Georgia senate race 2020 primary. Governor brian kemp appointed kelly loeffler to serve as isaksons replacement effective january 6 2020 until the special election. A special election is scheduled for. He also ran in the 2017 special election for georgias 6th congressional.
A general runoff election if needed is scheduled for january 5 2021. Republican david perdue currently holds one of the offices and is running for re election. Real time 2020 georgia election results and live maps by county and district.
Georgia will hold elections in 2020 for both of its us senate seats. The filing deadline for this election was march 6 2020. Politicos primary coverage of 2020 races for president senate house and governors.
21 2 501 moving the primary election to june 9 2020 will move the primary runoff to august 11 2020pushing back the primary to june 9 gives georgia election officials additional time to put in place contingency plans to allow for safe and secure voting but pushing back the primary election any further could. Click here to read about the regularly scheduled election for the seat held by david perdue r. Senate primary election results democratic primary the leading contender jon ossoff earned national attention when he nearly flipped a house seat in a 2017 special election.
Jon ossoff won the democratic primary for us. Ossoffs background included work as a legislative aide and an investigative journalist. The 2020 united states senate special election in georgia will be held on november 3 2020 following senator johnny isaksons resignation effective december 31 2019.
On november 3 2020 there will be a special election to fill the remaining two years of the six year term that johnny isakson r was elected to in 2016. On november 3 2020 per georgia law a special general election will take place on the same. Kelly loeffler r by 2 points in the georgia special election to fill the seat of retired sen.
The primary election is coming up tuesday and recent polls tell us that many georgia voters are still undecided about who to vote for.