GA-06 Georgia's 6th District

Candidate

Predicted Vote %

Predicted Win %

Karen Handel

51.0%

60.8%

Lucy McBath

49.0%

39.2%

BPI

Blair Partisan Index

Measures how strongly a district leans toward the Democratic or Republican Party compared to the nation as a whole.

 

-7.5%

SEER Prediction

SEER Prediction

Forecasted Democratic % of vote, without considering national mood or polling.

 

38.2%

District Profile Last Updated: Oct. 5, 2018, 11:47 a.m.

Georgia’s sixth congressional district is a geographically small district that contains northern Atlanta and many northern suburbs. The population of 756,004 (as of 2016) is over 60% white. The district has been solidly Republican, but some projections show this year’s race to be notably closer than previous, although still favoring Republican incumbent Karen Handel. Handel is a conservative and Trump-backer, who won a 2017 special election by a slim 4% margin. However, she is also seeing significant push-back this year from liberal opponent Lucy McBath, whose stances almost completely oppose those of Handel. The district is expected to lean Republican, although turnover is not entirely improbable here.

District Updates and Posts

Latest Polls: GA-06

PoliStat | Nov. 5, 2018, 7:51 a.m.

Nov. 4    NYT Upshot/Siena College    421 LV    McBath 46%    Handel 44%

GA-06: Latest Polls

PoliStat | Oct. 26, 2018, 7:58 a.m.

Oct. 22    Thirty-Ninth Street Strategies    400 LV    McBath 47%    Handel 48%

GA-06: Latest Polls

PoliStat | Oct. 24, 2018, 7:53 a.m.

Oct 18    JMC Analytics/Bold Blue Campaigns    500 LV    McBath 45%    Handel 49%

Polls in Our Model _

PoliStat | Oct. 11, 2018, 11:13 p.m.

Aug 22-26    Thirty-Ninth Street Strategies    600 LV    McBath 47%    Handel 49%