Both Fayette County floating homestead exemptions passed with about 65% yes. Bottoms carried Fayette 51.8%; Brian Jack led Keller by 131 votes in the county. Full results.
Fayette County voters approved both homestead tax exemptions on Tuesday’s ballot, one for county taxes and one for school taxes. Each passed with about two-thirds of the vote.
The figures are unofficial results from the Georgia Secretary of State, with all 35 Fayette County precincts reporting in the state’s export early Wednesday. They stay unofficial until the county certifies them.
The two homestead questions
Both are “floating” exemptions created by local acts of the General Assembly. The wording on the county’s sample ballot (PDF) says each exemption is “in a floating proportional amount based upon the amount of property taxes collected in a particular tax year that exceeds the value of property taxes collected in tax year 2025.”
| Question | Yes | No | Yes share |
|---|---|---|---|
| School tax exemption (House Bill 1582, Act 686) | 38,849 | 19,715 | 66.3% |
| County tax exemption (House Bill 1583, Act 687) | 37,948 | 20,413 | 65.0% |
The school question covers Fayette County School District taxes, the largest part of a Peachtree City tax bill. The county question covers Fayette County’s own taxes. Neither touches the city’s 5.840-mill rate, which is set by City Council. Our property taxes guide explains how the three rates add up.
The ballot does not say when the exemptions first apply or whether homeowners must file for them. The Fayette County Tax Commissioner’s Office, which handles homestead exemptions, is at 770-461-3652. We will add its answer here when it publishes one.
In Fayetteville, about seven miles northeast, city voters also approved a homestead exemption from city taxes, 5,814 to 3,278 (63.9%).
County Commission and Board of Education
- County Commission, District 3: James W. Clifton (Republican) 9,015 (58.2%), Chandra C. Wright (Democrat) 6,476 (41.8%). Neither was listed as the incumbent.
- County Commission, District 4: Charles D. Rousseau (Democrat, incumbent) was unopposed, with 12,561 votes.
- Board of Education, District 2: Roy Rabold (Republican, incumbent) 9,370 (57.9%), Ashley Smith (Democrat) 6,805 (42.1%).
- Board of Education, District 4: Regina Daigre (Democrat, incumbent) was unopposed, with 12,532 votes.
Congress and the legislature
Several districts cross the county line. The table gives the Fayette County vote and then the whole district.
| Race | Fayette County | Whole district |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. House, District 3 | Brian Jack (R, incumbent) 26,557 (50.1%); Maura Keller (D) 26,426 (49.9%) | Jack 58.6%, 188,569 to 133,120 |
| U.S. House, District 6 | Lucy McBath (D, incumbent) 6,974 (76.3%); Kevin E. Martin (R) 2,166 | Not in this table |
| State Senate, District 16 | Marty Harbin (R, incumbent) 25,131 (55.2%); Sonya Wimberly Hawkins (D) 20,389 | Harbin 58.4% |
| State House, District 73 | Josh Bonner (R, incumbent) 8,469 (58.1%); Tim Wilkinson (D) 6,102 | Bonner 59.7% |
| State House, District 82 | Karen I. Mathiak (R, incumbent) 8,103 (63.7%); Anthony Dickson (D) 4,620 | Mathiak 56.0% |
Jack’s margin in Fayette was 131 votes across the county’s 29 precincts in District 3.
Unopposed: Kenya Wicks in State Senate District 34, Timoria McQueen Saba in State House District 68 and Debra Bazemore in State House District 69, all Democrats.
Which of these districts you live in depends on your address. Check your sample ballot on the state’s My Voter Page.
Statewide races
Democrats won all 11 statewide races on the ballot, according to the statewide totals in the same export. They also carried Fayette County in each race, by narrower margins.
| Office | Winner | Fayette County | Statewide |
|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Senate | Jon Ossoff (D, incumbent) | 56.9% | 59.0% |
| Governor | Keisha Lance Bottoms (D) | 51.8% | 54.3% |
| Lieutenant governor | Josh McLaurin (D) | 53.4% | 55.9% |
| Secretary of state | Penny Brown Reynolds (D) | 53.2% | 55.7% |
| Attorney general | Tanya Miller (D) | 53.0% | 55.5% |
| Agriculture commissioner | Katherine E. Juhan-Arnold (D) | 51.0% | 53.8% |
| Insurance commissioner | Keisha Sean Waites (D) | 51.4% | 54.3% |
| School superintendent | Lydia Powell (D) | 52.0% | 54.6% |
| Labor commissioner | Nikki Porcher (D) | 51.7% | 54.6% |
| Public Service Commission, District 3 | Peter Hubbard (D, incumbent) | 54.0% | 56.4% |
| Public Service Commission, District 5 | Shelia Edwards (D) | 52.8% | 55.3% |
In the governor’s race in Fayette, Bottoms had 32,221 votes and Rick Jackson (R) had 30,019. Jackson won the Election Day vote in the county, 9,769 to 6,677. Bottoms won advance voting, 24,270 to 19,553, and mail ballots, 1,274 to 697.
Constitutional amendments
All three statewide amendments passed, in Fayette and across Georgia.
- Amendment 1, raising the maximum acreage that can qualify as conservation use property from 2,000 to 4,000 acres: 54.0% yes in Fayette, 53.9% statewide.
- Amendment 2, requiring nonpartisan elections for all probate court judges: 66.6% yes in Fayette, 68.4% statewide.
- Amendment 3, letting the legislature dedicate certain revenues to a fund for Next Generation 911 systems: 78.0% yes in Fayette, 77.7% statewide.
How Fayette voted
The governor’s race drew 62,240 votes in the county. Of those:
- 43,823 (70.4%) were cast in advance voting
- 16,446 (26.4%) were cast on Election Day
- 1,971 (3.2%) came by mail
No provisional ballots were in the count at the time of the export.
What it means for you
- Homeowners: both homestead exemptions passed. Watch for the tax commissioner’s guidance on when they apply and whether you need to do anything. Keep your regular homestead exemption current; our property taxes guide has the April 1 deadline.
- No runoff in Fayette: every contest on the county’s ballot had a majority winner, so there is no Dec. 1 runoff for these races.
- Results can still change before the county certifies them.
More on voting in the county: Fayette County voting guide.
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