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Who is on the ballot in 31503?

Ware County, GA

Reported by The Ballot Brief Editorial Team. Updated as public election and video sources change.

Fields below reflect the November 3, 2026 general election ballot as races are certified.

16 races on your November 3 ballot. Jump to:
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31503 sample ballot preview: statewide, congressional and Ware County races

U.S. House, Georgia District 1
2 candidates
Federal ▾
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James 'Jim' Kingston
REP
Biography
Kingston works in the insurance industry and describes himself as a lifelong resident of Southeast Georgia, per the campaign site. He says that experience showed him how federal regulation affects small towns, farms and growing communities, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Make the American Dream Affordable Again
  • Protect Our Bases, Ports, and Farms
  • Cut Taxes and Rein in Washington Spending
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
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Amanda Hollowell
DEM
Biography
Amanda Hollowell serves as Chief of Campaigns at Color Of Change and previously directed national organizing efforts at When We All Vote and led campaign strategy at the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute and 9to5 Georgia, per her campaign site. She is a caregiver for her father, a veteran, per the campaign site. She is running for Congress in Georgia's 1st District, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Job creation
  • Affordability
  • Improving quality of life across the district
Per The Current GA.
Campaign siteFull profile
About this race
Georgia fields are from the Secretary of State's certified November 2026 candidate list. General-election races with no majority winner go to a December runoff, per Georgia law. OPEN SEAT: Rep. Buddy Carter ran for U.S. Senate and serves through January.
U.S. Senate
2 candidates
Federal ▾
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Jon Ossoff
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Ossoff is a U.S. Senator from Georgia who previously worked as an investigative journalist, producing reporting on corruption and war crimes for international news organizations, per the campaign site. He was educated at Georgetown University and the London School of Economics, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Strengthen oversight and anti-corruption work
  • Deliver federal investment for Georgia communities, farms, and military installations
  • Protect voting rights, health care, and public safety
Key voting record
Voted for legislation requiring detention of certain noncitizens charged with theft-related crimes and other offenses. Supported
Backed legislation to restrict members of Congress and their spouses from trading individual stocks. Supported
Used appropriations and oversight work to seek federal funding for Georgia infrastructure, farms, ports, and military communities. Supported
Campaign siteFull profile
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Mike Collins
REP
Biography
Mike Collins is Georgia's Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in 2026 and currently represents Georgia's 10th Congressional District. A trucking-company owner and House Republican, he has campaigned on border security, conservative economic policy, support for Donald Trump, public safety, and opposition to Democratic control in Washington.
Top Priorities
  • Strengthen border security and immigration enforcement
  • Advance conservative tax, spending, and regulatory policy
  • Support public safety and Trump-aligned Republican priorities
Key voting record
Sponsored immigration-enforcement legislation named for Georgia student Laken Riley. Supported
Backed House Republican positions on taxes, spending, regulation, and federal agency oversight. Supported
Campaign siteFull profile
Governor
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Rick Jackson
REP
Biography
Jackson is a Georgia businessman and philanthropist who began his career in commission sales before acquiring the company he worked for and building it into a healthcare-related business operating in all 50 states, per the campaign site. He grew up in foster care across five homes and thirteen schools and has since backed legislation offering former foster youth tuition-free college, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Continue Republican economic and tax policy in Georgia
  • Emphasize conservative leadership and public safety
  • Run state government with business executive experience
Campaign siteFull profile
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Keisha Lance Bottoms
DEM
Biography
Keisha Lance Bottoms is the Democratic nominee for Georgia governor, former mayor of Atlanta, and former senior adviser in the Biden administration. Her campaign emphasizes opportunity, equity, public safety, economic mobility, and a more united state government.
Top Priorities
  • Expand opportunity and economic mobility
  • Strengthen public safety and community trust
  • Invest in education, health care, and working families
Campaign siteFull profile
Lieutenant Governor
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Greg Dolezal
REP
Biography
Dolezal grew up on a family farm in Georgia and founded and led companies in manufacturing, healthcare, technology and services, per the campaign site. He worked over a decade in Christian ministry, including helping launch Passion City Church in Atlanta, before his 2018 election to the Georgia State Senate, where he chairs the Transportation Committee, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Advance conservative state policy
  • Shape education, tax, and budget debates
  • Use Senate leadership experience in the lieutenant governor's office
Campaign siteFull profile
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Josh McLaurin
DEM
Biography
McLaurin is an attorney and Georgia state senator serving his fourth legislative term, and a graduate of the University of Georgia, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Protect voting rights and democratic accountability
  • Address affordability for Georgia families
  • Defend reproductive rights and civil rights
Key voting record
Used his state Senate seat to oppose Republican-backed legislation he argued would weaken rights, accountability, or democratic access. Opposed
Campaign siteFull profile
Attorney General
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Brian Strickland
REP
Biography
Brian Strickland is the Republican nominee for Georgia attorney general and a state senator who has chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee. His public record includes criminal-justice legislation, mental-health policy, public safety, and conservative legal priorities.
Top Priorities
  • Strengthen public safety and prosecution
  • Use legal experience in state litigation
  • Advance conservative legal priorities
Campaign siteFull profile
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Tanya Miller
DEM
Biography
Tanya Miller is a Democratic candidate for Georgia attorney general, a state representative, and a former prosecutor. Her campaign emphasizes consumer protection, civil rights, criminal-justice experience, reproductive rights, and holding powerful actors accountable under state law.
Top Priorities
  • Protect consumers and civil rights
  • Use prosecutorial experience for public safety
  • Defend reproductive rights and legal accountability
Key voting record
Used her state House role and legal background to support Democratic priorities on rights, accountability, and public safety. Supported
Campaign siteFull profile
Secretary of State
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Tim Fleming
REP
Biography
Tim Fleming is the Republican nominee for Georgia secretary of state and a state representative from Covington. His campaign emphasizes election administration, business services, conservative election policy, and succeeding Brad Raffensperger in the state's chief elections office.
Top Priorities
  • Oversee election administration
  • Modernize business and licensing services
  • Advance conservative election-policy priorities
Key voting record
Used his state House seat to support Republican election, business, and administrative policy priorities. Supported
Campaign siteFull profile
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Penny Brown Reynolds
DEM
Biography
Penny Brown Reynolds is the Democratic nominee for Georgia secretary of state on the November 3, 2026 ballot, per the Secretary of State's certified candidate list. She is a former judge and Biden administration official, per the Georgia Recorder. No campaign website was found as of September 8, 2026.
Full profile
Agriculture Commissioner
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Tyler Harper
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
Tyler Harper is Georgia's incumbent agriculture commissioner and the Republican nominee for re-election. His office oversees agriculture markets, food safety, animal health, fuel and weights-and-measures regulation, and support for Georgia farmers.
Top Priorities
  • Support Georgia farmers and agribusiness
  • Oversee food safety and agriculture regulation
  • Promote rural economic growth
Campaign siteFull profile
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Katherine E. Juhan-Arnold
DEM
Biography
Katherine E. Juhan-Arnold is the Democratic nominee for Georgia agriculture commissioner on the November 3, 2026 ballot, per the Secretary of State's certified candidate list. She is the founder of Baby Katie's Pharm and Kitchen, a Snellville farm-to-family nonprofit, per WABE. No campaign website was found as of September 7, 2026.
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Insurance Commissioner
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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John King
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
King is running for re-election as Georgia's Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner; the campaign site describes him as a retired major general, former police chief, and the first Hispanic elected to statewide office in Georgia, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Recover taxpayer money owed to Georgians
  • Hold powerful entities accountable
  • Pursue lawsuit reform and hold fraudsters accountable
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
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Keisha Sean Waites
DEM
Biography
Keisha Sean Waites is a former state representative. No campaign website was found as of September 8, 2026.
Top Priorities
  • Challenging rate hikes from home and auto insurers
  • Outlawing ZIP code and credit score based premiums
  • Creating a task force to investigate scams targeting seniors and other vulnerable residents
Per the AJC.
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Labor Commissioner
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Barbara Rivera Holmes
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
Barbara Rivera Holmes has served as Georgia's Labor Commissioner since being appointed by Governor Brian Kemp in April 2025, according to the Georgia Department of Labor's website. She has led an initiative to modernize the department's unemployment insurance system and expand workforce training partnerships, per her campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Strengthening connections between small employers and job training pipelines
  • Modernizing the Department of Labor's unemployment insurance system
  • Expanding workforce development and skills training partnerships with colleges and employers
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
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Nikki Porcher
DEM
Biography
Porcher is a candidate for Georgia Labor Commissioner and a veteran, educator, and community advocate who served in the U.S. Air Force, taught in Georgia's public schools, and led a national nonprofit supporting small businesses, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Fair pay and safe workplaces
  • Support for small businesses
  • Accessible, affordable child care
Per the voteporcher4ga.com.
Campaign siteFull profile
State School Superintendent
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Richard Woods
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
Richard Woods has served as Georgia's State School Superintendent for more than 10 years and has more than 32 years of experience in education, including 15 years as a classroom teacher and service as a principal, assistant principal and curriculum director, according to his campaign site and the Georgia Department of Education.
Top Priorities
  • Funding school safety measures including school resource officers and crisis alert systems
  • Increasing literacy through Georgia owned academic standards and literacy coaches
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
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Lydia Powell
DEM
Biography
Lydia Powell has more than 26 years of experience in education as a certified teacher, including 11 years in educational leadership, according to her campaign site. She has taught in Lee County, Florida, and in DeKalb, Henry, Clayton and Fayette County schools in Georgia, and chairs the City of Fayetteville Ethics Committee, per the site.
Top Priorities
  • Expanding preschool access
  • Mental health supports in schools
  • Rural connectivity and reducing standardized testing overreliance
Per the AJC.
Campaign siteFull profile
Public Service Commissioner District 3
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Fitz Johnson
REP
Biography
Fitz Johnson is the Republican nominee for Georgia Public Service Commission District 3 on the November 3, 2026 ballot, per the Secretary of State's certified candidate list. Commissioners are elected statewide but must live in their district. No campaign website was found as of September 7, 2026.
Full profile
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Peter Hubbard
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Peter Hubbard was sworn in as a Georgia Public Service Commissioner in January 2026, according to the Georgia Public Service Commission's website. Before joining the Commission, he worked for a solar developer building grid scale solar and energy storage systems and spent six years advocating for consumers before the Commission through a nonprofit he formed, per his campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Seeking an independent audit of Georgia Power's profit margin
  • Reconsidering the Commission's approval of Georgia Power's grid expansion plan
  • Publishing analysis of how data center electricity costs are allocated
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
Public Service Commissioner District 5
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Josh Tolbert
REP
Biography
Josh Tolbert holds four engineering degrees, including a doctorate in Mechanical Engineering, and is a licensed Professional Engineer in multiple states, according to his campaign site. He has worked as an engineer, educator, expert witness and small business owner across the nuclear, coal, oil and gas, biomass, geothermal and renewable energy industries, per the site.
Top Priorities
  • Providing technical oversight to protect ratepayers
  • Delivering reliable and resilient utility systems
  • Improving environmental performance through engineering approaches
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
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Shelia Edwards
DEM
Biography
Shelia Edwards is a community advocate, journalist and business owner with more than 35 years of leadership experience in corporate America and in government at the local, state and federal levels, according to her campaign site. Early in her career she worked at Kennedy Space Center for Lockheed Space Operations supporting NASA's Space Shuttle Program, per the site.
Top Priorities
  • Holding Georgia Power accountable for utility rate increases
  • Requiring data centers to pay the cost of infrastructure they require
  • Increasing transparency and accountability at the Public Service Commission
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile

Countywide races in Ware County

ZIP 31503 sits in Ware County, per the Census crosswalk. These seats are voted countywide; district seats, city races and school boards need a street address. All Ware County races (5).

District Attorney, Waycross Judicial Circuit
1 candidate
County ▾
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Marilyn Bennett
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
Marilyn Bennett is on the November 3, 2026 ballot for District Attorney, Waycross Judicial Circuit, per the Georgia Secretary of State's certified 2026 general election candidate list. No campaign website was found as of September 23, 2026.
Full profile
Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
About this race
Marilyn Bennett (Republican), the sitting District Attorney, is the only candidate on the November 3, 2026 ballot for the Waycross Judicial Circuit (Pierce, Coffee, Charlton, Ware, Bacon and Brantley counties), per the Georgia Secretary of State's certified 2026 general election candidate list, which flags her as the incumbent. Unopposed nominees still print. This seat covers a multi-county judicial circuit, not just this county.

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