Georgia's 2nd congressional district
Coverage: this seat is included in the 2026 national listing. State candidate coverage class: candidate coverage partial — some districts verified. Absence of candidate rows is not evidence that a race has no candidates — see the coverage ledger.
Candidate source
Candidate source: Georgia Secretary of State, Elections Division (document posted by Fayette County Board of Elections, version v3 dated 9/18/2026) — FINAL LIST OF CERTIFIED WRITE-IN CANDIDATES - November 3, 2026 General Election (Office of the Secretary of State, Elections Division; published the 15th day of September 2026 pursuant to O.C.G.A. 21-2-133(e)(1)) (retrieved 2026-09-28). Absence of a candidate row is never evidence that a race has no candidates.
How the candidate list was checked
Rows read from the official source: 5 · published here: 5 · left out by rule: 0 · held back for review: 0. MAIN ROSTER STILL BLOCKED: sos.ga.gov WAF 403 (browser-UA curl and WebFetch); results.enr.clarityelections.com/GA also 403; qualifying.sos.ga.gov NXDOMAIN; elections.sos.ga.gov 301s back into sos.ga.gov. AUTHORITY LOCATED: the Wayback capture (2026-09-21) of sos.ga.gov/november-3-2026-general-election links the official roster file "sites/default/files/2026-09/November 2026 Federal and State Candidates 2026.zip" plus "forms/2026 Certified Write-In Candidates_2.pdf". Direct fetch of the ZIP = 403 (1 bounded attempt); Wayback/CDX returned "Internet Archive: Temporarily Offline" for the entire run window (5 checks), so the ZIP could not be pulled - resume path: refetch the ZIP via Wayback when IA is back, or any GA county mirror. EMITTED rows are the state-authority write-in candidacies: the Elections Division FINAL LIST OF CERTIFIED WRITE-IN CANDIDATES (state-certified under O.C.G.A. 21-2-133(e)(1); write-in votes counted only for listed names). GA Senate = Class 2 regular (Ossoff seat) per statute; the emitted Senate rows are write-ins, not the major-party nominees - do NOT infer the full 14-district slate from this file. County sample-ballot route sampled: Fayette composite ballot is a scan (0 extractable chars; page count 2) - would need OCR; Bulloch/Chatham/Columbus/ACC/Augusta county pages expose no November candidate-list PDFs server-side; Cobb/Gwinnett sample ballots are JS portals (Enhanced Voting / Liferay).
Boundaries and sources
County–district classifications come from official block-assignment files, cross-checked against Census representations; render geometry is display-only.
Current officeholder
Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. · Democratic · current term began January 3, 2025 (elected November 5, 2024)
Economic profile at this seat’s exact geography
FederalCensus Bureau American Community Survey 2020-2024 (5-year) · survey period 2020-2024 · Congressional District 2 (119th Congress), Georgia
- Median household income$52,535± $1,153
- Poverty rate21.9%± 0.7 ppPopulation for whom poverty status is determined
- Rent burden (30%+ of income on gross rent)50.5%± 1.7 ppRenter-occupied households paying cash rent for which rent burden is computed
- Homeownership rate56.9%± 0.8 ppOccupied housing units
- Bachelor's degree or higher (age 25+)21.8%± 0.5 ppPopulation 25 years and over
Technical definitions (ACS tables)
- Rent burden (30%+ of income on gross rent)
- Renter-occupied households paying cash rent for which rent burden is computed: B25070_001 minus B25070_011 (Not computed)
Census block equivalency files show this state's 119th- and 120th-Congress representations are block-identical, so the 119th-Congress ACS district product binds exactly to this district.
Structural five-year survey conditions — not current monthly conditions. Uncertainties are 90% margins of error: the published ACS margin for median income; Census-formula approximations (ACS handbook ch. 8) for the rates. “Margin unavailable” means the source supplies no usable margin — never zero.
Campaign finances
No contest in this release carries campaign-finance context.
Current officeholder — Congress.gov context
Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. · Democratic · Georgia · served in 17 Congresses since 1993
Identity verified against the official Congress.gov member record (Bioguide B000490), recorded through 2026-10-04T02:54:23Z. Current officeholding is separate from 2026 candidacy status. Official member website.
Recent housing, employment, energy and infrastructure legislation
From the member's sponsored then cosponsored legislation lists (newest first, limit 30 each), the newest items whose CONFIRMED official legislative subjects intersect {Housing and Community Development, Labor and Employment, Energy, Transportation and Public Works, Water Resources Development} are selected, at most 3 sponsored and 2 cosponsored, 5 total. Items whose relevance cannot be confirmed via the official /subjects endpoint are omitted.
- HR.5408-119 — Faster Labor Contracts Actcosponsor latest action 2026-06-10: Received in the Senate. · subjects: Labor and Employment
Sponsorship is a record of introduction or support — not passage, effectiveness, or economic impact.
Counties and this district
County boundaries for this seat are not published in this release. Explore individual counties on the county map.