| Election Name: | 2022 California lieutenant gubernatorial election |
| Country: | California |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2018 California lieutenant gubernatorial election |
| Previous Year: | 2018 |
| Next Election: | 2026 California lieutenant gubernatorial election |
| Next Year: | 2026 |
| Election Date: | November 8, 2022 |
| Registered: | 21,940,274 |
| Image1: | Eleni Kounalakis in 2021.jpg |
| Candidate1: | Eleni Kounalakis |
| Party1: | California Democratic Party |
| Popular Vote1: | 6,418,119 |
| Percentage1: | 59.70% |
| Candidate2: | Angela Underwood Jacobs |
| Party2: | California Republican Party |
| Popular Vote2: | 4,332,602 |
| Percentage2: | 40.30% |
| Lieutenant Governor | |
| Before Election: | Eleni Kounalakis |
| Before Party: | California Democratic Party |
| After Election: | Eleni Kounalakis |
| After Party: | California Democratic Party |
The 2022 California lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 2022, to elect the lieutenant governor of the state of California. The election coincided with various other federal and state elections, including for Governor of California. The nonpartisan blanket primary was held on June 7. California is one of 21 states that elects its lieutenant governor separately from its governor.
Incumbent Democratic Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis won re-election to a second term with 59.7% of the vote, defeating her Republican challenger. This is the first time in history where both party nominees for this seat were women, and Jacobs was the first African-American woman in history to be nominated for this position.
A primary election was scheduled for June 7, 2022.[1] Under California law, all candidates appear on the same ballot under a nonpartisan blanket primary, with the top two finishers advancing to the general election.
Kounalakis won 39 of 52 congressional districts, with the remaining 13 going to Underwood Jacobs, including one that elected a Democrat.[6]