Buford, Georgia sample ballot 2026

Lisamarie N. Bristol has been Gwinnett County's solicitor general since January 2023, per the county's official office page and her campaign site.

Ben Ku is a software developer and the sitting District 2 commissioner, first elected in 2018, who chairs the board's internal audit committee, per the county's official commission roster and his campaign site.

Matthew Holtkamp is a small business owner and the sitting District 4 commissioner, first elected in 2022, per the county's official commission roster and his campaign site.

Benjamin Culberson is a Georgia Gwinnett College student and Gwinnett Young Democrats member, per the Gwinnett Daily Post.

Jackson is a Georgia businessman and philanthropist who began his career in commission sales before acquiring the company he worked for and building it into a healthcare-related business operating in all 50 states, per the campaign site. He grew up in foster care across five homes and thirteen schools and has since backed legislation offering former foster youth tuition-free college, per the campaign site.

Keisha Lance Bottoms is the Democratic nominee for Georgia governor, former mayor of Atlanta, and former senior adviser in the Biden administration. Her campaign emphasizes opportunity, equity, public safety, economic mobility, and a more united state government.

Dolezal grew up on a family farm in Georgia and founded and led companies in manufacturing, healthcare, technology and services, per the campaign site. He worked over a decade in Christian ministry, including helping launch Passion City Church in Atlanta, before his 2018 election to the Georgia State Senate, where he chairs the Transportation Committee, per the campaign site.

McLaurin is an attorney and Georgia state senator serving his fourth legislative term, and a graduate of the University of Georgia, per the campaign site.

Brian Strickland is the Republican nominee for Georgia attorney general and a state senator who has chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee. His public record includes criminal-justice legislation, mental-health policy, public safety, and conservative legal priorities.

Tanya Miller is a Democratic candidate for Georgia attorney general, a state representative, and a former prosecutor. Her campaign emphasizes consumer protection, civil rights, criminal-justice experience, reproductive rights, and holding powerful actors accountable under state law.

Tim Fleming is the Republican nominee for Georgia secretary of state and a state representative from Covington. His campaign emphasizes election administration, business services, conservative election policy, and succeeding Brad Raffensperger in the state's chief elections office.

Brown Reynolds is a former Fulton County judge who served nearly a decade on the bench and was the first African American to serve as Executive Counsel to a Georgia governor, per the campaign site. Brown Reynolds later served in the U.S. Department of Agriculture as Acting Assistant Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, and founded a national nonprofit and a consulting firm, per the campaign site.

Tyler Harper is Georgia's incumbent agriculture commissioner and the Republican nominee for re-election. His office oversees agriculture markets, food safety, animal health, fuel and weights-and-measures regulation, and support for Georgia farmers.

King is running for re-election as Georgia's Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner; the campaign site describes him as a retired major general, former police chief, and the first Hispanic elected to statewide office in Georgia, per the campaign site.

Keisha Sean Waites is a former state representative. No campaign website was found as of September 8, 2026.

Barbara Rivera Holmes has served as Georgia's Labor Commissioner since being appointed by Governor Brian Kemp in April 2025, according to the Georgia Department of Labor's website. She has led an initiative to modernize the department's unemployment insurance system and expand workforce training partnerships, per her campaign site.

Porcher is a candidate for Georgia Labor Commissioner and a veteran, educator, and community advocate who served in the U.S. Air Force, taught in Georgia's public schools, and led a national nonprofit supporting small businesses, per the campaign site.

Richard Woods has served as Georgia's State School Superintendent for more than 10 years and has more than 32 years of experience in education, including 15 years as a classroom teacher and service as a principal, assistant principal and curriculum director, according to his campaign site and the Georgia Department of Education.

Lydia Powell has more than 26 years of experience in education as a certified teacher, including 11 years in educational leadership, according to her campaign site. She has taught in Lee County, Florida, and in DeKalb, Henry, Clayton and Fayette County schools in Georgia, and chairs the City of Fayetteville Ethics Committee, per the site.

Peter Hubbard was sworn in as a Georgia Public Service Commissioner in January 2026, according to the Georgia Public Service Commission's website. Before joining the Commission, he worked for a solar developer building grid scale solar and energy storage systems and spent six years advocating for consumers before the Commission through a nonprofit he formed, per his campaign site.

Josh Tolbert holds four engineering degrees, including a doctorate in Mechanical Engineering, and is a licensed Professional Engineer in multiple states, according to his campaign site. He has worked as an engineer, educator, expert witness and small business owner across the nuclear, coal, oil and gas, biomass, geothermal and renewable energy industries, per the site.

Shelia Edwards is a community advocate, journalist and business owner with more than 35 years of leadership experience in corporate America and in government at the local, state and federal levels, according to her campaign site. Early in her career she worked at Kennedy Space Center for Lockheed Space Operations supporting NASA's Space Shuttle Program, per the site.