The Top of the Ballot Is Set

Both November matchups for Governor and U.S. Senate were settled in June. Five statewide offices, fourteen congressional seats, and everything under them.

Georgia's June 16 runoffs finished the work the May 19 primary left undone. The top two races on the November 3 ballot now have their nominees.

Governor

Rick Jackson, a healthcare executive making his first run for office, won the Republican runoff over Lieutenant Governor Burt Jones, 53 percent to 47. He faces the Democratic nominee, former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who won her primary outright in May and skipped the runoff entirely.

The seat is open. Governor Brian Kemp is term-limited and cannot seek a third consecutive term.

U.S. Senate

Representative Mike Collins won the Republican runoff over former football coach Derek Dooley. He faces the incumbent, Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff.

This is one of Georgia's two Senate seats. The other is not on the ballot this year.

What else is statewide

Beyond Governor and Senate, Georgians vote on Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, and State School Superintendent.

Secretary of State is an open seat — Brad Raffensperger did not seek reelection, running for governor instead, and did not advance past the May primary.

All fourteen of Georgia's U.S. House seats are also up, as they are every two years.

The part that is yours alone

Everything above is the same ballot for every voter in the state. Everything below it is not.

Your address determines your legislative districts, your congressional district, your county commission and school board races, your judicial races, and any local questions your county or city has placed on the ballot. Two neighbors on opposite sides of a street can hold different ballots.

There is exactly one way to see yours: the personalized sample ballot on your My Voter Page at mvp.sos.ga.gov. Enter your name and county and the state shows you the actual ballot you will receive.

Look at it before Election Day. The races at the top of a ballot get the advertising. The ones at the bottom set your property tax rate.

If nobody clears fifty

Georgia requires a majority, not a plurality. Any race in which no candidate takes more than 50 percent goes to a runoff — which is how both of these nominations were decided in the first place.

For the November general election, that runoff date is December 1.

Race results cited here come from Associated Press tabulations as reported by NBC News and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Dates and voting rules come from the Georgia Secretary of State and georgia.gov. Confirm your own ballot at mvp.sos.ga.gov.