1988Flipped from DemocraticFinal resultsIncumbent defeated
1988 election for Georgia House District 97
Georgia House of Representatives · Georgia
Robert Steele (R) won with 52.9% of the vote, defeating Mary Jane Galer (D) by 5.8 points, a seat Democrats won last time.
Robert SteeleRepublican · winner
52.9%6,189
Mary Jane GalerDemocrat · incumbent
47.1%5,510
11,699 votes
Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl KlarnerUpdated Sep 30, 2026, 7:29 AM ET
The seat over time
D − R margin in this seat's races around 1988
Races before and after
Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl KlarnerUpdated Sep 30, 2026, 7:29 AM ET