Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff won reelection, defeating Republican Rep. Mike Collins and preserving the Georgia Senate seat he first flipped in January 2021.
The Associated Press called the race on Tuesday evening with 61% of the expected vote counted. Unofficial state returns showed Ossoff with 63%, and Collins with 36.4%.
Ossoff entered Election Day as the only Democratic senator seeking reelection in a state President Donald Trump carried in 2024. Republicans treated Georgia as one of their strongest pickup opportunities, but late polling showed the incumbent holding a lead.
The Atlanta Democrat campaigned on affordability, health care and oversight of the Trump administration. He blamed tariffs and the war with Iran for higher household costs, defended the Affordable Care Act and highlighted investigations involving federal prisons, military housing, immigration detention and corporate landlords.
Collins, a second-term congressman and trucking company owner, tied himself closely to Trump. He emphasized immigration enforcement, tax cuts, domestic energy production and his authorship of the Laken Riley Act, which requires federal detention of certain noncitizens accused of crimes.
The campaign produced sharp divisions over abortion, Medicaid, tariffs, Israel and Iran. Ossoff supported federal abortion protections and criticized Republican health care reductions, while Collins backed Georgia’s abortion restrictions and the president’s tax-and-spending law.
Ossoff’s victory keeps both of Georgia’s Senate seats in Democratic hands alongside Sen. Raphael Warnock. It denies Republicans their first Georgia Senate election victory since Johnny Isakson won reelection in 2016.
The result preserves a Democratic seat as control of the Senate is decided across several battleground states.
Ossoff’s new six-year term begins Jan. 3, 2027.
