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Eleni Kounalakis [a] (née Tsakopoulos; [b] born March 3, 1966) is an American politician, businesswoman, and diplomat serving as the 50th lieutenant governor of California since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the first woman [c] and the first Greek American elected to the office.
The 2026 California lieutenant gubernatorial election will be held on November 3, 2026, to elect the lieutenant governor of California. Incumbent Democratic Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis is term-limited and cannot seek re-election to a third term in office; she is instead running for governor . [ 1 ]
As a result, California has frequently had a governor and a lieutenant governor of different parties. California has had 41 lieutenant governors and five acting lieutenant governors since achieving statehood in 1850. The current lieutenant governor is Eleni Kounalakis, a Democrat who was sworn into office on January 7, 2019. [1]
If Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis or another woman is elected as California's next governor, she'll be California's first female governor. There have been 40 governors over nearly 173 years and they've ...
eleni kounalakis’ big week in the big chair Last week was a big one for California’s governor. We’re speaking, of course, of acting Gov. Eleni Kounalakis , who spent the week in the big chair.
California Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, enshrining abortion rights in the California Constitution, expanding ...
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 ...
After being sworn in as the first woman lieutenant governor of California in 2019, Kounalakis went on to become the first woman in state history to sign a bill into law to extend renter ...