Georgia governor polls 2026

Governor election 3 Nov 2026, in 3 days.

Rick Jackson leads the polling average with 48.2%, 0.4 points ahead of Keisha Lance Bottoms.

Average

Updated 34 minutes ago

Rick Jackson 48.2 +0.6

Keisha Lance Bottoms 47.8 +2.0

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Immigration

ExpandRestrictRemigration

Economy

Free marketState-directed

Christian identity1 unplaced

SecularChristian

Abortion

Broad accessProtect unborn life

Marriage & family1 unplaced

Individual choiceTraditional

National culture1 unplaced

CosmopolitanPreserve heritage

Subsidiarity1 unplaced

CentraliseDevolve

Technology1 unplaced

Light-touchRein in Big Tech

Scores and reasons written by AI. Methodology

Why these scores

Rick Jackson: 7 of 10 Excerpt covers a basketball player, not the candidate; Trump-aligned Georgia GOP gubernatorial candidate, assumed pro-enforcement.
Keisha Lance Bottoms: 3 of 10 As Atlanta mayor stopped city jail holding ICE detainees; no detailed 2026 immigration plan

Rick Jackson: 2 of 10 Self-funded business founder running as Republican on tax-cutting, pro-business platform; specifics not confirmed from excerpt.
Keisha Lance Bottoms: 6 of 10 Expand Medicaid, raise minimum wage, suspend grocery tax, $60,000 teacher starting pay

Keisha Lance Bottoms: 2 of 10 No religious policy agenda found; scored on mainstream Democratic stance

Rick Jackson: 6 of 10 Republican candidate in Georgia, which has a six-week ban; no distinct stance documented.
Keisha Lance Bottoms: 1.5 of 10 Promises to repeal Georgia's six-week abortion ban

Keisha Lance Bottoms: 2 of 10 As Atlanta mayor created city's first LGBTQ advisory board and LGBTQ affairs director

Keisha Lance Bottoms: 2.5 of 10 As mayor declared Atlanta a 'welcoming city' for refugees; no national-culture agenda

Keisha Lance Bottoms: 4.5 of 10 Would sue the federal government if needed; backs federal voting-rights standards

Keisha Lance Bottoms: 6 of 10 Wants pause on new data centres and moratorium on new licence-plate camera installations

Date	Pollster	Jackson	Lance Bo…
27 Oct	State Navigate	47	50
23 Oct	Echelon Insights (R)	48	49
20 Oct	ActiVote	51.5	48.5
17 Oct	Quantus Insights (R)+2 scenarios	48	47
15 Oct	University of Georgia	46	45
13 Oct	InsiderAdvantage (R)	49	47
23 Sept	InsiderAdvantage (R)	48	46
23 Sept	Big Data Poll (R)+3 scenarios	50	50
18 Sept	YouGov+2 scenarios	45	44
14 Sept	Rasmussen Reports (R)	48	45
17 Aug	InsiderAdvantage (R)	46	46
1 Aug	Quantus Insights (R)	45	46
16 Jul	Fabrizio Ward (R)/Impact Research (D)	46	48
13 Jul	State Navigate+1 scenario	44	51