Georgia Senate race: Perdue, Ossoff head to runoff after highly competitive campaign
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foxnews.comGeorgia’s Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. David Perdue and his Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff will head to a runoff race in January after neither candidate received more than 50 percent of the votes in Tuesday’s election.
Under the Peach State’s unusual election laws, candidates must receive an outright majority to win. Otherwise, the top two competitors head into a runoff race.
A final vote count left Perdue with 49.8% of the votes and Ossoff with 47.8%.Third-party candidate Shane Hazel took 2.32%, according to the Fox News Decision Desk.
A former Fortune 500 CEO, Perdue was first elected to the Senate in 2014. Ossoff was the Democratic candidate in the most expensive House race in history for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District..
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