Primary Election Day made clear who the Republican nominees are for the November general election. For Democrats, four offices will be decided by a runoff election that pits the top two vote-getters for each office from the crowded field of the primary. 

Runoff Election Day is June 21; early voting begins June 13. Democratic voters will decide nominees for the offices of Lt. Governor, Secretary of State, Labor Commissioner and Insurance Commissioner. 

You can find video recordings of the Atlanta Press Club debates for all these races on YouTube. 

Graphics by Brittney Phan for State Affairs.

Candidates for Lt. Governor

Kwanza Hall and Charlie Bailey are vying to be the Democratic nominee for Lt. Governor. One of them will face Republican Burt Jones in November. 

Hall received 30.1% of the vote in the primary to make it to the runoff. Hall has made very few press appearances and did not respond to the invitation to participate in the Atlanta Press Club debate on Monday. He served one month as a U.S. Representative for Georgia’s Fifth District, briefly occupying John Lewis’s seat after his death. He served on the Atlanta City Council from 2005-2017. Previously he served on the Atlanta Board of Education and worked in the Fulton County Government. Hall has been endorsed by Michael Thurmond, chief executive of DeKalb County.

Bailey received 17.6% of the vote to make it to the runoff. He was originally running as a Democrat for Attorney General before switching his campaign to run for Lt. Governor. He’s a former Senior District Attorney for Fulton County and currently is an attorney for Cook & Connelly, focusing on class action and personal injury lawsuits. Last week he was endorsed by Stacey Abrams, the Democratic nominee for governor. 

Candidates for Secretary of State

State Rep. Bee Nguyen or State Rep. Dee Dawkins-Haigler will be the Democratic nominee to take on incumbent Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

Nguyen captured 44.2% of the vote in the primary, just a few percentage points shy of the 50% required to avoid a runoff. Nguyen represents House District 89, and first took office in 2017. She has served on several House committees: Budget and Fiscal Affairs Oversight, Education, Governmental Affairs, and Human Relations and Aging. She secured the endorsement of Stacey Abrams last week. 

Dawkins-Haigler captured 18.7% of the vote to make it to the runoff. She represented Georgia House District 91 between 2017 and 2018. As a state representative, she served on several committees including Banks and Banking, Human Relations and Aging, Industry and Labor, and Science and Technology. Dawkins-Haigler has been endorsed by the three other candidates for Secretary of State that did not make the runoff. 

Candidates for Insurance Commissioner

Janice Laws Robinson and Raphael Baker are vying to take on Republican incumbent John King. 

Robinson won 48.7% of the vote in the primary. She is a licensed insurance professional and has worked in the industry for two decades. She owns her own insurance agency, J. Laws & Associates, LLC. Robinson emigrated to the United States from Jamaica as a teenager. She previously served on the board of the Coweta County Airport Authority and previously ran for the Insurance Commissioner office in 2018. 

Baker won 33.1% of the vote to make the runoff. Baker declined to participate in the Atlanta Press Club debates. Baker has worked in the insurance industry for two decades.

Candidates for Labor Commissioner

Democratic primary voters will choose between State Rep. William Boddie and Nicole Horn to face Republican Bruce Thompson and Libertarian candidate Emily Anderson. 

Boddie has represented District 62 since 2017. He is an attorney and member of the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He has served on the House Judiciary, Budget and Fiscal Affairs, Ethics and other committees. 

Horn is a business owner and a former television reporter.

An overview of winners from Georgia’s Primary Election Day. Graphics by Brittney Phan for State Affairs. 

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You can find video recordings of the Atlanta Press Club debates for all these races on YouTube. 

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