Georgia 2014 election results certified with 50 percent turnout

Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp certified the results for the Nov. 4^th, 2014 general elections on Wednesday, confirming 2 percent lower tuout than in 2010.  

The official results show that just over 50 percent of registered voters cast ballots in the 2014 general elections in Georgia. The state has 5,191,182 registered voters and just 2,596,947 participated.  In the last midterm elections in 2010 Georgia saw a 52 percent voter tuout.  

The county with the highest tuout was Fayette with 61.09 percent registered voters casting ballots. Fulton County had the most voters overall – 269,841, but that's only 48.08 percent of registered voters; Cobb, DeKalb, and Gwinnett all had over 200,000 voters and all three had above 50 percent tuout.

Overall, it was the Republican state leadership that received the most votes, except for Goveor Nathan Deal. State Public Service Commission member Doug Everett, Southe District 1, received the most votes in the entire election – 1,532,652.

Other top vote-getters include Lieutenant Goveor Casey Cagle with 1,466,505 votes, Commissioner of Agriculture Gary Black with 1,462,039, Secretary of State Brian Kemp with 1,452,554, Attoey General Samuel Olens with 1,436,987, and Commissioner of Labor Mark Butler with 1,427,662 votes.  

Even though he was the most visible candidate in his party, Deal placed distant 9th with 1,345,237 votes.

Michelle Nunn, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, received the most votes among all Democrats in Georgia with 1,160,811 votes.

Comparatively, Georgia's tuout wasn't that bad. According to some preliminary counts, the nation just saw the lowest midterm tuout since 1942, with just 37 percent of active voters casting ballots. The votes are still being counted in some states, so that number could come up to 38 percent, but that would still be lowest since 1988.