Keisha Bottoms Wins Democratic Nomination for Georgia Governor

The former Atlanta mayor will face either Lt. Gov. Burt Jones or billionaire Rick Jackson in the race for the governor’s mansion.

Keisha Lance Bottoms, mayor of Atlanta, Ga., speaks at the Concordia Summit in Manhattan, N.Y., on Sept. 24, 2018. Shannon Stapleton/Reuters

SAVANNAH, Ga.—Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Bottoms won the Democratic nomination in Georgia’s gubernatorial primary on May 19 by a wide margin over her opponents, fulfilling previous polls’ projections.

There were seven qualified Democrats running in the party’s race for the Peach State’s top job, with the second-place candidate receiving 16 percent of the vote to Bottoms’s 57 percent, as of 11:09 p.m. ET.