The majority in the US Senate will not be clear by January, due to the situation in Georgia, where the elections will be repeated on January 5.

The US state of Georgia plays a decisive role in the sharp political struggle between Democrats and Republicans for the US Senate following Tuesday’s election. There have been unusual elections for both seats in the US Senate for Georgia this year, and in both cases the elections will be repeated on January 5, after no candidate managed to win a majority of votes, Reuters reports.

According to the results released Friday, Democrats and Republicans will each occupy 48 seats in the Senate with 100 seats. Aside from Georgia, results for two other locations have yet to be announced, but are expected to return to the Republicans.

Given that the elections will be held again in Gergia on January 5, the question remains as to which party will regain control of the Senate, after the rest of the new members of Congress are sworn in on January 3.

Because joys have been organized for both places

Republican Senator David Perdue is running for a six-year term after being elected for the first time in 2014. He is now in a close race with Democrat Jon Ossoff, investigative journalist and media director.

Nobody passed the 50% plus one vote mark, with Perdue gaining 49.8% of the votes and Ossoff 47.9%. The two will face off in a new round of elections, according to Edison Research.

Georgia’s other Senator, Republican Kelly Loeffler, was appointed in 2019 to succeed Johnny Isakson, who retired. 21 candidates, including Republican Doug Collins, participated in the special election.

Democrat Raphael Warnock got the most votes, 32.7%, Loeffler 26% and Collins 20.1%. The winner of these elections will serve in the Senate for just two years, completing the six-year term in which Isakson was elected in 2016.

HOW COMMON IS THE ORGANIZATION OF A NEW ROUND OF ELECTIONS IN THE USA?

Several US states, including Georgia, are organizing a new round of primary elections that do not produce a clear winner. But Georgia became one of the few states to hold a new round of general elections, after the 1966 government elections failed to produce a clear winner and a Democrat-dominated state legislature chose its candidate instead of a Republican. who had won several votes.

Can elections affect the majority?

The Democrats failed to generate the “blue wave” of voters they were hoping for November 3, but they won enough Senate seats to get 48 seats in the 100-member Senate.

It seems likely that Republicans will hold 50 Senate seats ahead of new elections in Georgia if Republicans are re-elected in North Carolina and Alaska, where the vote count has not been completed. Republican candidates won the most votes in both states.

Democrats have little chance of winning both Senate seats in Georgia, where there are traditional Republican tendencies, but if they succeed and Joe Biden is in the White House, that would give Vice President Kamala Harris a seat in the Senate. leads to 51 Democratic seats.

This would be a huge reward for the Democrats, because otherwise a Republican-controlled Senate would have the power to block most of Biden’s political priorities. This mail sets the stage for an intense two-month campaign, and the money, political agents and media will pour into Georgia.