DeKalb County Election Results: Too Early To Call Runoff Races
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DEKALB COUNTY, GA — Votes are still being counted in Georgia as mail-in ballots and Election Day votes are received in jurisdictions around the state, including DeKalb County.
In the pivotal U.S. Senate runoff elections, DeKalb’s unofficial election results showed Democratic candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are ahead of Republican incumbent Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler — but the race is still too early to call, with less than 1 percent of precincts in DeKalb reporting.
As of 10:17 p.m., which was the last election results update from the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office, Ossoff leads Perdue with 114,690 votes — or 81.44 percent — while Perdue has 26,135 votes, or 18.56 percent.
Warnock has 82.17 percent of the votes so far, or 115,740 votes, while Loeffler has 17.83 percent of the votes, or 25,113 votes.
CNN reported at 10 p.m. that the most votes yet to be counted are from DeKalb and Chatham counties, two Democratic strongholds. Election authorities in DeKalb told CNN there were 130,000 votes left to count at 10:40 p.m., and plan to complete the tally tonight.
Gabriel Sterling, the voting implementation manager for the Georgia Secretary of State’s office, tweeted at 10:29 p.m. that a large group of early in-person votes in DeKalb should be uploaded “soon.”
He said at 11 p.m. that local officials misspoke and 171,000 votes are outstanding, not the number the county said earlier.
Dozens of Georgia counties still have small portions of their votes left to tally, Sterling said, which could also seriously affect the final results.
The secretary of state said that all votes in Georgia should be tabulated by noon Wednesday, if all goes well.
This story will be updated as more information becomes available.