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Mike Crane, former state senator from the 28th district (2011–2017), candidate for this district in 2016, and nominee for the 13th district in 2010 [29] (endorsed Jack in runoff) [30] Philip Singleton, former state representative from the 71st district (2019–2023) and candidate for this district in 2018 [31] (endorsed Jack in runoff) [30]
The party primary elections took place on May 24, with runoffs scheduled for June 21. Raffensperger was elected in 2018 to a first term in a runoff against Democratic former U.S. representative John Barrow, the first time in Georgia history that any statewide executive election went to a second round.
This led the Georgia Legislature, then controlled by Democrats, to change the state's laws requiring a run-off election only if the winning candidate received less than 45% of the vote. In the 1996 Senate election, the winner, Democrat Max Cleland won with only 48.9% (1.4% ahead of Republican Guy Millner) thus avoiding a run
With Election Day over, here's what Georgia voters need to know about runoff elections for this year's primary.
After the 2020 election for the Georgia Public Service Commission, in which African-American Democrat Daniel Blackman was defeated in a run-off by District 4 incumbent Lauren "Bubba" McDonald (who won the most total votes of all three Republican statewide candidates on the runoff ballot, while both David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler lost their ...
Georgia’s Senate race is headed to a runoff, a high-stakes showdown election in which there are only two candidates on the ballot. Democratic incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock and his Republican ...
No candidate in the open election on November 3 received the 50% required by Georgia law to avoid a runoff, a type of election colloquially known as a "jungle primary" [1] —Warnock received just 32.9% of the vote—and so a runoff election between Warnock and Loeffler was held on January 5, 2021, which Warnock won with 51% of the vote.
On election night, the race was too close to call. [23] Just a few hours after it was filed on November 15, U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May denied an emergency motion to force Gwinnett County to count previously rejected absentee ballots in the race. [24] On November 21, after a recount, Bourdeaux conceded. [25]