High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2006 Georgia Gubernatorial Election was held on November 7, 2006. The primary election was held on July 18. Governor Sonny Perdue was re-elected to his second term; he is the first Republican Governor of Georgia since the end of Reconstruction. Currently Republicans control both houses of the General Assembly. During 2005 Perdue`s approval rating fluctuated between the high fifties and low sixties; as of September 2006 his ratings sat at 63 percent approval.