2026 results · Georgia

Keisha Lance Bottoms, the Democrat, wins Georgia’s governorship from the Republicans

Keisha Lance Bottoms won by 8.7 points, 10.8 points more Democratic than the state voted for president in 2024.

In the House, every one of the 14 contested seats moved toward Democrats, the median one 12.6 points.

Who won each county, and how far it moved

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Georgia’s 14 House seats

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Before5–9

20265–9

Solid: won. The tick marks a majority (8 of 14).

Democrats lost 3 seats by under 8 points: GA-01 R+2.8, GA-12 R+4.2, GA-10 R+7.2. A majority took 8 of 14; they held 5, and the three closest would have made it.

The seat that decided the majority: GA-10, R+7.2, a district that voted R+20.1 for president in 2024.

Every seat, 2024 to 2026. Open circle: the 2024 presidential margin in the district. Filled: the 2026 House margin. Ordered from the most Democratic result to the most Republican; the rule marks the 8 seats needed for a majority.

← moved toward Democrats, → toward Republicans, in points from the 2024 presidential vote in the district. * still counting: the expected finish.

Close up: the four counties that moved most

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Each county’s move from the 2024 presidential vote in the governor's race; the maps above show the result beside it.

In the governor's race, these moved furthest toward Democrats, among counties with 2,000 or more votes in 2024 and at least half a percent of the state’s.

Whitfield County
Moved 21.1 points toward Democrats: R+44.4 for president in 2024; Rick Jackson, the Republican, carried it at R+23.3.
29,875 votes counted, 39,828 cast in 2024.
Newton County
Moved 17.1 points toward Democrats: D+15.1 for president in 2024; Keisha Lance Bottoms, the Democrat, carried it at D+32.3.
47,150 votes counted, 59,051 cast in 2024.
Henry County
Moved 16.7 points toward Democrats: D+29.7 for president in 2024; Keisha Lance Bottoms, the Democrat, carried it at D+46.4.
109,698 votes counted, 129,034 cast in 2024.
Barrow County
Moved 16.1 points toward Democrats: R+40.5 for president in 2024; Rick Jackson, the Republican, carried it at R+24.4.
32,954 votes counted, 43,934 cast in 2024.

Only Greene County, Union County, Oconee County and Towns County moved the other way, toward Republicans.

Who lives where it moved

Across counties, ten more points of adults with a degree went with a county about 1.2 points more Republican, on average (r = −0.39, a weak relationship).

By place

Urban7 counties, 1,702,499 votes8.4 pts → D

Suburban51 counties, 1,870,182 votes11.6 pts → D

Rural101 counties, 608,861 votes6.9 pts → D

By race and ethnicity

Black residents 30% or more64 counties, 1,860,534 votes8.9 pts → D

Hispanic residents 30% or more1 county, 29,875 votes21.1 pts → D

White non-Hispanic 85% or more16 counties, 180,801 votes4.1 pts → D

Every other county78 counties, 2,110,332 votes11.0 pts → D

Each group’s counties added together: its 2026 margin against its 2024 presidential margin. Census Bureau American Community Survey, 2019–2023. Counties, not voters: there are no exit polls here.

Every race in Georgia

Ballot measures

Proposed Constitutional Amendment 153.9% yespassing

Proposed Constitutional Amendment 268.4% yespassing

Proposed Constitutional Amendment 377.7% yespassing

Margins are the winner’s or leader’s lead in points of all votes cast. * Still counting: where we expect the count to finish. The move is the 2026 margin against the 2024 presidential margin on the same ground, for races between a Democrat and a Republican.

Ticket splitting

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Across the 159 counties, the Senate race went D+18.0 and the governor's race D+8.7: the Senate margin ran 9.4 points more Democratic than the governor's. 5 counties were carried by different parties in the two.

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Points of difference between the Senate margin and the governor's in each county.

Each circle is a county, its area the votes cast. Above the line the Senate Democrat did better than the governor Democrat; below it, worse.

13185carried by different parties

Senate: D+0.2Ossoff against Collins
Governor: R+6.7Bottoms against Jackson
Difference: D+6.9Ossoff ran ahead
Votes: about 35,580

Most votes firstSen.Gov.Diff.

Margins are the Democrat minus the Republican in points of all votes cast in that race, from the counts the state’s election office has published so far; a county still counting is compared on what it has counted in both. A difference is not a count of split tickets: a voter who skipped one race moves it too.

Georgia’s legislature

Senate56 of 56 seats on the ballotBefore22–331 vacantLeaders27–294 seats are led by another party than held them. Republicans keep control.Every district, mapped →House180 of 180 seats on the ballotBefore81–99Leaders92–8815 seats are led by another party than held them. Control is not settled.Every district, mapped →

Counts are Georgia’s official state and county counts, published by the Georgia Secretary of State. Where a race is still being counted, its margin is where we expect the count to finish, marked *. A move from 2024 is the 2026 margin against Kamala Harris’s margin over Donald Trump in the same place. A race is won when we call it or the state certifies it.

Who won each county, and how far it moved

Georgia’s 14 House seats

Close up: the four counties that moved most

Whitfield County

Newton County

Henry County

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