page_title: 2010 United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia
section_title: District 5
hierarchical_section_title: 2010 United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia / District 5
context_page_description: Elections were held on November 2, 2010, to determine Georgia's 13 members of the United States House of Representatives. Representatives were elected for two-year terms to serve in the 112th United States Congress from January 3, 2011, until January 3, 2013. Primary elections were held on July 20, 2010, and primary runoff elections were held on August 10, 2010.
  Of the 13 elections, the races in the 2nd and 8th districts were rated as competitive by CQ Politics, The Rothenberg Political Report, and Sabato's Crystal Ball, and the 2nd, 8th and 12th districts were rated as competitive by The Cook Political Report. Of Georgia's thirteen incumbents, eleven were re-elected, while one did not seek re-election and one unsuccessfully sought re-election.
  In total, eight Republicans and five Democrats were elected. A total of 2,468,680 votes were cast, of which 1,528,142 were for Republican candidates, 940,347 were for Democratic candidates and 191 were for write-in candidates.
context_section_description: The 5th district included Atlanta and parts of East Point and Sandy Springs. The district's population was 50 percent black, 38 percent white and 8 percent Hispanic (see Race and ethnicity in the United States Census); 85 percent were high school graduates and 43 percent had received a bachelor's degree or higher. Its median income was $50,072. In the 2008 presidential election the district gave 79 percent of its vote to Democratic nominee Barack Obama and 20 percent to Republican nominee John McCain.
  Democrat John Lewis was the incumbent. Lewis was re-elected unopposed in 2008. In 2010 Lewis's opponent in the general election was Fenn Little, a civil rights attorney and small business owner. Kelly Nguyen, a graphic artist, also sought the Republican nomination.
  Lewis raised $1,013,992 and spent $1,115,868. Little raised $107,759 and spent $92,206. Nguyen raised $13,433 and spent $14,436.
  Prior to the election FiveThirtyEight's forecast gave Lewis a 100 percent chance of winning and projected that he would receive 75 percent of the vote to Little's 22 percent. On election day Lewis was re-elected with 74 percent of the vote to Little's 26 percent. Lewis was again re-elected in 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018.
caption: Georgia's 5th congressional district in 2010
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