Is the governor of georgia up for reelection. Incumbent democratic governor steve bullock is term limited but his lieutenant governor mike cooney a longtime political figure in the state is the democratic nominee. The table below the map lists the current governors of all 50 states divided up by the year of next election. Governor seats up for election in 2020 as rated by three major election handicappers and by their states partisan lean rating is the races median rating among the cook political report inside.
In six of the eleven races incumbents won re election. Eric holcomb became governor in january 2017. Biden civitasharper r trump 44 biden 45 biden 1 north carolina senate tillis vs.
Brad little idaho governor brad little was elected in 2018 with 598 of the vote. Incumbent is eligible to seek reelection gov. Governor brian kemp was elected in 2018 with 502 of the vote.
Perhaps most formidable is sara gidon the democratic speaker of the state house of representatives. Other democrats seeking collinss seat are betsy sweet bre kidman and ross lajeunesse. Now the governors interference with the process is becoming even more blatant with the announcement that georgia supreme court justice keith blackwell will leave his post six weeks before the conclusion of his term in order to pursue private practice.
Former minority leader of the georgia house of representatives and democratic nominee for governor in 2018 stacey abrams may run against kemp again. The current governor is democratic janet t. The three part map lets you view the current governors by party make a forecast for the 2020 gubernatorial elections and see the 2021 map by party based on those predictions.
Brian kemp has only been in office six months but hes already preparing for a tough costly re election campaign in 2022. He is eligible to run for re election but has not yet stated whether he will do so. Only one governors office flipped partisan control as republican pat mccrory defeated democratic lieutenant governor walter dalton after incumbent gov.
Blackwell was already up for reelection but rather than let his opponents remain on the ballot georgia republican governor brian kemp along. Cunningham civitasharper r cunningham 41 tillis 38 cunningham 3 north.