Georgia's election results suggest some ticket-splitting
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Georgia Democratic candidates posted record vote totals in the 2026 midterms, but the results also showed signs of ticket-splitting in the state's two top-of-ballot races.
Driving the news: Political observers watched to see whether Tuesday's election results showed any signs of split-ticket voting, in which voters choose a Democrat in one race and a Republican in another, or vice versa.
Zoom in: U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) received about 195,000 more votes than Gov.-elect Keisha Lance Bottoms.
- Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson received about 197,000 more votes than U.S. Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.), Ossoff's challenger.
Caveat: The aggregate vote totals, which remain unofficial, cannot show how individual voters filled out their ballots. But the similar shifts in the races' vote totals are consistent with voters crossing party lines.
Zoom out: Ossoff, whose statewide re-election contest appeared first on voters' ballots, drew the most votes of all the state's Democratic candidates.
- Republican Agriculture Commissioner Tyler Harper, who lost his re-election bid to Democratic challenger Katherine E. Juhan-Arnold, received more votes than any other Republican candidate in a Georgia statewide race.