Keisha Lance Bottoms was still waiting on the outcome of Georgia's governor's race late Tuesday as results from the 2026 midterm election continued to come in. The contest that could make her the first Black woman governor remained undecided.
The wait mattered because voters and campaigns were still watching returns in real time on Nov. 3, when polls had closed in 40 states and D.C. and the count was still moving race by race. The unfinished Georgia result sat alongside other calls already being made elsewhere.
In Florida, Donalds was projected to win the governor's race over David Jolly. On Tuesday, Democrats also flipped a Republican-held Senate seat in North Carolina, and Ossoff was projected to win over Mike Collins. Those calls underscored how much had already shifted while Georgia stayed open.
Brittani Hamlin said affordability was on her mind when she voted for Abdul El-Sayed, especially the rising cost of healthcare and medication. That kind of concern helped explain the pressure on Democrats in several races, even as Republicans were defending a 53-47 majority in the Senate and Democrats were trying to flip enough seats to take control.
There was one reminder that election night is rarely tidy: the broader live update included several projected winners and even a House censure of Chuck Edwards in September over inappropriate conduct toward aides, but Georgia's governor's race still had not been resolved. For Bottoms, the answer remained the count itself, and the next development was whatever the remaining ballots in Georgia produced.
