Governor of Georgia
Keisha Lance Bottoms
Former Mayor of Atlanta (2018–2022)D
- Race
- Governor of Georgia
- Election
- 2026-11-03
- Opponent
- Rick Jackson (R)
- Research
- Basic
Party linenone
No recorded floor votes — not a current legislator in our records.
Said vs. did3 statements · 0 votes
Keisha Lance Bottoms, a Democrat, is a former Atlanta mayor and Biden White House official running for governor of Georgia. She is campaigning on expanding Medicaid, lowering driving costs, a statewide affordable-housing trust fund, and repealing Georgia's abortion restrictions.[1][2]
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2026-11-03
| Rick Jackson R | challenger |
| Keisha Lance Bottoms D | challenger |
Won the Democratic primary in May without a runoff.
Said vs. did
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Supports repealing Georgia's abortion restrictions and restoring protections consistent with the Roe v. Wade standard.
Documented position[3]
No recorded floor vote in our key-vote set maps to this issue.
Supports full Medicaid expansion.
Documented position[3]
No recorded floor vote in our key-vote set maps to this issue.
Has advocated raising Georgia's minimum wage to $15 an hour.
Documented position[3]
No recorded floor vote in our key-vote set maps to this issue.
Biography
Keisha Lance Bottoms, a Democrat, is a former Atlanta mayor and Biden White House official running for governor of Georgia. She is campaigning on expanding Medicaid, lowering driving costs, a statewide affordable-housing trust fund, and repealing Georgia's abortion restrictions.[1][2]
Basic profile — the most important sourced facts we found.
Bottoms earned a bachelor's degree from Florida A&M University and a law degree from Georgia State University, and worked as an attorney and a magistrate judge.[1] She was elected to the Atlanta City Council in 2009 and re-elected in 2013, representing District 11.[1]
She served as Atlanta's 60th mayor from 2018 to 2022.[1][2] In June 2022 she joined the Biden administration as senior advisor and director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.[1][2]
On the record
Official actions: bills, executive acts, filings and court records.
- actionAs mayor, decided to stop allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to use Atlanta's jail, as she cited in a Democratic primary debate.[3]
- legal2021 · In 2021, her mayoral campaign agreed to pay a $37,000 state ethics fine for campaign finance violations connected to the 2017 election, including contributions above legal limits.[3]
In their own words
Priorities
- Expanding Medicaid, which she has described as a priority for the start of her administration, and criticizing the limited Georgia Pathways program.[3]
- Lowering driving costs by eliminating the state's 2.25% tax on auto insurance premiums and cutting the state gasoline tax to 28 cents a gallon.[3]
- Creating a statewide affordable-housing trust fund, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, and making community and technical colleges tuition-free.[3]
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Sources cited in this profile
- 1.Georgia governor candidate profile: Keisha Lance Bottoms · FOX 5 Atlanta · 2026-10-12 News report
- 2.Former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announces 2026 Georgia governor run · Atlanta News First (WANF) · 2025-05-20 News report
- 3.Georgia governor candidate profile: Keisha Lance Bottoms · FOX 5 Atlanta · 2026-10-12 News report