Georgia Governor

Tue, Nov 3 · Governor Brian Kemp Republican since Jan 2019 (not the Republican nominee in 2026) · If no one gets a majority, runoff Tue, Dec 1

Keisha Lance BottomsDemocraticAge 56

Keisha Lance Bottoms 47.8Rick Jackson 49.2

Average of 7 polls, Sep 21 to Oct 23, from VoteHub · how it’s calculated

Newest poll

Newest · Echelon Insights, field dates Oct 16 to Oct 23, released Oct 27, 508 likely votersPoll sponsored by NetChoicePolls fetched Oct 30, 2:02 a.m. ET, from VoteHub

Rick JacksonRepublicanAge 72

Show 7 write-in candidates

Keisha Lance BottomsDemocratic
Rick JacksonRepublican

Write-in candidates, not printed on the ballot

Andrew Pacetti, David C. Byrne, David Leon Moreland, Deb Broughton Davis, Jacqueline Angela DaCosta, Leland Jake Olinger, II, Milton J. Lofton

Polls over time

16 polls, through Election Day Nov 3

Each dot is one published poll. The thick line is the 7-week average, not a forecast. How it’s calculated. All polls. Polls fetched Oct 30, 2:02 a.m. ET, from VoteHub.

The polls in this chart (16)

4 polls released in the last 14 days · latest results range from 45–49% (D) and 46–51.5% (R) (newest 5 polls on the chart)

Each dot is a poll with both names, 16 of the 20 for this race. Dots and lines follow the field end date. The table adds the day each poll was released.

Polls shown in the chart, newest field end date first, with the day each was released
Pollster	Field dates	Released	Sample	Bottoms	Jackson
Echelon Insights	Oct 16 to Oct 23	Oct 27	508 likely voters	49	48
ActiVote	Oct 6 to Oct 20	Oct 21	400 likely voters	48.5	51.5
Quantus Insights	Oct 15 to Oct 17	Oct 20	755 likely voters	46.6	48.2
GBAO Strategies	Oct 7 to Oct 15	Oct 20	2,000 registered voters	45	46
InsiderAdvantage	Oct 12 to Oct 13	Oct 15	800 likely voters	47	49
Wedgewood Polls	Oct 2 to Oct 3	Oct 4	600 likely voters	49	51
Big Data Poll	Sep 21 to Sep 23	Sep 25	678 likely voters	49.5	50.5
InsiderAdvantage	Sep 22 to Sep 23	Sep 25	1,200 likely voters	46	48
InsiderAdvantage	Aug 16 to Aug 17	Aug 20	800 likely voters	46.2	46.3
Quantus Insights	Jul 29 to Aug 1	Aug 11	815 likely voters	46.4	44.9
Fabrizio, Lee & Associates/Impact Research	Jul 13 to Jul 16	Jul 23	1,060 likely voters	48	46
Wick	Jun 27 to Jun 30	Jul 9	1,175 likely voters	42.7	43.2
Beacon Research/Shaw & Co. Research	Jun 23 to Jun 27	Jul 2	1,002 registered voters	52	47
Concord Public Opinion Partners	May 30 to Jun 2	Jun 17	510 likely voters	53	38
Echelon Insights	Apr 3 to Apr 9	Apr 27	407 likely voters	49	43
Echelon Insights	Apr 3 to Apr 9	Apr 21	407 likely voters	49	43

Polls left off the chart (4 of 20)

Polls for this race that are not on the chart, with the reason for each
Poll	Why it is not on the chart
Concord Public Opinion PartnersMay 30 to Jun 2	Names fewer than two candidates on this ballot (lists Keisha Lance Bottoms, Burt Jones)
Echelon InsightsApr 3 to Apr 9	Names fewer than two candidates on this ballot (lists Burt Jones, Keisha Lance Bottoms)
Echelon InsightsApr 3 to Apr 9	Names fewer than two candidates on this ballot (lists Keisha Lance Bottoms, Brad Raffensperger)
Echelon InsightsApr 3 to Apr 9	Names fewer than two candidates on this ballot (lists Keisha Lance Bottoms, Burt Jones)

Side by side

Bottoms left, Jackson right

Age on Election Day: 56; 72

How these are counted

What changed in this race

Newest first

Oct 27
NEW POLLGeorgia Governor
Georgia Governor: Keisha Lance Bottoms 49, Rick Jackson 48
Echelon Insights, Oct 16 to Oct 23, 508 likely voters · via VoteHub (CC BY 4.0)

All changes

More about this race

Candidates on the ballot

Keisha Lance BottomsDemocratic
Rick JacksonRepublican

Write-in candidates, not printed on the ballot

Andrew Pacetti, David C. Byrne, David Leon Moreland, Deb Broughton Davis, Jacqueline Angela DaCosta, Leland Jake Olinger, II, Milton J. Lofton

This list may not include every candidate. See the official list at the Georgia Secretary of State, Elections Division

Source: sos.ga.gov (ZIP), dated Sep 1

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Official results for Georgia

History (6 elections for this seat)

Votes for listed candidates: 3,953,433
Election day: November 8, 2022

Governor, Georgia, 2022, every candidate
Candidate	Party	Votes and share	Share
RepublicanBrian KempWon(incumbent)	Republican	2,111,57253.4%	53.4%
DemocraticStacey Abrams	Democratic	1,813,67345.9%	45.9%
LibertarianShane Hazel	Libertarian	28,1630.7%	0.7%
Scattered write-ins		250.0%	0.0%

Votes for listed candidates: 3,939,328
Election day: November 6, 2018

Governor, Georgia, 2018, every candidate
Candidate	Party	Votes and share	Share
RepublicanBrian KempWon	Republican	1,978,40850.2%	50.2%
DemocraticStacey Abrams	Democratic	1,923,68548.8%	48.8%
LibertarianTed Metz	Libertarian	37,2350.9%	0.9%

Votes for listed candidates: 2,550,216
Election day: November 4, 2014

Governor, Georgia, 2014, every candidate
Candidate	Party	Votes and share	Share
RepublicanJ. Nathan DealWon(incumbent)	Republican	1,345,23752.7%	52.7%
DemocraticJason J. Carter	Democratic	1,144,79444.9%	44.9%
LibertarianAndrew T. Hunt	Libertarian	60,1852.4%	2.4%

Votes for listed candidates: 2,576,161
Election day: November 2, 2010

Governor, Georgia, 2010, every candidate
Candidate	Party	Votes and share	Share
RepublicanJ. Nathan DealWon	Republican	1,365,83253.0%	53.0%
DemocraticRoy E. Barnes	Democratic	1,107,01143.0%	43.0%
LibertarianJohn H. Monds	Libertarian	103,1944.0%	4.0%
Scattered write-ins		1240.0%	0.0%

Votes for listed candidates: 2,122,258
Election day: November 7, 2006

Governor, Georgia, 2006, every candidate
Candidate	Party	Votes and share	Share
RepublicanSonny PerdueWon(incumbent)	Republican	1,229,72457.9%	57.9%
DemocraticMark Taylor	Democratic	811,04938.2%	38.2%
LibertarianGarrett Michael Hayes	Libertarian	81,4123.8%	3.8%
Scattered write-ins		730.0%	0.0%

Votes for listed candidates: 2,027,145
Election day: November 5, 2002

Governor, Georgia, 2002, every candidate
Candidate	Party	Votes and share	Share
RepublicanSonny PerdueWon	Republican	1,041,67751.4%	51.4%
DemocraticRoy E. Barnes	Democratic	937,06246.2%	46.2%
LibertarianGary Hayes	Libertarian	47,1222.3%	2.3%
Scattered write-ins		1,2840.1%	0.1%

All rows: Cha, Kuriwaki and Snyder, Candidates in American General Elections, version 3.1 (2006-2023 governor rows), retrieved Oct 28, 2026

Governor races before 2002 are not loaded yet.

Data notes (14)

Source priority per race: (1) a state election office's own certified results parsed in scripts/data/gov_results.py (NJ Division of Elections PDFs, Virginia Department of Elections, the Civera ElectionStats databases run by CT, VA, VT, CO, NY, NM and SC, the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, the NC State Board of Elections archive); (2) the open Cha/Kuriwaki/Snyder 'Candidates in American General Elections' file (Harvard Dataverse, CC0), which copies each state's statement of vote; (3) OpenElections county files and the 2020 Dataverse official-results tables, used only to add named candidates the Dataverse file omitted and to add the write-in count; (4) MEDSL precinct sums, used the same way and only when their Democratic and Republican totals agree with the Dataverse rows to 0.3 percent. Each race's source is listed in web/data/sources/gov-results.json.
total is the sum of the candidate rows in the file, and pct is votes divided by that total, rounded to one decimal. Blank, void, over and under votes are never in total. Write-in votes are in total as a 'Write-ins' row (writein: true) wherever a source reports them: the official databases, OpenElections, and MEDSL precinct returns. The Dataverse file leaves write-ins out, so MEDSL's write-in sum is added when MEDSL's count for every named candidate equals the Dataverse count exactly (for example AK 2022, 784 write-ins, and AL 2022, 9,432, both matching the state's statement of vote). Each race's source ids are in the race's source and sourceAlso fields and in the gov-results-<st> entry of sources.json.
151 races not taken from a state's own results file have no write-in row. Either the state counted no write-ins, or the sources on file leave them out (MEDSL's precinct sums did not match every named candidate exactly, or MEDSL has no file for that year); where they were left out, total is short by the write-ins and pct can run slightly above the state's printed percentage: AK 2006, AK 2010, AK 2014, AL 2006, AL 2010, AL 2014, AL 2018, AR 2006, AR 2014, AR 2018, AR 2022, AZ 2002, AZ 2014, AZ 2022, CA 2014, CA 2018, CA 2022, DE 2008, DE 2012, DE 2016, DE 2020, DE 2024, GA 2014, GA 2018, HI 2006, HI 2010, HI 2014, HI 2018, HI 2022, IA 2006, IA 2010, IA 2014, ID 1998, ID 2006, ID 2010, ID 2022, IL 2010, IL 2014, IL 2018, IN 2004, IN 2008, IN 2012, IN 2016, IN 2020, KS 2006, KS 2010, KS 2014, KS 2018, KS 2022, KY 2007, KY 2011, KY 2015, KY 2019, LA 2007, LA 2011, LA 2015, LA 2019, LA 2023, MD 2006, MD 2014, MD 2022, ME 2006, ME 2010, ME 2014, ME 2022, MI 2006, MI 2010, MI 2014, MI 2022, MN 2006, MN 2010, MN 2014, MO 2020, MS 2007, MS 2011, MS 2015, MS 2019, MS 2023, MT 2000, MT 2004, MT 2008, MT 2012, MT 2016, MT 2020, MT 2024, ND 2008, NE 2006, NE 2010, NE 2014, NE 2018, NE 2022, NH 2008, NH 2010, NH 2012, NH 2014, NH 2024, NM 2010, NV 2006, NV 2010, NV 2014, NV 2018, NV 2022, OH 2014, OH 2018, OK 2006, OK 2010, OK 2014, OK 2018, OK 2022, OR 2006, OR 2010, OR 2014, OR 2018, OR 2022, PA 2002, PA 2006, PA 2010, PA 2014, PA 2018, PA 2022, RI 2006, RI 2010, RI 2014, SC 2006, SD 2006, SD 2010, SD 2014, SD 2018, SD 2022, TX 2014, TX 2018, TX 2022, UT 2008, UT 2010, UT 2012, UT 2020, WA 2008, WA 2012, WA 2016, WI 2006, WI 2010, WI 2014, WI 2018, WV 2008, WV 2011, WV 2012, WV 2016, WV 2020, WV 2024, WY 2002, WY 2006.
party is D, R, I, L, G, O or N from the party label in the source; party_label keeps the source's wording. The Dataverse file prints short labels (Lbt, Grn, Const, DFL, NPA); those are expanded to Libertarian, Green, Constitution, Democratic-Farmer-Labor and No Party Affiliation. Fusion candidates (NY, CT, SC, and the Democratic-Progressive line in VT) are one candidate with all of their ballot lines added together.
Names: the Dataverse file stores 'LAST, FIRST MIDDLE (NICKNAME), SUFFIX'; the display name uses the nickname when there is one (Josh Shapiro, Bob Riley) and otherwise the given names. All-caps source names were title-cased by rule and can be wrong for internal capitals (DiGiulio, DeWine). Official lists that print only surnames (NJ 1997; MA tickets from 2010 on) take the full name from the Dataverse row of the same race where the surname and party match, otherwise stay surname-only.
incumbent is true or false only for races built from the Dataverse file (it carries an incumbency code; code 3, a governor who succeeded to the office, is treated as incumbent). It is null for official-source races and for candidates added from OpenElections or MEDSL.
Louisiana uses an open primary with a runoff. One race per election is stored: the round that decided it (the October primary when someone won more than 50 percent, otherwise the November runoff, marked runoff:true). Exact dates for those rounds come from the Dataverse/official files where present and are set in the script otherwise (LA_DATES); check them before showing a date.
Recall elections (Wisconsin June 2012, California September 2021) are not included. Only regular and special general elections for the office are stored; primaries and runoff primaries are not.
scripts/data/federal_results.py, if it is re-run, rewrites every web/data/results/governor/{ST}.json to []. Run scripts/data/gov_results.py after it, or remove build_governor() from that script.
GA: No governor general-election result in this file for 3 of 9 expected election years between 1990 and 2025: 1990, 1994, 1998. No open or official bulk source was found and parsed for them yet; they are gaps, not zeroes.
2014: built from the Dataverse candidates file only; no second source agreed with it at candidate level, so a minor-party candidate who is missing from that file would be missing here too
Candidate name is the sitting governor's officials-file spelling for 16 rows (the race's winner, same state, race within the governor's tenure, same surname and a compatible first name). Text encoding and casing are repaired by scripts/data/names.py.
Governor races earlier than the first year listed are not loaded yet for 50 states (AK from 2006; AL from 2006; AR from 2002; AZ from 2002; CA from 2002; CO from 1990; CT from 1990; DE from 2008; FL from 1990; GA from 2002; HI from 2006; IA from 2002; ID from 1994; IL from 2006; IN from 2004; KS from 2006; KY from 2007; LA from 2007; MA from 1990; MD from 2006; ME from 2006; MI from 2006; MN from 2006; MO from 2008; MS from 2007; MT from 2000; NC from 1992; ND from 2008; NE from 2006; NH from 2006; NJ from 1993; NM from 2002; NV from 2006; NY from 1994; OH from 2002; OK from 2006; OR from 2006; PA from 2002; RI from 2006; SC from 2006; SD from 2006; TN from 2002; TX from 1994; UT from 2008; VA from 1993; VT from 1990; WA from 2008; WI from 2006; WV from 2000; WY from 2002). The sources on file start later; nothing was filled in from memory. Each governor page says so under History.
1 duplicate candidate rows merged: a 0-vote placeholder row beside the real row is dropped. governor/CO 2022 Paul Noël Fiorino