Candidate qualifying has closed for the May 2026 primary election. Locally, two races will appear on the primary ballot with one more slated for November. Several incumbents are running unopposed and sitting county commissioner Timmy Rushing opted not to qualify for re-election.
Election Day is May 19. Nonpartisan elections will be decided on that date unless there is a runoff.
State Court Judge – Bulloch County – Nonpartisan Race
- Joseph L Cushner (I)
County Commissioner – District 1, Seat B
- Anthony Simmons (I) – Democrat
- Spencer Johnson – Republican
County Commissioner – District 2, Seat B
- Frank Bedell – Republican
- Toby Conner (I) – Republican
- Ted Redman – Republican
County Commissioner – District 2, Seat D
- Paul Roesel – Republican
- This seat is currently held by Timmy Rushing who did not qualify for re-election.
Board of Education – District 2 – Nonpartisan
- Elizabeth Williams (I)
Board of Education – District 4 – Nonpartisan
- Donna Clifton (I)
Board of Education – District 5 – Nonpartisan
- Glennera Martin (I)
- Jessica L. Jones
Board of Education – District 6 – Nonpartisan
- Sharon Draeger
Legislative Seats for Bulloch County
State Senate – District 4
- Billy Hickman (I) – Republican
State Representative – District 158
- Larry J. “Butch” Parrish (I) – Republican
State Representative – District 159
- Jon G. Burns (I) – Republican
- Nathan Ross Hooks – Republican
State Representative – District 160
- Lehman Frankin III (I) – Republican
GA-12 Congress
- Richard Allen (I) – Republican
- Tori Branum – Republican
- Traci George – Democrat
- Tracell Peace-Nichols – Democrat
- Ceretta Smith – Democrat
- Chris Stephens – Democrat
- Brianna Woodson – Democrat
Statewide Elections
United State Senate
- Earl “Buddy” Carter – Republican
- Michael Allen Collins Jr. –Republican
- John Francis Coyne III – Republican
- Derek Dooley – Republican
- Jonathan McColumn – Republican
- Thomas J. Ossoff (I) – Democrat
Governor
- Keisha Lance Bottoms – Democrat
- Olu Brown – Democrat
- Amanda Duffy – Democrat
- Geoffrey Lynn Duncan – Democrat
- Jason Fernando Esteves – Democrat
- Derrick Jackson – Democrat
- Michael Mike Thurmond – Democrat
- Christopher M Carr – Republican
- Clark Headrick Dean – Republican
- Rick Jackson – Republican
- Burt Jones – Republican
- Gregg Rodne Kirkpatrick – Republican
- Brad Raffensperger – Republican
- Thomas E. Williams – Republican
- Ken Yasger – Republican
Lieutenant Governor
- Josh McLaurin – Democrat
- Nabilah Parkes – Democrat
- Richard N. Wright – Democrat
- David Timothy Clark – Republican
- Gregory Robert Dolezal – Republican
- Steve Gooch – Republican
- John Flanders Kennedy – Republican
- Brenda Lynn Nelson Porter – Republican
- Takosha Misheal Swan – Republican
- Michael Blake Tillery – Republican
Attorney General
- Herbert Adams Jr. – Democrat
- Tanya Miller – Democrat
- Bob Trammell – Democrat
- William Stone Cowsert – Republican
- Robert Brian Strickland – Republican
Secretary of State
- Timothy Kyle Fleming – Republican
- Vernon Jones – Republican
- Kelvin King – Republican
- Edward Tecumseh Metz – Republican
- Robert Gabriel Sterling – Republican
- Cam Thi Ashling – Democrat
- Dana Barrett – Democrat
- Adrian Consonery Jr. – Democrat
- Penny Brown Reynolds – Democrat
Insurance & Fire Commissioner
- Ambu “AJ” Jain – Democrat
- Clarence Blalock – Democrat
- Deandre Bernard Mathis – Democrat
- Thomas Gabriel Dean – Democrat
- John Franklin King (I) – Republican
Labor Commissioner
- Brett A. Hulme – Democrat
- Jason Matthew Moon – Democrat
- Nikki Porcher – Democrat
- Christian D. Smith – Democrat
- Barbara Yolanda Rivera Holmes (I) – Republican
Agriculture Commissioner
- Tyler Harper – Republican
- Katherine E. Juhan-Arnold – Democrat
- Sedrcik Kent Rowe – Democrat
State School Superintendent
- Anton Anthony – Democrat
- Lydia Catalina Powell – Democrat
- Otha Thornton – Democrat
- Nelva Melissa Lee – Republican
- Fred Jackson “Bubba” Longgrear –Republican
- Mesha Mainor – Republican
- Randall Eugene Trammell –Republican
- Richard Lee Woods – Republican
Public Service Commission – District 3
- Peter Jacob Hubbard – (I) – Democrat
- Brandon Lynn Martin – Republican
- Terrell “Fitz” Johnson Jr. – Republican
Public Service Commission – District 5
- Bobby Mehan – Republican
- Caitlyn Tatum Roddy – Republican
- Joshua Aaron Tolbert – Republican
- Craig L. Cupid – Democrat
- Sheila Edwards – Democrat
- Angelia Pressley – Democrat
GA-1 Congress
- Defonsio Daniels – Democrat
- Joyce Marie Griggs – Democrat
- Amanda Hollowell – Democrat
- Michael McCord – Democrat
- Joey Palimeno – Democrat
- Sharon Stokes Williamson – Democrat
- Patrick J. Wilver – Democrat
- Randall J. Zulcher – Democrat
- Pat Farrell – Republican
- Jim Kingston – Republican
- Brian Allen Montgomery – Republican
- Krista Penn – Republican
- Kandiss Taylor – Republican
- Eugene Chin Yu – Republican
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