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Following the 2020 United States elections, both U.S. Senate seats in the state of Georgia went to runoffs concurrently held on January 5, 2021. As Democratic Party challengers defeated both Republican Party incumbents, [1] Democrats took control of the U.S. Senate, giving a government trifecta to the newly elected U.S. president Joe Biden.
The runoff election for Isakson's former seat was on January 5, 2021. The regularly-scheduled runoff election for the Georgia U.S. Senate seat held by Republican David Perdue was also decided in a January 5 runoff. Before the Georgia runoffs in the 2020 U.S. Senate elections, Republicans held 50 Senate seats and the Democratic caucus held 48. [203]
The 2020–21 United States Senate election in Georgia was held on November 3, 2020, and on January 5, 2021 (as a runoff), to elect the Class II member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Georgia. Democrat Jon Ossoff defeated incumbent Republican Senator David Perdue in the runoff election.
The results of the last three presidential elections in Georgia are as follows: 2020: Joe Biden (D) defeated Donald Trump (R) by 0.24%. 2016: Donald Trump (R) defeated Hillary Clinton (D) by 5.13%.
After learning that Republican Tom Price of Georgia's 6th congressional district had been appointed secretary of health and human services by president-elect Donald Trump, Ossoff announced his candidacy for the special election on January 5, 2017. [6] Ossoff quickly emerged as the most viable Democratic candidate out of a large field of ...
Months after Georgia's Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger defended the 2020 election results, lawmakers from his own party removed him as chair of the State Election Board in a move ...
Republican Donald Trump has won Georgia’s 16 electoral votes after narrowly losing the Peach State to President Biden in 2020.. Trump beats Vice President Kamala Harris in the state 50.9% to 48. ...
In the January 5 runoff election, Warnock defeated Loeffler with 51.04% of the vote. With this victory, he became the first African American to represent Georgia in the U.S. Senate, the first black Democratic U.S. senator representing a Southern state, and the first black Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate by a former state of the Confederacy.