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 runoff was held on July 17 with Paul Broun defeating Jim Whitehead by less than 1%.
History The vacancy was created by the death of incumbent Republican Charlie Norwood.yahoo.com Norwood won reelection in 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 1998/2000 Democratic nominee James Marlow – Yahoo! Marketing executive Evita Paschall – Attorney
Libertarian Jim Sendelbach – Psychotherapist
Republican Paul Broun – Physician, nominee for GA-03 in 1990, candidate in 1992, and candidate for U.S. Senate in 1996 William L. Greene – Conservative activist, American political science professor, and 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 – St. Senator, 2005–2007
Results No candidate received a majority in the June 19 election so a runoff between Republicans Jim Whitehead and Paul Broun was held on July 17. 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 – 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:
CandidatePartyGeneral electionRun-offVotes%Votes% Jim Whitehead Republican 23,555 43.51 23,135 49.58 Paul Broun Republican 11,208 20.70 23,529 50.42 James Marlow Democratic 11,010 20.34 Denise Freeman Democratic 2,574 4.76 Evita Paschall Democratic 1,778 3.28 Bill Greene Republican 1,635 3.02 Nate Pulliam Republican 913 1.69 Jim Sendelbach Libertarian 710 1.31 Mark Myers Republican 378 0.70 Erik Underwood Republican 376 0.70
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 site James Marlow for Congress web site Evita Paschall for Congress web site
Libertarian Jim Sendelbach for Congress web site
Republican Paul Broun for Congress web site Bill Greene for Congress web site Mark Myers for Congress web site Nate Pulliam for Congress web site Erik Underwood for Congress web site Jim Whitehead for Congress web site