Georgia's 6th Congressional District election, 2024 (May 21 Republican primary)
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| Filing deadline: March 8, 2024 |
| Primary: May 21, 2024 Primary runoff: June 18, 2024 General: November 5, 2024 General runoff: December 3, 2024 |
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| Poll times: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Voting in Georgia |
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A Republican Party primary took place on May 21, 2024, in Georgia's 6th Congressional District to determine which Republican candidate would run in the district's general election on November 5, 2024.
Jeff Criswell advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Georgia District 6.
All 435 seats were up for election. At the time of the election, Republicans had a 220 to 212 majority with three vacancies.[1] As of June 2024, 45 members of the U.S. House had announced they were not running for re-election. To read more about the U.S. House elections taking place this year, click here.
In the 2022 election in this district, the Republican candidate won 62.2%-37.8%. Daily Kos calculated what the results of the 2020 presidential election in this district would have been following redistricting. Joe Biden (D) would have defeated Donald Trump (R) 74.1%-24.7%.[2]
Georgia conducted redistricting between the 2022 and 2024 elections. As a result, district lines in this state changed. To review how redistricting took place in Georgia and to see maps of the new districts, click here. For a list of all states that drew new district lines between 2022 and 2024, click here.
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A primary election is an election in which registered voters select a candidate that they believe should be a political party's candidate for elected office to run in the general election. They are also used to choose convention delegates and party leaders. Primaries are state-level and local-level elections that take place prior to a general election. Georgia utilizes an open primary system, in which registered voters do not have to be members of a party to vote in that party's primary.[3][4]
For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.
This page focuses on Georgia's 6th Congressional District Republican primary. For more in-depth information on the district's Democratic primary and the general election, see the following pages:
- Georgia's 6th Congressional District election, 2024 (May 21 Democratic primary)
- Georgia's 6th Congressional District election, 2024
Candidates and election results
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Georgia District 6
Jeff Criswell advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Georgia District 6 on May 21, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jeff Criswell  | 100.0 | 11,983 |
| Total votes: 11,983 | |||
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Candidate profiles
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Party: Republican Party
Incumbent: No
Political Office: None
Submitted Biography: "Hello, I'm Jeff Criswell and I'm running as a Republican for the US House Seat from Georgia's 6th District. I'm BRAND NEW to politics, never having been involved before. In fact, I grew up in the DC area where I learned to despise politics. The vibe in Washington was just so off-putting. Also, as a Christian, I thought that "the world" was / is hopelessly lost, so why bother trying to improve it? I never even voted in a presidential election until I voted for Baby Bush in 2000. It's only been in the last 3-4 years, while I've been (even) more vigorous about my relationship with God, that He asked me to shoulder this burden. "
This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Georgia District 6 in 2024.
Voting information
- See also: Voting in Georgia
Campaign finance
| Name | Party | Receipts* | Disbursements** | Cash on hand | Date |
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| Jeff Criswell | Republican Party | $28,099 | $28,099 | $0 | As of December 31, 2024 |
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Source: Federal Elections Commission, "Campaign finance data," 2024. This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* According to the FEC, "Receipts are anything of value (money, goods, services or property) received by a political committee." |
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District analysis
Click the tabs below to view information about voter composition, past elections, and demographics in both the district and the state.
- District map - A map of the district before and after redistricting ahead of the 2024 election.
- Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
- Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the district and the state.
- State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.
Below is the district map used in the 2022 election next to the map in place for the 2024 election. Click on a map below to enlarge it.
2022
2024
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Georgia.
| Georgia U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2024 | ||||||||||||||
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| Year | Districts/ offices |
Seats | Open seats | Candidates | Possible primaries | Contested Democratic primaries | Contested Republican primaries | % of contested primaries | Incumbents in contested primaries | % of incumbents in contested primaries | ||||
| 2024 | 14 | 14 | 1 | 54 | 28 | 8 | 4 | 42.9% | 3 | 23.1% | ||||
| 2022 | 14 | 14 | 2 | 82 | 28 | 8 | 9 | 60.7% | 8 | 61.5% | ||||
| 2020 | 14 | 14 | 3 | 77 | 28 | 8 | 8 | 57.1% | 5 | 45.5% | ||||
| 2018 | 14 | 14 | 0 | 48 | 28 | 8 | 5 | 46.4% | 5 | 35.7% | ||||
| 2016 | 14 | 14 | 1 | 44 | 28 | 2 | 7 | 32.1% | 5 | 38.5% | ||||
| 2014 | 14 | 14 | 3 | 49 | 28 | 3 | 8 | 39.3% | 5 | 45.5% | ||||
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Georgia in 2024. Information below was calculated on April 2, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Fifty-five candidates ran for Georgia’s 14 U.S. House districts, including 30 Democrats and 25 Republicans. That’s 3.9 candidates per district, lower than the 5.9 candidates per district in 2022 and the 5.5 in 2020.
This was the first election to take place after Georgia Governor Brian Kemp (R) signed revised congressional maps into law on Dec. 8, 2023.
The 3rd Congressional District was the only open district in 2024, meaning no incumbents filed to run. That’s one less than in 2022, when two seats were open. There were three open seats in 2020, none in 2018, one in 2016, and three in 2014.
Incumbent Drew Ferguson (R-3rd) did not run for re-election because he retired from public office.
As a result of redistricting in Georgia, two incumbents ran for re-election in different districts than the ones they represented. Lucy McBath (D-7th) ran in the 6th Congressional District and Rich McCormick (R-6th) ran in the 7th Congressional District.
Nine candidates—seven Democrats and two Republicans—ran for the 13th Congressional District, the most candidates that ran for a seat in 2024.
Twelve primaries—eight Democratic and four Republican—were contested in 2024. Seventeen primaries were contested in 2022, 16 primaries were contested in 2020, and 13 were in 2018.
Three incumbents—two Democrats and one Republican—were in contested primaries, the fewest this decade.
Candidates filed to run in the Republican and Democratic primaries in all 14 districts, meaning no seats were guaranteed to either party.
Partisan Voter Index
Heading into the 2024 elections, based on results from the 2020 and 2016 presidential elections, the Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district was D+22. This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were 22 percentage points more Democratic than the national average. This made Georgia's 6th the 55th most Democratic district nationally.[5]
2020 presidential election results
The table below shows what the vote in the 2020 presidential election would have been in this district. The presidential election data was compiled by Daily Kos.
| 2020 presidential results in Georgia's 6th based on 2024 district lines | ||||
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Joe Biden 
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Donald Trump 
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| 74.1% | 24.7% | |||
Inside Elections Baselines
- See also: Inside Elections
Inside Elections' Baseline is a figure that analyzes all federal and statewide election results from the district over the past four election cycles. The results are combined in an index estimating the strength of a typical Democratic or Republican candidate in the congressional district.[6] The table below displays the Baseline data for this district.
| Inside Elections Baseline for 2024 | ||||
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| Democratic Baseline
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Republican Baseline
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| 70.4 | 28.6 | D+41.8 | ||
Presidential voting history
- See also: Presidential election in Georgia, 2020
Georgia presidential election results (1900-2020)
- 20 Democratic wins
- 10 Republican wins
- 1 other win
| Year | 1900 | 1904 | 1908 | 1912 | 1916 | 1920 | 1924 | 1928 | 1932 | 1936 | 1940 | 1944 | 1948 | 1952 | 1956 | 1960 | 1964 | 1968 | 1972 | 1976 | 1980 | 1984 | 1988 | 1992 | 1996 | 2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 |
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| Winning Party | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | AI[7] | R | D | D | R | R | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | D |
Congressional delegation
The table below displays the partisan composition of Georgia's congressional delegation as of May 2024.
| Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Georgia | |||
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| Party | U.S. Senate | U.S. House | Total |
| Democratic | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| Republican | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vacancies | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 2 | 14 | 16 |
State executive
The table below displays the officeholders in Georgia's top four state executive offices as of May 2024.
| State executive officials in Georgia, May 2024 | |
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| Office | Officeholder |
| Governor | Brian Kemp
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| Lieutenant Governor | Burt Jones
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| Secretary of State | Brad Raffensperger
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| Attorney General | Chris Carr
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State legislature
Georgia State Senate
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
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| Democratic Party | 23 | |
| Republican Party | 32 | |
| Other | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 1 | |
| Total | 56 | |
Georgia House of Representatives
| Party | As of February 2024 | |
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| Democratic Party | 78 | |
| Republican Party | 100 | |
| Independent | 0 | |
| Other | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 2 | |
| Total | 180 | |
Trifecta control
The table below shows the state's trifecta status from 1992 until the 2024 election.
Georgia Party Control: 1992-2024
Eleven years of Democratic trifectas • Twenty years of Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.
| Year | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
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| Governor | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
| Senate | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
| House | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
Ballot access
The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in Georgia in the 2024 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in Georgia, click here.
| Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2024 | ||||||
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| State | Office | Party | Signatures required | Filing fee | Filing deadline | Source |
| Georgia | U.S. House | Ballot-qualified party | N/A | $5,220.00 | 3/8/2024 | Source |
| Georgia | U.S. House | Unaffiliated | 27,992[8] | $5,220.00 | 7/9/2024 | Source |
See also
- Georgia's 6th Congressional District election, 2024 (May 21 Democratic primary)
- Georgia's 6th Congressional District election, 2024
- United States House elections in Georgia, 2024 (May 21 Democratic primaries)
- United States House elections in Georgia, 2024 (May 21 Republican primaries)
- United States House Democratic Party primaries, 2024
- United States House Republican Party primaries, 2024
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2024
- U.S. House battlegrounds, 2024
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ A majority in the U.S. House when there are no vacancies is 218 seats.
- ↑ Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' 2020 presidential results by congressional district, for new and old districts," accessed September 15, 2022
- ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures, "State Primary Election Types," accessed August 12, 2024
- ↑ Justia, "2023 Georgia Code § 21-2-224 - Registration deadlines; restrictions on voting in primaries; official list of electors; voting procedure when portion of county changed from one county to another," accessed August 12, 2024
- ↑ Cook Political Report, "The 2022 Cook Partisan Voting Index (Cook PVI℠)," accessed January 10, 2024
- ↑ Inside Elections, "Methodology: Inside Elections’ Baseline by Congressional District," December 8, 2023
- ↑ American Independent Party
- ↑ Average of all congressional districts.
