| Election Name: | 2022 California Superintendent of Public Instruction election |
| Country: | California |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2018 California Superintendent of Public Instruction election |
| Previous Year: | 2018 |
| Election Date: | June 7, 2022 (first round) November 8, 2022 (runoff) |
| Next Election: | 2026 California Superintendent of Public Instruction election |
| Next Year: | 2026 |
| 1Blank: | First round |
| 2Blank: | Runoff |
| Image1: | Assemblymember Tony Thurmond (cropped).jpg |
| Candidate1: | Tony Thurmond |
| Color1: | c0c0c0 |
| 1Data1: | 2,881,684 45.9% |
| 2Data1: | 5,681,318 63.7% |
| Candidate2: | Lance Christensen |
| Color2: | c0c0c0 |
| 1Data2: | 745,003 11.9% |
| 2Data2: | 3,237,785 36.3% |
| Image3: | 3x4.svg |
| Candidate3: | Ainye E. Long |
| Color3: | c0c0c0 |
| 1Data3: | 699,331 11.1% |
| 2Data3: | Eliminated |
| Candidate4: | George Yang |
| Color4: | c0c0c0 |
| 1Data4: | 694,073 11.1% |
| 2Data4: | Eliminated |
| Candidate5: | Marco Amaral |
| Color5: | c0c0c0 |
| 1Data5: | 547,389 8.7% |
| 2Data5: | Eliminated |
| Candidate6: | Jim Gibson |
| Color6: | c0c0c0 |
| 1Data6: | 468,078 7.5% |
| 2Data6: | Eliminated |
| Map Size: | 240px |
| SPI | |
| Before Election: | Tony Thurmond |
| After Election: | Tony Thurmond |
The 2022 California Superintendent of Public Instruction election was held on June 7, 2022, to elect the Superintendent of Public Instruction of California. Unlike most other elections in the state, the office is not elected under the state's nonpartisan blanket primary system. Instead, the officially nonpartisan position is elected via a general election, with a runoff scheduled for November 8, 2022 as no candidate received a majority of the vote.
Incumbent Superintendent Tony Thurmond, who was endorsed by the California Democratic Party, easily won re-election to a second term, defeating Lance Christensen, who was endorsed by the California Republican Party, by 26 points. He was first elected in 2018 with 50.9% of the vote, narrowly defeating Marshall Tuck in a runoff election.[1]
Thurmond won 49 of 52 congressional districts, including nine that elected Republicans.[2] He performed the best in the 11th and 12th districts in the Bay Area, as well as the 30th, 34th and 37th districts in Greater Los Angeles. Conversely, Christensen won the 1st, 20th and 48th districts, performing the best in the 20th one, where Kevin McCarthy gave the Republicans their best performance in the 2022 House election.