Georgia 2022 Election Results

Georgia held its general election on November 8, 2022, deciding 236 legislative seats and 8 statewide offices led by the governorship. No chamber changed party control.

Highlights

• Republicans kept the governorship and both chambers and swept every state-level statewide office, shutting Democrats out for a fourth straight four-year cycle.
• Gov. Brian Kemp (R) beat Stacey Abrams (D) by nearly eight points in a rematch of 2018. He won despite attacks from former President Donald Trump, who had backed a primary challenge against him. Abrams outraised him, $85 million to $60 million through September, and even Kemp's total would have been a record for a Georgia governor's race.
• Democrats made modest gains on the first maps since the 2020 census, which the Republican majority drew to create more Democratic-leaning seats while shoring up its incumbents. The Senate went from 34-22 to 33-23, and the House from 103-76 (with one vacancy) to 101-79. Key races:
  • Rep. Mary Robichaux (D) was the only incumbent to lose, falling to former House member Scott Hilton (R) by about nine points in HD-48 in north Fulton and Gwinnett.
  • Rep. Gerald Greene (R), the House's longest-serving member, held HD-154, a southwest Georgia seat that leans Democratic, by about 13 points.
  • Rep. Jasmine Clark (D) held HD-108 in southern Gwinnett by about four points.
  • Sen. Michelle Au (D), whose Senate district was redrawn to favor Republicans, switched chambers and won HD-50 in north Fulton by about eight. The redrawn SD-48 went to Shawn Still (R), one of Trump's 2020 fake electors.
  • Lauren Daniel (R) won HD-117 by fewer than 400 votes, the closest legislative race in the state.
• The sweep came against what was billed as the Democrats' strongest statewide field in a decade. Attorney General Chris Carr (R) beat state Sen. Jen Jordan (D) by about five points, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R), who had defied Trump's pressure to overturn the 2020 result, beat state Rep. Bee Nguyen (D) by about nine, and Insurance Commissioner John King (R) was re-elected. In open seats, state Sen. Burt Jones (R), who like Still had signed on as a fake elector for Trump, won lieutenant governor over Charlie Bailey (D) by five, and state Sen. Tyler Harper (R) won agriculture commissioner by about eight.
• Across the 236 legislative races, 1 race finished inside two points, and a single candidate appeared in 122.
• Voters approved all 4 statewide questions, three of them by wide margins: Amendment 1 suspends pay for officials suspended over a felony indictment, Amendment 2 lets local governments grant tax relief for disaster-damaged property, and Referendum B extends the farm equipment tax exemption to merged family farms. Referendum A, a property tax exemption for timber producers' equipment, passed with about 59 percent.

Legislature

• House (180 seats): 77 D, 103 R before the election, 79 D, 101 R after; control stayed with Republicans.
• Senate (56 seats): 22 D, 34 R before the election, 23 D, 33 R after; control stayed with Republicans.

Statewide races

Legislative races

Ballot measures