State reference

How does government work in Georgia?

Georgia’s legislature, governor, courts, local governments and election offices, with a source for every fact.

Facts checked November 5, 2026. Anything we could not verify from a source is left out rather than guessed. Rules change, so confirm deadlines with the official election office.

236

State legislators

Legislature

4 years

Governor’s term

Governor

159

Counties

Local

Seats in the US House

Clerk of the House

What may surprise you here

Georgia chooses superior court judges in nonpartisan, circuit-wide elections for four-year terms, and the governor fills some vacancies by appointment. source

Legislature

Name: General Assembly source
Georgia Senate: seats: 56 source
Georgia Senate: term in years: 2 source
Georgia House of Representatives: seats: 180 source
Georgia House of Representatives: term in years: 2 source
Term limits: None source

Governor and statewide offices

Term in years: 4 source
Term limit: Two consecutive terms source
Next regular election: 2030 source
Lieutenant governor: separate election source
Attorney general: elected source
Secretary of state: elected source

Courts

Highest court: Supreme Court of Georgia source
Intermediate appeals court: Court of Appeals of Georgia source
Main trial court: Superior Court source
How high-court judges reach the bench: nonpartisan election source

Local government

Called: county source
How many: 159 source
Cities and towns: Cities and towns are Georgia’s municipal governments, and they may operate under charters passed as special laws by the General Assembly or under home rule charters. source
Schools: Each county board of education runs the local schools in its county except those run by 74 independent city school districts (2022). source

Elections

Chief election official: Secretary of State source
Who runs elections locally: County board of registrar’s office source
Primary type: open source
Regular governor elections fall in: even source
Citizen initiatives: no source

Who holds these offices

As of November 5, 2026. Terms of the current Congress run to January 3, 2027. Winners of the November 3, 2026 elections are not shown until results are certified and they take office.

Governor: Brian Kemp Republican, in office since January 14, 2019. source

US senators for Georgia
Senator	Party	Seat	Senator since	Current term ends
Jon Ossoff	Democratic	Class 2	January 20, 2021	January 3, 2027
Raphael G. Warnock	Democratic	Class 3	January 20, 2021	January 3, 2029

Members of the House for Georgia
Seat	Member	Party	In the House since
District 1	Earl L. "Buddy" Carter	Republican	January 6, 2015
District 2	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.	Democratic	January 5, 1993
District 3	Brian Jack	Republican	January 3, 2025
District 4	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.	Democratic	January 4, 2007
District 5	Nikema Williams	Democratic	January 3, 2021
District 6	Lucy McBath	Democratic	January 3, 2019
District 7	Richard McCormick	Republican	January 3, 2023
District 8	Austin Scott	Republican	January 5, 2011
District 9	Andrew S. Clyde	Republican	January 3, 2021
District 10	Mike Collins	Republican	January 3, 2023
District 11	Barry Loudermilk	Republican	January 6, 2015
District 12	Rick W. Allen	Republican	January 6, 2015
District 13	Everton Blair Jr.	Democratic	September 1, 2026
District 14	Clay Fuller	Republican	April 14, 2026

Boundaries for the 119th Congress, simplified from the Census Bureau cartographic boundary file. For an exact address, use the House lookup.

Who has held each Senate seat since 2001

Each band is one person in the seat. The line marks November 2026; anything to its right is the rest of a current term. Dates through 2026 come from the congress-legislators public dataset, whose current members are matched against the Senate’s own roster on every build.

Senate seat, Class 2