Democratic candidate Keisha Lance Bottoms defeated Republican Rick Jackson in the Georgia gubernatorial election

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Georgia voters chose Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms over Republican Rick Jackson, according to media projections, ending more than twenty years of GOP control. Certification would make Bottoms the state’s first woman governor and establish a milestone: no Black woman has previously won a state governorship, although Stacey Plaskett won in the US Virgin Islands.