Online:
Nathan Deal for Governor: www.nathandeal.org
Karen Handel for Governor: www.karenhandel.com
Roy Barnes for Governor: www.roy2010.com
Nathan Deal for Governor: www.nathandeal.org
Karen Handel for Governor: www.karenhandel.com
Roy Barnes for Governor: www.roy2010.com
ATLANTA - Leaders in Georgia's fractured Republican Party preached unity even as the outcome of the bruising primary runoff for governor remained in doubt. Some 2,500 votes separated the two candidates, leaving the race too close to call and a recount likely.
In unofficial returns, Nathan Deal and Karen Handel each claimed 50 percent of the vote with 99 percent of precincts reporting. Deal did hold a slim lead with an unknown number of provisional, overseas and military ballots yet to be counted. Under Georgia law, the runner-up can request a recount if the margin is less than 1 percent.
At a packed GOP breakfast Wednesday in Atlanta, House Speaker David Ralston warned the GOP must unite to defeat Democrat Roy Barnes in November. Deal was at the breakfast. Handel was a no show.
Republican results as of early today:
Here are the latest, unofficial returns from Georgia by county in the Republican runoff primary for Governor.
| TP | PR | Deal | Handel | |
| Appling | 16 | 16 | 939 | 508 |
| Atkinson | 4 | 4 | 142 | 111 |
| Bacon | 5 | 5 | 348 | 319 |
| Baker | 6 | 6 | 114 | 67 |
| Baldwin | 14 | 14 | 971 | 682 |
| Banks | 13 | 13 | 1,614 | 579 |
| Barrow | 16 | 16 | 3,774 | 2,256 |
| Bartow | 17 | 17 | 3,928 | 3,457 |
| Ben Hill | 5 | 5 | 278 | 272 |
| Berrien | 7 | 7 | 625 | 344 |
| Bibb | 42 | 42 | 2,815 | 3,816 |
| Bleckley | 1 | 1 | 310 | 280 |
| Brantley | 9 | 9 | 416 | 305 |
| Brooks | 9 | 9 | 146 | 163 |
| Bryan | 10 | 10 | 742 | 938 |
| Bulloch | 16 | 16 | 1,890 | 1,685 |
| Burke | 15 | 15 | 259 | 600 |
| Butts | 5 | 5 | 987 | 844 |
| Calhoun | 5 | 5 | 68 | 64 |
| Camden | 14 | 14 | 1,335 | 2,255 |
| Candler | 2 | 2 | 324 | 300 |
| Carroll | 30 | 30 | 4,326 | 3,468 |
| Catoosa | 12 | 12 | 1,713 | 1,808 |
| Charlton | 9 | 9 | 147 | 147 |
| Chatham | 89 | 88 | 4,708 | 6,597 |
| Chatoochee | 1 | 1 | 39 | 52 |
| Chattooga | 13 | 13 | 352 | 320 |
| Cherokee | 44 | 44 | 9,522 | 9,685 |
| Clarke | 24 | 24 | 2,064 | 1,473 |
| Clay | 5 | 5 | 74 | 53 |
| Clayton | 58 | 58 | 1,922 | 2,099 |
| Clinch | 5 | 5 | 69 | 45 |
| Cobb | 154 | 154 | 24,917 | 29,981 |
| Coffee | 6 | 6 | 901 | 513 |
| Colquitt | 19 | 19 | 867 | 1,049 |
| Columbia | 45 | 45 | 4,209 | 6,331 |
| Cook | 8 | 8 | 203 | 115 |
| Coweta | 28 | 28 | 4,977 | 5,152 |
| Crawford | 6 | 6 | 340 | 296 |
| Crisp | 6 | 6 | 743 | 605 |
| Dade | 7 | 7 | 488 | 341 |
| Dawson | 3 | 3 | 2,153 | 1,234 |
| Decatur | 14 | 14 | 369 | 346 |
| DeKalb | 192 | 192 | 8,082 | 12,639 |
| Dodge | 16 | 16 | 436 | 336 |
| Dooly | 7 | 7 | 166 | 122 |
| Dougherty | 28 | 28 | 1,256 | 1,350 |
| Douglas | 25 | 25 | 3,899 | 3,987 |
| Early | 11 | 11 | 163 | 174 |
| Echols | 1 | 1 | 28 | 44 |
| Effingham | 21 | 21 | 1,461 | 1,884 |
| Elbert | 11 | 11 | 676 | 491 |
| Emanuel | 12 | 12 | 423 | 488 |
| Evans | 10 | 10 | 248 | 257 |
| Fannin | 12 | 12 | 1,608 | 1,206 |
| Fayette | 36 | 36 | 6,166 | 6,204 |
| Floyd | 25 | 25 | 3,517 | 2,651 |
| Forsyth | 27 | 27 | 9,357 | 9,568 |
| Franklin | 13 | 13 | 1,073 | 716 |
| Fulton | 340 | 339 | 11,595 | 28,865 |
| Gilmer | 13 | 13 | 2,145 | 1,770 |
| Glascock | 4 | 4 | 55 | 129 |
| Glynn | 19 | 19 | 2,775 | 4,078 |
| Gordon | 13 | 13 | 2,698 | 1,326 |
| Grady | 13 | 13 | 462 | 489 |
| Greene | 8 | 8 | 973 | 728 |
| Gwinnett | 156 | 155 | 28,005 | 27,265 |
| Habersham | 14 | 14 | 2,933 | 1,252 |
| Hall | 39 | 39 | 16,452 | 4,394 |
| Hancock | 7 | 7 | 30 | 31 |
| Haralson | 12 | 12 | 1,466 | 801 |
| Harris | 12 | 12 | 824 | 1,317 |
| Hart | 7 | 7 | 739 | 545 |
| Heard | 9 | 9 | 392 | 318 |
| Henry | 38 | 38 | 7,258 | 6,230 |
| Houston | 24 | 24 | 3,303 | 3,646 |
| Irwin | 10 | 10 | 612 | 351 |
| Jackson | 16 | 16 | 3,919 | 2,047 |
| Jasper | 7 | 7 | 657 | 533 |
| Jeff Davis | 9 | 9 | 305 | 160 |
| Jefferson | 8 | 8 | 175 | 327 |
| Jenkins | 5 | 5 | 70 | 164 |
| Johnson | 7 | 7 | 255 | 179 |
| Jones | 11 | 11 | 912 | 1,003 |
| Lamar | 6 | 6 | 762 | 697 |
| Lanier | 3 | 3 | 132 | 101 |
| Laurens | 17 | 17 | 721 | 633 |
| Lee | 10 | 10 | 1,243 | 944 |
| Liberty | 13 | 13 | 419 | 480 |
| Lincoln | 7 | 7 | 285 | 464 |
| Long | 5 | 5 | 159 | 124 |
| Lowndes | 22 | 22 | 2,090 | 2,398 |
| Lumpkin | 14 | 14 | 1,902 | 1,126 |
| Macon | 5 | 5 | 94 | 84 |
| Madison | 12 | 12 | 1,850 | 1,126 |
| Marion | 7 | 7 | 92 | 174 |
| McDuffie | 10 | 10 | 628 | 790 |
| McIntosh | 7 | 7 | 265 | 540 |
| Meriwether | 14 | 14 | 787 | 463 |
| Miller | 1 | 1 | 92 | 59 |
| Mitchell | 11 | 11 | 429 | 376 |
| Monroe | 14 | 14 | 1,394 | 1,359 |
| Montgomery | 7 | 7 | 352 | 283 |
| Morgan | 11 | 11 | 1,061 | 923 |
| Murray | 7 | 7 | 902 | 788 |
| Muscogee | 48 | 48 | 1,922 | 3,214 |
| Newton | 22 | 22 | 3,399 | 3,154 |
| Oconee | 13 | 13 | 2,414 | 1,599 |
| Oglethorpe | 10 | 10 | 817 | 543 |
| Paulding | 18 | 18 | 5,404 | 5,409 |
| Peach | 7 | 7 | 372 | 515 |
| Pickens | 12 | 12 | 2,339 | 1,765 |
| Pierce | 8 | 8 | 797 | 487 |
| Pike | 8 | 8 | 1,154 | 720 |
| Polk | 11 | 11 | 1,083 | 821 |
| Pulaski | 3 | 3 | 253 | 210 |
| Putnam | 9 | 9 | 1,273 | 727 |
| Quitman | 2 | 2 | 33 | 31 |
| Rabun | 9 | 9 | 1,074 | 544 |
| Randolph | 9 | 9 | 89 | 100 |
| Richmond | 73 | 73 | 2,256 | 4,382 |
| Rockdale | 18 | 18 | 2,502 | 3,062 |
| Schley | 1 | 1 | 72 | 86 |
| Screven | 12 | 12 | 222 | 373 |
| Seminole | 5 | 5 | 159 | 239 |
| Spalding | 21 | 21 | 2,219 | 2,180 |
| Stephens | 8 | 8 | 1,219 | 439 |
| Stewart | 5 | 5 | 13 | 18 |
| Sumter | 11 | 11 | 609 | 458 |
| Talbot | 8 | 8 | 137 | 134 |
| Taliaferro | 2 | 2 | 8 | 2 |
| Tattnall | 9 | 9 | 521 | 530 |
| Taylor | 6 | 6 | 255 | 152 |
| Telfair | 6 | 6 | 110 | 96 |
| Terrell | 6 | 6 | 97 | 130 |
| Thomas | 20 | 20 | 1,353 | 1,152 |
| Tift | 12 | 12 | 1,299 | 748 |
| Toombs | 14 | 14 | 848 | 729 |
| Towns | 4 | 4 | 689 | 641 |
| Treutlen | 6 | 6 | 105 | 75 |
| Troup | 16 | 16 | 1,672 | 1,701 |
| Turner | 3 | 3 | 266 | 139 |
| Twiggs | 5 | 5 | 159 | 157 |
| Union | 11 | 11 | 1,317 | 1,229 |
| Upson | 10 | 10 | 1,258 | 541 |
| Walker | 11 | 11 | 1,733 | 1,289 |
| Walton | 19 | 19 | 5,542 | 4,353 |
| Ware | 12 | 12 | 1,099 | 919 |
| Warren | 6 | 6 | 113 | 130 |
| Washington | 8 | 8 | 476 | 151 |
| Wayne | 15 | 15 | 1,492 | 980 |
| Webster | 4 | 4 | 47 | 63 |
| Wheeler | 2 | 2 | 130 | 68 |
| White | 11 | 11 | 2,787 | 1,087 |
| Whitfield | 23 | 23 | 3,487 | 3,068 |
| Wilcox | 6 | 6 | 394 | 368 |
| Wilkes | 7 | 7 | 278 | 246 |
| Wilkinson | 9 | 9 | 67 | 83 |
| Worth | 16 | 16 | 791 | 502 |
| Totals | 2,898 | 2,895 | 290,580 | 288,091 |
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