United States Congressional elections In 2006, all thirteen of Georgia's
U.S. House seats were up for election. Neither of the Peach state's
U.S. Senate seats were up for election that year.
United States House of Representatives elections All thirteen of Georgia's incumbent Representatives sought re-election in 2006. Going into the elections, Republicans held seven of Georgia's U.S. House seats and Democrats held six seats. Despite significant gains by Republicans in Georgia since 2002, such as consecutive Republican victories since in Presidential elections
since 1996, gaining both of
Georgia's U.S. Senate seats, the election of
Sonny Perdue as Georgia's first post-Reconstruction Republican governor in 2002, successful elections of Republicans to other state executive offices, and gaining control of both chambers of the Georgia General Assembly for the first time since Reconstruction, Democrats have succeeded in gaining seats of Georgia's House delegation in recent House elections. Following gains in both houses of the
General Assembly in 2002 and 2004, Republicans enacted a mid-decade
redistricting to alter the congressional districts created by the
146th Georgia General Assembly, which Democrats held control of at the time, with the intention of benefiting Republicans. Two Democratic incumbents who were especially targeted were
Jim Marshall (
GA-8) and
John Barrow (
GA-12). They were opposed respectively by former Representatives
Mac Collins (who previously represented what is now the
Third district) and
Max Burns. These two races were among the most competitive in the nation, but ultimately resulted in both incumbents being re-elected by razor thin margins of 1 and 0.6 percentage points respectively. The partisan makeup of Georgia's House delegation did not change, however one Incumbent,
Cynthia McKinney (
GA-4), was denied renomination by her 59% to 41% defeat in the Democratic Primary runoff to then-
Dekalb county Commissioner
Hank Johnson. ==Governor==