2018 California lieutenant gubernatorial election

2018 California lieutenant gubernatorial election

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Candidate Eleni Kounalakis Ed Hernandez
Party Democratic Democratic
Popular vote 5,914,068 4,543,863
Percentage 56.55% 43.45%

County results
Kounalakis:      50–60%      60–70%
Hernandez:      50–60%      60–70%

Lieutenant Governor before election

Gavin Newsom
Democratic

Elected Lieutenant Governor

Eleni Kounalakis
Democratic

The 2018 California lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the lieutenant governor of California. Incumbent Democratic lieutenant governor Gavin Newsom was ineligible to run for reelection due to term limits and ran for governor of California instead. Democrats Eleni Kounalakis and Ed Hernandez faced each other in the general election, as no Republican finished in the top two positions of the nonpartisan blanket primary that was held on June 5, 2018.