Georgia House · District 179
Rick Townsend
Where they sit
Every current House member, placed from most liberal to most conservative by how they voted on contested bills.
Rick Townsend's seat is marked. Seats run from most liberal (left) to most conservative (right), by contested floor votes. Color shows how often each member crosses party lines toward the middle on votes that divide the parties: solid blue or red means almost never, and purple means on at least 1 in 5 of those votes. Gray seats are members too new to score. How these numbers work
On the November 3 ballot
Running for Georgia House District 179.
Also on the ballot:
The scores
How these numbers work →Each tick is a current House member, by party; the dot is Rick Townsend.
Each tick is a current House member, by party; the dot is Rick Townsend.
Contested votes where they split
9 against the House Majority Leader; 5 against most of their party.
Every roll call
How Rick Townsend voted on each of the 816 floor roll calls while in office, newest first.
| Date | Vote | Their vote | Most of their party | House Majority Leader | Yeas–nays |
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Contested and party-line votes link to their own pages; the rest link to the official record.
Contact and committees
Contact
- Official page
- www.legis.ga.gov
- rick.townsend@house.ga.gov
- Capitol office
- Room 501-G, Coverdell Legislative Office Building 18 Capitol Square SW, Atlanta, GA 30334
404-656-0178 - District office
- P.O. Box 20514, Saint Simons Island, GA 31522
Committees
- Natural Resources and Environment Secretary
- Economic Development and Tourism
- Education
- Judiciary Juvenile
Contact details and committee assignments from Open States' data on the Georgia General Assembly, which it collects from the chambers' websites, as of Oct. 13, 2026.
Source: the Georgia House and Senate Journals (the Senate's for its 2025 session; it hasn't published its 2026 Journals yet), Jan. 13, 2025 to June 23, 2026. How these numbers work · Corrections