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The Georgia Senate race has advanced to a runoff after neither Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) nor Herschel Walker (R-GA) secured 50% of the vote.
Warnock and Walker will compete once again on Dec. 6 after ending the general election with 49.4% and 48.5% of the vote, respectively, as of Wednesday afternoon. Georgia law requires the top two candidates to advance to a runoff if no one nabs a majority of ballots cast.
Libertarian candidate Chase Oliver took 2.1% of the vote, which the two front-runners will fight for in the runoff. Control of the Senate could come down to this election depending on the outcomes in Arizona and Nevada, which have yet to be called.
The situation is similar to what played out in Georgia’s 2020 Senate election, in which the special Senate election between Democrat John Ossoff and then-Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) ended with a Democratic victory in the runoff that decided majority control of the upper chamber. The special election that Warnock won also advanced to a runoff in 2020.
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Republicans did well in other statewide Georgia races, with Gov. Brian Kemp easily winning his rematch against 2018 opponent Stacey Abrams and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger also winning reelection.
Republicans need a net gain of just one seat in order to take control of the Senate but lost a seat Tuesday night when Lt. Gov. John Fetterman defeated Dr. Mehmet Oz to take control of the seat held by retiring Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA). The GOP held on to Ohio’s open Senate seat with J.D. Vance’s victory over Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) but has not picked up any elsewhere.
