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United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia, 2018
- General election: Nov. 6
- Voter registration deadline: Oct. 9[1]
- Early voting: Oct. 15 - Nov. 2
- Absentee voting deadline: Nov. 6
- Online registration: Yes
- Same-day registration: No
- Voter ID: Photo ID required
- Poll times: 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
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The 2018 U.S. House of Representatives elections in Georgia took place on November 6, 2018. Voters elected 14 candidates to serve in the U.S. House, one from each of the state's 14 congressional districts.
Partisan breakdown
Heading into the November 6 election, the Republican Party held 10 of the 14 congressional seats from Georgia.
| Members of the U.S. House from Georgia -- Partisan Breakdown | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | As of November 2018 | After the 2018 Election | |
| Democratic Party | 4 | 5 | |
| Republican Party | 10 | 9 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 14 | 14 | |
Incumbents
Heading into the 2018 election, the incumbents for the 14 congressional districts were:
| Name | Party | District |
|---|---|---|
| Earl "Buddy" Carter |  Republican |
1 |
| Sanford Bishop, Jr. |  Democratic |
2 |
| Drew Ferguson | Republican |
3 |
| Hank Johnson | Democratic |
4 |
| John Lewis | Democratic |
5 |
| Karen Handel | Republican |
6 |
| Rob Woodall | Republican |
7 |
| Austin Scott | Republican |
8 |
| Doug Collins | Republican |
9 |
| Jody Hice | Republican |
10 |
| Barry Loudermilk | Republican |
11 |
| Rick Allen | Republican |
12 |
| David Scott | Democratic |
13 |
| Tom Graves | Republican |
14 |
2016 Pivot Counties
Georgia features two congressional districts that, based on boundaries adopted after the 2010 census, intersected with one or more Pivot Counties. These 206 Pivot Counties voted for Donald Trump (R) in 2016 after voting for Barack Obama (D) in 2008 and 2012.
The 206 Pivot Counties are located in 34 states. Iowa, with 31, had the most such counties. Heading into the 2018 elections, the partisan makeup of the 108 congressional districts intersecting with Pivot Counties was more Republican than the partisan breakdown of the U.S. House. Of the 108 congressional districts that had at least one Pivot County, 63 percent were held by a Republican incumbent, while 55.4 percent of U.S. House seats were won by a Republican in the 2016 elections.[2]
Candidates
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District 1
General election
General election candidates
- Earl Carter (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Lisa Ring (Democratic Party)
Primary election
Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
Republican primary candidates
- Earl Carter (Incumbent) ✔
District 2
General election
General election candidates
- Sanford Bishop Jr. (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Herman West Jr. (Republican Party)
Primary election
Democratic primary candidates
- Sanford Bishop Jr. (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
District 3
General election
General election candidates
- Drew Ferguson (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Chuck Enderlin (Democratic Party)
Primary election
Democratic primary candidates
Republican primary candidates
- Drew Ferguson (Incumbent) ✔
- Philip Singleton
District 4
General election
General election candidates
- Hank Johnson (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Joe Profit (Republican Party)
Primary election
Democratic primary candidates
- Hank Johnson (Incumbent) ✔
- Juan Parks
Did not make the ballot:
Republican primary candidates
District 5
General election
General election candidates
- John Lewis (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
Primary election
Democratic primary candidates
- John Lewis (Incumbent) ✔
There are no official candidates yet for this election.
District 6
General election
General election candidates
- Karen Handel (Incumbent) (Republican Party)
- Lucy McBath (Democratic Party) ✔
Write-in candidates
Primary runoff election
Democratic primary runoff candidates
Primary election
Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
Republican primary candidates
- Karen Handel (Incumbent) ✔
District 7
General election
General election candidates
- Rob Woodall (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Carolyn Bourdeaux (Democratic Party)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Primary election
Democratic primary runoff candidates
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Democratic primary candidates
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Republican primary candidates
- Rob Woodall (Incumbent) ✔
- Shane Hazel
District 8
General election
General election candidates
- Austin Scott (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
Write-in candidates
Primary election
Democratic primary candidates
No candidates filed for the Democratic Party primary.
Did not make the ballot:
Republican primary candidates
- Austin Scott (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
District 9
General election
General election candidates
- Doug Collins (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Josh McCall (Democratic Party)
Write-in candidates
Primary election
Democratic primary candidates
Republican primary candidates
- Doug Collins (Incumbent) ✔
District 10
General election
General election candidates
- Jody Hice (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Tabitha Johnson-Green (Democratic Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Patrick Moorehead (Independent)
Not on the ballot
Primary election
Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
Republican primary candidates
- Jody Hice (Incumbent) ✔
- Bradley Griffin
- Joe Hunt
Independent
- Patrick Moorehead (Independent)[3]
District 11
General election
General election candidates
- Barry Loudermilk (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Flynn Broady Jr. (Democratic Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Bar-Kim Green (Independent)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Not on the ballot
Primary election
Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Republican primary candidates
- Barry Loudermilk (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
Independents
District 12
General election
General election candidates
- Rick Allen (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Francys Johnson (Democratic Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Mary West (Independent)
Write-in candidates
Primary election
Democratic primary candidates
Republican primary candidates
- Rick Allen (Incumbent) ✔
- Eugene Yu
Independent
District 13
General election
General election candidates
- David Scott (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- David Callahan (Republican Party)
Write-in candidates
Primary election
Democratic primary candidates
- David Scott (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
District 14
General election
General election candidates
- Tom Graves (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Steven Foster (Democratic Party)
Primary election
Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
Republican primary candidates
- Tom Graves (Incumbent) ✔
Wave election analysis
- See also: Wave elections (1918-2016)
The term wave election is frequently used to describe an election cycle in which one party makes significant electoral gains. How many seats would Republicans have had to lose for the 2018 midterm election to be considered a wave election?
Ballotpedia examined the results of the 50 election cycles that occurred between 1918 and 2016—spanning from President Woodrow Wilson's (D) second midterm in 1918 to Donald Trump's (R) first presidential election in 2016. We define wave elections as the 20 percent of elections in that period resulting in the greatest seat swings against the president's party.
Applying this definition to U.S. House elections, we found that Republicans needed to lose 48 seats for 2018 to qualify as a wave election.
The chart below shows the number of seats the president's party lost in the 11 U.S. House waves from 1918 to 2016. Click here to read the full report.
| U.S. House wave elections | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | President | Party | Election type | House seats change | House majority[6] | |
| 1932 | Hoover | R | Presidential | -97 | D | |
| 1922 | Harding | R | First midterm | -76 | R | |
| 1938 | Roosevelt | D | Second midterm | -70 | D | |
| 2010 | Obama | D | First midterm | -63 | R (flipped) | |
| 1920 | Wilson | D | Presidential | -59 | R | |
| 1946 | Truman | D | First midterm | -54 | R (flipped) | |
| 1994 | Clinton | D | First midterm | -54 | R (flipped) | |
| 1930 | Hoover | R | First midterm | -53 | D (flipped) | |
| 1942 | Roosevelt | D | Third midterm | -50 | D | |
| 1966 | Johnson | D | First midterm[7] | -48 | D | |
| 1974 | Ford | R | Second midterm[8] | -48 | D | |
See also
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2018
- U.S. House battlegrounds, 2018
- U.S. House primaries, 2018
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The registration deadline was extended to October 16, 2018, in Clay, Grady, Randolph, and Turner counties by executive order of Gov. Nathan Deal in response to Hurricane Michael.
- ↑ The raw data for this study was provided by Dave Leip of Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections.
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "MOOREHEAD, PATRICK," accessed September 26, 2017
- ↑ Email submission to Ballotpedia, November 21, 2017
- ↑ Mary West for Congress, "Home," accessed September 26, 2017
- ↑ Denotes the party that had more seats in the U.S. House following the election.
- ↑ Lyndon Johnson's (D) first term began in November 1963 after the death of President John F. Kennedy (D), who was first elected in 1960. Before Johnson had his first midterm in 1966, he was re-elected president in 1964.
- ↑ Gerald Ford's (R) first term began in August 1974 following the resignation of President Richard Nixon (R), who was first elected in 1968 and was re-elected in 1972. Because Ford only served for two full months before facing the electorate, this election is classified as Nixon's second midterm.
