Georgia Working Families Party Announces 2025 Candidate Slate at Endorsement Event

The Georgia Working Families Party has endorsed 18 candidates for the state’s 2025 municipal elections, announcing its slate during a launch event this month in Atlanta. As part of the endorsement process, the party also unveiled a mandate detailing its policy objectives.

According to details shared by the Georgia Working Families Party on social media, state leaders held a “Signing Day” event in Lakewood Heights on Thursday, August 21, where they introduced both the November candidates and party’s Economic Mobility Mandate, which is described as its “guiding policy platform.” Candidates seeking the Working Families support for 2025 had until earlier this month to approach the organization.

The full slate spans city councils, school boards, and mayoral races across Georgia, with the party spotlighting individual candidates on its Instagram account following the launch event. A complete list of candidates has also been posted online by the party and is republished below:

Seventeen of the endorsed candidates are running in nonpartisan municipal races, where party affiliations do not appear on the ballot. The only partisan contest part of the slate is the special election for Public Service Commission, where Johnson is running as a Democrat against incumbent Republican Tim Echols. General election day is November 4, with any runoffs set for December 2.

As part of the endorsement process, each candidate was required to sign the Economic Mobility Mandate, which was developed in partnership with community organizations and presented as both a campaign guide for 2025 and a framework for those to follow who are elected with party support. The mandate calls for a focus on housing and community stability, public safety and well-being, jobs and economic justice, government transparency and civic power, and healthcare access and environmental justice.

“We support candidates committed to building a state where every resident has a real opportunity to thrive,” the mandate reads. “Our platform centers economic mobility through five key pillars—with equity, access, and community power at the core.”

The document further outlines several specific objectives tied to these pillars, including the adoption of rent control and flexible zoning, ending arrests for misdemeanors and collaboration with federal immigration officials, supporting union jobs and a livable wage for city workers, incorporating technology to reduce fraud and improve transparency, and funding community-based disability services.

In addition to signing the mandate, endorsed candidates also had to participate in two governance trainings this year led by Working Families Power, the party’s nonprofit advocacy arm, as well as commit to attending quarterly meetings in 2026.