Sen. Raphael Warnock’s election evening get together in Atlanta, Nov. 8, 2022. The race between Warnock and Republican candidate Herschel Walker is just too near name and can go to a runoff election in December.
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Sen. Raphael Warnock’s election evening get together in Atlanta, Nov. 8, 2022. The race between Warnock and Republican candidate Herschel Walker is just too near name and can go to a runoff election in December.
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Comply with dwell updates and outcomes from Election Day 2022 right here.
The U.S. Senate race in Georgia is heading to a runoff election, the place Democrat Raphael Warnock will face Republican Herschel Walker for a second time.
On high of this race being exceptionally shut, Georgia can be one in all solely two U.S. states with a runoff for each main and normal elections.
Which means underneath Georgia election regulation, if no candidate obtains over 50% of the vote, a runoff is triggered, and the highest two candidates will face off once more in a brand new election held 4 weeks after Election Day.
On this case, Warnock and Walker’s runoff election will happen on Dec. 6. There is no such thing as a required threshold to win in that race.
The December election will mark the second time that Warnock’s bid for the Senate has gone to a runoff. Two years in the past, he defeated then-Sen. Kelly Loeffler, a Republican, in a runoff race.
The predecessor of Georgia’s runoff election was adopted after the Emancipation Proclamation freed enslaved individuals in Southern states. Runoffs had been seen as further roadblocks for Black individuals to vote, in accordance with the U.S. Vote Basis, which characterizes the apply as having “Jim Crow roots.”
