Georgia's 10th Congressional District Special Election, 2007

On June 19, 2007, the U.S. state of Georgia held a special election to fill a vacancy in Georgia's 10th congressional district. A Two-round system, runoff was held on July 17 with Paul Broun defeating Jim Whitehead (politician), Jim Whitehead by less than 1%.

History

The vacancy was created by the death of incumbent Republican Party (United States), Republican Charlie Norwood. Norwood won reelection in 2006 United States House elections, 2006 with 67% of the vote.

Since this is a nonpartisan special election, all candidates for the election were listed alphabetically, though their party affiliations are noted on the ballot. According to Georgia law, to win outright, a candidate needed a majority vote; since no candidate won more than 50% of the vote, the top two finishers competed in a runoff election on July 17, 2007.

Candidates

The following candidates were on the June 19 ballot. They are listed here alphabetically: first by party, then by name.

Democratic

*Denise Freeman – Baptist minister and 1998 United States House elections, 1998/2000 United States House elections, 2000 Democratic nominee
*James Marlow – Yahoo! Marketing executive
*Evita Paschall – Lawyer, Attorney

Libertarian

*Jim Sendelbach – Psychotherapist

Republican

*Paul Broun – Physician, nominee for Georgia's 3rd congressional district, GA-03 in 1990 United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia, 1990, candidate in 1992 United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia, 1992, and candidate for U.S. Senate in 1996
*William L. Greene – Conservative activist, American political science professor, and Faithless electors in the United States presidential election, 2016, faithless elector (2016)
*Mark Myers – Realtor & previous candidate
*Nate Pulliam – Former soldier in the US Army & Realtor
*Erik Underwood – Former Congressional Aide & Political consultant
*Jim Whitehead (politician), Jim Whitehead – Georgia Senate, St. Senator, 2005–2007

Results

No candidate received a majority in the June 19 election so a runoff between Republican Party (United States), Republicans Jim Whitehead (politician), Jim Whitehead and Paul Broun was held on July 17. Democratic Party (United States), Democrat James Marlow, the third-place finisher, had the right to request a recount within 48 hours of the official certification of the election results on June 25, 2007, due to the very small difference in total votes for himself and Broun,Georgia state law â€
O.C.G.A. 21-2-495
but did not do so.

The official returns for the June 19 election and the July 17 run-off are:

See also

*List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives

References

External links

Candidate Web Sites

Democratic

Denise Freeman for Congress web siteJames Marlow for Congress web siteEvita Paschall for Congress web site

Libertarian

Jim Sendelbach for Congress web site

Republican

Paul Broun for Congress web siteBill Greene for Congress web siteMark Myers for Congress web siteNate Pulliam for Congress web siteErik Underwood for Congress web siteJim Whitehead for Congress web site

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