Georgia elections in 2026

Georgia US Senate: D 50.0 to R 50.0, tossup Republican, well sourced. Georgia Senate race a tossup as Ossoff faces Trump-backed Collins

Georgia Governor: D 49.0 to R 51.0, tossup Republican, well sourced. Bottoms and Jackson locked in high-stakes Georgia gubernatorial battle

House delegation as simulated: 5 D, 9 R, 0 tossups of 14 districts swept.

Model readings of live reporting, not polling. The full Georgia board, with sourcing and the county map where one exists, is on the Midterms 2026 tab of the homepage.

How Georgia votes

Georgia has become a marquee battleground, powered by metro Atlanta's growth and diversification set against a conservative rural remainder. Runoff rules and enormous turnout operations have made its statewide races among the most watched in the country.

Its largest population centers include Atlanta, Savannah, Augusta, Columbus. Where a state's people live, and what those places do for a living, is the starting point for how Electorate HQ simulations reason about it.

On the ballot in Georgia

Election day is November 3, 2026. Georgia has 2 statewide races and 14 House seats on the ballot.

Statewide races

House districts

Every House seat is elected every two years. Each district below is listed with the counties inside it, computed from the current Census boundary files, wherever those files give a clean answer. Not sure which district is yours? Use the address lookup below.

• Georgia 1st district: Appling, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Camden, Charlton, Chatham, Glynn and 6 more counties (14 in all)
• Georgia 2nd district: Baker, Bibb, Calhoun, Chattahoochee, Clay, Crawford, Decatur, Dooly and 21 more counties (29 in all)
• Georgia 3rd district: Carroll, Coweta, Douglas, Fayette, Haralson, Harris, Heard, Lamar and 5 more counties (13 in all)
• Georgia 4th district: DeKalb County
• Georgia 5th district: entirely within Fulton County
• Georgia 6th district: Fulton County
• Georgia 7th district: Dawson, Forsyth, Lumpkin Counties
• Georgia 8th district: Atkinson, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bleckley, Brooks, Clinch, Coffee and 20 more counties (28 in all)
• Georgia 9th district: Banks, Fannin, Gilmer, Habersham, Hall, Jackson, Rabun, Stephens and 3 more counties (11 in all)
• Georgia 10th district: Barrow, Butts, Clarke, Elbert, Franklin, Greene, Hancock, Hart and 9 more counties (17 in all)
• Georgia 11th district: Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Gordon, Pickens Counties
• Georgia 12th district: Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Columbia, Effingham, Emanuel, Evans, Glascock and 16 more counties (24 in all)
• Georgia 13th district: Clayton, Gwinnett, Newton, Rockdale Counties
• Georgia 14th district: Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Murray, Paulding, Polk, Walker and 1 more counties (9 in all)

Find your exact districts

Which district am I in? Georgia districts by county

House districts follow population, not county lines, so a single county can hold several districts and a single district can span many. Each county is listed under the district that holds its center, so if your county appears once above, that district holds most of it and is probably yours. If it appears under several, or if you live near a district line, use the address lookup for the exact answer.

Before you vote in Georgia

Registration deadlines, early voting windows, mail ballot rules and identification requirements are all set at the state level and change between cycles, so the authoritative source is your own election office rather than any national site. The federal directory at vote.gov links to every state's registration system, and your county election office publishes the sample ballot that includes local contests.

The ballot section above covers the federal and statewide offices on the Georgia ballot for November 3, 2026. Each statewide race links to a page with current coverage and an AI-generated simulation of the contest, always labeled as a simulation rather than a poll.

Local races

Local councils and commissions, school boards, judges, sheriffs and municipal offices are also on many Georgia ballots, and they vary block by block. Your county election office publishes the authoritative local sample ballot.

Georgia's weight in Washington

Georgia carries 16 electoral votes, which ranks it 8 of 51 by that measure, and sends 14 voting members to the House.

That arithmetic is why the same national argument lands differently here than in a state of another size: a candidate courting Georgia is competing for a specific share of the map, and the issues below are the ones that share actually turns on.

How Georgia is represented

Georgia is divided into 14 House districts, each drawn to hold roughly the same number of people, while its two Senate seats represent the state as a whole. A campaign here therefore runs two different arguments at once: a local one shaped by whichever district a voter lives in, and a statewide one that has to hold together across all 14.

Electoral votes follow the same arithmetic, House seats plus two, which is why Georgia carries 16 in a presidential year and why small states carry proportionally more weight there than population alone would give them. The district list above shows every district on the 2026 ballot and the counties the boundary files place inside each one.

Issues that weigh heavily in Georgia

Based on the state's industry mix, geography and cost of living, these issues tend to carry structural weight in Georgia elections:

Latest Georgia political headlines

Simulate Georgia

In the Electorate HQ simulator, Georgia is one of 51 delegations that reads current reporting and decides a presidential race issue by issue. Results are AI simulations, clearly labeled, with the reasoning shown for every call. See the methodology for what that does and does not mean.

Analysis covering Georgia

• Twenty-six states elect a senator and a governor on the same day in 2026

  The overlap between the Senate class and the gubernatorial cohort is a coincidence of two unrelated calendars, and it decides where money goes.

• The 2026 Senate map covers 62% of the country and 70% of the states

  Thirty-five of fifty states vote for Senate this year. Weighted by people rather than states the share drops, and that gap is the design of the chamber.

• Election night is reported in 3,142 counties and decided in 435 districts

  The unit America counts votes in and the unit America allocates House seats in are different shapes, and they do not nest inside each other.