As indicated BBCDemocratic Senator Raphael Warnock has 49%. votes, and Republican Walker has over 48%. voice. Libertarian Party candidate Chase Oliver won 2.1% of the vote. voice.
Neither of the two candidates obtained more than 50% of the votes. votes, which means that another round of voting must take place.
The US election is still pending
In the present Senate Democrats and Republicans each have 50 seats. According to the preliminary results, the Republicans managed to defend the seats in the states of Ohio, Wisconsin and North Carolina. However, they lost Pennsylvania where democrat John Fetterman defeated Republican Mehmet Oz. In Arizona, Democrat Mark Kelly leads and in Nevada, Republican Mark Laxalt wins.
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However, less than three-quarters of the votes were counted in both states. In Georgia, Democrat Raphael Warnock and Republican Hershell Walker are separated by just half a percent of the vote. However, both are unlikely to exceed 50%, meaning both candidates are likely to face a playoff in early December. In elections Republicans currently hold 202 seats of the 435 members of the House of Representatives and lead in twenty other states. The counting of votes continues.
Commentators point out that, contrary to the predictions of elections there was no so-called “red tsunami” in Congress, that is, a clear victory for the Republican Party. Nevertheless, Republicans still have a better chance than Democrats of taking control of the House of Representatives.