2020 Turnout

• Columbus-Muscogee: 80,977 votes cast of 130,878 registered voters (61.87%)

2021 Runoff Turnout

• Columbus-Muscogee: 71,640 votes cast of 133,541 registered voters (53.65%)
• Ossoff, Warnock and Blackman easily win Muscogee

Federal Offices

President

Joe Biden won Muscogee County with 61.49% of the vote. 61.87% of Muscogee County voters turned out to vote, lower than the 69.33% of registered voters who turned out in 2016. However, turnout was over 20,000 votes larger than 2016 in terms of raw numbers.

U.S. Senate Seat 1 (Perdue)

Ossoff becomes the first Democrat to participate in a runoff against a Republican incumbent in a regular Senate election since Jim Martin (D) faced off against Saxby Chambliss in 2008. The two-month runoff campaign results in a slim defeat of Perdue.

U.S. Senate Seat 2 (Loeffler)

Warnock and Loeffler participate in the first Senate special election since 2000, when Zell Miller (D) defeated Mack Mattingly (R) to replace Paul Coverdell (R). Warnock ends up in second place in the first-round jungle primary, and goes on to campaign with Ossoff to defeat incumbent Kelly Loeffler, scoring a rare flip of a state’s two Senate seats in one election. Warnock scores a slightly larger win than Ossoff, both due to heavy campaigning in the Black Belt regions in Southwest and other parts of rural Georgia.

US Congress District 2

Bishop easily wins re-election.

US Congress, district 3

Ferguson crushes his 2018 performance,

Public Service Commission District 1

Public Service Commission District 4

Blackman and Wilson force McDonald to a runoff, with Blackman campaigning with Senate candidates Ossoff and Warnock. Ultimately, Blackman is defeated by 33,727 votes. It is the best electoral performance by a Democratic candidate for PSC since the last Democrat on the PSC was defeated in 2006. It is also far better than Blackman’s first run for McDonald’s seat in 2014.

State House District 134

This is the first time that a Democrat has ever challenged Smith for this seat since he was first elected in 2004. Smith easily wins re-election, but the mere appearance of a Democrat on the ballot signals changing political demographics in North Columbus.

Sheriff

Outgoing Marshal Countryman easily defeats LaJoye, who made his third run for the position as a Republican candidate. Countryman succeeds Donna Tompkins, who he previously defeated in a three-way primary.

Amendments and Referenda

Amendment 1

YES – 81.6%
NO – 18.4%

Amendment 2

YES – 74.5%
NO – 25.5%

Statewide Referendum

YES – 73.1%
NO – 26.9%

For more detailed results, check out the Secretary of State’s website:

• Georgia General Election Results
• Georgia Runoff Election Results
• Muscogee County General Election Results
• Muscogee County Runoff Election Results