Counties in Georgia

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Ballotpedia provides comprehensive coverage of elections in the 100 largest cities in America by population and the largest counties that overlap those cities. This encompasses all city, county, judicial, school district, and special district offices appearing on the ballot within those cities.

This page includes the following resources:

* The county governments covered by Ballotpedia in Georgia
* A list and map of counties in Georgia
* An overview of local elections in Georgia
* An overview of the initiative process in Georgia

## Contents

* 1 Counties
* 1.1 County government
* 1.2 Full list of counties
* 1.3 Map of counties
* 2 Elections
* 2.1 2024
* 2.2 2023
* 2.3 2022
* 2.4 2021
* 2.5 2020
* 2.6 2019
* 2.7 2018
* 2.8 2017
* 2.9 2016
* 2.10 2015
* 3 Initiative process availability
* 3.1 Counties
* 3.2 Cities
* 3.3 City-county consolidations
* 4 See also
* 5 External links
* 6 Footnotes

## Counties[edit]

### County government[edit]

Click the links below for information about the county governments in Ballotpedia's coverage scope:

* Government of DeKalb County
* Government of Fulton County

### Full list of counties[edit]

According to a 2022 study from the U.S. Census Bureau, this state's local governments consist of 152 counties, 537 cities, towns, and villages, and 510 special districts.[1] Six county governments have been consolidated with city governments. Another county consolidated with an unincorporated community rather than a city.[2][3]

The following table defaults to displaying only 25 counties at a time. To change the number of counties displayed, use the drop-down menu above the upper left-hand corner of the table. You can also use the search bar above the upper-right corner of the table to look up a specific county.

County

Gwinnett
Appling
Atkinson
Bacon
Baker
Baldwin
Banks
Barrow
Bartow
Ben Hill
Berrien
Bibb
Bleckley
Brantley
Brooks
Bryan
Bulloch
Burke
Butts
Calhoun
Camden
Candler
Carroll
Catoosa
Charlton
Chatham
Chattahoochee
Chattooga
Cherokee
Clarke
Clay
Clayton
Clinch
Cobb
Coffee
Colquitt
Columbia
Cook
Coweta
Crawford
Crisp
Dade
Dawson
DeKalb
Decatur
Dodge
Dooly
Dougherty
Douglas
Early
Echols
Effingham
Elbert
Emanuel
Evans
Fannin
Fayette
Floyd
Forsyth
Franklin
Fulton
Gilmer
Glascock
Glynn
Gordon
Grady
Greene
Habersham
Hall
Hancock
Haralson
Harris
Hart
Heard
Henry
Houston
Irwin
Jackson
Jasper
Jeff Davis
Jefferson
Jenkins
Johnson
Jones
Lamar
Lanier
Laurens
Lee
Liberty
Lincoln
Long
Lowndes
Lumpkin
Macon
Madison
Marion
McDuffie
McIntosh
Meriwether
Miller
Mitchell
Monroe
Montgomery
Morgan
Murray
Muscogee
Newton
Oconee
Oglethorpe
Paulding
Peach
Pickens
Pierce
Pike
Polk
Pulaski
Putnam
Quitman
Rabun
Randolph
Richmond
Rockdale
Schley
Screven
Seminole
Spalding
Stephens
Stewart
Sumter
Talbot
Taliaferro
Tattnall
Taylor
Telfair
Terrell
Thomas
Tift
Toombs
Towns
Treutlen
Troup
Turner
Twiggs
Union
Upson
Walker
Walton
Ware
Warren
Washington
Wayne
Webster
Wheeler
White
Whitfield
Wilcox
Wilkes
Wilkinson
Worth

### Map of counties[edit]

Counties in blue on the map below are part of Ballotpedia's county coverage scope:

## Elections[edit]

Click the links below for information about the elections held in each municipality. Please note that this is not a comprehensive list of municipalities that held elections each year in this state; click here to learn more about Ballotpedia's local government coverage scope.

### 2024[edit]

See also: United States municipal elections, 2024 and School board elections, 2024

* DeKalb County, Georgia
* Fulton County, Georgia
* Georgia school board elections

### 2023[edit]

See also: United States municipal elections, 2023 and School board elections, 2023

* Georgia school board elections

### 2022[edit]

See also: United States municipal elections, 2022 and School board elections, 2022

Ballotpedia expanded its coverage of local elections in Georgia in 2022. Click here to find your county, or click the links below for additional information about the following municipalities:

* DeKalb County, Georgia
* Fulton County, Georgia
* Georgia school board elections

### 2021[edit]

See also: United States municipal elections, 2021 and School board elections, 2021

* Atlanta, Georgia
* Georgia school board elections

### 2020[edit]

See also: United States municipal elections, 2020 and School board elections, 2020

* DeKalb County, Georgia
* Fulton County, Georgia
* Georgia school board elections

Past elections

* Click here for past election information

### 2019[edit]

See also: United States municipal elections, 2019 and School board elections, 2019
* Fulton County, Georgia
* Atlanta, Georgia
* Georgia school board elections

### 2018[edit]

See also: United States municipal elections, 2018 and School board elections, 2018
* DeKalb County, Georgia
* Fulton County, Georgia
* Georgia school board elections

### 2017[edit]

See also: United States municipal elections, 2017 and School board elections, 2017
* Fulton County, Georgia
* Atlanta, Georgia
* Georgia school board elections

### 2016[edit]

See also: United States municipal elections, 2016 and School board elections, 2016
* Georgia school board elections

### 2015[edit]

See also: United States municipal elections, 2015 and School board elections, 2015

Ballotpedia did not cover any local elections in Georgia that year.

## Initiative process availability[edit]

See also: Laws governing local ballot measures in Georgia

In Georgia, local governments comprise counties, cities, and city-county consolidations. Counties are organized according to the state constitution, general law, and applicable local laws (laws passed by the general assembly concerning a specific county). Cities and city-county consolidations are governed by local charters approved by the General Assembly then ratified by a vote of the people.

### Counties[edit]

Residents of all counties may initiate amendments to (or veto referendums against) local ordinances, resolutions, and regulations. They may also amend or repeal the local laws governing the county at the state level.[4]

### Cities[edit]

Residents of all non-consolidated cities may initiate amendments to (or veto referendums against) local ordinances, resolutions, and regulations. They may also amend their local charter.[4]

### City-county consolidations[edit]

In Georgia, cities and counties may consolidate their governments to streamline services or eliminate redundancies. Seven pairs of cities and counties have formed consolidated city-county governments. All seven pairs are organized under local charters approved by the General Assembly and ratified by residents. The Georgia Code explicitly exempts consolidated governments formed prior to January 1, 1976, from the initiative process established for cities. The City of Columbus and Muscogee County were consolidated in 1971--the first Georgia consolidation and the only consolidation prior to 1976. The charter of Columbus/Muscogee County does provide for charter amendment and ordinance initiatives, but establishes an initiative process distinct from the city process found in the Georgia Code.[5][6]

The applicability of state's county and city initiative and referendum provisions to consolidated governments in general is unclear. By all appearances, the issue has not yet faced judicial review. Augusta-Richmond County and Columbus-Muscogee County provide for local initiative for ordinances and charter or local act amendment. Athens-Clarke County, Cusseta-Chattahoochee County, and Georgetown-Quitman County seem to exclude it. The status of initiative in unclear in both Statenville-Echols County and Preston-Webster County.[7][8][9][10][11]

## See also[edit]

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## External links[edit]

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* Georgia state government website

## Footnotes[edit]

1. ↑ U.S. Census Bureau, "2022 Census of Governments – Organization," accessed October 16, 2023
2. ↑ New Georgia Encyclopedia, "Georgia's County Governments," December 9, 2021
3. ↑ National League of Cities "Cities 101 — Consolidations," December 9, 2021
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Ballotpedia, "Types & #s of local government by state," September 2012
5. ↑ Carl Vinson Institute of Government, "What you need to know about city-county consolidation," accessed October 13, 2012 (Archived)
6. ↑ National Association of Counties, "City-County Consolidation Proposals 1921 - Present," January 1, 2011 (Archived)
7. ↑ Municode, "Columbus Charter and Ordinances," accessed October 13, 2012
8. ↑ Augusta-Richmond County, "Charter and Code," accessed October 13, 2012
9. ↑ Municode, "Athens-Clarke County Charter and Ordinances," accessed October 13, 2012
10. ↑ Municode, "Cusseta-Chattahoochee County Charter and Ordinances," accessed October 13, 2012
11. ↑ Georgetown-Quitman County, "Georgetown-Quitman County Certified Charter," accessed October 13, 2012 (Archived)

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