Georgia’s Republican races for governor and US Senate head to June runoffs

Key points

• The Republican primary campaign for Georgia governor will go to a June runoff, with the lieutenant governor Burt Jones facing off against healthcare billionaire Rick Jackson – and locking out Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state and longtime political enemy of Donald Trump who was on track to finish a distant third.
• The Republican race to challenge the US senator Jon Ossoff remains similarly unresolved, while former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms won the Democratic primary for governor outright.
• Meanwhile, two Georgia supreme court justices won re-election, fending off Democratic-backed challengers former state senator Jen Jordan and personal injury attorney Miracle Rankin.
• Judicial elections in Georgia are nonpartisan and decided on primary election ballots.
• The Georgia supreme court has no Democrat serving on it, because primary elections typically have had lopsided Republican turnout.