# Georgia’s Keisha Lance Bottoms makes US history as first Black woman to be elected state governor

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/georgias-keisha-lance-bottoms-makes-us-history-as-first-black-woman-to-be-elected-state-governor/
- Published: 2026-11-04T02:46:46+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-06T06:49:51+00:00
- Original publisher: The Guardian (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/03/keisha-lance-bottoms-georgia-governor-midterm-election
- Topics: Americas, Elections, Politics, Software, Technology, World

## Key points

- Keisha Lance Bottoms becomes the first Black woman elected US governor.
- She won Georgia after Republican Rick Jackson had been favoured.
- Her campaign focused on affordability, Medicaid and abortion access.

## Summary

Keisha Lance Bottoms has won Georgia’s gubernatorial race, making her the first Black woman elected governor in the United States. Her victory in a state long seen as politically competitive is also a setback for Republican businessman Rick Jackson, who had been favoured to win until the campaign’s final days.

Bottoms, 56, is a former Atlanta mayor, attorney and magistrate judge who later served in the Biden administration as a senior adviser and director of the White House Office of Public Engagement. Jackson spent more than $100 million of his personal fortune on the campaign. Bottoms campaigned with Barack Obama and re-elected senator Jon Ossoff, and ran on affordability, expanding Medicaid and reversing state abortion restrictions.

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