2022 Arizona gubernatorial election

The 2022 Arizona gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 2022, to elect the governor of Arizona. Democratic secretary of state Katie Hobbs defeated Republican former television journalist Kari Lake. Hobbs succeeded Republican incumbent Doug Ducey who was term-limited and ineligible to seek a third term.

Primaries were held on August 2 for both parties, with Lake winning the Republican nomination and Hobbs winning the Democratic nomination, making this the first gubernatorial election in Arizona history in which both major party candidates for governor were women. With Hobbs elected the fifth female governor of Arizona, Arizona set a record for the most female governors in American history. The concurrent passage of Proposition 131, which establishes the office of lieutenant governor of Arizona, makes this the last gubernatorial election in Arizona to not have one.

Going into the election, most polling had Lake leading and analysts generally considered the race to either be a tossup or leaning Republican. Nonetheless, Hobbs won with 50.32% of the vote, becoming the first Democrat to win a gubernatorial election in Arizona since Janet Napolitano in 2006. Lake refused to concede and filed a post-election lawsuit in an attempt to overturn the results. Most of her lawsuit was rejected by Arizona's state courts, with the remaining part dismissed at trial in May 2023. The race was riddled with voting machine issues, but did not prove to show any evidence of election fraud.

This race was one of six Republican-held governorships up for election in 2022 in a state Joe Biden won in the 2020 presidential election. With a margin of 0.67%, it was the closest gubernatorial election in the state since the 1990–91 election, and the closest of the 2022 cycle. According to Ron Brownstein of CNN in 2023, Hobbs won independent voters by 7 percentage points, which contributed to Lake's defeat.