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 [United States Senate United States Senate elections, 2018|elections, 2018|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.

Republican primary

Candidates

Advanced to runoff

Defeated in primary

Declined

Democratic primary

Candidates

Declared

Declined

General election

Results

By congressional district

Duncan won nine of 14 congressional districts.
DistrictDuncanRiggs AmicoRepresentative
58%42%Buddy Carter
45%55%Sanford Bishop
65%35%Drew Ferguson
21%79%Hank Johnson
13%87%John Lewis
49.9%50.1%Lucy McBath
51%49%Rob Woodall
65%35%Austin Scott
80%20%Doug Collins
63%37%Jody Hice
61%39%Barry Loudermilk
59%41%Rick W. Allen
24%76%David Scott
76%24%Tom Graves

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.