1926 Georgia gubernatorial election

Clifford Walker Democratic Lamartine Griffin Hardman Democratic The 1926 Georgia gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 1926, in order to elect the governor of Georgia.

Incumbent Democratic governor Clifford Walker was term-limited, and ineligible to run for a third term.

As was common at the time, the Democratic candidate ran unopposed in the general election so therefore the Democratic primary was the real contest, and winning the primary was considered tantamount to election.

[1] The system was ostensibly designed to function similarly to the Electoral College, but in practice the large ratio of unit votes for small, rural counties to unit votes for more populous urban areas provided outsized political influence to the smaller counties.

No candidate winning a majority of county unit votes in the first round, the election went to a run-off.