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2010 House report · 2010 Senate report
	House			Senate
	GOP	Dems	Total	GOP	Dems	Total
Confirmed primary challenges	26	18	44	2	3	5
Possible primary challenges	9	8	17	1	1	2
Open seats*	12	8	21¹	7	1	8²

1. Includes 3 special elections (no 2010 party yet). 2. Doesn't include DE, NY special elections.

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2010 election

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Race status

Incumbent:	Sanford Bishop
Incumbent running?	Yes
Primary challenge?	No primary challenge for incumbent.

Candidates

(Methodology)

Name	Party	Status	Reference URL	Reference date	Reference note
Sanford Bishop	Democratic	Confirmed candidate	FEC Source	March 21, 2009
Lee Ferrell	Republican	Confirmed candidate	FEC Source	March 21, 2009	2008 Candidate
Mike Keown	Republican	Confirmed candidate	Media Story Source	August 12, 2009

(Candidate classification criteria)

Results

Primary winners:	TBD
General election winner:	TBD

2008 election

Incumbent: Sanford Bishop

Candidates

Name	Party	Status	Reference URL	Reference date	Reference note
Sanford Bishop	Democratic	Confirmed candidate	(source needed)	March 21, 2009
Lee Ferrell	Republican	Confirmed candidate	(source needed)	March 21, 2009

(Candidate classification criteria)

Results

Primary winners:	Sanford Bishop, Lee Ferrell
General election winner:	Sanford Bishop

Presidential election results

	Republican	Democratic
2000	48% George W. Bush	52% Al Gore
2004	50% George W. Bush	50% John Kerry
2008	46% John McCain	54% Barack Obama

District map and incumbent offices

Sanford Bishop's district offices
Albany Towers, Suite 114, 235 Roosevelt Avenue, Albany, GA 31701 229-439-8067 (Phone) (Fax) 18 Ninth Street, Suite 201, Columbus, GA 31901 706-320-9477 (Phone) (Fax) 101 South Main Street, Dawson, GA 31742 229-995-3991 (Phone) (Fax) Federal Building, Room 255, 401 North Patterson Street, Valdosta, GA 31601 229-247-9705 (Phone) (Fax)

District map layers graciously provided by GovTrack.Us.
See the incumbent's page for more contact info.

Articles and resources

External resources

Blogs	Other Wiki sites
Swing State Project: http://www.swingstateproject.com/tag/GA-02 Daily Kos: http://www.dailykos.com/tag/GA-02 MyDD: http://www.mydd.com/tag/GA-02 The Next Right: http://www.thenextright.com/category/blog-tags/GA-02 OpenLeft: http://www.openleft.com/tag.do?tag=GA-02 RedState: http://www.redstate.com/tags/tag/GA-02	dKosopedia: http://www.dkosopedia.com/wiki/GA-02 Left.Wikia: http://left.wikia.com/wiki/GA-02

External articles

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