2020–21 United States Senate special election in Georgia

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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.

2020–21 United States Senate special election in Georgia

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  Raphael Warnock for Senate (cropped).jpg Kelly Loeffler (cropped).jpg
Candidate Raphael Warnock Kelly Loeffler
Party Democratic Republican
First round 1,617,035
32.9%
1,273,214
25.9%
Runoff 2,281,671
50.99%
2,192,776
49.01%

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Candidate Doug Collins Deborah Jackson
Party Republican Democratic
First round 980,454
20.0%
324,118
6.60%
Runoff Eliminated Eliminated

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2020 United States Senate special runoff election in Georgia results map by county.svg
Map key
Warnock:      20–30%      30–40%      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%
Loeffler:      20–30%      30–40%      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      90–100%
Collins:      20–30%      30–40%      40–50%      50–60%

U.S. Senator before election

Kelly Loeffler
Republican

Elected U.S. Senator

Raphael Warnock
Democratic

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]

2020–21 United States Senate special election in Georgia[5]
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)

2021 United States Senate special election in Georgia runoff
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democrat Raphael Warnock
Republican Kelly Loeffler (incumbent)
Total votes
Democrat gain from Republican

2020–21 United States Senate Special Election In Georgia Media

References

  1. Singer, Jeff (August 28, 2019). "Daily Kos Elections Live Digest: 8/28". Daily Kos. Retrieved August 28, 2019.
  2. "Warnock and Loeffler work to consolidate voters for runoff". AP NEWS. December 27, 2020.
  3. Nussbaum, Katie. "Georgia Senate runoffs: Kamala Harris stumps in Savannah, Trump pressures for overturn and the heat turns up". Savannah Morning News.
  4. "2020 General Election Official Results - US SENATE (LOEFFLER) - SPECIAL". Georgia Secretary of State. Retrieved November 26, 2020.