Published 9:59 pm Tuesday, November 3, 2026 Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms, former Atlanta mayor, will be the next governor of Georgia. The Associated Press has called the race. Bottoms garnered 51.74% of the vote to Republican opponent Rick Jackson’s 48% in Baldwin County, according to unofficial results on the Georgia Secretary of State’s website. With 153 of 159 counties reporting statewide, Bottoms garnered 54.71% to Jackson’s 45.29%, according to the secretary of state’s website. With the win, Bottoms will become the first African American woman ever elected governor in the United States.
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