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.

Advanced to runoff

 * Geoff Duncan, state representative
 * David Shafer, state senator

Defeated in primary

 * Rick Jeffares, state senator

Declined

 * Brandon Beach, state senator (endorsed Jeffares)
 * Jim Butterworth, former state senator and former adjutant general of the Georgia National Guard
 * Casey Cagle, Lieutenant Governor of Georgia (running for Governor)
 * Bill Cowsert, Majority Leader of the Georgia State Senate
 * Tim Echols, Georgia Public Service Commissioner
 * Steve Gooch, state senator (endorsed Jeffares)
 * Burt Jones, state senator (endorsed Jeffares)
 * Rick Knox
 * Butch Miller, state senator (endorsed Shafer)
 * Allen Peake, state representative

Polling
Shafer

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Results
[[File:2018 Georgia lieutenant gubernatorial Republican primary runoff results map by county.svg|thumb| Duncan

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Declared

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

Declined

 * Stacey Evans, state representative (running for Governor)
 * Ken Hodges, former Dougherty County District Attorney and nominee for attorney general in 2010 (running for the Georgia Court of Appeals)
 * Ronnie Mabra, former state representative
 * Jon Ossoff, investigative filmmaker
 * Doug Stoner, Smyrna City Councilman and former state senator (running for the Public Service Commission)

Endorsements
[[File:2018 Georgia lieutenant gubernatorial Democratic primary results map by county.svg|thumb| Amico

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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.