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The 2022 United States Senate election in Georgia was held on November 8, 2022, to elect a member of the U.S. Senate to represent the state of Georgia. Incumbent Democratic senator Raphael Warnock won his first full term in office, defeating Republican former football player Herschel Walker .
The runoff election between Perdue and Ossoff was on January 5, 2021, [190] alongside the special election for the Georgia U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Kelly Loeffler. Following the 2020 Senate elections, Republicans held 50 Senate seats and the Democratic caucus 48. [191]
Before the Georgia runoffs in the 2020 U.S. Senate elections, Republicans held 50 Senate seats and the Democratic caucus held 48. [203] Warnock declared victory on January 6, 2021. [ 204 ] If Democrats won the other Georgia runoff held on January 5, their caucus would gain control of the Senate, as the resultant 50–50 tie would be broken by ...
Three candidates are running for GA's Senate seat - incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock, Republican Herschel Walker and Libertarian Chase Oliver.
Other candidates receiving votes in the GOP primary were at less than 1%. Biden became the presumptive Democratic nominee with the win in Georgia, pushing him past the 1,968 needed delegates.
Other potential Republican candidates include Burt Jones, Kelly Loeffler, Brad Raffensperger, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Governor Brian Kemp, who will be term-limited in 2026. Along with Michigan, this will be one of two Democratic-held Senate seats up for election in 2026 in a state that Donald Trump won in the 2024 presidential election.
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.
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.