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Rockdale County, GA

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Fields below reflect the November 3, 2026 general election ballot as races are certified.

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16 races and 3 ballot questions in your ZIP preview.

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U.S. House, Georgia District 13
2 candidates
Federal ▾
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Jasmine Clark
DEM
Biography
Jasmine Clark is a state representative from Lilburn and a microbiologist with a doctorate, per the AJC and CBS Atlanta. She would be the first Black woman with a science PhD in Congress, per WTOP.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Protecting reproductive rights and health care access
  • Applying scientific evidence to public health policy
Campaign siteFull profile
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Jonathan Chavez
REP
Biography
Chavez is a 23-year U.S. Air Force veteran who deployed to Iraq and received a commendation medal, per the campaign site. Chavez holds a B.S. and master's degrees from Harvard University and Johns Hopkins University in business, finance and health care administration, and is a father of four, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Economy and taxes
  • Healthcare
  • Infrastructure and digital access
Campaign siteFull profile
About this race
Georgia fields are from the Secretary of State's certified November 2026 candidate list. General-election races with no majority winner go to a December runoff, per Georgia law. Rep. David Scott died in April 2026; Everton Blair won the August 25 special runoff and serves through January but is not a November candidate for the full term, per GPB and the Georgia Recorder.
U.S. Senate
2 candidates
Federal ▾
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Jon Ossoff
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Jon Ossoff was born and raised in Atlanta and represents Georgia in the U.S. Senate, per the campaign site. Before his election he was an investigative journalist whose small business produced award-winning investigations of corruption and war crimes for international news organizations, per the campaign site. He was educated at Georgetown University and the London School of Economics, per the campaign site. The campaign site lists no issues as of October 15, 2026.
Key voting record
Voted for legislation requiring detention of certain noncitizens charged with theft-related crimes and other offenses. Supported
Campaign siteFull profile
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Mike Collins
REP
Biography
Mike Collins represents Georgia's 10th Congressional District and is a small business owner from Jackson, Georgia, per the campaign site. He started his first trucking business at age 25 and now employs more than one hundred drivers, per the campaign site. The campaign site says he passed the TRANQ Act and the Laken Riley Act in Congress and served on the House Whip Team. The campaign site lists no issues as of October 13, 2026, per the campaign site.
Record in office
Sponsored immigration-enforcement legislation named for Georgia student Laken Riley.
Campaign siteFull profile
Governor
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Rick Jackson
REP
Biography
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.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Continue Republican economic and tax policy in Georgia
  • Emphasize conservative leadership and public safety
  • Run state government with business executive experience
Campaign siteFull profile
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Keisha Lance Bottoms
DEM
Biography
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.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Expand opportunity and economic mobility
  • Strengthen public safety and community trust
  • Invest in education, health care, and working families
Campaign siteFull profile
Lieutenant Governor
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Greg Dolezal
REP
Biography
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.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Advance conservative state policy
  • Shape education, tax, and budget debates
  • Use Senate leadership experience in the lieutenant governor's office
Campaign siteFull profile
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Josh McLaurin
DEM
Biography
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.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Protect voting rights and democratic accountability
  • Address affordability for Georgia families
  • Defend reproductive rights and civil rights
Campaign siteFull profile
Attorney General
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Brian Strickland
REP
Biography
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.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Strengthen public safety and prosecution
  • Use legal experience in state litigation
Campaign siteFull profile
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Tanya Miller
DEM
Biography
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.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Protect consumers and civil rights
  • Use prosecutorial experience for public safety
Campaign siteFull profile
Secretary of State
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Tim Fleming
REP
Biography
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.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Oversee election administration
  • Modernize business and licensing services
  • Advance conservative election-policy priorities
Campaign siteFull profile
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Penny Brown Reynolds
DEM
Biography
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.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Protect voting rights and restore public trust in elections
  • Empower small businesses and entrepreneurs
  • Modernize professional licensing and cut bureaucracy
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Agriculture Commissioner
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Tyler Harper
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
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.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Support Georgia farmers and agribusiness
  • Oversee food safety and agriculture regulation
  • Promote rural economic growth
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Katherine E. Juhan-Arnold
DEM
Biography
Katherine E. Juhan-Arnold is the Democratic nominee for Georgia agriculture commissioner on the November 3, 2026 ballot, per the Secretary of State's certified candidate list. She is the founder of Baby Katie's Pharm and Kitchen, a Snellville farm-to-family nonprofit, per WABE. No campaign website was found as of September 7, 2026.
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Insurance Commissioner
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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John King
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
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.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Recover taxpayer money owed to Georgians
  • Hold powerful entities accountable
  • Pursue lawsuit reform and hold fraudsters accountable
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Keisha Sean Waites
DEM
Biography
Keisha Sean Waites is a former state representative. No campaign website was found as of September 8, 2026.
Top Priorities
From other published sources
  • Challenging rate hikes from home and auto insurers, per AJC
  • Outlawing ZIP code and credit score based premiums, per AJC
  • Creating a task force to investigate scams targeting seniors and other vulnerable residents, per AJC
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Labor Commissioner
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Barbara Rivera Holmes
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
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.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Strengthening connections between small employers and job training pipelines
  • Modernizing the Department of Labor's unemployment insurance system
  • Expanding workforce development and skills training partnerships with colleges and employers
Campaign siteFull profile
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Nikki Porcher
DEM
Biography
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.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Fair pay and safe workplaces
  • Support for small businesses
  • Accessible, affordable child care
Campaign siteFull profile
State School Superintendent
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Richard Woods
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
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.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Funding school safety measures including school resource officers and crisis alert systems
  • Increasing literacy through Georgia owned academic standards and literacy coaches
Campaign siteFull profile
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Lydia Powell
DEM
Biography
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.
Top Priorities
From other published sources
  • Expanding preschool access, per AJC
  • Mental health supports in schools, per AJC
  • Rural connectivity and reducing standardized testing overreliance, per AJC
Campaign siteFull profile
Public Service Commissioner District 3
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Fitz Johnson
REP
Biography
Fitz Johnson is the Republican nominee for Georgia Public Service Commission District 3 on the November 3, 2026 ballot, per the Secretary of State's certified candidate list. Commissioners are elected statewide but must live in their district. No campaign website was found as of September 7, 2026.
Full profile
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Peter Hubbard
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
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.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Seeking an independent audit of Georgia Power's profit margin
  • Reconsidering the Commission's approval of Georgia Power's grid expansion plan
  • Publishing analysis of how data center electricity costs are allocated
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Public Service Commissioner District 5
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Josh Tolbert
REP
Biography
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.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Providing technical oversight to protect ratepayers
  • Delivering reliable and resilient utility systems
  • Improving environmental performance through engineering approaches
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Shelia Edwards
DEM
Biography
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.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Holding Georgia Power accountable for utility rate increases
  • Requiring data centers to pay the cost of infrastructure they require
  • Increasing transparency and accountability at the Public Service Commission
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Countywide races in Rockdale County

ZIP 30012 sits in Rockdale County, per the Census crosswalk. These seats are voted countywide; district seats, city races and school boards need a street address. All Rockdale County races (9).

Rockdale County Board of Commissioners Post 2
1 candidate
County ▾
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Melisa T. Mims
DEM
Biography
Mims has more than 15 years of leadership experience across government, corporate and community sectors, including leading an award-winning public relations department, per the campaign site. She holds a master's degree in organizational leadership psychology and has served as Rockdale PTA Council President, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Investing in people and championing policies and programs that benefit all residents
  • Keeping Rockdale County "a thriving, safe, and inclusive place to live, work, and raise our families"
  • Serving "with integrity, compassion, and purpose" through collaboration with the community
Campaign siteFull profile
Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
About this race
No Republican qualified for Post 2, so the seat was decided in the Democratic primary. In a three-way May 19, 2026 primary, incumbent Doreen Williams led with 45.49% (7,555 votes) to challenger Melisa T. Mims's 28.73% (4,895 votes) and Michelle Bernard's 16.96% (2,849 votes); since no one topped 50%, Williams and Mims advanced to a June 16, 2026 runoff, per rockdalecitizen.com. Mims won the runoff decisively, sweeping all 14 precincts with 4,734 votes (70.49%) to Williams's 1,982 (29.51%), per rockdalecitizen.com and On Common Ground News. Mims is unopposed on the November 3 ballot.
Rockdale County Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor
3 candidates
County ▾
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Jacob Bailey
Biography
Jacob Bailey is a candidate for Rockdale County Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor on the November 3, 2026 ballot, per the Rockdale County Sample Ballot for the November 3, 2026 General and Special Election, posted by the Rockdale County Board of Elections & Voter Registration.
Full profile
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George Kelecheck
Biography
George Kelecheck is a candidate for Rockdale County Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor on the November 3, 2026 ballot, per the Rockdale County Sample Ballot for the November 3, 2026 General and Special Election, posted by the Rockdale County Board of Elections & Voter Registration.
Full profile
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Teresa Denise Wilburn
Biography
Teresa Denise Wilburn is a candidate for Rockdale County Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor on the November 3, 2026 ballot, per the Rockdale County Sample Ballot for the November 3, 2026 General and Special Election, posted by the Rockdale County Board of Elections & Voter Registration.
Full profile
About this race
Nonpartisan special-district office; voters choose three. Jacob Bailey, George Kelecheck and Teresa Denise Wilburn are on the November 3, 2026 ballot, per the Rockdale County Sample Ballot for the November 3, 2026 General and Special Election, posted by the Rockdale County Board of Elections & Voter Registration.
District Attorney, Rockdale Judicial Circuit
1 candidate
County ▾
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Alisha Adams Johnson
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Alisha Adams Johnson is the sitting District Attorney of the Rockdale Judicial Circuit, first appointed in December 2017 and later elected to a full term, per the campaign site. She spent more than 11 years as an Assistant District Attorney in Rockdale County before her appointment and holds a law degree from Georgia State University College of Law, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Prosecuting misdemeanor and felony crimes fairly and equitably
  • Protecting victims and their rights
  • Improving public trust in the justice system through ethical prosecution
Campaign siteFull profile
Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
About this race
Per the build brief, the Secretary of State's certified November 2026 list carries Alisha Adams Johnson (D) as the incumbent nominee for this circuit, which covers Rockdale County (the Rockdale Judicial Circuit is coextensive with Rockdale County, per the Rockdale County District Attorney's Office's own site).
Georgia Senate District 43
1 candidate
County ▾
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Tonya P Anderson
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Tonya Anderson retired from the United States Air Force Reserve in 2012 after more than 21 years of service and previously served as mayor of Lithonia and as a state representative before her election to the Georgia Senate, per her official Senate biography. She has represented Senate District 43 since 2016 and authored a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill, Senate Bill 288, per her official Senate biography. No campaign website was found as of September 7, 2026.
Full profile
Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
About this race
Tonya P Anderson (Democratic) is the only candidate on the November 3 ballot; Tonya P Anderson is the sitting member, per the Secretary of State's certified list. Party nominees were chosen at the May 19 primary and June 16 runoff (majority rule); independents qualified by petition. The field is the Secretary of State's certified November 2026 candidate list (read September 7, 2026). This seat is elected by district; only the district covering your address appears on your ballot. Every address in Rockdale County is in this district, per the certified district list.

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