Evans County breaks from the statewide results and skips a December runoff

Staff Report Georgia elected a Democratic governor and sent Jon Ossoff back to Washington. Evans County voters went the other way, and with no runoff on the horizon, their election season is over. None of the races on the county’s Nov. 3 ballot were close enough to require a second round of voting, said Mandy Massey, elections director for the Evans County Board of Elections and Registration. “There will be no December 1, 2026, runoff election in Evans County,” Massey said. Georgia’s 2026 election calendar set Dec. 1 aside for federal and state general election runoffs. Before the election, Massey had called a local or state runoff unlikely, and the results bore that out. How Evans County voted In the governor’s race, Evans County backed Republican Rick Jackson with 2,139 votes, or 69%, to Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms’ 980 votes, or 31%, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s county results. Statewide, the result flipped.

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