These are the Columbus area races for seats in the Georgia Legislature and US Congress
The Nov. 5 election has several contested races for state and federal legislative seats to represent the Columbus area in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Georgia General Assembly.
Here’s a roundup of those races on ballots in the counties of Muscogee, Harris or Chattahoochee:
Georgia Congressional District 2
Sanford Bishop of Albany, a former attorney, is the incumbent and the Democratic nominee. He ran unopposed in the primary.
Wayne Johnson, a Bibb County businessman, is the Republican nominee. Johnson defeated three opponents in the primary.
Georgia Congressional District 3
No incumbent is on the ballot because Drew Ferguson, a Republican, decided to not seek re-election.
Brian Jack, a Fayette County political adviser for former president Donald Trump, is the Republican nominee. Jack prevailed over five opponents in the primary.
Maura Keller, a Fayette County nuclear medicine technologist, is the Democratic nominee. She defeated Val Almonord, a Muscogee County retired physician, in the primary.
Georgia Senate District 29
Randy Robertson of Harris County, a retired law enforcement officer, is the incumbent and the Republican nominee. Ellen Wright, a retired resident of Meriwether County, is the Democratic nominee. Both ran unopposed in their primary.
Georgia House District 137
Debbie Buckner of Talbot County, a retired health care executive, is the incumbent and the Democratic nominee. She defeated Carlton Mahone Sr., a Talbot County a pastor, in the primary.
Stephen Acorn of Muscogee County, a sales executive, is the Republican nominee. He ran unopposed in the primary.
Georgia House District 139
This seat was filled by State Rep. Richard Smith, a Republican, who died from the flu Jan. 30 at age 78.
Carmen Rice, a human resources professional in Columbus and former Muscogee County GOP chair, won the May 7 runoff over Sean Knox, president of Knox Pest Control in Columbus, to fill the remainder of Smith’s current two-year term through the end of 2024.
Rice then defeated Knox and Donald Moeller, an oral and maxillofacial surgeon in Columbus, in the primary to be the Republican nominee.
She is competing in this election for the full two-year term, which will start in January, against Democratic nominee Carl Sprayberry, a Columbus chef. Sprayberry was unopposed in the primary.
