This table includes constitutional and statutory qualifications.
| * | — | Information from The Council of State Governments’ survey of secretaries of state offices and review of state websites, 2021. |
| ** | — | Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands. |
| N/A | — | Not available. |
| ✓ | — | Formal provision; number of years not specified. |
| ✕ | — | No formal provision. |
| C | — | Consecutive terms. |
| T | — | Total terms. |
| 2A | — | After 2 consecutive terms must wait one term before being eligible again. |
In some states you must be a U.S. citizen to be an elector, and must be an elector to run.
In some states you must be a state resident to be an elector, and must be an elector to run.
No lieutenant governor.
In 1993 a constitutional limit of two lifetime terms in the office was enacted.
Eligible for eight out of 16 years.
In Tennessee, the speaker of the senate, elected from Senate membership, has statutory title of “lieutenant governor.”
In West Virginia, the president of the senate and the lieutenant governor are one in the same. The legislature provided in statute the title of lieutenant governor upon the senate president. The senate president serves two-year terms, elected by the Senate on the first day of the first session of each two year legislative term.
Must be a U.S. national.
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