1996 Georgia Senate election

[ElectionsGuy]

Thanks, guys. I had no idea and didn't find anything in the internet. Who do you think might have won a runoff? I think Millner would have barely eked it out...

Millner, and that's probably why the Democrats changed it. Now a runoff would probably have the same electorate as a normal election, but back then it was much more Republican.

[ElectionsGuy]

Now a runoff would probably have the same electorate as a normal election, but back then it was much more Republican.

Nah, it'd be even worse now.

Compare the 1992 election and run-off...
https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=13&year=1992&f=0&off=3&elect=0&class=3
https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=13&year=1992&f=0&off=3&elect=6

to the 2008 election and run-off...
https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=13&year=2008&f=0&off=3&elect=0&class=2
https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=13&year=2008&f=0&off=3&elect=6

I know that 2008 runoff was widely different than the original, but I think black turnout is better now than ever before, and the Louisiana runoff wasn't much different in 2014. I don't know why its so much different in Georgia.