The November ballot
Raised so far, filed with the FEC
Also in this race: Jonathan Chavez (Republican).
Faces and bars are the campaigns that hold the seat or have $25,000 raised or outside spending on file; being outside that group is a filing fact, not a mark. Not a prediction.
The seat
Everton Blair
Democrat · Holds the seat now
First took office 2026 · Age 34
Not on the November ballot
How to vote in Georgia
- General electionNovember 3, 2026
Register 29 days before the election.
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How they won the primary
The primary · 109,581 votes
- Jasmine Clark Won: 56.1% 61,504
- Heavenly Kimes: 21.5% 23,537
- Everton Blair: 11.6% 12,733
- Emanuel Jones: 7.5% 8,204
- Joe Lester: 1.9% 2,046
1 more candidate in the full results at the source named below.
The primary · 25,547 votes
- Jonathan Chavez Won: Unopposed 25,547
Primary results as recorded October 12, 2026, ordered by votes. Source: Georgia Secretary of State official primary results portal. A primary result is a recorded fact about a past contest, not a prediction of November.
The money on this race
- Raised by candidates
- $4.8M
- Outside money
- $4.3M
Outside money, for and against
Independent expenditures; direction is each filer's own declared filing. The other $56K of the race's $4.3M was spent on candidates not listed here. No outside money is on file for or against the other name on this ballot.
Where each candidate's money comes from
- Small donors
- 63%$1.0M
- Large donors
- 33%$540K
- PACs
- 4%$55K
- Other
- <1%$1.7K
Small donors give $200 or less; PACs are political action committees. Shares of each candidate's own receipts on file with the FEC. Outside money is not part of these figures.
Who is spending on this race
The largest groups spending independently here, ranked; open a row for whose race the money went into.
Independent expenditures reported to the FEC; direction is each group's own declared filing.
Also filed for this seat
16 filedNot on the November ballot
- Everton BlairDemocrat$875K
- Emanuel JonesDemocrat$436K
- Heavenly KimesDemocrat$908K
- Joe LesterDemocrat$55K
- Ronald McKenzieDemocrat$47K
Primary candidates who did not advance, committees still on file, and candidacies that ended. Being here is a filing fact, not a mark against anyone.
Ballot status not confirmed
None of these has campaign money on file with the FEC.
Filed with the FEC for this seat. No source on record says whether they qualified for the November ballot: independent and minor-party candidates qualify through the state, often by petition, and the FEC does not track whether they did.
How this seat voted last time
D+8 in 2026
- Everton Blair Won: 53.9%
- Marcye Scott: 46.1%
18,342 votes for candidates, decided in a runoff. It was a special election for the rest of the term, held August 25, 2026. A past result is a filed fact, not a prediction of November.
Official returns from the Georgia Secretary of State.
The district
Census context- People
- 795K
- Median household income
- $81K
- Unemployment
- 5.6%
- Living below the poverty line
- 11.7%
- Without health insurance
- 13.1%
U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Context about the district, not a statement about any candidate.
Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain. Candidate totals are each campaign's latest FEC report, ending between June 30, 2025 and September 14, 2026. Outside money is the FEC's processed total of independent expenditures plus the 24- and 48-hour reports filed since each group's latest regular report. It covers this two-year cycle, the same as the candidate totals. Dataset built 2026-10-12. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.