page_title: 2018 Tennessee gubernatorial election
section_title: Results
hierarchical_section_title: 2018 Tennessee gubernatorial election / Republican primary / Results
context_page_description: The 2018 Tennessee gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the next Governor of Tennessee. The primaries took place on August 2, with Republican Bill Lee and Democrat Karl Dean winning their respective party nominations.
  Incumbent Republican Governor Bill Haslam was term-limited and is prohibited by the Constitution of Tennessee from seeking a third consecutive term. As of February 2019, the election had the largest number of candidates in a statewide election in United States history; the previous record was the 2016 United States presidential election in Colorado. This large surge in candidates was mostly due to the Libertarian Party of Tennessee's protest of the state's party affiliation and ballot access laws.
  Lee was elected with nearly 60% of the vote. This is the first time since 1982 that a candidate from the incumbent U.S. President's party was elected Governor of Tennessee.
caption: County results