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University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs

Research draft

Polls since 2024: 1
Latest poll ended: October 15, 2026
Record vs. results, relative: D+0.4

Polls from the VoteHub polling API, used under CC BY 4.0. Each result links to the pollster's or sponsor's own release. Imported once a day; a poll VoteHub later changes keeps its earlier version on record here.

§1About

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

The School of Public and International Affairs is a college of the University of Georgia, inaugurated in 2001 as its fourteenth college, that houses departments of political science, international affairs and public administration and policy along with the SPIA Survey Research Center.¹ The center's page says it was founded in 2016, runs statewide polls on Georgia politics and policy and contract surveys by live telephone interviewers and online, including text-to-web, and lists contract clients such as the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, Georgia Power and the Georgia Secretary of State.² The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that its October 2026 poll of 1,000 likely Georgia voters was conducted by telephone by the school from October 7 to 15.³

Kind: Academic¹
Founded: 2001¹

§2Who it works with

Why this matters: Owners, news partners and the firms behind a poll's interviews shape what gets asked, how, and what gets published.

Owns

SPIA Survey Research Center (2016–now). Its about page lists the SPIA Survey Research Center among the units the school houses, and the center's page says it was founded in 2016.^1,2

Part of

University of Georgia. Its about page describes the school as one of the University of Georgia's colleges.¹

News partners

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (2018–now). The center's page lists surveys conducted with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution starting with a legislative survey dated January 12, 2018, and the AJC credits its October 2026 poll to the school.^2,3

Who paid for its polls

Sponsors named on its polls, most polls first⁴. A party-aligned flag is VoteHub's, per poll.
Sponsor	Polls	Between	Flagged party-aligned
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution	1	October 15, 2026	No

§3Whom it works for

Why this matters: A firm that also works for one party's campaigns can still publish accurate polls, but readers deserve to know.

Says it does no work for parties or candidates. The Survey Research Center's page says it does not conduct surveys for political parties, candidates, political action committees or campaigns.²

Of its 1 poll listed since the 2024 election, VoteHub flags 0 as paid for by a Democratic-aligned sponsor and 0 by a Republican-aligned sponsor⁴.

§4Record against results

Why this matters: The one test that doesn't depend on other polls: how close a firm's final polls came to what voters did.

From FiveThirtyEight's final public data^5,6: general-election polls between a Democrat and a Republican in the last three weeks before each election, compared with the certified result. FiveThirtyEight rated each name polls were published under separately. Across all 8,957 such polls, the average miss was D+0.7, so the relative figure takes out the misses every pollster shared that year.

Error is the poll's D−R margin minus the result's; D+ means it showed Democrats doing better than they did.
Published as	Polls	Elections	Average miss	Relative to other polls	Typical size of miss	538's last rating
University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs	5	2018–2022	D+0.8	D+0.4	1.3 pts	2.2 of 3

ABC News closed FiveThirtyEight in March 2025; its data stops at the 2022 elections. 2026 results will be added once states certify them.

§52026 record against the count

Why this matters: How close this pollster's last 2026 polls came to how people voted, measured the way FiveThirtyEight measured earlier elections.

One poll of one race between a Democrat and a Republican, with field periods ending in the 21 days before November 3, 2026, compared with each race's count. Some of those races are still being counted, so these figures use the unofficial count and will change until states certify.

Average miss: R+10.0
Relative to other polls of the same races: R+1.0
Typical size of miss: 10.0 pts

Error is the poll's D−R margin minus the count's, as shares of all votes in the race; D+ means it showed Democrats doing better than they did. From fewer than 5 polls, so read it as a few data points, not a pattern.

§6Its polls

The 1 polls of its we list, newest first.
In the field	Question	Result	With	Paid for by	Sample
October 7–October 15, 2026	U.S. Senate · 2026 Georgia	Jon Ossoff 48 · Mike Collins 40		The Atlanta Journal-Constitution	1,000 LV

§7What we looked for and didn't find

The about page gives the dean only as Dean Auer, and the center's page does not name a director.
The center's page does not say whether it uses an outside call center or panel vendor.
A findings search found no AAPOR statement, court ruling, regulator action or retraction concerning the school or its Survey Research Center; aggregator statements were left to the separate sweep and not searched here.