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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Uninsured rate: Approximately 14% (above national average of 8.6%; Georgia has not expanded Medicaid under the ACA, leaving a documented coverage gap among working-poor constituents)
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Median age: 39.4
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Homeownership rate: Approximately 69% (above national average of 65.5%)
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Cook Partisan Voting Index: R+26
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Bachelor's degree or higher: Approximately 24% (below Georgia average of 33.1% and national average of 33.7%)
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Poverty rate: Approximately 16% (above Georgia average of 14% and national average of 12.4%; higher in historic middle-Georgia Black Belt counties)
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Hispanic population share: Approximately 5%
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Black population share: Approximately 28% (concentrated in Baldwin, Hancock, Putnam, and Warren counties — historically Black Belt communities)
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: White non-Hispanic population share: Approximately 64%
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Median household income: Approximately $56,800 (below Georgia median of $65,030 and national median of $74,580; significant variation between exurban and deep-rural counties)
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[constituency_baseline] Ballot measure: Georgia Constitutional Amendment — Creation of Court of Appeals Divisions (2022) (2022) — passed, margin Statewide: 73% Yes — 27% No
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[constituency_baseline] Ballot measure: Georgia Amendment A — Local School Property Tax Exemptions for Certain Seniors (2024) (2024) — passed, margin Statewide: 79% Yes — 21% No
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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 44-45 Retail Trade (share 0.11)
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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 48-49 Transportation and Warehousing (share 0.09)
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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 31-33 Manufacturing (poultry processing, textiles, food) (share 0.11)
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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 11 Agriculture Forestry Fishing and Hunting (poultry, livestock, timber) (share 0.08)
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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 62 Health Care and Social Assistance (share 0.16)
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[constituency_baseline] Top employer: Newton Medical Center (Covington, Piedmont Healthcare) (1400 employees)
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[constituency_baseline] Top employer: Pilgrim's Pride / Wayne Farms (poultry processing — multiple GA-10 adjacent locations) (2500 employees)
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[constituency_baseline] Top employer: Jackson EMC (Jackson, GA — large electric cooperative) (900 employees)
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[constituency_baseline] Top employer: Oconee Regional Medical Center (Milledgeville, Navicent Health) (1200 employees)
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[constituency_baseline] Top employer: Georgia College & State University (Milledgeville) (1800 employees)
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[constituency_baseline] District summary: Georgia's 10th Congressional District covers a large swath of east-central Georgia, stretching from the Athens-Clarke County area south and east through Augusta's western exurbs, encompassing Jackson (Butts County, Collins's home), Madison, Eatonton, Milledgeville, and Thomson. The district is predominantly rural and small-city with a significant exurban population in counties adjacent to Athens and Augusta. GA-10 is strongly Republican — Cook PVI approximately R+26 — following post-2020 redistricting. The district's economy is anchored by poultry and livestock agriculture, textiles and light manufacturing legacy industries, logistics and distribution along the I-20 corridor, and a growing exurban residential development sector as Atlanta's and Augusta's sprawl extends east. Augusta (Richmond County) is adjacent but not in the district; Augusta University, Fort Gordon/Cyber Center of Excellence, and the Augusta healthcare complex employment are relevant to some constituents near the district boundary. The district has significant Black population concentrated in historic middle-Georgia communities including Milledgeville and surrounding counties, as well as in Putnam, Baldwin, and Hancock counties.
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[vote] Collins voted against the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, aligning with the Freedom Caucus hardliners who rejected the Biden-McCarthy debt ceiling deal as insufficiently austere in its spending cuts.
Date: 2023-05-31
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[vote] Collins voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in July 2025, which the Congressional Budget Office projected would add $3.4 trillion to the federal deficit over ten years.
Date: 2025-07-03
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[platform] Collins has described himself as a fiscal conservative committed to reducing government spending and the national debt, citing these as central to his legislative mission in his campaign materials and floor statements since his 2022 election.
Date: 2022-11-08
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Collins's 2024 cycle raised approximately $1.6 million. As a freshman and sophomore member in a safe Republican seat (Cook PVI approximately R+26), he has not faced serious general election competition, limiting the fundraising pressure that drives large incumbent PAC accumulation. His donor base reflects Georgia's Second Amendment, trucking, and conservative business communities.
Date: 2024-12-31
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Collins's top career donor sectors include transportation/trucking (reflecting his background as a trucking company owner), finance/insurance/real estate, and construction/real estate development. His family's trucking business — M&M Transport Services — provides the economic context for his transportation and infrastructure positioning.
Date: 2024-12-31
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Collins won GA-10 in 2022 and 2024, succeeding Jody Hice who vacated the seat to run (unsuccessfully) for Georgia Secretary of State. Collins is the son of former Georgia Congressman Mac Collins (R-GA, 1993-2007). His 2022 and 2024 campaigns reflect his family's political network in the Jackson-Athens exurban corridor and the broader conservative infrastructure of central-east Georgia.
Date: 2024-12-31
Added: 03 May 2026
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Mike Collins filed filing with the SEC on 2014-12-10. Accession number: N/A.
Date: 2014-12-10
Added: 23 Apr 2026