Warnock wins Georgia U.S. Senate runoff; cruises in Cobb

East Cobb results 2022 U.S. Senate general election

Updated, 10:35 pm:

Several news organizations have declared Warnock the winner with metro Atlanta counties still counting votes.

With 92 percent of counties reporting, he leads Walker by roughly 36,000 votes.

More than 3.4 million votes were cast, for a turnout of 48 percent.

In Cobb, Warnock has had a 60-40 percent lead most of the night.

He has been competitive in some East Cobb precincts but Walker has won a number of them.

More than 260,000 votes were cast by Cobb voters, for 51 percent turnout.

Warnock’s win would give Democrats a 51-49 Senate majority, after a 50-50 split since he and fellow Democrat Jon Ossoff unseated Republican incumbents Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, respectively, in January 2021 runoffs.

More updates coming Wednesday.

UPDATED, 9:37 P.M.:

With 79 percent of the counties in Georgia fully reporting, Warnock leads by roughly 16,000 votes, with 50.27 percent.

You can follow updated statewide results by clicking the Georgia Secretary of State’s website.

Cobb and other metro Atlanta counties are still tabulating votes.

You can track the Cobb vote, and by precinct, by clicking here.

ORIGINAL POST, 9:11 P.M.:

We’ll be updating this post Tuesday night and into Wednesday in the U.S. Senate runoff between Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker.

A total of 91 of Georgia’s 159 counties have fully reported results thus far, and as 9 p.m. approached the vote-counting is tightening.

Warnock built up a big early lead due largely to early and absentee voting.

Walker briefly went ahead by about 41,000 votes.

But with 49 percent of the vote in, Warnock has received 1,230,639 votes, or 50.83 percent, to 1,190,273 votes for Walker, or 49.17 percent.

Most of the counties that have fully reported are in rural and southern Georgia; metro Atlanta counties are not yet fully counted.

That includes Cobb County, where Warnock has a big lead. He has 100,539 votes, or 65.41 percent, to 53,170 votes for Walker, or 34.59 percent. But only 30 percent of the votes have been counted.

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