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Several elections took place in the U.S state of Georgia in 2020. The general election was held on November 3, 2020, and the runoff on January 5, 2021. A combined partisan primary for president and all other offices on the ballot was held on June 9, 2020, with a primary runoff held on August 11.
This led the Georgia Legislature, then controlled by Democrats, to change the state's laws requiring a run-off election only if the winning candidate received less than 45% of the vote. In the 1996 Senate election , the winner, Democrat Max Cleland won with only 48.9% (1.4% ahead of Republican Guy Millner ) thus avoiding a run-off.
Kemp won his first term by a narrow 55,000-vote margin (1.4%) in 2018, which was Georgia's closest gubernatorial election since 1966. In 2022, however, pre-election forecasting showed a solid lead for Kemp throughout and he ultimately won re-election by nearly 300,000 votes (7.5%) - the largest raw vote victory for a Georgia governor since 2006.
Asked if voters consider Trump a better candidate than they did in 2020, Robinson said he thought many white college-educated Republicans in Georgia who had abandoned the GOP in the Trump era had ...
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D–Md.), the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, told Axios that he would accept the results of the election if Trump "won a free, fair, and honest" race—then ...
Following the end of the American Civil War, Georgia during Reconstruction was part of the Third Military District, which exerted some control over governor appointments and elections. Georgia was readmitted to the Union on July 25, 1868; [4] again expelled from Congress on March 3, 1869; [5] and again readmitted on July 15, 1870. [6]
Supporters of Stacey Abrams, Democratic nominee for governor of Georgia, at an election night watch party in Atlanta, Nov. 6, 2018. (Kevin D. Liles/Bloomberg) (Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Abrams was the Democratic nominee in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election, becoming the first African-American female major-party gubernatorial nominee in the United States. [7] She lost the election to Republican candidate Brian Kemp by a narrow margin of 1.4%.