Wednesday, November 26, 2008
News Add It Up: Runoff roulette
Posted by Scott Henry @ScottTheHenry on Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 8:36 PM
Number of Georgia runoff elections for statewide, partisan positions in the past 20 years: 2
Of those two, the number in which the top general-election vote-getter (a Democrat, in both instances) won the runoff: 0
Of voters in the 1992 general election, the percentage that returned to vote in the Senate runoff: 55
Of voters in the 2006 general election, the percentage that returned to vote in the Public Service Commission runoff: 10
As of Nov. 20, the percentage of early voters in Georgia’s U.S. Senate runoff who are African-American: 22
Percentage of early voters in the 2008 general election who are African-American: 34
In past decade, average percentage of black general-election voters who voted in runoffs: 8.5
Average percentage of whites who did: 9.2
Percentage of early voters in the 2008 general election who had voted in the GOP and Democratic primaries, respectively: 25, 30
Percentage of early voters in 2008 runoff (as of Nov. 20) who had voted in the GOP and Democratic primaries, respectively: 44, 34
Source: Georgia Secretary of State
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