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The 2022 Georgia Secretary of State election was held on November 8, 2022, to elect the Secretary of State of Georgia.Incumbent Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger won re-election to a second term.
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.
Due to the close margins in the initial election results, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced on November 11 that a recount by hand would be conducted. [7] The recount was completed on November 18, [ 8 ] [ 9 ] and Biden was confirmed to be the winner on November 19.
See live updates of Georgia election results from the 2024 election, including Senate and House races, state elections and ballot initiatives.
For more than 20 years, Georgia had been a reliably red state in presidential elections — until 2020, when Biden narrowly defeated Trump by just 11,779 votes, a margin of 0.24%, becoming the ...
In March 2021, the Republican-controlled state legislature passed a bill, which was signed into law by Kemp, that removed the position of state election board chair from the Georgia secretary of state's duties. The law handed control of the state election board chair to the state legislature. [45]
One example of this is the infamous phone call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Jan. 2, 2021, days before the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, in which Trump was recorded ...
Several elections took place in the U.S state of Georgia in 2020. The general election was held on November 3, 2020, and the runoff on January 5, 2021. A combined partisan primary for president and all other offices on the ballot was held on June 9, 2020, with a primary runoff held on August 11.