2018 California lieutenant gubernatorial election
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 successfully 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.
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Primary
Candidates
Democratic Party
Declared
- Jeff Bleich, former United States Ambassador to Australia[1][2]
- Cameron Gharabiklou, attorney and businessman[3]
- Ed Hernandez, state senator[4][5]
- Eleni Kounalakis, former United States Ambassador to Hungary[6]
Declined
- Kevin de León, President pro tempore of the California State Senate (running for U.S. Senate)[7]
- Mike Gatto, State Assemblyman (running for State Treasurer)[4]
- Mark Leno, former State Senator (running for Mayor of San Francisco)[4][8][9]
- John Pérez, former Speaker of the California State Assembly[10][11]
- Darrell Steinberg, Mayor of Sacramento and former State Senator[4][12]
Republican Party
Declared
Declined
- Tom Berryhill, state senator[17][18]
- Anthony Cannella, state senator[4][19][20]
Libertarian Party
Declared
- Tim Ferreira[13]
No Party Preference
Declared
- Gayle McLaughlin, former Mayor of Richmond[21][14]
- Danny Thomas[13]
Endorsements
Jeff Bleich |
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Cole Harris |
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David Hernandez |
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Ed Hernandez |
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Eleni Kounalakis |
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Titles for identification purposes only* |
Gayle McLaughlin |
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Polling
Poll source | Date(s) administered |
Sample size |
Margin of error |
Jeff Bleich (D) |
Cole Harris (R) |
David R. Hernandez (R) |
Ed Hernandez (D) |
Eleni Kounalakis (D) |
Gayle McLaughlin (NPP) | Undecided |
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YouGov | May 12–24, 2018 | 1,113 | ± 4.0% | 6% | 16% | 6% | 9% | 14% | 4% | 41% |
Results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Eleni Kounalakis | 1,587,940 | 24.2% | |
Democratic | Ed Hernandez | 1,347,442 | 20.6% | |
Republican | Cole Harris | 1,144,003 | 17.5% | |
Democratic | Jeff Bleich | 648,045 | 9.9% | |
Republican | David Fennell | 515,956 | 7.9% | |
Republican | Lydia Ortega | 419,512 | 6.4% | |
Republican | David R. Hernandez | 404,982 | 6.2% | |
No party preference | Gayle McLaughlin | 263,364 | 4.0% | |
Libertarian | Tim Ferreira | 99,949 | 1.5% | |
Democratic | Cameron Gharabiklou | 78,267 | 1.2% | |
No party preference | Danny Thomas | 44,121 | 0.7% | |
No party preference | Marjan S. Fariba (write-in) | 18 | 0.0% | |
Total votes | 6,553,599 | 100% |
By county
Results by county. Blue represents counties won by Kounalakis and counties with Democratic vote majorities. Red represents counties won by Harris and counties with Republican vote majorities. Orange represents counties won by Ed Hernandez. Green represents counties won by Fennell. Light blue represents counties with Democratic vote pluralities. Light red represents counties with Republican vote pluralities.
County | McLaughlin (NPP) | Kounalakis (D) | Ed Hernandez (D) | Bleich (D) | Democratic total | Fennell (R) | Harris (R) | Ortega (R) | David Hernandez (R) | Republican total | Other |
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Alameda | 8.7 | 31.4 | 19.0 | 20.3 | 71.9% | 4.7 | 6.3 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 17.6% | 1.8 |
Alpine | 1.9 | 25.4 | 18.4 | 12.8 | 58.2% | 13.1 | 10.4 | 9.1 | 4.0 | 36.6% | 3.2 |
Amador | 2.2 | 21.6 | 10.2 | 4.4 | 36.6% | 16.1 | 23.2 | 9.3 | 9.5 | 58.1% | 3.0 |
Butte | 4.4 | 18.8 | 15.6 | 6.4 | 42.7% | 12.1 | 21.5 | 9.5 | 6.9 | 50.0% | 2.9 |
Calaveras | 2.4 | 20.2 | 12.0 | 4.5 | 37.3% | 17.8 | 21.7 | 9.3 | 8.2 | 57.0% | 3.3 |
Colusa | 2.0 | 14.4 | 13.8 | 3.7 | 33.1% | 20.3 | 24.2 | 9.5 | 7.4 | 61.4% | 3.3 |
Contra Costa | 6.2 | 26.7 | 17.4 | 17.3 | 62.4% | 8.0 | 11.2 | 5.6 | 4.3 | 29.1% | 2.3 |
Del Norte | 4.3 | 14.8 | 16.9 | 5.6 | 38.4% | 16.5 | 22.3 | 7.2 | 8.3 | 54.3% | 3.1 |
El Dorado | 2.5 | 23.5 | 11.2 | 4.9 | 40.1% | 15.2 | 20.9 | 11.5 | 7.4 | 55.0% | 2.5 |
Fresno | 2.6 | 12.3 | 19.1 | 9.2 | 41.9% | 9.6 | 23.6 | 12.1 | 7.7 | 53.0% | 2.6 |
Glenn | 2.2 | 8.4 | 10.0 | 5.0 | 25.8% | 24.2 | 25.7 | 8.9 | 9.3 | 68.1% | 3.8 |
Humboldt | 8.2 | 25.4 | 19.5 | 8.8 | 55.1% | 10.6 | 13.4 | 5.6 | 4.7 | 34.3% | 2.4 |
Imperial | 1.9 | 9.1 | 33.5 | 8.8 | 53.1% | 11.9 | 12.2 | 8.1 | 10.0 | 42.2% | 2.8 |
Inyo | 3.5 | 16.5 | 15.1 | 6.6 | 39.2% | 15.8 | 22.2 | 8.3 | 7.5 | 53.8% | 3.5 |
Kern | 1.9 | 9.7 | 15.3 | 6.3 | 34.4% | 13.5 | 35.2 | 8.0 | 6.4 | 63.1% | 2.6 |
Kings | 2.1 | 7.6 | 19.2 | 6.0 | 33.2% | 12.6 | 26.2 | 14.2 | 8.8 | 61.8% | 2.5 |
Lake | 4.3 | 25.6 | 10.7 | 13.1 | 50.5% | 11.6 | 18.0 | 7.4 | 5.8 | 42.8% | 2.6 |
Lassen | 1.7 | 9.2 | 10.7 | 3.9 | 24.5% | 18.3 | 30.7 | 10.9 | 11.7 | 70.6% | 2.4 |
Los Angeles | 4.1 | 27.4 | 28.9 | 7.1 | 64.7% | 4.9 | 12.9 | 5.4 | 6.1 | 29.3% | 1.9 |
Madera | 2.1 | 9.0 | 18.4 | 5.1 | 33.3% | 17.0 | 29.6 | 7.7 | 7.6 | 59.9% | 2.8 |
Marin | 5.2 | 32.2 | 16.3 | 25.5 | 74.6% | 3.8 | 6.4 | 6.3 | 2.0 | 18.5 | 1.6 |
Mariposa | 3.4 | 14.1 | 15.8 | 5.6 | 36.2% | 18.0 | 24.0 | 7.2 | 8.3 | 57.5% | 2.9 |
Mendocino | 7.4 | 30.4 | 16.5 | 14.1 | 62.3% | 7.4 | 10.7 | 5.2 | 4.7 | 28.0% | 2.4 |
Merced | 2.8 | 12.0 | 22.0 | 7.6 | 42.9% | 9.9 | 23.1 | 10.6 | 7.3 | 50.9% | 3.5 |
Modoc | 2.6 | 8.2 | 9.0 | 4.3 | 22.3% | 22.7 | 27.2 | 10.4 | 12.3 | 72.6% | 2.4 |
Mono | 3.9 | 18.9 | 18.7 | 11.6 | 50.0% | 14.5 | 16.2 | 6.9 | 5.9 | 43.5% | 2.7 |
Monterey | 2.8 | 26.7 | 24.8 | 9.5 | 61.8% | 5.4 | 18.2 | 5.3 | 4.6 | 34.5% | 1.9 |
Napa | 3.0 | 30.0 | 17.3 | 13.9 | 61.7% | 11.1 | 10.6 | 5.3 | 4.9 | 31.9% | 3.2 |
Nevada | 4.4 | 30.7 | 10.6 | 8.3 | 50.1% | 12.0 | 17.9 | 7.7 | 5.8 | 43.4% | 2.2 |
Orange | 2.3 | 18.5 | 19.8 | 5.7 | 45.2% | 8.3 | 25.4 | 7.5 | 9.1 | 50.3% | 2.2 |
Placer | 2.2 | 24.0 | 11.4 | 5.1 | 41.1% | 9.0 | 28.7 | 9.4 | 6.9 | 54.0% | 2.7 |
Plumas | 3.0 | 23.3 | 9.2 | 5.4 | 38.5% | 17.8 | 16.9 | 10.9 | 10.2 | 55.8% | 2.7 |
Riverside | 2.0 | 16.6 | 20.8 | 5.8 | 44.1% | 10.8 | 26.0 | 6.7 | 8.5 | 52.0% | 1.9 |
Sacramento | 3.0 | 31.4 | 17.2 | 7.2 | 56.6% | 8.5 | 14.9 | 7.1 | 7.5 | 38.0% | 2.4 |
San Benito | 2.9 | 23.3 | 21.8 | 6.2 | 52.0% | 9.2 | 15.0 | 8.6 | 9.6 | 42.5% | 2.6 |
San Bernardino | 2.4 | 16.6 | 22.3 | 4.3 | 44.5% | 9.2 | 24.2 | 7.2 | 10.4 | 51.0% | 2.1 |
San Diego | 3.0 | 20.8 | 18.9 | 10.1 | 51.4% | 7.3 | 24.5 | 6.7 | 5.2 | 43.7% | 1.9 |
San Francisco | 18.0 | 29.0 | 17.5 | 20.8 | 68.2% | 2.5 | 4.9 | 3.2 | 2.3 | 12.9% | 0.9 |
San Luis Obispo | 3.5 | 27.6 | 15.1 | 5.8 | 49.7% | 11.0 | 22.1 | 6.7 | 5.4 | 44.2% | 2.6 |
San Joaquin | 2.2 | 24.9 | 17.6 | 5.2 | 49.2% | 9.6 | 21.3 | 8.1 | 7.0 | 46.0% | 2.6 |
San Mateo | 4.1 | 34.2 | 16.5 | 19.8 | 71.5% | 6.4 | 8.5 | 5.0 | 2.4 | 22.3% | 2.1 |
Santa Barbara | 2.9 | 25.9 | 21.5 | 6.7 | 55.0% | 9.2 | 18.5 | 6.7 | 5.4 | 39.8% | 2.3 |
Santa Clara | 3.1 | 28.3 | 18.3 | 19.8 | 68.0% | 7.3 | 9.9 | 4.9 | 4.5 | 26.6% | 2.3 |
Santa Cruz | 5.9 | 34.7 | 22.8 | 12.2 | 70.6% | 4.6 | 9.0 | 5.3 | 2.8 | 21.7% | 1.8 |
Shasta | 2.7 | 10.9 | 12.3 | 6.0 | 30.1% | 19.0 | 25.4 | 9.4 | 10.5 | 64.3% | 2.9 |
Sierra | 5.8 | 21.4 | 7.7 | 5.4 | 35.0% | 16.5 | 21.2 | 11.0 | 7.4 | 55.1% | 4.1 |
Siskiyou | 4.5 | 15.3 | 13.3 | 8.1 | 37.1% | 19.4 | 18.4 | 8.9 | 8.2 | 54.9% | 3.5 |
Solano | 3.4 | 28.7 | 16.8 | 10.0 | 57.5% | 10.9 | 11.9 | 7.5 | 5.4 | 38.7% | 3.3 |
Sonoma | 5.5 | 34.4 | 17.2 | 15.1 | 67.7% | 5.8 | 9.6 | 5.8 | 3.6 | 24.8% | 2.0 |
Stanislaus | 2.0 | 22.2 | 16.7 | 6.3 | 46.1% | 12.5 | 23.2 | 7.2 | 6.4 | 49.3% | 2.6 |
Sutter | 1.6 | 14.8 | 12.9 | 4.3 | 35.6% | 12.0 | 31.1 | 8.6 | 7.6 | 59.3% | 3.5 |
Tehama | 2.4 | 8.5 | 13.3 | 3.7 | 27.4% | 20.2 | 26.7 | 9.0 | 11.3 | 67.2% | 3.1 |
Trinity | 4.2 | 16.1 | 16.1 | 6.5 | 40.1% | 17.7 | 14.6 | 10.4 | 9.2 | 51.9% | 3.8 |
Tulare | 1.6 | 7.7 | 21.1 | 4.7 | 34.0% | 11.9 | 33.9 | 7.5 | 8.0 | 61.0% | 3.1 |
Tuolumne | 2.8 | 22.1 | 11.2 | 5.1 | 39.2% | 20.2 | 19.0 | 8.2 | 8.0 | 55.4% | 2.7 |
Ventura | 3.0 | 22.1 | 21.6 | 6.7 | 51.2% | 11.2 | 18.9 | 6.2 | 7.1 | 43.4% | 2.4 |
Yolo | 4.1 | 33.0 | 21.1 | 8.9 | 64.0% | 6.8 | 12.4 | 6.0 | 4.0 | 29.2% | 2.6 |
Yuba | 2.6 | 15.8 | 12.0 | 3.5 | 33.1% | 17.3 | 27.9 | 7.4 | 8.1 | 60.7% | 3.6 |
Total | 4.0 | 24.2 | 20.6 | 9.9 | 55.8% | 7.9 | 17.5 | 6.4 | 6.2 | 38.0% | 2.2 |
General election
Endorsements
Ed Hernandez (D) |
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Eleni Kounalakis (D) |
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Titles for identification purposes only* |
Polling
Poll source | Date(s) administered |
Sample size |
Margin of error |
Ed Hernandez (D) |
Eleni Kounalakis (D) |
None | Undecided |
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Thomas Partners Strategies | October 25–27, 2018 | 1,068 | ± 3.5% | 34% | 34% | – | 32% |
UC Berkeley | October 19–26, 2018 | 1,339 | ± 4.0% | 31% | 45% | – | 24% |
YouGov | October 10–24, 2018 | 2,178 | ± 3.1% | 19% | 32% | 22% | 28% |
Thomas Partners Strategies | October 18–20, 2018 | 1,068 | ± 3.5% | 29% | 34% | – | 37% |
Thomas Partners Strategies | October 12–14, 2018 | 1,068 | ± 3.5% | 26% | 26% | – | 48% |
Thomas Partners Strategies | October 5–7, 2018 | 1,068 | ± 3.5% | 24% | 30% | – | 46% |
Thomas Partners Strategies | September 28–30, 2018 | 1,068 | ± 3.5% | 22% | 24% | – | 54% |
Thomas Partners Strategies | September 21–23, 2018 | 1,068 | ± 3.5% | 27% | 27% | – | 46% |
Thomas Partners Strategies | September 14–16, 2018 | 1,040 | ± 3.5% | 18% | 15% | – | 67% |
Thomas Partners Strategies | September 7–9, 2018 | 1,227 | ± 3.3% | 18% | 16% | – | 66% |
Results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Democratic | Eleni Kounalakis | 5,914,068 | 56.55% | N/A | |
Democratic | Ed Hernandez | 4,543,863 | 43.45% | N/A | |
Total votes | 10,457,931 | 100% | N/A | ||
Democratic hold |
Results by county
Blue represents counties won by Kounalakis. Orange represents counties won by Hernandez.[67]
County | Ed Hernandez (D) | Eleni Kounalakis (D) | Total | ||
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Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | |
Alameda | 196,722 | 38.3 | 316,658 | 61.7 | 513,380 |
Alpine | 160 | 33.8 | 314 | 66.2 | 474 |
Amador | 4,901 | 38.5 | 7,834 | 61.5 | 12,735 |
Butte | 27,196 | 39.6 | 41,533 | 60.4 | 68,729 |
Calaveras | 5,775 | 37.2 | 9,734 | 62.8 | 15,509 |
Colusa | 2,050 | 49.1 | 2,123 | 50.9 | 4,173 |
Contra Costa | 143,152 | 39.1 | 222,978 | 60.9 | 366,130 |
Del Norte | 2,629 | 42.3 | 3,586 | 57.7 | 6,215 |
El Dorado | 22,576 | 35.1 | 41,662 | 64.9 | 64,238 |
Fresno | 98,361 | 48.4 | 105,036 | 51.6 | 203,397 |
Glenn | 3,030 | 51.0 | 2,910 | 49.0 | 5,940 |
Humboldt | 17,568 | 40.0 | 26,301 | 60.0 | 43,869 |
Imperial | 18,177 | 62.7 | 10,826 | 37.3 | 29,003 |
Inyo | 2,307 | 43.9 | 2,953 | 56.1 | 5,260 |
Kern | 70,734 | 46.0 | 83,012 | 54.0 | 153,746 |
Kings | 12,210 | 52.3 | 11,128 | 47.7 | 23,338 |
Lake | 6,610 | 38.4 | 10,608 | 61.6 | 17,218 |
Lassen | 2,918 | 49.2 | 3,013 | 50.8 | 5,931 |
Los Angeles | 1,276,564 | 48.8 | 1,338,599 | 51.2 | 2,615,163 |
Madera | 15,349 | 52.6 | 13,853 | 47.4 | 29,202 |
Marin | 42,290 | 37.8 | 69,699 | 62.2 | 111,989 |
Mariposa | 2,533 | 42.7 | 3,405 | 57.3 | 5,938 |
Mendocino | 10,687 | 37.7 | 17,679 | 62.3 | 28,366 |
Merced | 25,579 | 53.8 | 21,986 | 46.2 | 47,565 |
Modoc | 1,066 | 47.7 | 1,167 | 52.3 | 2,233 |
Mono | 1,666 | 43.6 | 2,155 | 56.4 | 3,821 |
Monterey | 37,871 | 37.4 | 63,265 | 62.6 | 101,136 |
Napa | 18,575 | 38.8 | 29,330 | 61.2 | 47,905 |
Nevada | 13,495 | 32.3 | 28,283 | 67.7 | 41,778 |
Orange | 402,773 | 46.5 | 463,979 | 53.5 | 866,752 |
Placer | 42,381 | 32.6 | 87,514 | 67.4 | 129,895 |
Plumas | 2,349 | 37.6 | 3,901 | 62.4 | 6,250 |
Riverside | 250,409 | 48.5 | 265,991 | 51.5 | 516,400 |
Sacramento | 156,250 | 36.4 | 273,273 | 63.6 | 429,523 |
San Benito | 7,127 | 42.3 | 9,733 | 57.7 | 16,860 |
San Bernardino | 219,347 | 49.4 | 224,804 | 50.6 | 444,151 |
San Diego | 341,799 | 37.5 | 570,795 | 62.5 | 912,594 |
San Francisco | 153,733 | 47.1 | 172,741 | 52.9 | 326,474 |
San Joaquin | 66,294 | 40.9 | 95,660 | 59.1 | 161,954 |
San Luis Obispo | 37,952 | 38.9 | 59,731 | 61.1 | 97,683 |
San Mateo | 94,218 | 37.2 | 158,978 | 62.8 | 253,196 |
Santa Barbara | 49,443 | 39.4 | 75,995 | 60.6 | 125,438 |
Santa Clara | 203,178 | 38.0 | 331,520 | 62.0 | 534,698 |
Santa Cruz | 36,561 | 35.0 | 67,812 | 65.0 | 104,373 |
Shasta | 23,256 | 47.9 | 25,245 | 52.1 | 48,501 |
Sierra | 422 | 36.5 | 733 | 63.5 | 1,155 |
Siskiyou | 6,062 | 46.2 | 7,057 | 53.8 | 13,119 |
Solano | 48,042 | 38.6 | 76,558 | 61.4 | 124,600 |
Sonoma | 64,774 | 35.5 | 117,583 | 64.5 | 182,357 |
Stanislaus | 53,577 | 42.5 | 72,406 | 57.5 | 125,983 |
Sutter | 9,675 | 43.2 | 12,712 | 56.8 | 22,387 |
Tehama | 7,100 | 48.4 | 7,581 | 51.6 | 14,681 |
Trinity | 1,754 | 43.2 | 2,305 | 56.8 | 4,059 |
Tulare | 37,646 | 48.9 | 39,334 | 51.1 | 76,980 |
Tuolumne | 6,375 | 38.2 | 10,297 | 61.8 | 16,672 |
Ventura | 110,435 | 44.5 | 137,545 | 55.5 | 247,980 |
Yolo | 22,040 | 34.2 | 42,349 | 65.8 | 64,389 |
Yuba | 6,140 | 42.5 | 8,306 | 57.5 | 14,446 |
Totals | 4,543,863 | 43.4% | 5,914,068 | 56.6% | 10,457,931 |
See also
- California gubernatorial election, 2018
- California State Treasurer election, 2018
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