Marqus Cole has a Bachelor of Science in political science from Georgia State University and a Juris Doctor from DePaul University College of Law. He lives with his wife, Amanda, and their two daughters in Snellville, Georgia.

LinkedIn

Marqus is a managing partner at the Cole Law Office, LLC. Previously, he worked as an attorney for Atlanta Legal Aid Society.

Marqus A. Cole (Gwinnett County Commissioner Board District 3 ...

Marqus previously ran for Congress in 2019 and the Gwinnett County Commission in 2024 but did not win.

Supports investing in workforce training and high-demand industries, simplifying small business licensing, and promoting livable wages, apprenticeship programs, and affordable childcare.

Supports investing in workforce training and high-demand industries and simplifying small business licensing.

Supports promoting livable wages, apprenticeship programs, and affordable childcare.

Supports down payment assistance and low-interest loans for first-time home buyers.

Plans to expand housing options by supporting new construction, rehabilitating existing units, and leveraging state and federal programs.

Wants to modernize housing infrastructure with energy-efficient construction and broadband access.

- Supports investing in workforce training and high-demand industries and simplifying small business licensing.
- Supports promoting livable wages, apprenticeship programs, and affordable childcare.
- Supports down payment assistance and low-interest loans for first-time home buyers.
- Plans to expand housing options by supporting new construction, rehabilitating existing units, and leveraging state and federal programs.
- Wants to modernize housing infrastructure with energy-efficient construction and broadband access.

Economy

Supports investing in climate resilience, clean transportation, and electric vehicle infrastructure.

Supports investing in "climate resilience, clean transportation, and electric vehicle infrastructure."

Supports expanding renewable energy and green jobs, supporting solar, wind, and battery storage.

- Supports investing in "climate resilience, clean transportation, and electric vehicle infrastructure."
- Supports expanding renewable energy and green jobs, supporting solar, wind, and battery storage.

Energy & the Environment

Supports expanding Medicaid, lowering prescription costs, and investing in family planning and preventative care.

Plans to grow and retain a skilled healthcare workforce and promote healthy communities through environmental initiatives, wellness programs, and school-based health initiatives.

- Supports expanding Medicaid, lowering prescription costs, and investing in family planning and preventative care.
- Plans to grow and retain a skilled healthcare workforce and promote healthy communities through environmental initiatives, wellness programs, and school-based health initiatives.

Healthcare

Supports independent redistricting, civic education, and empowering local election boards to ensure fair and accessible elections.

Supports expanding voting access through early voting, absentee ballots, and accessible polling locations while ensuring "reasonable voter ID requirements."

- Supports independent redistricting, civic education, and empowering local election boards to ensure fair and accessible elections.
- Supports expanding voting access through early voting, absentee ballots, and accessible polling locations while ensuring "reasonable voter ID requirements."

Voting & Elections

As of November 10, 2025, Marqus A. Cole’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Public Safety

Supports investing in public schools by providing higher pay and professional development for teachers, expanding early childhood education, and making higher education more affordable.

Supports investing in public schools by providing higher pay and professional development for teachers.

Supports expanding early childhood education.

Supports making higher education more affordable.

- Supports investing in public schools by providing higher pay and professional development for teachers.
- Supports expanding early childhood education.
- Supports making higher education more affordable.

Education

Instagram

Facebook

Marqus A. Cole

Buket Urgen

Muhammad Akbar Ali earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and public relations from Kennesaw State University. He is a member of the Gwinnett NAACP and local school PTAs.

Akbar is a business owner. He launched the business at age 20. 

Muhammad Akbar Ali - Ballotpedia

Muhammad Akbar Ali's campaign for the Georgia House of Representatives, District 106 is his first entry into politics. 

Supports raising the minimum wage and reducing everyday expenses like housing, healthcare, and insurance.

Supports tax relief for working families and reducing red tape for small businesses and entrepreneurs.

Supports balanced regulations to prevent homeowners' association (HOA) overreach, including limits on excessive fines, surprise fees, and eviction powers.

- Supports unions and fair wages.
- Supports raising the minimum wage and reducing everyday expenses like housing, healthcare, and insurance.
- Supports tax relief for working families and reducing red tape for small businesses and entrepreneurs.
- Supports balanced regulations to prevent homeowners' association (HOA) overreach, including limits on excessive fines, surprise fees, and eviction powers.

Believes every Georgian deserves clean air and safe water, and plans to hold polluters accountable, protect water sources, and reduce toxins.

Plans to hold polluters accountable, protect water sources, and reduce toxins.

- Plans to hold polluters accountable, protect water sources, and reduce toxins.

Supports abortion access and ensuring contraceptives are easily accessible.

Believes leaders have failed to expand Medicaid, resulting in hospital closures and disappearing rural care.

Supports expanding Medicaid to avoid hospital closures and disappearing rural care.

Believes mental health care should be expanded, affordable, and free of stigma, saying, "Whether it’s a teen struggling in silence or an elder battling isolation, no Georgian should be left behind."

Believes mental health care should be expanded, affordable, and free of stigma.

- Supports abortion access and ensuring contraceptives are easily accessible.
- Supports expanding Medicaid to avoid hospital closures and disappearing rural care.
- Believes mental health care should be expanded, affordable, and free of stigma.

As of November 10, 2025, Muhammad Akbar Ali’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Wants to improve road infrastructure and traffic signal timing.

Believes in ending gun violence, supporting law enforcement with training, and building trust between police and communities.

Said, "We must also ensure our public safety systems are free from racial profiling, discrimination, and the kind of xenophobic fear-mongering pushed by the Trump administration."

- Wants to improve road infrastructure and traffic signal timing.
- Said, "We must also ensure our public safety systems are free from racial profiling, discrimination, and the kind of xenophobic fear-mongering pushed by the Trump administration."

Supports protecting the HOPE Scholarship and wants to reexamine Georgia's education system to ensure it provides "access and excellence."

Supports protecting the HOPE Scholarship.

- Supports protecting the HOPE Scholarship.

Muhammad Akbar Ali

- Your state representative represents the interests of your local district in the Georgia State House of Representatives.
- Your state representative can author, sponsor, and vote on bills that may become state laws. All bills dealing with the state budget originate in the Georgia House of Representatives.
- The State House of Representatives, along with the State Senate, makes up our state lawmaking body: the Georgia General Assembly.
- There are 180 members of the Georgia House of Representatives, each representing a single district.
- State Representatives are elected to two-year terms. They are paid a yearly salary of $17,342. They only serve in the role part-time.

State Representative (To Fill the Unexpired Term of Rachelle “Shelly” Hutchinson, Resigned)

Candidates (2)