2022 Georgia Secretary of State election

2022 Georgia Secretary of State election

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Turnout57.02% Increase
 
Nominee Brad Raffensperger Bee Nguyen
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote 2,081,421 1,719,922
Percentage 53.23% 43.99%

Raffensperger:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90%
Nguyen:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90%

Secretary of State before election

Brad Raffensperger
Republican

Elected Secretary of State

Brad Raffensperger
Republican

The 2022 Georgia Secretary of State election was held on November 8, 2022, to elect the Secretary of State of Georgia. Incumbent Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger won re-election to a second term. Raffensperger emerged as a major national figure in early January, 2021 when he faced significant pressure from then-President Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. Trump had been taped in a phone call asking Raffensperger to "find 11,780 votes," the exact number needed for Trump to carry the state.[1] The party primary elections took place on May 24, with runoffs scheduled for June 21.

Raffensperger was elected in 2018 to a first term in a runoff against Democratic former U.S. representative John Barrow, the first time in Georgia history that any statewide executive election went to a second round.

  1. ^ Amy, Jeff; Superville, Darlene; Brumback, Kate (January 3, 2021). "Trump, on tape, presses Ga. official to 'find' him votes". Associated Press. Retrieved March 22, 2021.