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It was the first U.S. Senate election in Georgia history and among five nationwide since the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913 in which both major party nominees were Black. [2] [3] [a] In the November 8 election, Warnock received 49.4% of the vote and Walker received 48.5%, triggering the December 6 runoff. [4]
It's a game of razor-thin numbers — Biden won the state by only 12,000 votes, and his flipping Georgia blue for the first time since 1992 was crucial in Democrats retaking the White House.
Sep. 25—ATLANTA — Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's office announced last week that voters in all 159 Georgia counties can now view their sample ballots on My Voter Page. This rollout ...
Ossoff and Warnock became the first Democrats to be elected to the U.S. Senate from Georgia since Zell Miller in a 2000 special election. Ossoff became the first Democrat elected to a full term in the Senate from Georgia since Max Cleland, who held this seat from 1997 to 2003, and the first Jewish member of the Senate from the state. [6]
In presidential races, Georgia has given its electoral college votes to the Republican candidate all but five times since 1964: in 1968, segregationist George Wallace won a plurality of Georgia's votes on the American Independent Party ticket; former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter won his home state by landslide margins in 1976 and 1980 ...
Georgia's first statewide election of the year is three weeks away and early voting for the presidential race has begun. Check out this sample ballot.
A runoff election for one of Georgia's seats in the United States Senate was held on December 6, 2022. The runoff was scheduled because none of the candidates for Senate received 50% of the statewide vote in the general election. In addition to the Senate seat, all of Georgia's seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for ...
2024 Georgia Senate election, 21st District Party Candidate Votes % Republican: Brandon Beach (Incumbent) 81,481 : 70.35 : Democratic: Lillia Michelle Lionel 34,349 29.65 Total votes 115,830 : 100.0 : Republican hold