In Gwinnett County, one of the first modern-day Republican strongholds in Georgia, Chambliss carried the county but with only 64 percent of the vote; McDonald won Gwinnett with 63 percent. Political pundits have been saying the last few years that the GOP is losing strength in Gwinnett. Turnout there was 40 percent.
In Lumpkin County, where there was a school board race on the ballot as well as the three state contests, the turnout was the same as in Hall County - 43 percent.
HALL COUNTY TURNOUT
It wasn't a typical runoff election for Hall County elections officials Tuesday.
"Most runoff elections are slow and smoother," said Hall County Elections Director Charlotte Sosebee-Hunter.
She said unlike most runoffs, they've had a larger than usual voter turnout.
"It was greater than we predicted as far as sending out supplies," Sosebee-Hunter said. "We've had to expedite extra voter certificates to the precincts."
She said they had to send out about 400 extra certificates to each precinct.
Sosebee-Hunter said they had originally estimated a 40 percent voter turnout in Hall County for Tuesday's election but, as reported above, it was 43 percent.
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