King Narrowly Leads Waites in Georgia Insurance Commissioner Race
ActiVote’s October 24, 2026 Georgia Insurance Commissioner poll finds that Republican John King leads Democrat Keisha Waites by 1.8%. The poll was in the field between October 12 and October 24 (median field date of October 18). The poll was among 400 likely midterm voters and has an average expected error of 4.9%.
King leads among rural voters, voters aged 18 to 29 and 65 and older, men, White voters, voters on middle and high incomes, college-educated voters and graduate degree holders. Waites leads among suburban and urban voters, voters aged 30 to 49, women, Black and Latino voters, voters on low incomes and voters with no more than a high school education. Voters aged 50 to 64 are tied. These group figures rest on subsamples for which the expected error is considerably larger than the 4.9% for the poll as a whole. Georgia does not register voters by party, so we do not report a breakdown by party affiliation.
Political Spectrum
The following graph shows the support for King and Waites among left, moderate left, center, moderate right, and right voters. These groups are defined by splitting the Georgia electorate in 5 equal sized groups of 20% each.
Waites holds her own side more firmly. She takes 96% of the left and 87% of the moderate left, while King takes 88% of the right and 89% of the moderate right. The race is decided in the center, where King leads by 63% to 37%.
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 | 400 LV | Unweighted | Weighted | John King | Keisha Waites |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | ±4.9% MoE | 100% | 100% | 50.9% | 49.1% |
| Political Spectrum | Left | 45% | 20% | 4% | 96% |
| Moderate Left | 29% | 20% | 13% | 87% | |
| Center | 12% | 20% | 63% | 37% | |
| Moderate Right | 7% | 20% | 89% | 11% | |
| Right | 7% | 20% | 88% | 12% | |
| Region | rural | 37% | 38% | 63% | 37% |
| suburban | 44% | 43% | 49% | 51% | |
| urban | 19% | 19% | 31% | 69% | |
| Age | 18-29 | 29% | 15% | 51% | 49% |
| 30-49 | 32% | 29% | 46% | 54% | |
| 50-64 | 23% | 25% | 50% | 50% | |
| 65+ | 16% | 31% | 57% | 43% | |
| Gender | F | 54% | 54% | 48% | 52% |
| M | 46% | 46% | 54% | 46% | |
| Ethnicity | White | 55% | 54% | 71% | 29% |
| Black | 33% | 36% | 26% | 74% | |
| Latino | 8% | 5% | 36% | 64% | |
| Income | Low | 18% | 24% | 23% | 77% |
| Middle | 38% | 30% | 62% | 38% | |
| High | 44% | 46% | 58% | 42% | |
| Education | HS | 19% | 23% | 33% | 67% |
| College | 65% | 62% | 54% | 46% | |
| Grad | 16% | 14% | 67% | 33% |
Every poll in this race
| Published | King | Waites | Gap | Sample | MoE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 24, 2026 | 50.9% | 49.1% | R+1.8% | 400 | ±4.9% |