1611 Forecasting

Georgia

Georgia

Governor

Open seat

Forecast as of October 7, 2026. These vote totals equal the sum of the counties below. Not a poll average.

DKeisha Lance Bottoms, D

Keisha Lance Bottoms

Democratic

1,954,583 votesWin probability 52.3%

RRick Jackson, R

Rick Jackson

Republican

1,943,918 votesWin probability 47.7%

Other

40,827 votes

Margin

D+0.3

Win probability

52.3%

80% interval

D+6.3 to R+5.8

95% interval

D+9.6 to R+9.0

Market

53%

Rick Jackson · win probability, not a vote share

Raw data Checking polls.

50,000 draws. The 80% interval is the 10th to the 90th percentile. The 95% interval is the 2.5th to the 97.5th. The thin mark is the 95% interval. The thick mark is the 80%. The hairline is zero. 3,939,328 ballots, equal to the table.

Counties

Every reporting unit in the race. Sort any column. The votes above are this table added up.

Counties
Party
Fulton CountyDKeisha Lance Bottoms, DKeisha Lance BottomsDD+47.073.0%411,003
Gwinnett CountyDKeisha Lance Bottoms, DKeisha Lance BottomsDD+17.958.4%323,036
Cobb CountyDKeisha Lance Bottoms, DKeisha Lance BottomsDD+15.657.3%308,206
DeKalb CountyDKeisha Lance Bottoms, DKeisha Lance BottomsDD+67.483.2%281,053
Cherokee CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+38.768.8%124,614
Chatham CountyDKeisha Lance Bottoms, DKeisha Lance BottomsDD+20.259.6%108,356
Forsyth CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+33.466.2%106,160
Henry CountyDKeisha Lance Bottoms, DKeisha Lance BottomsDD+28.263.6%99,084
Clayton CountyDKeisha Lance Bottoms, DKeisha Lance BottomsDD+72.885.9%85,795
Hall CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+42.870.9%78,304
Paulding CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+24.561.7%73,100
Columbia CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+25.762.3%65,977
Coweta CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+33.566.2%65,974
Richmond CountyDKeisha Lance Bottoms, DKeisha Lance BottomsDD+38.168.5%64,178
Houston CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+10.654.8%62,593
Muscogee CountyDKeisha Lance Bottoms, DKeisha Lance BottomsDD+25.062.0%61,808
Fayette CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+3.651.3%57,309
Douglas CountyDKeisha Lance Bottoms, DKeisha Lance BottomsDD+30.864.9%54,306
Bibb CountyDKeisha Lance Bottoms, DKeisha Lance BottomsDD+24.561.7%53,123
Carroll CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+39.169.0%46,452
Newton CountyDKeisha Lance Bottoms, DKeisha Lance BottomsDD+15.757.3%45,345
Walton CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+46.072.5%44,826
Bartow CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+49.674.3%44,190
Clarke CountyDKeisha Lance Bottoms, DKeisha Lance BottomsDD+41.070.0%40,612
Lowndes CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+15.457.2%36,701
Jackson CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+55.377.1%36,277
Rockdale CountyDKeisha Lance Bottoms, DKeisha Lance BottomsDD+46.672.8%34,678
Floyd CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+40.369.6%34,353
Barrow CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+40.469.7%33,736
Glynn CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+24.561.7%33,720
Whitfield CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+42.870.9%30,583
Effingham CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+48.573.8%27,831
Catoosa CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+54.776.8%26,905
Dougherty CountyDKeisha Lance Bottoms, DKeisha Lance BottomsDD+42.970.9%25,993
Spalding CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+16.357.6%25,369
Bulloch CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+26.462.7%25,077
Walker CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+58.378.6%24,639
Troup CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+21.960.5%24,038
Gordon CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+61.880.4%21,199
Oconee CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+35.167.1%20,954
Camden CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+32.865.9%20,267
Bryan CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+35.667.3%18,929
Laurens CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+30.764.8%17,932
Habersham CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+63.781.3%17,876
Liberty CountyDKeisha Lance Bottoms, DKeisha Lance BottomsDD+21.660.3%17,683
Harris CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+44.871.9%17,164
Thomas CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+21.960.4%16,955
Pickens CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+65.082.0%16,060
Dawson CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+65.182.0%15,021
Polk CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+58.278.6%14,721
Baldwin CountyDKeisha Lance Bottoms, DKeisha Lance BottomsDD+0.349.7%14,456
Gilmer CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+62.080.5%14,192
Union CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+61.880.4%13,730
Lumpkin CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+59.379.1%13,674
Monroe CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+44.371.6%13,595
Lee CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+43.171.0%13,578
Murray CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+69.884.4%13,413
Tift CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+34.766.8%13,045
White CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+67.083.0%12,920
Madison CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+53.676.3%12,891
Colquitt CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+48.773.9%12,756
Haralson CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+72.985.9%12,566
Fannin CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+63.381.1%12,360
Jones CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+35.667.3%12,357
Coffee CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+42.470.7%12,067
Ware CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+41.470.2%11,052
Hart CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+52.775.8%11,005
Upson CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+36.567.7%10,491
Wayne CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+58.178.5%10,414
Peach CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+3.751.3%10,331
Morgan CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+43.471.2%10,122
Stephens CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+60.779.8%10,058
Butts CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+43.071.0%9,997
Putnam CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+40.869.9%9,888
Greene CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+27.463.2%9,818
Pike CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+71.285.1%9,636
Franklin CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+70.984.9%9,322
Sumter CountyDKeisha Lance Bottoms, DKeisha Lance BottomsDD+4.151.5%9,252
Meriwether CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+21.860.4%9,051
Burke CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+4.051.5%6,801
Decatur CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+19.659.3%6,429
Toombs CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+46.372.6%6,075
Grady CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+33.266.1%5,967
Chattooga CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+59.179.0%5,960
McDuffie CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+19.959.4%5,866
Banks CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+74.486.7%5,856
Washington CountyDKeisha Lance Bottoms, DKeisha Lance BottomsDD+1.750.3%5,832
Rabun CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+53.676.3%5,802
Lamar CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+40.169.6%5,797
Mitchell CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+11.955.5%5,453
Pierce CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+73.486.2%5,434
Emanuel CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+39.069.0%5,355
Elbert CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+38.368.6%5,339
Worth CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+46.472.7%5,182
Jasper CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+52.075.5%5,076
Towns CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+58.578.7%4,920
Oglethorpe CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+38.068.5%4,912
Tattnall CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+49.174.0%4,739
Brantley CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+78.488.7%4,732
Dodge CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+45.272.1%4,649
Appling CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+57.578.3%4,640
Jefferson CountyDKeisha Lance Bottoms, DKeisha Lance BottomsDD+3.951.5%4,584
Dade CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+62.380.6%4,565
Crisp CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+21.860.4%4,518
Berrien CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+65.882.4%4,491
McIntosh CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+22.260.6%4,125
Cook CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+41.270.1%4,096
Brooks CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+21.760.3%4,014
Long CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+25.562.2%3,928
Screven CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+20.059.5%3,853
Ben Hill CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+26.862.9%3,620
Crawford CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+44.871.9%3,529
Heard CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+66.682.8%3,457
Bleckley CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+51.775.3%3,365
Jeff Davis CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+63.581.2%3,269
Wilkes CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+13.756.3%3,132
Wilkinson CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+12.955.9%3,015
Early CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+7.853.4%2,998
Macon CountyDKeisha Lance Bottoms, DKeisha Lance BottomsDD+23.361.1%2,879
Lincoln CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+39.369.1%2,745
Twiggs CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+9.154.0%2,738
Bacon CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+69.184.0%2,694
Terrell CountyDKeisha Lance Bottoms, DKeisha Lance BottomsDD+8.653.8%2,667
Charlton CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+50.774.8%2,576
Dooly CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+3.751.4%2,566
Candler CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+42.770.8%2,543
Irwin CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+49.474.2%2,417
Pulaski CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+36.167.5%2,414
Evans CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+37.468.2%2,363
Hancock CountyDKeisha Lance Bottoms, DKeisha Lance BottomsDD+43.271.1%2,360
Telfair CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+33.866.4%2,346
Seminole CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+34.666.8%2,231
Johnson CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+41.970.4%2,218
Taylor CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+25.662.3%2,217
Montgomery CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+48.773.8%2,212
Turner CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+23.761.3%2,134
Lanier CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+41.370.1%2,080
Talbot CountyDKeisha Lance Bottoms, DKeisha Lance BottomsDD+17.458.2%2,076
Marion CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+25.562.3%2,016
Jenkins CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+26.062.5%1,898
Wilcox CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+44.371.7%1,863
Randolph CountyDKeisha Lance Bottoms, DKeisha Lance BottomsDD+11.555.3%1,837
Treutlen CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+38.668.8%1,737
Atkinson CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+48.573.7%1,702
Clinch CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+47.673.3%1,619
Warren CountyDKeisha Lance Bottoms, DKeisha Lance BottomsDD+8.753.8%1,592
Miller CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+47.573.2%1,517
Schley CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+58.378.6%1,351
Wheeler CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+40.169.5%1,267
Calhoun CountyDKeisha Lance Bottoms, DKeisha Lance BottomsDD+16.357.6%1,263
Stewart CountyDKeisha Lance Bottoms, DKeisha Lance BottomsDD+19.759.3%1,246
Chattahoochee CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+11.455.2%1,040
Glascock CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+79.589.2%930
Clay CountyDKeisha Lance Bottoms, DKeisha Lance BottomsDD+11.455.2%886
Baker CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+15.757.3%822
Echols CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+76.587.8%801
Webster CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+15.357.1%744
Quitman CountyRRick Jackson, RRick JacksonRR+11.155.1%701
Taliaferro CountyDKeisha Lance Bottoms, DKeisha Lance BottomsDD+20.459.7%543

Model

  1. Raw data

    2024 presidential baseline

    National R−D 1.5

    County presidential file. Not the 2026 result.

  2. Raw data

    Generic ballot

    D 50.8 R 42.6 R−D -8.2

    National Wikipedia aggregate, October 5, 2026. State generic ballots, where a public poll exists, replace a uniform national swing: ME, MI, NH, NY, OH. A state with no generic-ballot poll keeps the national number and is not assigned a neighbor's.

  3. Raw data

    Party identification

    Pew D+5 and Gallup D+10, blend R−D -7.3

    Pew NPORS 2026, identifiers plus leaners: Republican 43, Democratic 48. Gallup party identification plus leaners, first two quarters of 2026: Democratic 49, Republican 39. Pew is 55% of this blend and Gallup is 45%.

  4. Model input

    National block

    R−D -7.8

    60% generic ballot and 40% party identification. The swing versus the 2024 presidential margin is what gets transmitted.

  5. Model input

    Swing transmitted

    1.03 × -9.3 = -9.6

    Only the share of the national swing this state took in the last midterm is transmitted. Elasticity is shrunk halfway toward 1.

  6. Raw data

    2026 early vote

    1,100 reported cast

    1,100 ballots reported cast as of 10/7/2026: 1,100 mail returned and 0 in person. Day-1 early vote is a signal, not a statewide margin. Mail is a count of returns, not the 2024 mail share. Applications and ballots that were only sent are not in this count. A day-1 pace gap is not a statewide margin.

  7. Model input

    History block

    R−D 3.4

    Weights 2018 5 / 2024 35 / 2020 20 / 2022 16. 2020 and 2022 results for this office are included in every state that had those races, including blowouts. A 2022 election is weighted ahead of 2018. If that office was not on the ballot, the 2020 result for the same office fills the year. Another office is not used. 2018 R+59.8 w5, 2022 open seat R+64.5 w16. No incumbent is on the ballot, so the 2022 result keeps 40 percent of its usual weight and 40 percent of its gap versus the 2024 presidential margin. The prior nominee's margin is not the open-seat baseline. This is the last result for the office, not the presidential margin. A 2024 county map is not copied forward unchanged. A 2018 model error is not used.

  8. Model input

    Electorate block

    R−D -2.4

    History reweighted by usual midterm turnout, plus half of the transmitted swing. Rural and presidential-only counties still move farther when the result is spread back to counties. Published ballots are the 2018 midterm canvass for this office, split by these modeled shares. They are not the 2024 presidential vote. The 2026 early-vote count is not inside this margin.

  9. Model input

    Turnout block

    R−D 0.8

    Each county is weighted by its 2018 ballots divided by its 2024 presidential ballots. Small counties shrink halfway toward the state median. 2020 mail shares are not used. 1,100 ballots reported cast as of 10/7/2026: 1,100 mail returned and 0 in person. Day-1 early vote is a signal, not a statewide margin. Mail is a count of returns, not the 2024 mail share.

  10. Model input

    National environment

    R−D -3.6

    History plus the full transmitted swing from the 60/40 national block.

  11. Model input

    State environment

    R−D -0.1

    History plus 45% of the transmitted swing.

  12. Model input

    State partisan lean

    R−D 2.2

    The 2024 presidential margin of this state, or of this district for a House race. It is heavier than the old state-environment block and is not shrunk toward the polling term.

  13. Model input

    Trump popularity

    R−D -8.5

    New York Times approval average, October 7, 2026: 37% approve, 60% disapprove. Net approval -23. That is not a vote share. Four-tenths of the net is a margin, then scaled by this place's partisan lean (factor 0.93), so an unpopular president costs more in a Democratic state.

  14. Model input

    Candidate favorability

    R−D 0.0

    Open seat or no incumbent. Favorability is zero.

  15. Model input

    Demographics

    R−D -5.3

    County college, rural, and nonwhite shares from the 2018 election-context file change how much of the swing a county takes. No separate microdata file.

  16. Model input

    Finance

    R−D 2.7

    No sourced spending edge, so the block starts on history. With a poll, it shrinks toward the polling term with the other non-poll blocks.

  17. Model input

    Issues

    R−D 2.7

    No sourced issue score. Same treatment as finance.

  18. Model input

    Polling

    R−D 1.2

    Individual polls 1.6 (80%) and the Wikipedia average 0.7 (20%). Named support R−D 1.3. Allocated support R−D 1.4. Named support does not move. Only the undecided line is split, 50.6% Republican and 49.4% Democratic. That is the 2024 two-party Republican share 51.1 moved halfway to 50 and capped at 60/40. A named third-party vote stays third-party. Banned individual rows excluded: 1. State miss shrunk 40% toward zero: -0.18. Public pollsters: 5. Outliers: 1. Recency half-life 16 days. Sample weight n/(n+350). A registered-voter poll is 0.90. An internal poll, or a poll sponsored by one party, is weighted 0.20, and only when a public poll is also in the race. An internal-only file is dropped. A poll that names both parties is not an internal. A poll more than 8 points from the median of the others is cut in half.

  19. Model input

    Candidate

    R+0.00 reaches the result

    Open seat. No incumbency term. A negative popularity score is not added on top of the office baseline. No overperformance. An open seat, a scandal, or a missing incumbent gets none.

  20. Model input

    Halfway floor

    Not applied

    Not applied. The state's 2024 presidential margin was inside 10 points, or there is no polling term.

  21. Model input

    Pooling

    35% of the way from each history block toward the polling term

    Otherwise the shrink is 35%.

  22. Model input

    Prediction market

    53% win probability

    Rick Jackson 52.5% is a win probability, not a vote share. Republican win probability 52.5 from Kalshi 53.5% Republican; Polymarket 51.5% Republican. A price of 50 is a tie. Each point above 50 is 0.35 margin points, capped at 12, so the raw margin is 0.9. That margin is shrunk 40% toward the pre-market margin -0.3, which leaves 0.4. It enters once, at 5.0%. The polling term is not nudged. Books under $10,000 and primary markets are ignored.

  23. Model input

    State bend

    None

    Not applied.

  24. Model input

    Weights

    polling 20.4% · history 7.5% · candidate 7.4% · electorate 4.7% · stateEnv 4.7% · national 4.7% · turnout 2.8% · demographics 2.8% · finance 1.9% · issues 1.9% · stateLean 14.9% · trump 11.2% · favorability 10.3% · market 5.0%

    History is lighter. State partisan lean, Trump popularity, and candidate favorability are their own terms. A market, when it qualifies, scales every other weight and is not taken out of polling alone.

  25. County-sum margin

    -0.3

    This is the sum of the reporting units after each unit moved off its own history. It is not the poll average.

  26. 80% interval

    -6.3 to 5.8

    10th to 90th percentile of 50,000 draws. Poll, national, state, turnout, and candidate error.

  27. 95% interval

    -9.6 to 9.0

    2.5th to 97.5th percentile. Senate and governor state errors in the same state share a correlation of 0.30. The band shown is the marginal interval.

Wikipedia, 2026 United States gubernatorial elections (general-election infobox) www.ajc.com/politics/georgia-ag-chris-carr-enters-2026-race-for-governor-kicking-off-race/UUBZXWHT25GHPNBUVO6RBEKPSA/