Savannah: who represents it, and who is running
U.S. general election (federal, state and county offices) votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senator (Ossoff seat); U.S. Representative GA-1 (open; Carter ran for Senate); Governor (open) and the other statewide constitutional offices; Georgia Senate SD-2 and House HD-165 (City Hall); Chatham County offices; a Savannah-Chatham school board District 2 special election and a tax referendum (Chatham BOE calls for election). No City of Savannah office is on the 2026 ballot..
Holding office15
the sitting council
On the ballot8
2 sitting members running again
The official candidate list ↗ · What Savannah is like — the /local page
Congressional district (city hall): Georgia's 1st congressional district (City Hall, and every sampled point in the city on both the 119th and 120th maps) — Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (Republican)
1
Mayor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Van R. Johnson, II ✉️ Elected | Mayor | Independent | City of Savannah |
2
Alderman
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alicia Miller Blakely ✉️ Elected | Alderman | Independent | Post 2, At-Large | City of Savannah |
| Bernetta B. Lanier ✉️ Elected | Alderman | Independent | District 1 | City of Savannah |
| Carol Bell ✉️ Elected | Alderman | Independent | Post 1, At-Large | City of Savannah |
| Detric Leggett ✉️ Elected | Alderman | Independent | District 2 | City of Savannah |
| Dr. Estella Edwards Shabazz ✉️ Elected | Alderman | Independent | District 5 | City of Savannah |
| Kurtis Purtee ✉️ Elected | Alderman | Independent | District 6 | City of Savannah |
| Linda Wilder-Bryan ✉️ Elected | Alderman | Independent | District 3 | City of Savannah |
| Nick Palumbo ✉️ Elected | Alderman | Independent | District 4 | City of Savannah |
3
Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brian P. Kemp Elected | Governor | Republican | Office of the Governor of Georgia (as read for us-augusta / us-atlanta) | |
| Keisha Lance Bottoms | Governor Running | Democratic | Macon-Bibb County Board of Elections | |
| Rick Jackson | Governor Running | Republican | Macon-Bibb County Board of Elections |
4
State Representative — HD-165
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edna Jackson Elected unofficial | State Representative | Democratic | Georgia Secretary of State | |
| MiQuan Green | State Representative Running | Democratic | Georgia Secretary of State |
5
State Senator — SD-2
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Derek Mallow Elected unofficial | State Senator → Running | Democratic | Georgia Secretary of State |
6
U.S. Senator
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raphael G. Warnock Elected | U.S. Senator | Democratic | @unitedstates congress-legislators | |
| Jon Ossoff Elected | U.S. Senator → Running | Democratic | @unitedstates congress-legislators | |
| Mike Collins | U.S. Senator Running | Republican | Macon-Bibb County Board of Elections |
7
U.S. Representative — GA-1
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Earl L. "Buddy" Carter Elected | U.S. Representative | Republican | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Amanda Hollowell | U.S. Representative Running | Democratic | Georgia Secretary of State | |
| James "Jim" Kingston | U.S. Representative Running | Republican | Georgia Secretary of State |
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Notes on this record
How the lists were read, and what could not be.
- Municipal: Mayor and the eight aldermen (two at-large posts, six districts) from https://www.savannahga.gov/390/Contact-Your-City-Council, retrieved 2026-10-31; council structure from /387/Mayor-City-Council ('a mayor and eight aldermen. The mayor and two of the aldermen are elected citywide'). Official @savannahga.gov emails and the page's portraits (linked) kept; the page prints phone numbers, not copied. Savannah's municipal ballot is non-partisan: party null. /387 still prints 'Current Term: All serving January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2023' (stale). Next Savannah municipal election: November 2027 (Mayor and all eight aldermen; four-year concurrent terms, last elected November 2023) — inferred, not read from an official 2027 calendar.
- Candidates: no official November 3, 2026 candidate list for Chatham County could be read. The Chatham County Board of Elections site (elections.chathamcountyga.gov, robots 404) posts only the certified write-in list, polling places and calls for election; sample ballots are on the state's My Voter Page, and sos.ga.gov / mvp.sos.ga.gov answer a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403 'Just a moment...', even for robots.txt) — not bypassed. Statewide nominees (Senate, Governor) are taken from the Macon-Bibb County Board of Elections official composite sample ballot for the same November 3, 2026 election (the statewide contests are identical across counties). GA-1, SD-2 and HD-165 nominees come from the Georgia Secretary of State's official certified primary and runoff results (results.sos.ga.gov public API, isOfficialResults true), flagged listBasis; independents or third-party candidates who qualified only for November (if any) could not be checked. Write-ins skipped.
- Districts: Census geocoder (robots 404) at City Hall gave GA-1, SD-2, HD-165. A 10x10 grid over the Savannah area (40 points inside 'Savannah city'): GA-1 on every point (120th and 119th maps); State Senate 2 (22), 1 (5), 4 (2); State House 162 (10), 163, 164, 165 (6 each), 161 (1) on the 2026 layers. So 3 Senate and 5 House districts cover the city; only City Hall's are recorded. Slivers under the grid spacing could be missed.
- Sitting members: GA-1 from house.gov/representatives (robots allows); senators from the CC0 @unitedstates legislators-current.json (Ossoff term ends 2027-01-03, Warnock 2029-01-03); senate.gov not used (Akamai 403 reported by other agents). State legislators from SOS official 2024 general results, flagged unofficial (legis.ga.gov is a token-gated app). Governor Kemp carried from the us-augusta/us-atlanta reading, not re-read.
- Not recorded: Chatham County Commission and constitutional officers, school board, judges. No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded. standsFor null for everyone (no candidate statements read).
- Robots/terms: www.savannahga.gov robots.txt has an AI-crawler group naming ClaudeBot that disallows only admin/search/calendar/RSS-type paths; Crawl-delay 10 (from the * group) honoured. elections.chathamcountyga.gov and results.sos.ga.gov: no robots.txt (404). cms.chathamcountyga.gov allows /api/assets/*. www.maconbibb.us disallows /wp-admin/ only. house.gov allows /representatives. Blocked: sos.ga.gov (Cloudflare challenge).
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Sources
Prepared 2026-10-31. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.
- City of Savannah — Contact Your City Council 9
- Macon-Bibb County Board of Elections — composite sample ballot, November 3, 2026 General/Special Election (rev. 9-17 / 10-15) 3
- @unitedstates congress-legislators — legislators-current.json 2
- Office of the Governor of Georgia (as read for us-augusta / us-atlanta) 1
- U.S. House of Representatives — Directory of Representatives 1
- Georgia Secretary of State — official results, November 5, 2024 General Election (State House - District 165) 1
- Georgia Secretary of State — official results, November 5, 2024 General Election (State Senate - District 2) 1
- Georgia Secretary of State — official results, June 16, 2026 General Primary Runoff (US House District 1 - Dem) 1
- Georgia Secretary of State — official results, May 19, 2026 General Primary (US House District 1 - Rep) 1
- Georgia Secretary of State — official results, May 19, 2026 General Primary (State House - District 165 - Dem) 1