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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.
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]
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 ...
See live updates of Georgia election results from the 2024 election, including Senate and House races, state elections and ballot initiatives.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) reassured the state’s voters that the upcoming election is secure and that voters’ ballots will be counted. Raffensperger said that no matter ...
It is rare for a state to have a complete run of historical election records online; many of the official documents are only available in paper format, especially for years prior to 1990. Previous studies of election results data have noted that official records at the county level have been routinely archived, forgotten, or discarded.
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.