All 236 seats in the Georgia state legislature came up for election on Nov. 3, 2026, with Republicans looking to hold onto a shrinking majority.
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The legislature’s most important annual job is to pass a budget. It’ll be about $40 billion this year and the biggest spending categories are education, health care and prisons.
GOP legislators have held an unbroken majority in the state Legislature for most of this century, but have been losing ground in about the last 10 years, as the outer suburbs of Atlanta turn blue.
Each Georgia state senator represents about 191,500 people and each of the House members has about 60,000 constituents. Their annual legislative session lasts about 40 working days starting each January. The job pays about $25,000 for rank-and-file members.
Here’s what party control will look like when 56 state senators and 180 state House members start their two-year terms in January 2027:
