We’ve got great news from yesterday’s runoff election! 80% of Georgia Equality’s endorsed candidates won their races in the City of Atlanta. We continue to elect pro-LGBTQ candidates because of you!

Want another highlight? How about this– Two openly LGBTQ endorsees won their races (Keisha Waites for Atlanta City Council Post 3, at-large and Liliana Bakhtiari for Atlanta City Council District 5), which means the total number of LGBTQ people on the Atlanta City Council will be THREE in January!

Together, we helped elect FOUR openly LGBTQ challengers to office this cycle, including Alex Wan and Brett Reichert who won their races on Nov 2.

Georgia Equality sends congratulations to Keisha and Liliana, and all of our endorsed candidates who won on Tuesday, as well as to Khalid Kamau on becoming South Fulton’s first openly LGBTQ Mayor. We also want to thank all of our supporters and volunteers who called, donated, wrote, knocked and more on behalf of our endorsed candidates — these campaigns couldn’t have done it without you!

Here’ the fill list of endorsee who won their races:

Atlanta City Council President: Doug Shipman – WIN

Atlanta City Council Post 3, at-large: Keisha Waites – WIN

Atlanta City Council District 4: Jason Dozier – WIN

Atlanta City Council District 5: Liliana Bakhtiari – WIN

 

 

Wes Sanders Han-Burgess

Development and Communications Director
Georgia Equality | Equality Foundation of Georgia