According to the Associated Press agency, none of the candidates in the race for the two Senate seats, for which this time there were re-elections in Georgia, will garner 50% of the votes.
The U.S. Senate elections in Georgia will be held in two rounds, as the first winner is undecided, which probably puts off the question of which of the two parties will receive the majority in the upper house of the legislature until next year. This is evidenced by the estimates made by Associated Press on Friday.
According to this data, none of the candidates in the race for the two Senate seats, for which this time there were re-elections in Georgia, won 50% of the votes. This means that a second round will be held on 5 January 2021.
Two senators in Georgia are being elected at once because Republican John Isakson had previously announced that he would resign due to an advanced illness. As a result, there are both regular and extraordinary senatorial elections in the state. Republican David Purdue and Democratic candidate John Ossoff are going into the second round of the race for one of the seats. The second pair of candidates are Republican Kelly Löffler and Democrat Rafael Warnock.
The agency estimates that Republicans and Democrats are now on a par with the Senate elections, winning 48 seats each in the next Chamber. In addition to the two seats in Georgia, results remain uncertain in North Carolina and Alaska. In order to get a majority in the Senate in this situation, each party must get at least 2 more seats, but on the condition that it wins the presidential election as well, because in this case the Vice-President, who will be the representative of that party, will also get the right to vote in the Senate. In North Carolina and Alaska, the American media estimate that Republicans are the winners, which theoretically gives them 50 seats. In this way, the elections in Georgia could be decisive in terms of control of the Senate.
The general elections were held in the USA on 3 November. They elected the President and Vice-President, all 435 members of the House of Representatives and one third of the US Senate, and governors of 13 states and territories. The winner of the presidential race has not yet been determined. The candidate must collect at least 270 votes of the electorate to be elected president. The Republican Donald Trump is predicted by Associated Press to have gained the support of 214 electors, Democrat Joseph Biden has 264.