Result
Rep. Jason Ridley (R-Chatsworth) has won reelection in Georgia House District 6, beating Democrat Cathy Kott on Tuesday, Nov. 3 in a rematch of their 2024 race. Unofficial results show Ridley with 14,311 votes, or 77.6%, to Kott’s 4,133, or 22.4%.
Kott improved on her 2024 showing, when she drew 14.7% against Ridley. His new term begins Monday, Jan. 11, 2027, but he will return to a House where Republicans are no longer in charge.
Candidates and Platforms
Ridley first won the seat in 2016 by ousting incumbent Republican Tom Dickson in a primary runoff. His background includes work as a commercial and agriculture lender in community banking, and he founded 4 Oaks Farm and Produce. Chatsworth’s city attorney credited him with being “very instrumental” in legislation that cleared the way for a new AdventHealth hospital in Murray County. This year he sponsored bills allowing hunting and trapping of feral hogs under certain circumstances and giving Fairmount four-year mayoral terms.
Kott, a 65-year-old nurse from Cohutta, called herself a moderate who wants to be “a fair and reasonable representative, not a party spokesperson.” She campaigned on raising the minimum wage, expanding Medicaid, strengthening public schools and tightening some gun safety laws, and said she is “in this for the long haul.”
District and Chamber
District 6 is a heavily Republican seat in northwest Georgia that includes Chatsworth. Democrats flipped the Georgia House on Nov. 3 for the first time since 2004, clinching at least 91 of the chamber’s 180 seats with a few races still unsettled as of Nov. 9.
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