Black Georgians accounted for roughly 30% of early votes cast ahead of today’s Nov. 3 election, helping drive record midterm turnout across the state.

Below are the Georgia 2026 election results for key state and local races. This page will be updated as winners are announced.

STATE RACES

Governor

Winner: TBD

Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms faced a bruising campaign against billionaire healthcare CEO Rick Jackson. 

Bottoms, vying to be the first Black woman to serve as governor in the U.S., campaigned on a plan to expand Medicaid, fund pre-K, restore reproductive rights, and pause construction on data centers. She also called out Jackson’s allegiance to President Donald Trump.

Jackson, a political novice who touted a promise to be Trump’s favorite president, focused on crime rates in a searing spate of attack ads. He also campaigned on improving affordability, support for Georgia’s agriculture industry, tackling the state’s healthcare and education.

U.S. Senate

Winner: TBD

Incumbent U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff faced off against scandal-plagued Republican Mike Collins. 

A major component of Ossoff’s campaign platform centered on tackling Georgia’s affordability and housing challenges. Ossoff, who received 92% of Georgia’s Black vote in 2021, polled ahead of Collins for most of the race, calling Collins a “bigot” who is unfit for office. 

While he has repeatedly rebuffed calls, Ossoff is considered one of the frontrunners for a 2028 White House run. 

Attorney General

Winner: TBD

Facing off against Republican state Sen. Brian Strickland, Tanya Miller campaigned on reining in grocery store supply chains and utility companies as she focused on the state’s affordability crisis. The civil rights attorney and Democratic state House representative from Atlanta also said she would sue to block some of the Trump administration’s federal government cuts from taking full effect.  

Strickland is the self-described conservative lawmaker who centered his campaign on going after violent criminals, including gangs, drug dealers and human traffickers.  

Secretary of State

Winner: TBD

Penny Brown Reynolds, a former Fulton County judge and star of Family Court with Judge Penny, ran on protecting voting rights against Trump-endorsed Republican Rep. Tim Fleming. The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais nullified a key portion of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. 

Brown Reynolds launched her bid last year in response to Republican-led efforts to scrutinize voter access in Georgia. That includes the 2021 enactment of SB 202, the law that reduced absentee ballot drop box access in largely Black Fulton County and allowed tens of thousands of Georgians to have their voter eligibility challenged.

Fleming, a Republican state lawmaker and small-business owner from Covington, made preserving “election integrity” a central focus in his own secretary of state bid. 

Public Service Commission

Winners: TBD

The five-member Public Service Commission regulatory board decides whether monopolistic utility companies like Atlanta Gas Light and Georgia Power, which provides electricity to an estimated 2.8 million customers across the state, increase how much they charge for energy services. PSC elections have even greater implications for many Black Georgians, who tend to carry a higher energy cost burden due to having less energy efficient homes.

Commissioner of Agriculture 

Winner: TBD

Democrat Katherine Juhan-Arnold, who runs a nonprofit that provides produce to low-income residents, battled to unseat Republican incumbent Tyler J. Harper. The agriculture commissioner oversees the Georgia Department of Agriculture’s operations.

Commissioner of Insurance And Fire Safety

Winner: TBD

Former state representative and Atlanta City Councilwoman Keisha Sean Waites campaigned to take down GOP incumbent John King. The commissioner makes sure Georgia insurance companies do not charge policyholders too much for health and auto policies.

State School Superintendent 

Winner: TBD

Democrat and former educator Lydia Powell faced off against incumbent Republican State School Superintendent Richard Woods, who has served in the role since 2015. Major issues for Georgia’s schools include teacher retention, vouchers, literacy rates, and funding.

Labor Commissioner 

Winner: TBD

Veteran educator Nikki Porcher took on incumbent Bárbara Rivera Holmes. The labor commissioner leads the Georgia Department of Labor, which oversees unemployment insurance, benefits and job placements services. 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

District 4

Winner: TBD

The race to succeed Mo Ivory as the next Fulton County commissioner from District 4 pitted former Commissioner Natalie Hall, Center for Civic Innovation Executive Director Rohit Malhotra, former East Point City Councilwoman Karen Rene, and local attorney Aaron Sampson Jr. against one another.

Hall received an endorsement from former U.S. Ambassador Andrew Young, and Malhotra received an endorsement from Stacey Abrams.  

District 13

Winner: TBD

Democrat Jasmine Clark, the four-term state lawmaker and Emory assistant clinical professor vied to replace the late U.S. Rep. David Scott in District 13 against Republican Jonathan Chavez. 

Her campaign priorities included restoring funding to federal programs impacted by Trump’s 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act that resulted in major cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Housing and Urban Development, and other social safety net programs that many Black Georgians depend on. She also supported federal housing legislation backed by U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock that would limit the number of single-family homes private equity firms can acquire across the nation, an effort aimed at increasing the supply of homes available for working families.

District 58

Winner: TBD

Democratic Socialist Mathewos Samson, a 27-year-old software integration engineer, competed against Republican Torrey Balam to replace retiring state House Rep. Park Cannon in the Georgia General Assembly. 

Samson’s platform includes getting corporate landlords out of the single-family home business by forcing them to sell the houses they’ve bought, not just capping the number they can own. He also supports Medicare for All and getting money out of politics.

In June, he joined the ranks of at least 30 Democratic Socialists who have won Democratic Party primaries across the country this year.

LOCAL RACES

Fulton County Commissioner Chair

Winner: TBD

Democrat Mo Ivory faced Republican Eric Tatum. The commission chair sets the agenda for issues being voted on by the board, including whether to raise property taxes and how much money to allocate to county services such as the jail and courts.

Midterm Elections 2026

Angela Burt-Murray is Capital B Atlanta's editor

Chauncey Alcorn is Capital B Atlanta's state and local politics reporter.