Georgia · U.S. Senate
GA Class 2 Senate seat
Coverage: this seat is included in the 2026 national listing.
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).
Hot Races · statewide: the 2024 presidential result in this state was R+2.2, #2 closest of 41 statewide 2026 contests. Neither is a forecast of this race. How the list works
Boundaries and sources
County–district classifications come from official block-assignment files, cross-checked against Census representations; render geometry is display-only.
Current officeholder
The current officeholder has not been confirmed in this edition. This does not establish that the seat is vacant.
Upcoming contests
2026-11-03 — general
Cassandra Easton · Nonpartisan (write-in candidate)
Declared write-in candidacy
Christina Clement · Nonpartisan (write-in candidate)
Declared write-in candidacy
Elbert Arthur Bartell · Nonpartisan (write-in candidate)
Declared write-in candidacy
Polling
D+9.6 — Jon Ossoff (Democrat) against Mike Collins (Republican), averaging each pollster’s latest poll in the 30 days to October 7, 2026: 3 polls from 3 pollsters.
A poll average describes what recent surveys found. Each poll has its own sampling error, larger for smaller samples. The average is not a forecast and not a probability. Matchup: named in the 3 most recent polls. 8 polls in the source were left out: party-sponsored or internal polls, other matchups, duplicate versions of the same poll, or polls missing who was surveyed.
All 10 polls
| Pollster | Fieldwork | Sample | Jon Ossoff | Mike Collins | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wedgewood Polls | October 2, 2026 – October 3, 2026 | 600 likely voters | 55% | 45% | D+10.0 |
| InsiderAdvantage | September 22, 2026 – September 23, 2026 | 1,200 likely voters | 50% | 42% | D+8.0 |
| Big Data Poll for Public Polling Project | September 21, 2026 – September 23, 2026 | 678 likely voters | 55.4% | 44.6% | D+10.8 |
| InsiderAdvantage for James Magazine | August 16, 2026 – August 17, 2026 | 800 likely voters | 50.1% | 42.6% | D+7.5 |
| Fabrizio, Lee & Associates/Impact Research for AARP | July 13, 2026 – July 16, 2026 | 1,060 likely voters | 52% | 43% | D+9.0 |
| Wick | June 27, 2026 – June 30, 2026 | 1,175 likely voters | 46.7% | 42.9% | D+3.8 |
| Beacon Research/Shaw & Co. Research for Fox News | June 23, 2026 – June 27, 2026 | 1,002 registered voters | 56% | 43% | D+13.0 |
| Echelon Insights for NetChoice | April 3, 2026 – April 9, 2026 | 407 likely voters | 51% | 44% | D+7.0 |
| Emerson College for Nexstar Media/WGN-TV | February 28, 2026 – March 2, 2026 | 1,000 likely voters | 47.7% | 43.3% | D+4.4 |
| Quantus Insights | September 9, 2025 – September 12, 2025 | 624 registered voters | 37.8% | 37.7% | D+0.1 |
PrivateVoteHub Polls from the VoteHub Polling API, retrieved October 7, 2026, used under CC BY 4.0. How polls are chosen
Economic profile of the state this seat represents
FederalCensus Bureau American Community Survey 2020-2024 (5-year) · survey period 2020-2024 · State of Georgia
- Median household income$77,353± $407
- Poverty rate13.4%± 0.2 ppPopulation for whom poverty status is determined
- Rent burden (30%+ of income on gross rent)52.4%± 0.5 ppRenter-occupied households paying cash rent for which rent burden is computed
- Homeownership rate65.7%± 0.4 ppOccupied housing units
- Bachelor's degree or higher (age 25+)34.9%± 0.2 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)
This seat's geography is exactly coterminous with its state (or the District), so the state estimates from the same edition apply directly.
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
2025-2026 two-year period (FEC cycle 2026). Committee totals are the FEC’s own candidate-level aggregation — never summed from committee rows here. Independent spending is reported separately and is never part of a candidate’s receipts. An FEC registration is not proof of ballot qualification; candidacy status comes verbatim from the accepted release.
General election · November 3, 2026
“No matching FEC candidate record” means no filing was located — it is never evidence that a candidacy does not exist, and never a ballot-status claim. Candidates’ coverage dates can differ; each row carries its own.
Current officeholder — Congress.gov context
Jon Ossoff · Democratic · Georgia · served in 3 Congresses since 2021
Identity verified against the official Congress.gov member record (Bioguide O000174), 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.
- S.2713-119 — American Energy Security Act of 2025sponsor latest action 2025-09-04: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. · subjects: Transportation and Public Works
- S.2664-119 — Skilled Workforce Actsponsor latest action 2025-08-01: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. · subjects: Labor and Employment
- SRES.125-119 — A resolution commemorating the centennial of Delta Air Lines.sponsor latest action 2025-03-12: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S1716) · subjects: Transportation and Public Works
- S.189-119 — CONSTRUCTS Act of 2025cosponsor latest action 2025-01-22: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. · subjects: Labor and Employment
- SCONRES.36-119 — A concurrent resolution recognizing the significance of equal pay and the disparity in wages paid to men and to Black women.cosponsor latest action 2026-07-21: Referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text: CR S4196-4197) · 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.