{
 "topic": "senate",
 "site": "electiondata.dev",
 "place": {
  "id": "us-ga",
  "name": "Georgia",
  "level": "us-state",
  "parent": "usa",
  "path": "us/ga",
  "slug": "ga",
  "state": "ga",
  "state_name": "Georgia",
  "state_id": "us-ga"
 },
 "question": "How did Georgia vote for the Senate?",
 "answer": {
  "verdict": "Raphael Warnock (Democrat) won by 2.8 points",
  "value": 2.8,
  "unit": " pts",
  "digits": 1,
  "label": "Senate, 2022 (decided in a runoff): winner's margin",
  "lines": [
   "Raphael Warnock (Democrat) 51.4%, Herschel Junior Walker (Republican) 48.6%",
   "3,541,877 votes for Senate candidates"
  ]
 },
 "as_of": "2022",
 "as_of_label": "2022 (decided in a runoff)",
 "charts": [
  {
   "id": "senate-margin",
   "title": "Every regular Senate election in Georgia since 1978",
   "description": "16 regular elections; Democrats were ahead in 7 and Republicans in 9.",
   "indicator": "Democratic candidate's share of Senate votes minus the Republican's, points (regular elections; special elections are in the table)",
   "subtitle": "Democratic share minus Republican share, in points. Above the line: the Democrat got more votes.",
   "x": {
    "kind": "year"
   },
   "y": {
    "digits": 1,
    "unit": " pts",
    "format": "party-margin"
   },
   "layers": [
    {
     "type": "bars",
     "name": "Margin",
     "base": 0,
     "points": [
      [
       1978,
       66.268,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1980,
       -1.744,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1984,
       59.887,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1986,
       1.834,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1990,
       100,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1992,
       -1.294,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1996,
       1.329,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1998,
       -7.22,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2002,
       -6.838,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2004,
       -17.899,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2008,
       -14.88,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2010,
       -19.308,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2014,
       -7.683,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2016,
       -13.751,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2020,
       1.234,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       2022,
       2.806,
       "dem"
      ]
     ],
     "legend": [
      {
       "label": "Democrat ahead",
       "cls": "dem"
      },
      {
       "label": "Republican ahead",
       "cls": "rep"
      }
     ]
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "limits": [
  "Statewide totals say nothing about who voted or why.",
  "Candidates with a party's support under another name (Minnesota's DFL, New York's fusion lines) are counted with that party, as the MIT data's simplified party does; independents stay independents."
 ],
 "method": "Each candidate's votes are summed over every ballot line; blank, over- and under-votes are left out. The margin is the winner's share of the votes minus the runner-up's. A runoff, where held, is the result.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "name": "electiondata.dev senate-results, version 2026-10-25.247421eda6",
   "url": "https://electiondata.dev/",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  },
  {
   "name": "MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. Senate statewide 1976-2024",
   "url": "https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PEJ5QU",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  }
 ],
 "check": {
  "races": [
   {
    "year": 1978,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 645128,
    "votes": {
     "Sam Nunn": 536320,
     "John W. Stokes": 108808
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1980,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1579829,
    "votes": {
     "Mack Mattingly": 803686,
     "Herman E. Talmadge": 776143
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1984,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1681344,
    "votes": {
     "Sam Nunn": 1344104,
     "Mike Hicks": 337196
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1986,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1225008,
    "votes": {
     "Wyche Fowler Jr.": 623707,
     "Mack Mattingly": 601241
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1990,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1033439,
    "votes": {
     "Sam Nunn": 1033439
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1992,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1253991,
    "votes": {
     "Paul Coverdell": 635114,
     "Wyche Fowler Jr.": 618877
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1996,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2259224,
    "votes": {
     "Max Cleland": 1103993,
     "Guy W. Millner": 1073969,
     "John Gregory Cashin": 81262
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1998,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1753953,
    "votes": {
     "Paul Coverdell": 918540,
     "Michael J. Coles": 791904,
     "Bertil Armin Loftman": 43467
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2000,
    "special": true,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2415743,
    "votes": {
     "Zell Miller": 1413224,
     "Mack F. Mattingly": 920478,
     "Paul Robert Macgregor": 25942,
     "Ben Ballenger": 22975,
     "Jeff Gates": 21249,
     "Winnie Walsh": 11875
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2002,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2031604,
    "votes": {
     "Saxby Chambliss": 1071352,
     "Max Cleland": 932422,
     "Claude \"sandy\" Thomas": 27830
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2004,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 3220981,
    "votes": {
     "Johnny Isakson": 1864202,
     "Denise L. Majette": 1287690,
     "Allen Buckley": 69051
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2008,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2137956,
    "votes": {
     "Saxby Chambliss": 1228033,
     "Jim Martin": 909923
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2010,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2555258,
    "votes": {
     "Johnny Isakson": 1489904,
     "Michael \"mike\" Thurmond": 996516,
     "Chuck Donovan": 68750
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2014,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2567805,
    "votes": {
     "David A. Perdue": 1358088,
     "M. Michelle Nunn": 1160811,
     "Amanda C. Swafford": 48862
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2016,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 3898605,
    "votes": {
     "Johnny Isakson": 2135806,
     "Jim Barksdale": 1599726,
     "Allen Buckley": 162260
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2020,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": true,
    "total": 4483241,
    "votes": {
     "Jon Ossoff": 2269262,
     "David A. Perdue": 2213979
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2020,
    "special": true,
    "runoff": true,
    "total": 4483294,
    "votes": {
     "Raphael Warnock": 2288446,
     "Kelly Loeffler": 2194848
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2022,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": true,
    "total": 3541877,
    "votes": {
     "Raphael Warnock": 1820633,
     "Herschel Junior Walker": 1721244
    }
   }
  ],
  "dataset": "senate-results",
  "version": "2026-10-25.247421eda6"
 },
 "table": {
  "title": "Every Senate race since 1976",
  "columns": [
   "Race",
   "Winner",
   "Runner-up",
   "Margin",
   "Votes"
  ],
  "num": [
   3,
   4
  ],
  "rows": [
   [
    "2022 (decided in a runoff)",
    "Raphael Warnock (D) 51.4%",
    "Herschel Junior Walker (R) 48.6%",
    "2.8 pts",
    "3,541,877"
   ],
   [
    "2020 special (decided in a runoff)",
    "Raphael Warnock (D) 51.0%",
    "Kelly Loeffler (R) 49.0%",
    "2.1 pts",
    "4,483,294"
   ],
   [
    "2020 (decided in a runoff)",
    "Jon Ossoff (D) 50.6%",
    "David A. Perdue (R) 49.4%",
    "1.2 pts",
    "4,483,241"
   ],
   [
    "2016",
    "Johnny Isakson (R) 54.8%",
    "Jim Barksdale (D) 41.0%",
    "13.8 pts",
    "3,898,605"
   ],
   [
    "2014",
    "David A. Perdue (R) 52.9%",
    "M. Michelle Nunn (D) 45.2%",
    "7.7 pts",
    "2,567,805"
   ],
   [
    "2010",
    "Johnny Isakson (R) 58.3%",
    "Michael \"mike\" Thurmond (D) 39.0%",
    "19.3 pts",
    "2,555,258"
   ],
   [
    "2008",
    "Saxby Chambliss (R) 57.4%",
    "Jim Martin (D) 42.6%",
    "14.9 pts",
    "2,137,956"
   ],
   [
    "2004",
    "Johnny Isakson (R) 57.9%",
    "Denise L. Majette (D) 40.0%",
    "17.9 pts",
    "3,220,981"
   ],
   [
    "2002",
    "Saxby Chambliss (R) 52.7%",
    "Max Cleland (D) 45.9%",
    "6.8 pts",
    "2,031,604"
   ],
   [
    "2000 special",
    "Zell Miller (D) 58.5%",
    "Mack F. Mattingly (R) 38.1%",
    "20.4 pts",
    "2,415,743"
   ],
   [
    "1998",
    "Paul Coverdell (R) 52.4%",
    "Michael J. Coles (D) 45.1%",
    "7.2 pts",
    "1,753,953"
   ],
   [
    "1996",
    "Max Cleland (D) 48.9%",
    "Guy W. Millner (R) 47.5%",
    "1.3 pts",
    "2,259,224"
   ],
   [
    "1992",
    "Paul Coverdell (R) 50.6%",
    "Wyche Fowler Jr. (D) 49.4%",
    "1.3 pts",
    "1,253,991"
   ],
   [
    "1990",
    "Sam Nunn (D) 100.0%",
    "unopposed",
    "100.0 pts",
    "1,033,439"
   ],
   [
    "1986",
    "Wyche Fowler Jr. (D) 50.9%",
    "Mack Mattingly (R) 49.1%",
    "1.8 pts",
    "1,225,008"
   ],
   [
    "1984",
    "Sam Nunn (D) 79.9%",
    "Mike Hicks (R) 20.1%",
    "59.9 pts",
    "1,681,344"
   ],
   [
    "1980",
    "Mack Mattingly (R) 50.9%",
    "Herman E. Talmadge (D) 49.1%",
    "1.7 pts",
    "1,579,829"
   ],
   [
    "1978",
    "Sam Nunn (D) 83.1%",
    "John W. Stokes (R) 16.9%",
    "66.3 pts",
    "645,128"
   ]
  ]
 },
 "api": {
  "now": "/data/places/us-ga/senate.json",
  "source": "https://api.electiondata.dev/v1/senate-results/download/senate-results.csv",
  "source_label": "Every Senate race, every state, from electiondata.dev (live, no key)"
 },
 "generated_at": "2026-10-26T20:05:12+00:00"
}