More than 33,000 Cobb voters cast their ballots early in the 2026 primary election runoffs.
The runoffs will culminate on Tuesday with election-day voting at regularly assigned precincts.
Among the races to be decided include Republican Party nominees for governor, U.S. Senate and the 11th Congressional District.
According to Cobb Elections and Registration, the busiest early voting locations over the last week were the East Cobb Government Service Center (4,714 votes) and the Tim D. Lee Senior Center (4,555 votes).
The polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday. The deadline for mailed-in or hand-delivered absentee ballots to the Cobb Elections office is 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Voters who will be voting on Tuesday must go to their assigned precincts. In East Cobb, seven precincts will have new locations for the runoffs, as well as the general election in November.
Voters must must choose either a Democratic or a Republican ballot for the runoffs, and they cannot switch from the party ballot they cast in the primaries.
Cobb Elections has prepared consolidated sample ballots: Democratic | Republican (non-partisan judicial races were decided during the primaries).
Voters must bring a valid photo ID with them to the polls (click here for details).
To check your voter registration status, and to get a customized sample ballot, visit the Georgia Secretary of State’s My Voter Page.
Who’s On the Ballot
For Republican voters, selecting a nominee for governor is leads their runoff ballot. Lt. Gov. Burt Jones and business executive Rick Jackson will be facing off for the right to meet former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who won the Democratic primary, in the general election.
The GOP runoffs also will decide the November opponent for Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff. Congressman Mike Collins and former football coach Derek Dooley led in the primaries.
Republican voters in East Cobb also will have a say in the party choice for the 11th Congressional District, where GOP U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk is retiring.
Loudermilk’s chief of staff Rod Adkerson and physician John Cowan are the candidates, with the winner to face Democrat Chris Harden in November.
Republican Georgia School Superintendent Richard Woods is in a runoff against Fred “Bubba” Longgrear, superintendent of schools in Candler County, in southeast Georgia.
There will be runoffs in a number of other statewide offices:
- Lieutenant Governor: Josh McLaurin vs. Nabilah Parkes (D); Greg Dolezal vs. John F. Kennedy (R);
- Secretary of State: Dana Barrett vs. Penny Brown Reynolds (D); Tim Fleming vs. Vernon Jones (R);
- Commissioner of Insurance: DeAndre Mathis vs. Keisha Sean Waites (D)
- Commissioner of Labor: Nikki Porcher Michelle vs. Michi Sanchez (D)
- Public Service Commissioner, District 5: Bobby Mehan vs. Josh Tolbert (R)
Related:
- Early voting underway in Georgia primary runoff elections
- Key Cobb school board race separated by fewer than 100 votes
- Runoffs loom for Ga. Congress, Senate, governor’s primaries
- Cobb incumbents cruise; school board race too close to call
- Cobb Elections reports ‘election operations’ issues at polls
- East Cobb primary election-day voting guide
- Cobb Democrats speak out against non-partisan elections law
- East Cobb News explainer: How we cover politics and elections
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