Dickerson bested Debra Shigley after she pulled off a better-than-expected performance in the initial election in August.

Republican businessman Jason Dickerson beat Democrat Debra Shigley in the Tuesday runoff after no candidate in a seven-person field won a majority to take the seat outright in August. Dickerson, who had a big lead in unofficial results, declared victory on Tuesday night, and Shigley conceded.

Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones speaks at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s rally at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in metro Atlanta on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. ATLANTA — Georgia’s race for governor took a dramatic turn last week when two of the most recognizable figures from the 2020 election jumped in — on opposite sides of the aisle.

On Aug. 14, 2023, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was the picture of solemnity as she and her team walked to a lectern to announce they had secured charges against then-former President Donald Trump and 18 of his allies for taking part in a sweeping criminal enterprise to overturn the results of Georgia’s 2020 election.

Brad Raffensperger, the two-term Republican secretary of state, joins a primary that also includes the state’s lieutenant governor and attorney general.

The Georgia Court of Appeals had ruled that Willis and her office could not continue to prosecute the case because of an “appearance of impropriety.”

A federal judge upheld a portion of a 2022 Georgia election law restricting the distribution of absentee ballot applications by third-party groups. The law, known as Senate Bill 202, was passed in 2021 following claims of voter fraud in the 2020 ...

He refused to “find” more votes for Trump , survived MAGA’s fury and is now seeking the state’s highest office.

President calls Fulton County district attorney a ‘criminal’ and slams ‘weaponization’ despite his own felony convictions and threats to prosecute opponents

"I will protect our democracy," former state judge Penny Brown Reynolds said in a social media video released Thursday. "I will defend every eligible Georgian's right to vote. Whether you live in Atlanta or Albany, whether you're 19 or 90, whether you vote blue, red or not at all."