(Update: 11:15 p.m.): With 100% of precincts reporting in Forsyth County, local voters favored the Republican candidates in the Jan. 5 runoff after more than 109,000 voters, about 65.6% of the county's 166,928 voters, cast ballots in the races. Votes are continuing to be counted statewide.
Election numbers will be updated as information becomes available. With 100% of precincts reporting countywide here are the preliminary election results:
Forsyth County
U.S. Senate
David Perdue (Incumbent) (Rep): 69.2% (75,734 votes)
Jon Ossoff (Dem): 30.8% (33,764 votes)
U.S. Senate
Kelly Loeffler (Incumbent) (Rep): 68.5% (74,988 votes)
Raphael Warnock Dem: 31.5% (34,456 votes)
Public Service Commissioner District 4
Lauren "Bubba" McDonald, Jr. (Incumbent) (Rep): 70.8% (76,926 votes)
Daniel Blackman (Dem): 29.2% (31,666 votes)
Statewide
U.S. Senate
David Perdue (Incumbent) (Rep): 51.5% (2,057,210 votes)
Jon Ossoff (Dem): 48.5% (1,939,655 votes)
U.S. Senate
Kelly Loeffler (Incumbent) (Rep): 51.1% (2,041,130 votes)
Raphael Warnock (Dem): 48.9% (1,955,810 votes)
Public Service Commissioner District 4
Lauren "Bubba" McDonald, Jr. (Incumbent) (Rep): 52.5% (2,074,418 votes)
Daniel Blackman (Dem): 47.5% (1,879,553 votes)
(Update 9:45 p.m.): Republican candidates hold leads in Forsyth County and statewide, according to the latest runoff numbers from the Secretary of State's office. So far, more than 92,000 votes in Forsyth County and 3.2 million statewide have been counted.
Election numbers will be updated as information becomes available. With 40% of precincts reporting countywide here are the preliminary election results:
Forsyth County
U.S. Senate
David Perdue (Incumbent) (Rep): 67.9% (62,850 votes)
Jon Ossoff (Dem): 32.1% (29,771 votes)
U.S. Senate
Kelly Loeffler (Incumbent) (Rep): 67.3% (62,269 votes)
Raphael Warnock Dem: 32.7% (30,316 votes)
Public Service Commissioner District 4
Lauren "Bubba" McDonald, Jr. (Incumbent) (Rep): 69.5% (63,858 votes)
Daniel Blackman (Dem): 30.5% (27,973 votes)
Statewide
U.S. Senate
David Perdue (Incumbent) (Rep): 50.7% (1,672,171 votes)
Jon Ossoff (Dem): 49.3% (1,627,347 votes)
U.S. Senate
Kelly Loeffler (Incumbent) (Rep): 50.3% (1,659,743 votes)
Raphael Warnock (Dem): 49.7% (1,639,930 votes)
Public Service Commissioner District 4
Lauren "Bubba" McDonald, Jr. (Incumbent) (Rep): 51.7% (1,685,743 votes)
Daniel Blackman (Dem): 48.3% (1,576,722 votes)
Update (9 p.m.): While no election results have been posted for Forsyth County, numbers are coming in from across the state as 56 of Georgia's 159 counties and 545 of the state's 2,656 precincts have completed their count. About 2.2 million votes have been counted statewide so far.
Election numbers will be updated as information becomes available. With 0% of precincts reporting countywide here are the preliminary election results:
Forsyth County
U.S. Senate
David Perdue (Incumbent) (Rep): 0% (0 votes)
Jon Ossoff (Dem): 0% (0 votes)
U.S. Senate
Kelly Loeffler (Incumbent) (Rep): 0% (0 votes)
Raphael Warnock Dem: 0% (0 votes)
Public Service Commissioner District 4
Lauren "Bubba" McDonald, Jr. (Incumbent) (Rep): 0% (0 votes)
Daniel Blackman (Dem): 0% (0 votes)
Statewide
U.S. Senate
David Perdue (Incumbent) (Rep): 47.2% (1,041,646 votes)
Jon Ossoff (Dem): 52.7% (1,161,854 votes)
U.S. Senate
Kelly Loeffler (Incumbent) (Rep): 46.9% (1,033,679 votes)
Raphael Warnock (Dem): 53.1% (1,169,996 votes)
Public Service Commissioner District 4
Lauren "Bubba" McDonald, Jr. (Incumbent) (Rep): 48.2% (1,050,136 votes)
Daniel Blackman (Dem): 51.8% (1,126,913 votes)
With polls officially coming to a close in Forsyth County at 7 p.m. for the Tuesday, Jan. 5 runoff election, now the waiting begins.
The runoff includes races for two seats for the U.S. Senate that have earned nationwide attention due to the election either potentially swinging control of the Senate to Democrats or Republicans retaining control and a race for a seat on the Georgia Public Service Commission between two candidates with Forsyth County ties.
Mandi Smith, director of Forsyth County's Department of Voter Registrations and Elections, said, like the Nov. 3 general election, early voting has been popular in the runoff and election day turnout has been even busier.
"As of now, with the stats that the polls are periodically calling in, more ballots have been cast on Election Day for this Runoff than were cast on Election Day in the November General Election," Smith said.
Smith said Forsyth County had 63,332 residents vote early in the runoff.
Statewide, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said in a news release the runoff was "running smoothly throughout the state with no reports of long lines" other than a brief issue in Columbia County on Tuesday morning.
“After wait times averaging just 2 minutes on November 3rd, Georgia’s election administration is hitting a new milestone for effectiveness and efficiency,” said Raffensperger. “I have always said that after every election, half the people will be happy and half will be disappointed, but everyone should be confident in the reliability of the results.”
