A general election was held in the
U.S. state of
Georgia on November 6, 2018. All of Georgia's executive officers were up for election as well as all of Georgia's fourteen seats in the
United States House of Representatives. Neither U.S. Senate seat was up for election in 2018. The Republican Party won every statewide office in 2018.
Potential Republican candidates include Georgia Senate President Pro Tempore
David Shafer, State Representative
Geoff Duncan, Senate Majority Leader
Bill Cowsert, State Senator
Butch Miller, State Senator
Burt Jones, Secretary of State
Brian Kemp, Public Service Commissioner
Tim Echols and former adjutant general of the Georgia National Guard
Jim Butterworth.[3][4] State Representative
Allen Peake was also speculated as a potential candidate, but has ruled out a bid.[5][6]
As of November 2017, the declared Democratic candidate is Sarah Riggs Amico, an auto executive.[7] Potential Democratic candidates include 2010 Attorney General nominee, former
Dougherty County District Attorney
Ken Hodges.[8]
Potential Republican candidates include State Senator
Josh McKoon and former state representative
B.J. Pak.[19][20]
Potential Democratic candidates included State Representative
Stacey Evans and former Georgia Judicial Qualifications Commission Chair Lester Tate.[21][22] 2010 nominee and former
Dougherty County District Attorney
Ken Hodges was considered a potential candidate, but has decided to run for a seat on the
Georgia Court of Appeals instead.[22] Columbus Mayor
Teresa Tomlinson has ruled out running for attorney general.[23] As of July 2018,
Charlie Bailey, former Senior Assistant District Attorney in the Fulton County District Attorney's office, was running.
All of Georgia's fourteen seats in the
United States House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Democrats flipped one seat that elected a Republican in the previous election, resulting in them holding 5 of the state's 14 seats.
Controversies
The gubernatorial race was particularly controversial during the 2018 elections, as Republican candidate
Brian Kemp was also the
Georgia Secretary of State, a position which involves overseeing the electoral process, leading to allegations of
conflicts of interests.[70][71][72] Despite calls from Georgia Democrats, organizations such as the
NAACP[73] and
Common Cause,[74] and former president Jimmy Carter,[75] Kemp did not relinquish the position until after the election.[76]
Accusations were also leveled at Kemp with regards to the purging of voter rolls that was done under his oversight. Removing names from voter rolls is a common practice in the case of voters who are deceased or have moved out of state,[77] but since 2017, the practice has spiked in Georgia.[78] Due to strict voting rules in Georgia, tens of thousands of citizens lost their right to vote because of otherwise trivial issues, such as small differences between pieces of identification or insufficiently similar signatures.[79] Kemp was accused of using the voter roll purge as a tactic to disenfranchise more than half a million people, predominantly
African-Americans,[80] which has been likened to
voter suppression.[81][82]
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"Libertarian Candidate". J. Smythe Duval for Secretary of State. Archived from
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A general election was held in the
U.S. state of
Georgia on November 6, 2018. All of Georgia's executive officers were up for election as well as all of Georgia's fourteen seats in the
United States House of Representatives. Neither U.S. Senate seat was up for election in 2018. The Republican Party won every statewide office in 2018.
Potential Republican candidates include Georgia Senate President Pro Tempore
David Shafer, State Representative
Geoff Duncan, Senate Majority Leader
Bill Cowsert, State Senator
Butch Miller, State Senator
Burt Jones, Secretary of State
Brian Kemp, Public Service Commissioner
Tim Echols and former adjutant general of the Georgia National Guard
Jim Butterworth.[3][4] State Representative
Allen Peake was also speculated as a potential candidate, but has ruled out a bid.[5][6]
As of November 2017, the declared Democratic candidate is Sarah Riggs Amico, an auto executive.[7] Potential Democratic candidates include 2010 Attorney General nominee, former
Dougherty County District Attorney
Ken Hodges.[8]
Potential Republican candidates include State Senator
Josh McKoon and former state representative
B.J. Pak.[19][20]
Potential Democratic candidates included State Representative
Stacey Evans and former Georgia Judicial Qualifications Commission Chair Lester Tate.[21][22] 2010 nominee and former
Dougherty County District Attorney
Ken Hodges was considered a potential candidate, but has decided to run for a seat on the
Georgia Court of Appeals instead.[22] Columbus Mayor
Teresa Tomlinson has ruled out running for attorney general.[23] As of July 2018,
Charlie Bailey, former Senior Assistant District Attorney in the Fulton County District Attorney's office, was running.
All of Georgia's fourteen seats in the
United States House of Representatives were up for election in 2018. Democrats flipped one seat that elected a Republican in the previous election, resulting in them holding 5 of the state's 14 seats.
Controversies
The gubernatorial race was particularly controversial during the 2018 elections, as Republican candidate
Brian Kemp was also the
Georgia Secretary of State, a position which involves overseeing the electoral process, leading to allegations of
conflicts of interests.[70][71][72] Despite calls from Georgia Democrats, organizations such as the
NAACP[73] and
Common Cause,[74] and former president Jimmy Carter,[75] Kemp did not relinquish the position until after the election.[76]
Accusations were also leveled at Kemp with regards to the purging of voter rolls that was done under his oversight. Removing names from voter rolls is a common practice in the case of voters who are deceased or have moved out of state,[77] but since 2017, the practice has spiked in Georgia.[78] Due to strict voting rules in Georgia, tens of thousands of citizens lost their right to vote because of otherwise trivial issues, such as small differences between pieces of identification or insufficiently similar signatures.[79] Kemp was accused of using the voter roll purge as a tactic to disenfranchise more than half a million people, predominantly
African-Americans,[80] which has been likened to
voter suppression.[81][82]
This section needs expansion. You can help by
adding to it. (November 2018)
^Duval, Smythe.
"Libertarian Candidate". J. Smythe Duval for Secretary of State. Archived from
the original on February 8, 2018. Retrieved April 10, 2018.