2018 Georgia lieutenant gubernatorial election
The 2018 Georgia lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the lieutenant governor of Georgia, concurrently with the 2018 gubernatorial election, as well as elections to the United States Senate and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
Then-incumbent Republican lieutenant governor Casey Cagle chose to not run for re-election in order to run for governor, unsuccessfully.Republican primary
Candidates
Advanced to runoff
- Geoff Duncan, state representative
- David Shafer, state senator
Defeated in primary
- Rick Jeffares, state senator
Declined
- Brandon Beach, state senator
- Jim Butterworth, former state senator and former adjutant general of the Georgia National Guard
- Casey Cagle, Lieutenant Governor of Georgia
- Bill Cowsert, Majority Leader of the Georgia State Senate
- Tim Echols, Georgia Public Service Commissioner
- Steve Gooch, state senator
- Burt Jones, state senator
- Rick Knox
- Butch Miller, state senator
- Allen Peake, state representative
Endorsements
Polling
Results
Runoff
Polling
Results
Democratic primary
Candidates
Declared
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.
