The Green Papers: Georgia 2009 General Election
This page is for offices up for election in 2009. Find 2010 elections here.
 
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Elections for Statewide offices and Congress
Electoral Votes:15(2.79% of 538)
Governor:1 
Senators:2(Electoral Classes 2 and 3)
2002-2010 Representatives:13(2.99% of 435)
2000 Census:8,206,975 (2.91% of 281,998,273)
Estimated Voting age population (November 2000):5,893,000
Registered Voters (November 2000):3,859,960
Capital:Atlanta
 

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Georgia State and Local Government


For all offices EXCEPT President of the United States, if no candidate receives 50% of the vote plus 1 in the General Election, the top 2 vote getters will advance to a December runoff.


If no candidate receives at least 50% of the vote in the primary, a runoff will be held between the top two vote-getters.

 
           

U.S. Senate  6 year term. No Term Limit. 111th Senate  Senate Electoral Classes

Class 2 Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss
First elected: 2002; re-elected: 2008
Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2014

Class 3 Republican Senator John Hardy "Johnny" Isakson
First elected: 2004.
(also served in U.S. House- first elected in a special election [to fill the seat vacated by the resignation of Congressman Newt Gingrich]: 1999; re-elected: 2000, 2002.)
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms, All Governors

  Republican Governor Sonny Perdue
First elected: 2002; re-elected: 2006
Chair up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010
The current Governor is affected by a term limit and cannot run for re-election.
Open Chair - At term limit

Lieutenant Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010. Elected separately from Governor

  Republican Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle
First elected: 2006
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010
15 April 2009: Announced he would abandon his candidacy for Governor and instead seek re-election.

111th U.S. House of Representatives  2 year term, Election Cycle 2006, 2008. No Term Limit. 111th House
Partisan Composition (primary disposition):
7 Republican (6 Undetermined, 1 Open);
6 Democratic (6 Undetermined)

CD 1
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Republican Congressman John Heddens "Jack" Kingston
First elected: 1992
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

CD 2
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Democratic Congressman Sanford Dixon Bishop, Jr.
First elected: 1992
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

CD 3
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Republican Congressman Lynn Acton Westmoreland
First elected: 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

CD 4
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Democratic Congressman Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.
First elected: 2006
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

CD 5
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Democratic Congressman John R. Lewis
First elected: 1986
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

CD 6
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Republican Congressman Thomas Edmunds "Tom" Price
First elected: 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

CD 7
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Republican Congressman John Linder
First elected: 1992
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

CD 8
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Democratic Congressman James Creel "Jim" Marshall
First elected: 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

CD 9
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Republican Congressman Nathan Deal
First elected: as a Democrat, 1992
Changed Party affiliation to Republican, 10 April 1995
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010
Open Seat - Announced candidacy for Governor 1 May 2009

CD 10
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Republican Congressman Paul Collins Broun, Jr.
First elected in a special election: 17 July 2007 to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Charles Whitlow "Charlie" Norwood.
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

CD 11
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Republican Congressman Phillip J. "Phil" Gingrey
First elected: 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

CD 12
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Democratic Congressman John J. Barrow
First elected: 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

CD 13
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Democratic Congressman David Albert Scott
First elected: 2002
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

Secretary of State  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010

  Republican Secretary of State Karen C. Handel
First elected: 2006
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010
Open Seat - Candidate for Governor in 2010

Attorney General  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010

  Democratic Attorney General Thurbert E. Baker
Appointed 1997 by Governor Zell Miller; first elected: 1998; re-elected: 2002, 2006
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010
Open Seat - 1 April 2009: Candidate for Governor in 2009

Comptroller General/Commissioner of Insurance  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010

  Republican Comptroller General/Insurance Commissioner John Weimann Oxendine
First elected: 1994; re-elected: 1998, 2002, 2006
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010
Open Seat - Running for Governor in 2010

Commissioner of Agriculture  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010

  Democratic Agriculture Commissioner Thomas T. "Tommy" Irvin
First elected: 1968; re-elected through 2006
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010
Open Seat - Retiring in 2010

Superintendent of Education  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010

  Republican Education Superintendent Kathy Cox
First elected: 2002; re-elected: 2006
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

Commissioner of Labor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010

  Democratic Labor Commissioner Michael L. "Mike" Thurmond
First elected: 1998; re-elected: 2002, 2006
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

Political Parties    Parties appear in parenthesis and italics when a candidate receives the endorsement of a given Party and/or official sources indicate a candidate's association with a particular Party but only where the Party in question does not appear on the actual ballot as such.

Major Parties
  Democratic (affiliates): 9 incumbents
  Republican: 14 incumbents
 
Candidates running under the banner of more than one party are counted towards each party's total. A candidate who has lost a primary or is apparently no longer a candidate is not counted.

Notes

Candidates for office appear on this page in italics where 'The Green Papers' does not yet have independent confirmation from a legal election authority that the person has been officially certified to appear on the ballot.
 
FEC indicates the Federal Election Commission (FEC) Campaign Finance Summary "Total Receipts" for candidates for Federal Office.

 


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2009 Primaries and Runoffs for Statewide offices/Congress
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