Georgia voters top 1M in early voting turnout, breaking the record for a primary election

A building in a strip mall is shown on a sunny day with cars in the parking lot
DeKalb Voter Registration and Elections Office on Memorial Drive in Decatur, Georgia, is one of many early voting locations for the 2026 primary elections.

(Matthew Pearson/WABE)

Georgia voters broke a turnout record for early voting in a primary election on the final day of early voting, and Republican Gov. Brian Kemp is concerned about the Democratic turnout advantage. 

About 1 million people turned out for early voting as polls closed Friday, according to the Georgia secretary of state’s office. The previous record for early voting in a Georgia primary was about 857,000 in 2022. 

And Democrats have flipped the script on Republicans this year compared to the early voting period in the 2022 primary.