The 2018 Georgia lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the

lieutenant governor of Georgia The lieutenant governor of Georgia is a constitutional officer of the State of Georgia, elected to a four-year term by popular vote. Unlike in some other U.S. states, the lieutenant governor is elected on a separate ticket from the Governor of Ge ...

, concurrently with the 2018 gubernatorial election, as well as

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to the

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and

to the

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and various

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and

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. Then-incumbent

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lieutenant governor

Casey Cagle Lowell Stacy "Casey" Cagle (born January 12, 1966) is an American politician and businessman, who served as the 11th lieutenant governor of Georgia from 2007 to 2019. He was previously a Republican Party member of the Georgia General Assembly f ...

chose to not run for re-election in order to run for governor.

Republican primary

Candidates

Advanced to runoff

Geoff Duncan Geoffrey L. Duncan (born April 1, 1975) is an American businessman, politician, and former professional baseball player, serving as the 12th lieutenant governor of Georgia since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Duncan is a former membe ...

, state representative * David Shafer, state senator

Defeated in primary

Rick Jeffares Rick Jeffares is an American politician who served in the Georgia State Senate as a member of the Republican Party from 2010-2017. He represented Senate District 17, which encompasses Henry, Newton, and Rockdale Counties. In 2018, Jeffares was run ...

, state senator

Declined

Brandon Beach Brandon Lamont Beach (born May 2, 1961) is an American politician serving as a member of the Georgia State Senate.. Senate.ga.gov. Retrieved June 28, 2013. Beach was first elected in the 2012 general election and serves Georgia's 21st district, ...

, state senator (endorsed Jeffares) * Jim Butterworth, former state senator and former adjutant general of the

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( running for Governor) *

Bill Cowsert William Stone Cowsert (born September 1, 1958) is an American politician from the state of Georgia. A member of the Republican Party, Cowsert serves in the Georgia State Senate, representing the 46th district. Early life and education Cowsert was ...

, Majority Leader of the

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er *

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, state senator (endorsed Jeffares) *

Burt Jones William Burton Jones (born April 25, 1979) is an American politician and businessman who is serving as the 13th lieutenant governor of Georgia, since 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he has been a member of the Georgia State Senate, electe ...

, state senator (endorsed Jeffares) * Rick Knox * Butch Miller, state senator (endorsed Shafer) *

Allen Peake Allen Peake (born February 17, 1961) is an American politician. He previously served as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from the 141st District, serving from 2007 until Jan. 14, 2019. He is a member of the Republican party. Al ...

, state representative

Endorsements

Polling

Results

Runoff

Polling

Results

Democratic primary

Candidates

Declared

* Sarah Riggs Amico, businesswoman * Triana Arnold James, small businessowner, and veteran

Declined

Stacey Evans Stacey Godfrey Evans (born May 5, 1978) is an American politician and Georgia State Representative for District 57 starting in 2021. She received 56.8% of the primary vote, and was uncontested in the general election. A member of the Democratic P ...

, state representative ( running for Governor) *

Ken Hodges Kenneth (Ken) B. Hodges III (born September 22, 1965) is a Judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals and the former Dougherty County District Attorney and was the Democratic nominee for Attorney General of Georgia in 2010. In 2015, Hodges started h ...

, former

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District Attorney and nominee for attorney general in 2010 (running for the

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) *

Ronnie Mabra Ronald Edwin Mabra, Jr. is an American attorney and politician who served as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from 2013 to 2016. Mabra played football for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, where he was a member of the All-ACC Acad ...

, former state representative *

Jon Ossoff Thomas Jonathan Ossoff ( ; born February 16, 1987) is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Georgia since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, Ossoff was previously a documentary filmmaker and investigative ...

, investigative filmmaker *

Doug Stoner Doug Stoner, a member of the Democratic Party, is a member of the Georgia House of Representatives, a former member of the Georgia State Senate, and a former candidate to be chairman of the Georgia Democratic Party. He ran in the 2018 Democratic ...

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City Councilman and former state senator (running for the Public Service Commission)

Endorsements

Polling

Results

General election

Endorsements

Polling

Results

Irregularities

There was a significant drop-off in votes between the election for governor, which counted 3,939,409 votes, to the lieutenant governor election, with 3,780,304 votes. The undervote, larger than that seen in other statewide races, was found by the Coalition for Good Governance to have occurred in predominantly African American neighborhoods, but only with touchscreen voting machines, not absentee ballots. The change in votes was statistically significant compared to the typical smaller undervote in white areas.

References

External links

;Official campaign websites
Geoff Duncan (R) for Lt. GovernorSarah Riggs Amico (D) for Lt. Governor
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