1999 Georgia's 6th Congressional District Special Election
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special election A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, a bye-election in Ireland, a bypoll in India, or a Zimni election (Urdu: ضمنی انتخاب, supplementary election) in Pakistan, is an election used to f ...
to determine the member of the
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for
Georgia's 6th congressional district Georgia's 6th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Georgia. , it is represented by Democrat Lucy McBath. The Georgia 6th district's boundaries were redrawn following the 2020 census to be significantly more ...
was held on February 23, 1999. The seat was previously held by
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Newt Gingrich, who resigned after facing a revolt in the Republican caucus after the Republicans lost four seats in the 1998 midterm elections. Since
Johnny Isakson John Hardy Isakson (December 28, 1944 – December 19, 2021) was an American businessman and politician who served as a United States senator from Georgia from 2005 to 2019 as a member of the Republican Party. He represented in the United States ...
received over 50% of the vote, no runoff was held. He would later be elected to the
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1999 United States House of Representatives elections There were elections in 1999 to the United States House of Representatives: Summary Elections are listed by date and district. , - ! , colspan=3 , Vacant , , Newt Gingrich (R) had resigned at the end of the previous Congress.New memb ...


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