#Election2018

In a race that remained tight throughout the night of the midterm elections, none of the Georgia secretary of state candidates were able to pull away with a 50 percent majority of the votes.

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This year, 3.8 million Georgians cast ballots for secretary of state, up from 2.5 million total votes when incumbent Republican Brian Kemp was elected in 2014.

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According to the latest New York Times' polling data, Republican candidate Brad Raffensperger earned 49.4 percent of the votes, just shy of the 50 percent needed to secure a victory. He earned 1,885,552 votes with 100 percent of precincts reporting.

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Democratic nominee John Barrow had a 48.4 percent share with 1,846,310 votes. 

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With 84,737 votes to be secretary of state, Libertarian candidate Smythe DuVal had 2.2 percent of the total.

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Because neither Barrow nor Raffensperger was able to eclipse 50 percent of the votes, the two will face each other in a special runoff election on Dec. 4 to decide which of the two will become Georgia's next secretary of state.