The 2022 United States Senate election in Georgia was held on November 8, 2022, to elect a member of the U.S. Senate to represent the state of Georgia. Incumbent Democratic senator Raphael Warnock won his first full term in office, defeating Republican former football player Herschel Walker. Under Georgia's two-round system, Warnock was re-elected in a runoff election on December 6 after neither candidate received over 50% of the vote on November 8.[1] Warnock's win was the only statewide victory for Democrats in Georgia in 2022, as Republicans swept all other races.
Warnock, who won a shortened term to the seat in a 2020–21 special election, was nominated in the May 24 primary for a full term with minimal opposition. Walker, who was endorsed by former president Donald Trump and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, won the Republican nomination with 68% of the vote. It was the first U.S. Senate election in Georgia history and among five nationwide since the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913 in which both major party nominees were Black.[2][3][a] This was the fifth runoff in Georgia since they were introduced in 1964.
In the November 8 election, Warnock received 49.4% of the vote and Walker received 48.5%, triggering the December 6 runoff.[4] Warnock defeated Walker by a 2.8% margin in the runoff and became the first African-American from Georgia elected to a full term in the U.S. Senate. Warnock's victory also secured an outright majority for Senate Democrats for the first time since 2015, with a net gain of one seat in the 2022 midterms.[5][6] It was the third-closest Senate election of the 2022 midterms after Nevada and Wisconsin.
This is the first time since 1990 that a Democratic senator from Georgia won re-election and the first time since 1974 that a Democrat won re-election to the Class 3 seat. This was the first time a Democrat won a full term to this seat since 1986.
^Hulse, Carl (December 7, 2022). "Democrats Didn't Just Win Georgia. They Secured a Firmer Grip on the Senate". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 7, 2022.
^"Primary elections live updates: Georgia rebuffs Trump candidates for governor, attorney general, secretary of state". The Washington Post. May 25, 2022. Retrieved May 26, 2022.
^Thanawala, Sudhin; Amy, Jeff (May 28, 2022). "In Georgia, 2 Black candidates to compete for Senate seat". Associated Press.
^Rakich, Nathaniel (December 6, 2022). "Warnock Has A Small Polling Lead In Georgia — But Walker Could Still Win". FiveThirtyEight. Retrieved December 6, 2022.
^Dorn, Sara (November 9, 2022). "Walker, Warnock Headed For A Runoff In Georgia Senate Race". Forbes. Archived from the original on November 11, 2022. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
^Samuels, Alex (November 30, 2022). "How Either Candidate Could Win Georgia's Senate Runoff". FiveThirtyEight. Retrieved December 6, 2022.
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