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United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia, 2022
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Georgia were on November 8, 2022. Voters elected 14 candidates to serve in the U.S. House, one from each of the state's 14 U.S. House districts. The primary was scheduled for May 24, 2022, and a primary runoff was scheduled for June 21, 2022. A general runoff election was scheduled for December 6, 2022. The filing deadline was March 11, 2022.
Partisan breakdown
| Members of the U.S. House from Georgia-- Partisan Breakdown | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | As of November 2022 | After the 2022 Election | |
| Democratic Party | 6 | 5 | |
| Republican Party | 8 | 9 | |
| Total | 14 | 14 | |
Candidates
District 1
General election candidates
- Earl Carter (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Wade Herring (Democratic Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- George Litchfield (Conservative Party)
Democratic primary runoff candidates
Democratic primary candidates
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Republican primary candidates
- Earl Carter (Incumbent) ✔
District 2
General election candidates
- Sanford Bishop Jr. (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Chris West (Republican Party)
Republican primary runoff candidates
Democratic primary candidates
- Sanford Bishop Jr. (Incumbent) ✔
- Joseph O'Hara
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
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District 3
General election candidates
- Drew Ferguson (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Val Almonord (Democratic Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Andrew Pacetti (Independent)
Democratic primary candidates
Republican primary candidates
- Drew Ferguson (Incumbent) ✔
- Jared Craig
Did not make the ballot:
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District 4
General election candidates
- Hank Johnson (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Jonathan Chavez (Republican Party)
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- Hank Johnson (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
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District 5
General election candidates
- Nikema Williams (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Christian Zimm (Republican Party)
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- Nikema Williams (Incumbent) ✔
- Charlotte Macbagito
- Valencia Stovall
Did not make the ballot:
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District 6
General election candidates
- Bob Christian (Democratic Party)
- Rich McCormick (Republican Party) ✔
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Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
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- Jake Evans ✔
- Byron Gatewood
- Meagan Hanson
- Blake Harbin
- Rich McCormick ✔
- Paulette Smith
- Mallory Staples
- Suzi Voyles
- Eugene Yu
Did not make the ballot:
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District 7
General election candidates
- Lucy McBath (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Mark Gonsalves (Republican Party)
- Lisa Babbage (Republican Party) (Write-in)
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- Carolyn Bourdeaux (Incumbent)
- Lucy McBath (Incumbent) ✔
- Donna McLeod
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
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District 8
General election candidates
- Austin Scott (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Darrius Butler (Democratic Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Michelle Cope (Libertarian Party)
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- Austin Scott (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
District 9
General election candidates
- Andrew Clyde (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Michael Ford (Democratic Party)
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Did not make the ballot:
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District 10
General election candidates
- Tabitha Johnson-Green (Democratic Party)
- Mike Collins (Republican Party) ✔
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Did not make the ballot:
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- Timothy Barr
- Paul C. Broun
- Mike Collins ✔
- David Curry
- Vernon Jones ✔
- Marc McMain
- Alan Sims
- Mitchell Swan
Did not make the ballot:
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District 11
General election candidates
- Barry Loudermilk (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Antonio Daza (Democratic Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Angela Davis (Independent)
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Did not make the ballot:
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- Barry Loudermilk (Incumbent) ✔
District 12
General election candidates
- Rick Allen (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Liz Johnson (Democratic Party)
Democratic primary candidates
Republican primary candidates
- Rick Allen (Incumbent) ✔
District 13
General election candidates
- David Scott (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Caesar Gonzales (Republican Party)
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- David Scott (Incumbent) ✔
- Mark Baker
- Shastity Driscoll
- Vincent Fort
Did not make the ballot:
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District 14
General election candidates
- Marjorie Taylor Greene (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Marcus Flowers (Democratic Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Angela Pence (Libertarian Party)
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Did not make the ballot:
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- Marjorie Taylor Greene (Incumbent) ✔
- Eric Cunningham
- James Haygood
- Charles Lutin
- Jennifer Strahan
- Seth Synstelien
Did not make the ballot:
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General election race ratings
- See also: Race rating definitions and methods
Ballotpedia provides race ratings from four outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and DDHQ/The Hill. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:
- Safe and Solid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
- Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
- Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.[1]
- Toss-up ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.
Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.[2][3][4]
Click the following links to see the race ratings in each of the state's U.S. House districts:
- Georgia's 1st Congressional District
- Georgia's 2nd Congressional District
- Georgia's 3rd Congressional District
- Georgia's 4th Congressional District
- Georgia's 5th Congressional District
- Georgia's 6th Congressional District
- Georgia's 7th Congressional District
- Georgia's 8th Congressional District
- Georgia's 9th Congressional District
- Georgia's 10th Congressional District
- Georgia's 11th Congressional District
- Georgia's 12th Congressional District
- Georgia's 13th Congressional District
- Georgia's 14th Congressional District
Ballot access
For information on candidate ballot access requirements in Georgia, click here.
Election analysis
Click the tabs below to view information about voter composition, past elections, and demographics in both the district and the state.
- District maps - A map of the state's districts before and after redistricting.
- Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2022 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.
District map
Below were the district maps in use at the time of the election, enacted as part of the 2020 redistricting cycle, compared to the maps in place before the election.
Georgia Congressional Districts
before 2020 redistricting cycle
Click a district to compare boundaries.
Georgia Congressional Districts
after 2020 redistricting cycle
Click a district to compare boundaries.
Competitiveness
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Georgia.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Georgia in 2022. Information below was calculated on May 19, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Eighty-two candidates filed to run in Georgia’s 14 U.S. House districts, including 31 Democrats and 51 Republicans. That’s 5.86 candidates per district, more than the 5.5 candidates per district in 2020 and the 3.42 in 2018. This was the first election to take place under new district lines following the 2020 census. Georgia was apportioned 14 districts, the same number it was apportioned after the 2010 census.
The 82 candidates who ran this year were the most candidates running for Georgia's U.S. House seats since at least 2012, the earliest year for which we have data.
Two seats — the 6th and the 10th — were open, meaning no incumbents filed to run. That’s one less than in 2020, when three seats were open. There were no open seats in 2018, one in 2016, and three in 2014. Rep. Jody Hice (R), who represented the 10th district, ran for Georgia Secretary of State. Thirteen candidates — five Democrats and eight Republicans — ran to replace him, the most candidates running for a seat this year.
Rep. Lucy McBath (D), who represented the 6th district, ran in the 7th district. She was the only incumbent running in a different district than the one she represented. Rep. Carolyn Bourdeaux (D), the incumbent in the 7th district, ran for re-election. That made the 7th district the only district featuring two incumbents running against each other.
There were eight contested Democratic primaries this year, the same number as in 2020 and 2018, and nine contested Republican primaries, one more than in 2020 and the highest number since at least 2012. There were eight incumbents in contested primaries, the most since at least 2012.
Five incumbents did not face any primary challengers. Candidates filed to run in the Republican and Democratic primaries in all 14 districts, so no seats were guaranteed to either party this year. The last year in which a party was guaranteed a seat because no candidate from the other party filed was 2018, when then-incumbent Rep. John Lewis (D) ran unopposed in the general election for the 5th district.
Presidential elections
As a result of redistricting following the 2020 census, many district boundaries changed. As a result, analysis of the presidential vote in each of these new districts is not yet available. Once that analysis is available, it will be published here.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winning Party | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | AI[5] | R | D | D | R | R | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | D |
State party control
Congressional delegation
The table below displays the partisan composition of Georgia's congressional delegation as of November 2022.
| Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Georgia, November 2022 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | U.S. Senate | U.S. House | Total |
| Democratic | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| Republican | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| 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 November 2022.
| State executive officials in Georgia, November 2022 | |
|---|---|
| Office | Officeholder |
| Governor | Brian Kemp
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| Lieutenant Governor | Geoff Duncan
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| Secretary of State | Brad Raffensperger
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| Attorney General | Chris Carr
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State legislature
The tables below highlight the partisan composition of the Georgia General Assembly as of November 2022.
Georgia State Senate
| Party | As of November 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 22 | |
| Republican Party | 34 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 56 | |
Georgia House of Representatives
| Party | As of November 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 75 | |
| Republican Party | 103 | |
| Independent | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 2 | |
| Total | 180 | |
Trifecta control
As of November 2022, Georgia was a Republican trifecta, with majorities in both chambers of the state legislature and control of the governorship. The table below displays the historical trifecta status of the state.
Georgia Party Control: 1992-2022
Eleven years of Democratic trifectas • Eighteen 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Redistricting following the 2020 census
The district court's approval of remedial state legislative maps was appealed to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Oral argument was held on January 23, 2025.[6]
Governor Kemp (R) signed revised legislative maps into law on December 8, 2023. Legislators in the Georgia House of Representatives voted 98-71 to adopt the new state legislative maps on December 5. The Georgia State Senate voted 32-23 to adopt the state legislative maps on December 1. For more information about the enacted legislative maps, click here.[7][8]
On October 26, 2023, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia ruled that the state's congressional and legislative district boundaries violated the Voting Rights Act and enjoined the state from using them for future elections.[9] The court directed the Georgia General Assembly to develop new maps by December 8, 2023.[9]
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Inside Elections also uses Tilt ratings to indicate an even smaller advantage and greater competitiveness.
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Nathan Gonzalez," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Kyle Kondik," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Charlie Cook," April 22, 2018
- ↑ American Independent Party
- ↑ Democracy Docket, "11th Circuit Considers Fate of Georgia Maps in High-Stakes Redistricting Case," January 21, 2025
- ↑ Georgia General Assembly, "Legislative and Congressional Reapportionment Office - Proposed Plans," accessed December 11, 2023
- ↑ Twitter, "RedistrictNet," December 7, 2023
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Reuters, "US judge orders new congressional map in Georgia, citing harm to Black voters," October 27,, 2023
