Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former mayor of Atlanta, will be the first Democrat to occupy Georgia’s top office in more than two decades and the first Black woman governor anywhere in the country.

Bottoms defeated her Republican opponent, healthcare executive Rick Jackson, who was endorsed by both outgoing Gov. Brian Kemp and President Donald Trump and who spent $200 million of his own money on the race. 

The Associated Press called the race just before 9:30 p.m. Tuesday. 

Bottoms will be the state’s first Democratic governor since former Gov. Roy Barnes lost his bid for reelection in 2002. Republicans have had a grip on state government since Sonny Perdue won that election. Kemp ...

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