DeKalb County Election Results: Warnock, Ossoff Win

Updated at 4:22 p.m. Wednesday

DEKALB COUNTY, GA — Democrats have won U.S. Senate control after the Associated Press called the second race for U.S. Senate. Jon Ossoff was named the winner against Republican incumbent David Perdue Wednesday afternoon, according to the Associated Press.

In the pivotal U.S. Senate runoff elections, Associated Press projected Warnock as the winner late Tuesday in the special election runoff race between himself and Loeffler.

As of 4:02 p.m. Wednesday, which was the last election results update from the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office, Ossoff won in DeKalb against Perdue with 280,818 votes — or 83.38 percent — while Perdue garnered 55,977 votes, or 16.62 percent.

Warnock won in DeKalb with 83.99 percent of the votes, or 282,934 votes, while Loeffler has 16.01 percent of the votes, or 53,917 votes.

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Additionally, Ossoff earned 50.28 percent of the overall Georgia votes against Perdue, while Warnock earned 50.7 percent against Loeffler.

CNN reported at 10 p.m. Tuesday that the most votes to be counted were 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 planned 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.

Overseas and military ballots may come in by Friday, Jan. 8, but elections officials do not believe those ballots will change the election results overall.