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Georgia Election Results and Runoff

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Over the past few weeks we have been monitoring conversations about the midterm elections. Most recently, we discussed the results for the races that happened in South Carolina. Today, we will we look at the results of the Georgia races and see what conversations are happening after people left the polls on Tuesday night. First let’s look at the results of the election in Georgia. We sourced the election results from Ballotpedia and The Associated Press.

Governor: The gubernatorial candidates for Georgia were incumbent Brian Kemp (R) and Stacey Abrams (D). The two had previously faced each other in the 2018 election season, where Kemp defeated Abrams. This election cycle was no different as Kemp won with 53.4% of the votes (2,109,105) and Abrams has 45.8% of the votes (1,809,522).

House: The state of Georgia elected 14 candidates on November 8th to serve in the U.S House of Representatives. Electing 6 democrats and 8 republicans to the House. Here are the results of these elections by district:

District 1:

Earl Cater (Incumbent) (R) – Winner

Wade Herring (D)

District 2:

Sanford Bishop Jr. (Incumbent) (D) – Winner

Chris West (R)

District 3:

Drew Ferguson (Incumbent) (R) – Winner

Val Almonord (D)

District 4:

Hank Johnson (Incumbent) (D) – Winner

Johnathan Chavez (R)

District 5:

Nikema Williams (Incumbent) (D) – Winner

Christian Zimm (R)

District 6:

Bob Christian (D) – Winner

Rich McCormick (R)

Distict 7:

Lucy Mcbath (Incumbent) (D) – Winner

Mark Gonsalves (R)

Lisa Babbage (R) (Write-in)

District 8:

Austin Scott (Incumbent) (R) – Winner

Darrius Butler (D)

District 9:

Andrew Clyde (Incumbent) (R) – Winner

Michael Ford (D)

District 10:

Tabitha Johnson-Green (D) – Winner

Mike Collins (R)

District 11:

Barry Loudermilk (Incumbent) (R ) – Winner

Antonio Daza (D)

District 12:

Rick Allen (Incumbent) (R) – Winner

Liz Johnson (D)

District 13:

David Scott (Incumbent) (D) – Winner

Caesar Gonzales (R)

District 14:

Majorie Taylor Greene (Incumbent) (R) – Winner

Marcus Flowers (D)

 

SENATE: Lastly, we will cover the senate results. The senate race between Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) and Herschel Walker (R) has been closely watched. We monitored conversations live on election night from our Twitter.

https://twitter.com/ClemsonSMLC/status/1590174522023763969?s=20&t=k4ahNPaoHKKozKihO6MGiA

The results of this election were too close to call and neither candidate was awarded a majority of the votes. This means that there will be a runoff election held in Georgia on December 6th. 

We took to Sprinklr to see what the conversations were surrounding the news of a runoff. The term “Georgia Runoff” was mentioned 233.39k times and reached over 5.22 billion users since November 8th, 2022. The overall sentiment of this keyword search was 67.45% negative (11.46k mentions). The volume of this topic reached a peak on November 9th with 107,807 mentions. The most used social channel was Twitter.

Most of the content surrounding the runoffs were politicians attempting to mobilizie constituents to get ready to vote again.

Other tweets showed support to Warnock who is facing a similar situation to the 2020 elections where he won the runoff election against republican incumbent Loeffler.

Other top themes of discussion concerned the balance of the senate. This race will help determine who has control of the senate. As repoted by The Associated Press, currently the split is 46 democrats to 48 republicans. Runoffs, like the Georgia race, will be important in deciding who will get the power in the senate.  The SMLC will continue to follow this race and update you when results are in.

Author: Michelle Brazeau

Posted in Tracking News via Social Media Analytics