Democrat

§1Ballot status

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It is on the list of Georgia's parties that we assembled from state law and official candidate lists, ballots or results^1,2, because we couldn't read a single official list. A list built that way can miss a party that has status but no 2026 candidates. The state's class for it: political party.^1,2

How a party qualifies in Georgia

As a federal appeals court described Georgia law in January 2022, a group is a political party only if its candidate at the last general election for governor or president received at least 20 percent of the total vote; every other political organization is a political body.³ Where in the source: p. 4 n.1 (citing O.C.G.A. § 21-2-2) The same court described how a political body may nominate statewide candidates without individual petitions: by filing a petition signed by 1 percent of registered voters, or by having had a statewide candidate at the last general election receive votes equal to 1 percent of registered voters.³ Where in the source: p. 5 (citing O.C.G.A. § 21-2-180)

How a party keeps its status

Under the rules the court described, party status depends on the 20 percent vote at each governor's or presidential election, and a political body's statewide nominating right depends on reaching the 1 percent mark again.³

§2How it picks nominees

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Primary election. The party chose its 2026 nominees in the May 19, 2026 primary and the June 16, 2026 primary runoff.²

Georgia's rules for nominating

Political parties nominate in a primary; a candidate needs a majority to win the nomination, and if no one has one the top two meet in a runoff.^2,4 Where in the source: O.C.G.A. § 21-2-501(a)(1), as revised by SB 202 As the court described in 2022, candidates who are not party nominees, including political body candidates for offices below statewide level such as U.S. House, must file nominating petitions signed by a set share of registered voters.³ Where in the source: pp. 3-5

§3On the 2026 ballot

16 Candidates for U.S. Senate, U.S. House or governor whose label on Georgia's November 3 ballot names this party, from the state's official candidate list. Labels are shown exactly as the ballot prints them. Other offices aren't covered yet.

§4Notes on Georgia’s party research

What the research couldn’t find or confirm about Georgia’s parties, in its own plain words. Nothing is left out silently.

• We could not read an official list of Georgia's political parties and political bodies for 2026: the Secretary of State's website answered with a bot check, and the official Code is hosted by a vendor behind a terms click-through. The two parties are taken from DeKalb County's official November 3, 2026 sample ballot, on which every candidate with a party label is marked either Republican or Democrat, and are named as that ballot prints them.
• The definitions of political party and political body and the political body rules come from a January 2022 federal appeals court opinion describing Georgia law at that time. We could not check the current Code for later changes.
• We found no official 2026 list of political bodies, such as the Libertarian Party, that may nominate statewide candidates. DeKalb County's sample ballot shows no political body or independent candidates for statewide or congressional office in 2026.
• We could not read the state statute that requires parties to nominate by primary; the nomination entries rest on the majority rule in the 2021 law and on a county election office's account of the 2026 primary and runoff.