2008 Georgia House of Representatives election

Georgia House of Representatives elections, 2008
November 4, 2008
All 180 seats in the Georgia House of Representatives
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Glenn Richardson DuBose Porter
Party Republican Democratic
Leader's seat 19th-Hiram 143rd-Dublin
Last election 106 74
Seats won 105 75
Seat change 1 1
Popular vote 1,945,960 1,312,203
Percentage 59.7% 40.3%
Results:
     Democratic hold      Democratic gain
     Republican hold      Republican gain
Speaker before election

Glenn Richardson
Republican

Elected Speaker

Glenn Richardson
Republican

The 2008 Georgia House of Representatives elections occurred on November 4, 2008, to elect the members to the Georgia House of Representatives. All fifty-six seats in the state Senate and all 180 seats in the state House were up for two-year terms. The winners of this election cycle served in the 150th Georgia General Assembly.

A special election was held for Democrat Bobby Parham's seat in District 141, and the race went into a runoff in December 2009. Rusty Kidd, an independent, won the seat.

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