Below is a list of lieutenant governors of the U.S. state of California, 1849 to present. In California, the Lieutenant Governor and the Governor do not run together on the same ticket. The Lieutenant Governor can therefore be affiliated with a different political party than that of the Governor. Per the 1879 California Constitution, the Lieutenant Governor is the President of the State Senate.
| Lieutenant Governor | Term in office | Party | Election | Governor | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | data-sort-value="McDougal, John" | John McDougal | – January 9, 1851 | Democratic | 1849 | ||||
| 2 | data-sort-value="Broderick, David" | David C. Broderick | – January 8, 1852 | Democratic | |||||
| 3 | Samuel Purdy | – January 9, 1856 | Democratic | 1851 | |||||
| 1853 | |||||||||
| 4 | data-sort-value="Anderson, Robert" | Robert M. Anderson | – January 8, 1858 | American | 1855 | ||||
| 5 | data-sort-value="Walkup, Joseph" | Joseph Walkup | – January 9, 1860 | Democratic | 1857 | ||||
| 6 | data-sort-value="Downey, John" | John G. Downey | – January 20, 1860 | Democratic | 1859 | ||||
| 7 | data-sort-value="Quinn, Isaac" | Isaac N. Quinn | – January 7, 1861 | Democratic | |||||
| 8 | data-sort-value="de la Guerra, Pablo" | Pablo de la Guerra | – January 10, 1862 | Democratic | |||||
| 9 | data-sort-value="Chellis, John" | John F. Chellis | – December 10, 1863 | Republican | 1861 | ||||
| 10 | data-sort-value="Machin, Tim" | Tim N. Machin | – December 5, 1867 | Republican | 1863 | ||||
| 11 | data-sort-value="Holden, William" | William Holden | – December 8, 1871 | Democratic | 1867 | ||||
| 12 | data-sort-value="Pacheco, Romualdo" | Romualdo Pacheco | – February 27, 1875 | Republican | 1871 | ||||
| 13 | data-sort-value="Irwin, William" | William Irwin | – December 9, 1875 | Democratic | |||||
| 14 | data-sort-value="Johnson, James" | James A. Johnson | – January 8, 1880 | Democratic | 1875 | ||||
| 15 | data-sort-value="Mansfield, John" | John Mansfield | – January 10, 1883 | 1879 | |||||
| 16 | data-sort-value="Daggett, John" | John Daggett | – January 8, 1887 | Democratic | 1882 | ||||
| 17 | data-sort-value="Waterman, Robert" | Robert Waterman | – September 13, 1887 | Republican | 1886 | ||||
| 18 | data-sort-value="White, Stephen" | Stephen M. White | – January 8, 1891 | Democratic | |||||
| 19 | data-sort-value="Reddick, John" | John B. Reddick | – January 11, 1895 | Republican | 1890 | ||||
| 20 | data-sort-value="Millard, Spencer" | Spencer G. Millard | – October 24, 1895 | Republican | 1894 | ||||
| - | Vacant | - October 26, 1895 | |||||||
| 21 | data-sort-value="Jeter, William" | William T. Jeter | [1] – January 3, 1899 | Democratic | |||||
| 22 | data-sort-value="Neff, Jacob" | Jacob H. Neff | – January 6, 1903 | Republican | 1898 | ||||
| 23 | data-sort-value="Anderson, Alden" | Alden Anderson | – January 8, 1907 | Republican | 1902 | ||||
| 24 | data-sort-value="Porter, Warren" | Warren R. Porter | – January 3, 1911 | Republican | 1906 | ||||
| 25 | data-sort-value="Wallace, Albert" | Albert Joseph Wallace | – January 5, 1915 | Republican | 1910 | ||||
| 26 | data-sort-value="Eshleman, John" | John Morton Eshleman | – February 28, 1916 | Progressive | 1914 | ||||
| - | Vacant | - July 22, 1916 | |||||||
| 27 | data-sort-value="Stephens, William" | William Stephens | – March 15, 1917 | Republican | |||||
| - | Vacant | - January 6, 1919 | |||||||
| 28 | C. C. Young | – January 4, 1927 | Republican | 1918 | |||||
| 1922 | |||||||||
| 29 | data-sort-value="Fitts, Buron" | Buron Fitts | – November 30, 1928 | Republican | 1926 | ||||
| - | Vacant | - December 4, 1928 | |||||||
| 30 | data-sort-value="Carnahan, Herschel" | Herschel L. Carnahan | – January 6, 1931 | Republican | |||||
| 31 | data-sort-value="Merriam, Frank" | Frank Merriam | – June 2, 1934 | 1930 | |||||
| - | Vacant | - January 7, 1935 | |||||||
| 32 | data-sort-value="Hatfield, George" | George J. Hatfield | – January 2, 1939 | Republican | 1934 | ||||
| 33 | data-sort-value="Patterson, Ellis" | Ellis E. Patterson | – January 4, 1943 | Democratic | 1938 | ||||
| 34 | data-sort-value="Houser, Frederick" | Frederick F. Houser | – January 6, 1947 | Republican | 1942 | ||||
| 35 | Goodwin Knight | – October 4, 1953 | Republican | 1946 | |||||
| 1950 | |||||||||
| 36 | Harold J. Powers | – January 5, 1959 | Republican | ||||||
| 1954 | |||||||||
| 37 | Glenn M. Anderson | – January 2, 1967 | Democratic | 1958 | |||||
| 1962 | |||||||||
| 38 | data-sort-value="Finch, Robert" | Robert Finch | – January 8, 1969 | Republican | 1966 | ||||
| 39 | Edwin Reinecke | – October 2, 1974 | Republican | ||||||
| 1970 | |||||||||
| 40 | data-sort-value="Harmer, John" | John L. Harmer | – January 6, 1975 | Republican | |||||
| 41 | data-sort-value="Dymally, Mervyn" | Mervyn Dymally | – January 8, 1979 | Democratic | 1974 | ||||
| 42 | data-sort-value="Curb, Mike" | Mike Curb | – January 3, 1983 | Republican | 1978 | ||||
| 43 | Leo T. McCarthy | – January 3, 1995 | Democratic | 1982 | |||||
| 1986 | |||||||||
| 1990 | |||||||||
| 44 | data-sort-value="Davis, Gray" | Gray Davis | – January 4, 1999 | Democratic | 1994 | ||||
| 45 | Cruz Bustamante | – January 7, 2007 | Democratic | 1998 | |||||
| 2002 | |||||||||
| 46 | data-sort-value="Garamendi, John" | John Garamendi | – November 3, 2009 | Democratic | 2006 | ||||
| 47 | data-sort-value="Pasquil, Mona" | Mona Pasquil | – April 27, 2010 | Democratic | |||||
| 48 | Abel Maldonado | – January 10, 2011 | Republican | ||||||
| 2010 | |||||||||
| 49 | Gavin Newsom | – January 7, 2019 | Democratic | ||||||
| 2014 | |||||||||
| 50 | Eleni Kounalakis | – Incumbent | Democratic | 2018 | |||||
| 2022 | |||||||||