Georgia: who should earn your vote for Congress in 2026
Opinion · The paper’s scorecard
Georgia: every race for Congress on the 3 November 2026 ballot, and how the candidates measure up against our standards.
Sitting and former members are scored on the same key votes, read from the official House and Senate roll calls; each vote links to the record. Candidates who have never served in Congress have no votes to score, and outside the battlegrounds we have not researched them, so they are marked as not scored. Where only one candidate could be measured, the mark rates that record on its own; it is not a verdict on the opponent. How the marks work · All states
U.S. Senate R+1
✓ Our pick: Mike Collins
A battleground: read our full case, with every source.
District 1 R+8
No mark
Buddy Carter (R): incumbent retiring to run for u.
Amanda Hollowell
Democrat
No congressional voting record; not scored
Jim Kingston
Republican
No congressional voting record; not scored
District 2 D+4
No mark
Sanford Bishop
Democrat · incumbent
Scored on 27 key votes · total -4
- ✗Smaller government
- ~Small business over giants
- ✓Live and let live
- ✗Light touch on tech
- ✗Free speech
- ✗No surveillance state
- ✓Home first, open trade
- ~Checks on power
- ✗Right to bear arms
- ✗Hard on violent crime
With us (8)
Matt Day
Republican
No congressional voting record; not scored
District 3 R+15
Leans our way: Brian Jack
Leans our way
Brian Jack
Republican · incumbent
Scored on 11 key votes · total +1
- ✓Smaller government
- ✓Small business over giants
- ?Live and let live
- ✓Light touch on tech
- ?Free speech
- ✗No surveillance state
- ✗Home first, open trade
- ✗Checks on power
- ?Right to bear arms
- ✓Hard on violent crime
With us (6)
Maura Keller
Democrat
No congressional voting record; not scored
District 4 D+27
No mark
James Duffie
Republican
No congressional voting record; not scored
Hank Johnson
Democrat · incumbent
Scored on 26 key votes · total -2
- ✗Smaller government
- ~Small business over giants
- ✓Live and let live
- ✗Light touch on tech
- ~Free speech
- ✗No surveillance state
- ✓Home first, open trade
- ✓Checks on power
- ✗Right to bear arms
- ✗Hard on violent crime
With us (9)
District 5 D+36
No mark
John Oscar Salvesen
Republican
No congressional voting record; not scored
Nikema Williams
Democrat · incumbent
Scored on 27 key votes · total +0
- ✗Smaller government
- ~Small business over giants
- ✓Live and let live
- ✗Light touch on tech
- ✓Free speech
- ✓No surveillance state
- ✓Home first, open trade
- ~Checks on power
- ✗Right to bear arms
- ✗Hard on violent crime
With us (13)
District 6 D+25
No mark
Kevin Martin
Republican
No congressional voting record; not scored
Lucy McBath
Democrat · incumbent
Scored on 26 key votes · total -2
- ✗Smaller government
- ~Small business over giants
- ✓Live and let live
- ✓Light touch on tech
- ✗Free speech
- ✗No surveillance state
- ✓Home first, open trade
- ~Checks on power
- ✗Right to bear arms
- ✗Hard on violent crime
With us (8)
District 7 R+11
✓ Meets our standards: Rich McCormick
Tony Kozycki
Democrat
No congressional voting record; not scored
Meets our standards
Rich McCormick
Republican · incumbent
Scored on 21 key votes · total +5
- ✓Smaller government
- ✓Small business over giants
- ?Live and let live
- ✓Light touch on tech
- ✗Free speech
- ✓No surveillance state
- ✗Home first, open trade
- ✓Checks on power
- ✓Right to bear arms
- ✓Hard on violent crime
With us (14)
District 8 R+15
Leans our way: Austin Scott
Kelly Esti
Democrat
No congressional voting record; not scored
Leans our way
Austin Scott
Republican · incumbent
Scored on 27 key votes · total +1
- ✓Smaller government
- ~Small business over giants
- ✗Live and let live
- ✓Light touch on tech
- ✗Free speech
- ✗No surveillance state
- ✗Home first, open trade
- ✓Checks on power
- ✓Right to bear arms
- ✓Hard on violent crime
With us (15)
District 9 R+17
✓ Meets our standards: Andrew Clyde
Meets our standards
Andrew Clyde
Republican · incumbent
Scored on 27 key votes · total +3
- ✓Smaller government
- ~Small business over giants
- ✗Live and let live
- ✓Light touch on tech
- ~Free speech
- ✓No surveillance state
- ✗Home first, open trade
- ~Checks on power
- ✓Right to bear arms
- ✓Hard on violent crime
With us (19)
Caitlyn Gegen
Democrat
No congressional voting record; not scored
District 10 R+11
No mark
Mike Collins (R): incumbent retiring to run for u.
Pam Delancy
Democrat
No congressional voting record; not scored
Houston Gaines
Republican
No congressional voting record; not scored
District 11 R+12
No mark
Barry Loudermilk (R): incumbent retiring.
John Cowan
Republican
No congressional voting record; not scored
Chris Harden
Democrat
No congressional voting record; not scored
District 12 R+7
Leans our way: Rick Allen
Leans our way
Rick Allen
Republican · incumbent
Scored on 27 key votes · total +1
- ✓Smaller government
- ~Small business over giants
- ✗Live and let live
- ✓Light touch on tech
- ✗Free speech
- ~No surveillance state
- ✗Home first, open trade
- ~Checks on power
- ✓Right to bear arms
- ✓Hard on violent crime
With us (16)
Ceretta Smith
Democrat
No congressional voting record; not scored
District 13 D+21
No mark
Everton Blair (D): incumbent lost initial nomination for the full term; later elected to complete david scott 's unexpired term.
Jonathan Chavez
Republican
No congressional voting record; not scored
Jasmine Clark
Democrat
No congressional voting record; not scored
District 14 R+19
No mark
Clay Fuller
Republican · incumbent
Scored on 2 key votes · total -2
- ?Smaller government
- ?Small business over giants
- ?Live and let live
- ?Light touch on tech
- ?Free speech
- ✗No surveillance state
- ✗Home first, open trade
- ?Checks on power
- ?Right to bear arms
- ?Hard on violent crime
Shawn Harris
Democrat
No congressional voting record; not scored
Photo credits. Official congressional portraits are works of the U.S. government and in the public domain. Others:
- Clay Fuller: Brian Thorpe, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (file)