The 2024 United States lieutenant gubernatorial elections were held on November 5, 2024, to elect lieutenant governors in 5 states. The previous lieutenant gubernatorial elections for this group of states took place in 2020, except in Vermont, where lieutenant governors serve two-year terms and elected their lieutenant governor in 2022.
Partisan composition Going into these elections, this class of lieutenant governors is made up of 2 Democrats, 2 Republicans, and 1 Vermont Progressive. Vermont Progressives were defending one state won by Joe Biden in 2020 (Vermont), while Republicans and Democrats did not hold any states won by Joe Biden and Donald Trump respectively.
Race summary State Lieutenant governor Party First elected Last race Status Candidates Delaware 2016 59.4% D Incumbent term-limited.Democratic hold. Missouri 2018 58.4% R Incumbent retired torun for governor.Republican hold. North Carolina 2020 51.6% R Incumbent retired torun for governor.Democratic gain. Vermont Vermont Progressive 20162020 2022 53.9% VP Incumbent lost re-election.Republican gain. Washington 2020 45.6% D Incumbent re-elected.
Closest races States where the margin of victory was between 1% and 5%:
Vermont, 1.69% North Carolina, 1.89%
Blue denotes races won by Democrats. Red denotes races won by Republicans.
Election predictions Several sites and individuals published predictions of competitive seats. These predictions looked at factors such as the strength of the incumbent (if the incumbent is running for re-election), the strength of the candidates, and the partisan leanings of the state (reflected in part by the state's Cook Partisan Voting Index rating). The predictions assigned ratings to each seat, with the rating indicating the predicted advantage that a party has in winning that seat.
Most election predictors use:
"tossup": no advantage "tilt" (used by some predictors): advantage that is not quite as strong as "lean" "lean": slight advantage "likely": significant, but surmountable, advantage "safe": near-certain chance of victory
+StatePVIIncumbentParentheses around an incumbent's name indicates that the incumbent is not running for re-election.LastraceSabatoResultDelaware D+7Bethany Hall-Long58.3% R | Gay55.2% DMissouri R+10Mike Kehoe58.4% R | Wasinger57.4% RNorth Carolina R+3Mark Robinson51.6% R | Hunt49.5% DVermont D+16David Zuckerman53.9% VP | Rodgers48.8% RWashingtonD+8Denny Heck45.6% D | Heck55.7% D
Delaware
Two-term incumbent Republican Bethany Hall-Long was elected in 2020 and was term-limited and ineligible to run for re-election.
Democratic state senator Kyle Evans Gay defeated Republican state representative Ruth Briggs King in the general election.
Missouri
Lieutenant Governor Mike Kehoe was elected in 2020 with 51.6% of the vote. He retired to run for governor.
Republican attorney David Wasinger defeated Democratic state representative Richard Brown in the general election.
North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson was elected in 2020 with 51.6% of the vote. He retired to run for governor.
Democratic state senator Rachel Hunt defeated Republican businessman Hal Weatherman in the general election.
Vermont Lieutenant Governor David Zuckerman was elected in 2022 with 53.9% of the vote. He lost re-election to former state senator John Rodgers.
Washington Lieutenant Governor Denny Heck was elected in 2020 with 45.6% of the vote against a fellow Democrat. He successfully ran for re-election defeating Republican nominee Dan Matthews.
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