It is the state's most populous city outside the Boise metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the population of Idaho Falls was 64,818.2020 Cen ...

Bob Nonini Robert Paul Nonini (born August 7, 1954) is an American politician who was a Republican member of the Idaho Senate serving District 3 from 2012 to 2018. He previously served in the Idaho State Representative from 2004 to 2012 representing Distri ...

Coeur d'Alene, Idaho Coeur d'Alene ( ; ) is a city and the county seat of Kootenai County, Idaho, United States. It is the most populous city in North Idaho and the principal city of the Coeur d'Alene Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 54,628 at th ...

* Kelley Packer of

McCammon, Idaho McCammon is a city in Bannock County, Idaho, United States. It is part of the Pocatello, Idaho Pocatello metropolitan area, Metropolitan Statistical Area'. The population was 825 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. In 1892, McCammon ...

* Stephen J. Yates of Boise, Idaho

Withdrawn candidates

* Rebecca W. Arnold of Boise, Idaho

Primary

On March 3, 2018,

reportedly nodded when asked at a candidates' forum if the punishment for getting an

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should include the

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. However, he denied ever having nodded in agreement. "Prosecutions have always been focused on the abortionist," he said later, but such a law and "...the threat of prosecution, would dramatically reduce abortion. That is my goal."

Results

Voter eligibility

Idaho's closed primary election allows only registered Republicans and unaffiliated voters the option of voting to select the next Republican candidate for lieutenant governor. Any registered or unregistered voter may vote in the Democratic primary to select the next lieutenant governor candidate from the two candidates running. Idaho has a same-day voter registration system which allows any voter to register to vote at a polling place on election day.

General election

Janice McGeachin was elected Idaho's 43rd lieutenant governor with 356,512 votes and 59.7% of the votes. Kristin Collum received 240,355 votes and 40.3% of the votes.

By congressional district

McGeachin won both congressional districts.https://davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap::14e046b2-98a2-4b59-bfe3-6c8afee85f43

References

Lieutenant Governor A lieutenant governor, lieutenant-governor, or vice governor is a high officer of state, whose precise role and rank vary by jurisdiction. Often a lieutenant governor is the deputy, or lieutenant, to or ranked under a governor — a "second-in-comm ...

Idaho Idaho ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain states, Mountain West subregions of the Western United States. It borders Montana and Wyoming to the east, Nevada and Utah to the south, and Washington (state), ...

Idaho lieutenant gubernatorial elections {{2018 United States elections

Democratic primary candidates

Results

Republican primary candidates

Declared candidates

Withdrawn candidates

Primary

Results

Voter eligibility

General election

By congressional district

See also

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