List of United States Lieutenant Governors

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Current party control of Lieutenant Governor's offices. Red is Republican, Blue is Democratic.

This is a complete and current List of United States Lieutenant Governors.

The current party composition of the 50 state lieutenant governors are:

• 26 Republicans
• 22 Democrats
• 2 vacancies

See also: List of current U.S. Governors

* Tennessee's state senate elects the lieutenant governor unlike the other states where the lieutenant governor is elected by the voters. The full title of the office is Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the Senate.

Some states do not have lieutenant governors. Instead, the Secretary of State or Senate President of that state are second in line for the Governorship. Those states are:

A measure passed in New Jersey in 2005 that instituted a lieutenant governorship; the first lieutenant governor of New Jersey will be elected in 2009.

In most states, the governor and lieutenant governor are members of the same political party. As with the Vice President of the United States, many states have constitutional provisions that encourage the governor and lieutenant governor be of the same political party, many other states do not. The following states are those in which the designated successor to the Governorship is of a different political party (or the position is vacant).