2020–21 United States Senate special election in Georgia
A special election was held to elect a Senator from the U.S. state of Georgia in two rounds on November 3, 2020; and January 5, 2021. It was held because Republican Class III Senator Johnny Isakson resigned. Raphael Warnock got the most votes with 32.9%, and Kelly Loeffler came in second with 25.9% in the first round. Because no one got more than 50% of votes, a second round was held between the two highest.[1] Warnock is projected to win the second round of the election.[2] The regular Class II election was also held on the same dates with two rounds.
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Results
First round
Since no candidate won more than 50% of the vote on November 3, the top two finishers—Republican Kelly Loeffler and Democrat Raphael Warnock—went to a January 5, 2021 runoff election.[3][4]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] | Raphael Warnock | 1,617,035 | 32.90 |
| style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | | Republican | Kelly Loeffler (incumbent) | 1,273,214 | 25.91 |
| style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | | Republican | Doug Collins | 980,454 | 19.95 |
| style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] | Deborah Jackson | 324,118 | 6.60 |
| style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] | Matt Lieberman | 136,021 | 2.77 |
| style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] | Tamara Johnson-Shealey | 106,767 | 2.17 |
| style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] | Jamesia James | 94,406 | 1.92 |
| style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | | Republican | Derrick Grayson | 51,592 | 1.05 |
| style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] | Joy Felicia Slade | 44,945 | 0.91 |
| style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | | Republican | Annette Davis Jackson | 44,335 | 0.90 |
| style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | | Republican | Kandiss Taylor | 40,349 | 0.82 |
| style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | | Republican | Wayne Johnson (withdrawn) | 36,176 | 0.74 |
| Libertarian | Brian Slowinski | 35,431 | 0.72 | |
| style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] | Richard Dien Winfield | 28,687 | 0.58 |
| style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | | [[Democratic Party (US)|Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shortname]] | Ed Tarver | 26,333 | 0.54 |
| style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | | Independent | Allen Buckley | 17,954 | 0.37 |
| Green | John Fortuin | 15,293 | 0.31 | |
| style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | | Independent | Al Bartell | 14,640 | 0.30 |
| style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | | Independent | Valencia Stovall | 13,318 | 0.27 |
| style="background-color: Template:United States political party color; width: 2px;" | | Independent | Michael Todd Greene | 13,293 | 0.27 |
| Total votes | 4,914,361 | 100.0 | ||
Second round (run-off)
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Democrat | Raphael Warnock | ||||
| Republican | Kelly Loeffler (incumbent) | ||||
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2020–21 United States Senate Special Election In Georgia Media
Former mayor of Lithonia, Georgia Deborah Jackson
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This image shows the precinct level results for the 2020 United States Senate special election in Georgia.
GA Senate Special Runoff 2021
References
- ↑ Singer, Jeff (August 28, 2019). "Daily Kos Elections Live Digest: 8/28". Daily Kos. Retrieved August 28, 2019.
- ↑
- "DDHQ Election Results". Decision Desk HQ. Retrieved 2021-01-06.
- Andre, Michael; et al. (January 6, 2021). "Live Updates: Democrats Win One Senate Seat In Georgia, Second Race Too Close to Call". New York Times. Retrieved January 6, 2021.
- Kapur, Sahil; Egan, Lauren; Seitz-Wald, Alex (January 6, 2021). "Warnock defeats Loeffler in Georgia, keeping alive Democrats' hopes of taking Senate, NBC News projects". NBC News. Retrieved 2021-01-06.
- Nilsen, Ella (January 6, 2021). "Democrat Raphael Warnock just won Georgia's Senate special election runoff — and made history". Vox. Retrieved 2021-01-06.
- Brooks, Ryan (January 6, 2021). "Democrat Raphael Warnock Defeated Republican Kelly Loeffler In Georgia's Runoff Race, Making Him The State's First Black Senator". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 2021-01-06.
- Panetta, Grace (January 6, 2021). "LIVE UPDATES: Democratic Raphael Warnock defeats Republican Kelly Loeffler to become Georgia's first Black Senator". Business Insider. Retrieved 2021-01-06.
- Meyer, Ken (January 6, 2021). "BREAKING: Dave Wasserman Calls Georgia For Democrats Warnock and Ossoff". Mediaite. Retrieved 2021-01-06.
- Manchester, Julia (January 6, 2021). "Warnock defeats Loeffler in Georgia Senate runoff". The Hill. Retrieved January 6, 2021.
- Lim, Naomi; Chakraborty, Barnini (January 6, 2021). "Raphael Warnock unseats Kelly Loeffler in Georgia Senate runoff; Perdue-Ossoff remains too close to call". Retrieved 2021-01-06.
- ↑ "Warnock and Loeffler work to consolidate voters for runoff". AP NEWS. December 27, 2020.
- ↑ Nussbaum, Katie. "Georgia Senate runoffs: Kamala Harris stumps in Savannah, Trump pressures for overturn and the heat turns up". Savannah Morning News.
- ↑ "2020 General Election Official Results - US SENATE (LOEFFLER) - SPECIAL". Georgia Secretary of State. Retrieved November 26, 2020.