Columbus area votes on Georgia Legislature, US Congress seats. See results here
The 2024 election had 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 election results from 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.
Bishop beat Johnson by a margin of 39,187 votes.
Georgia Congressional District 3
No incumbent was 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.
Jack beat Keller by a margin of 133,573 votes.
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.
Robertson beat Wright by a margin of 29,360 votes.
Georgia House District 137
Debbie Buckner of Talbot County, a retired healthcare 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.
Buckner beat Acorn by a margin of 5,218 votes.
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 competed 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.
Rice beat Sprayberry by a margin of 8,406 votes.
This story was originally published November 5, 2024 at 7:18 PM.
