The Democratic Party of the United States won both seats in the runoff ballot to elect the Georgian federal senator. This secured the position of the majority party in the Senate following the House of Representatives.
![Democratic candidates Rafael Warnock (left) and John Osoff, who won the final vote of the US Senate in Georgia. [로이터=연합뉴스]](https://i0.wp.com/pds.joins.com/news/component/htmlphoto_mmdata/202101/07/4355fd31-70f5-4c86-9180-b21b9fda9035.jpg?w=560&ssl=1)
Democratic candidates Rafael Warnock (left) and John Osoff, who won the final vote of the US Senate in Georgia. [로이터=연합뉴스]
On the 6th (local time), US media reports such as the New York Times (NYT) reported that Democratic candidate Rafael Warnock won by defeating incumbent Republican Rep. Kelly Leppler, and Democratic candidate John Osoff also confirmed the election after defeating Republican David Purdue. did.
According to NYT, in the 99% counting situation, Candidate Osoff confirmed the victory with 50.4% of the votes and 0.8 percentage points (35,613 votes) ahead of Congressman Purdue (49.6%).
Prior to this, Candidate Warnock, who confirmed the victory, beat Republican Congressman Kelly Loeffler (49.2%) by 1.6 percentage points (73,404 votes) with a 50.8% vote.
With the Democratic Party taking two seats from the Senate in Georgia, the number of Republicans and Democrats tied 50-50. In addition, the Democratic Party led the Senate as the vice-president, who also serves as the chairman of the Senate, took over the right of’casting boat’. It has been six years since the Obama administration in 2013-2015 that the Democratic Party dominated the Senate.
The next administration of Joe Biden is expected to gain momentum in promoting policy by winning the presidential election and forming a’triple crown’ that simultaneously dominates the House and Senate. It has been 10 years since the 111th Congress from 2009 to 2011 that the Democratic Party took over both the Senate and House.
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