Georgia U.S. Senate — 2026 (Class 2)

Georgia U.S. Senate is on the November 3, 2026 ballot. A senator serves six years. Class 2, the class on the regular 2026 ballot, is the class whose terms expire in January 2027. In plain terms, what is at stake is one six-year vote in a 100-seat Senate, including votes on legislation and on confirmations. It is not a national scoreboard. Control of a chamber, where the office sits in one, depends on every other seat as well. This page is one contest.

Jon Ossoff is the incumbent on the Clerk’s nominee list. Mike Collins reached the November ballot through the June 16, 2026 Republican runoff certified by the Secretary of State. Five names are on the general-election list, and Georgia law can send a contest to a runoff when nobody wins a majority, so a plurality lead on election night may not settle the seat. Watch the majority line, not only who is ahead.

The principal names on the guide are Jon Ossoff (Democrat, marked incumbent on the cited list); Mike Collins (Republican). The guide also carries this listing note: The Clerk’s nominee list marks Jon Ossoff with an asterisk for an incumbent in the 119th Congress. Jon Ossoff is cited to Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, nominees for U.S. senator and U.S. representative, November 3, 2026 (published October 8, 2026). Mike Collins is cited to Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, nominees for U.S. senator and U.S. representative, November 3, 2026 (published October 8, 2026). Each of those sentences identifies a listing. It does not quote a speech. A campaign site is the candidate’s own words. This preview does not paste one unless a sentence above names that page, and these sentences name the election-office or Clerk list instead.

Cook Political Report published Lean D as of September 8, 2026; Inside Elections published Tilt D as of September 8, 2026; Sabato's Crystal Ball published Likely D as of September 8, 2026; Decision Desk HQ published Likely D as of September 8, 2026. Those labels belong to the outlets. This site does not average them and does not treat them as a prediction of the canvass. One survey stored here is Quantus Insights, Sep 9–12, 2026: Ossoff 38, Collins 38 (Tie). The sample line is “624 RV.” The figures are that release, linked on the poll table. They are not an average, not a model, and not a forecast.

The last regular election for a Class 2 seat was 2020. The Federal Election Commission compiles the certified federal canvass after the states report it. This preview does not copy a 2020 or 2024 percentage it has not taken from that compilation or from Georgia’s own canvass. A prior margin is a record of that year’s ballots.

Georgia counts this ballot under its own calendar. Registration, early voting, and mail-ballot deadlines that this site has checked sit on the voting-deadlines page and on the state hub, each tied to an official page. Totals on election night are unofficial. Mail ballots, provisional ballots, and any later round the state requires can move them. Turnout is a ratio that changes with the denominator — voting-age population, registered voters, or ballots counted — and the Census Bureau’s survey is not the same instrument as the canvass. Nothing here is a call.