Jim Kingston will get a chance to hold the seat his father once did.

Kingston won the U.S. House 1st District Republican primary Tuesday, getting nearly 52.4% of the votes to avoid a runoff. In Georgia, a candidate must receive 50% plus one of the ballots cast in a race to be declared the winner.

Kingston’s father Jack Kingston served as Georgia’s 1st District representative for 22 years.

The Democrats will go to a runoff next month to determine their candidate. Joyce Marie Griggs took 34.5% of the votes, and Amanda Hollowell had 24.7% of the votes. There were eight Democrats running for the nomination.

The seat became open when longtime U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter chose to run for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate. That race also will go to a runoff, but Carter finished third behind U.S. Rep. Mike Collins and former college football coach Derek Dooley. Dooley drew the backing of Gov. Brian Kemp.

Collins drew 40.5% of the votes, with Dooley getting 30.2%. Carter finished with 25.1% in the five-man field. Carter got the most votes of the Republican candidates in Liberty County, with 1,568, or 64.5% of the votes.

“Tonight did not go the way we hoped, but I would not trade a single moment of this. It has been an honor,” Carter posted in a statement on his X account Tuesday night. “To my family, my team, and every Georgian who believed in this campaign – thank you from the bottom of my heart. Your faith carried us, and it will carry this movement forward.”

The winner of the Collins-Dooley runoff will face off against incumbent Jon Ossoff, who had no opposition in his primary.

Liberty County voters also backed the top vote-getters statewide in the governor’s race.

Former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms avoided a runoff in a seven-person field to win the Democrat nomination. She took in nearly three-quarters, 73.4%, of the votes cast in Liberty County.

Burt Jones, who is currently the lieutenant governor, and businessman Rick Jackson will continue their campaigns for the Republican nomination to the June runoff. Jones got more than 40% of the votes in Liberty County and was the top vote-getter across the state, but did not reach the 50% plus one threshold.

Other runoffs across the state include the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor, between John Kennedy and Greg Dolezal, and the Democrat nomination, between Josh McLaurin and Nabilah Parkes.

Runoffs also are on tap for both parties for secretary of state. Republicans also will choose their candidate for state school superintendent after incumbent Richard Woods fell just shy of the total needed to avoid a runoff. He will face Candler County Superintendent Bubba Longgrear. Lydia Powell advanced to the general election for state school superintendent out of a three-person Democrat primary.

Democrats also will have runoffs for their pick to run as insurance commissioner – between Keisha Sean Waites and Deandre Mathis - and labor commissioner, between Nikki Porcher and Michelle Michi Sanchez.

Runoffs will be held June 16.