Georgia state elections, 2008

Georgia House of Representatives elections, 2008^[5]
All 180 seats in the Georgia House of Representatives
Speaker before election; Glenn Richardson ; Republican	Elected Speaker; Glenn Richardson ; Republican

Georgia State Senate elections, 2008^[4]
	← 2006 2010 →
All 56 seats in the Georgia State Senate
President pro tempore before election; Eric Johnson ; Republican	Elected President pro tempore ; Eric Johnson ; Republican

Last updated April 03, 2019

Georgia's state elections will be held on November 4, 2008. The primary elections were held on February 5, also known as Super Tuesday.

Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States. It began as a British colony in 1733, the last and southernmost of the original Thirteen Colonies to be established. Named after King George II of Great Britain, the Province of Georgia covered the area from South Carolina south to Spanish Florida and west to French Louisiana at the Mississippi River. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788. In 1802–1804, western Georgia was split to the Mississippi Territory, which later split to form Alabama with part of former West Florida in 1819. Georgia declared its secession from the Union on January 19, 1861, and was one of the original seven Confederate states. It was the last state to be restored to the Union, on July 15, 1870. Georgia is the 24th largest and the 8th most populous of the 50 United States. From 2007 to 2008, 14 of Georgia's counties ranked among the nation's 100 fastest-growing, second only to Texas. Georgia is known as the Peach State and the Empire State of the South. Atlanta, the state's capital and most populous city, has been named a global city. Atlanta's metropolitan area contains about 55% of the population of the entire state.

A primary election is the process by which voters, either the general public or members of a political party, can indicate their preference for a candidate in an upcoming general election or by-election, thus narrowing the field of candidates.

In the United States, Super Tuesday, in general, refers informally to one or more Tuesdays early in a United States presidential primary season when the greatest number of U.S. states hold primary elections and caucuses. More delegates to the presidential nominating conventions can be won on Super Tuesday than on any other single day of the primary calendar. Since Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses are typically held in a large number of states from geographically and socially diverse regions of the country, it typically represents a presidential candidate's first test of national electability. Thus, candidates seeking the presidency traditionally must do well on this day to help secure their party's nomination. In fact, convincing wins in Super Tuesday primaries have usually propelled candidates to their party's nomination. Super Tuesday is in either February or March of the presidential election year. During the 2016 election year, Super Tuesday was held on March 1.

Federal elections

United States Presidential election

Presidential Primaries

Democratic Primary

Georgia Democratic presidential primary, 2008^[1]
Candidate	Votes	Percentage	National delegates^[2]
Barack Obama	704,247	66.39%	60
Hillary Clinton	330,026	31.11%	27
John Edwards	18,209	1.72%	0
Joe Biden	2,538	0.24%	0
Dennis Kucinich	2,096	0.20%	0
Bill Richardson	1,879	0.18%	0
Mike Gravel	952	0.09%	0
Christopher Dodd	904	0.09%	0
Totals	1,060,851	100.00%	87

Key:

Withdrew
prior to contest

Republican Primary

Georgia Republican presidential primary, 2008^[1]
Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Delegates
Mike Huckabee	326,874	33.9%	45
John McCain	304,751	31.6%	3
Mitt Romney	290,707	30.2%	0
Ron Paul	28,096	2.9%	0
Rudy Giuliani	7,162	0.7%	0
Fred Thompson	3,414	0.4%	0
Alan Keyes	1,458	0.2%	0
Duncan Hunter	755	0.1%	0
Tom Tancredo	324	0.0%	0
Totals	963,541	100.00%	48

Key:

Withdrew
prior to contest

Presidential General election

In the General election, Republican nominee John McCain prevailed over Democratic nominee Barack Obama in Georgia by 52.23% to 47.02%. McCain's five point margin of victory was significantly down from George W. Bush's seventeen point margin of victory over John Kerry in 2004. Though Obama benefited from high turnout by black and young voters as well as strong performance in Georgia's Urban areas, McCain's comparatively stronger performance in the rural northern and southeastern parts of the state as well as winning seventy-seven percent of white voters.^[3] gave him the overall victory.

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The 2008 Presidential election was particularly interesting in the state of Georgia considering that of the several independent and third party candidates who ran for president that year, two of them were from Georgia (those being former Republican Representative Bob Barr (L) (who placed third overall in the popular vote in Georgia) and former Democratic Representative Cynthia McKinney (G)).

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United States Congressional elections

During the 2008 Congressional elections, Georgia's Class II Senate seat and all thirteen House seats were up for election.

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United States Senate election

In 2008, incumbent Senator Saxby Chambliss (R) ran for re-election for a second term. His opponents were former Commissioner of Human Resources Jim Martin (D) and Attorney and CPA Allen Buckley (L).

Clarence Saxby Chambliss is an American politician who was a United States Senator from Georgia from 2003 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a U.S. Representative from 1995 to 2003.

James Francis Martin is an American politician and former Democratic Party member of the Georgia General Assembly. Martin opposed incumbent U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss in the 2008 election. In the general election, no candidate received more than 50% of the vote, forcing a run-off election on December 2, 2008, which Martin subsequently lost.

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Despite holding a substantial lead over Martin for most of the year, however, the race tightened following the September 2008 market collapse and Chambliss's vote for the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, otherwise commonly known as the bailout package. Martin criticized his opponent for voting for the bailout and also, as earlier, repeatedly claimed he supported a supposed twenty-three percent increase in taxes (referring to the FairTax) during his career in Congress. Chambliss accused his opponent, who cast himself as a fiscal conservative, of acting hypocritically for increasing and padlocking his own salary as Commissioner of Human Resources from 2002–2003 while the state of Georgia was experiencing a budget crisis. Libertarian nominee Allen Buckley, who on occasion joined Martin in his disapproval of Chambliss's vote for the controversial bailout, campaigned positioning himself as an alternative to both of the major party candidates.

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On election day, Chambliss was kept below the minimum of fifty percent plus one vote to win outright, winning 49% to Martin's 46%, and was thus forced into a runoff. Both campaigns sought the endorsement of Buckley, but he refused to endorse either candidate. Chambliss ultimately prevailed over Martin in the December runoff winning 57.4% to 42.6%.

United States House of Representatives elections

All thirteen of Georgia's incumbent Representatives sought re-election in 2008. Going into the elections, Republicans held seven of Georgia's U.S. House seats and Democrats held six seats.

Despite significant gains by Republicans in Georgia since 2002, such as consecutive Republican victories since in Presidential elections since 1996, gaining both of Georgia's U.S. Senate seats, the election of Sonny Perdue as Georgia's first post-Reconstruction Republican governor in 2002, successful elections of Republicans to other state executive offices, and gaining control of both chambers of the Georgia General Assembly for the first time since Reconstruction, Democrats have succeeded in gaining seats of Georgia's House delegation in recent House elections.

Despite Republican efforts to oust Representatives Jim Marshall (GA-8) and John Barrow (GA-12), who were each re-elected in 2006 by extremely close margins despite that being a bad year for Republicans, both of them were re-elected by significant margins. None of Georgia's House seats changed hands in this election.

State elections

State Executive Officer elections

Georgia Public Service Commission elections

In 2008, two seats on the Georgia Public Service Commission were up for election. Though candidates must come from the districts that they wish to represent on the commission, however, they are elected statewide.

Georgia Public Service Commission, District 1

Georgia Public Service Commission, District 4

Georgia General Assembly elections

Georgia Senate elections

In 2008, there were no particularly competitive General election races for the Georgia State Senate. The closest state Senate election was in the Forty-sixth District in which incumbent State Senator Bill Cowsert (R-Athens) defeated Sherry L. Jackson (D) 57.8% to 42.2%.^[4] However, of the incumbents who sought re-election that year, two were defeated in their respective parties primaries, those being Gail Davenport (D-Dis. 44) and Nancy Schaefer (R-Dis. 50).

Georgia House of Representatives elections

Notable Races

District 8

Rep. Charles F. Jenkins (D-Blairsville) received a strong challenge from Stephen Allison (R) in 2008. Jenkins had survived a close call in the previous state House election and thus was a prime target of Peach state Republicans. Allison ultimately prevailed by a narrow margin.^[5]

Georgia State House election, 2008: Georgia State House District 8
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Stephen Allison	13,228	51.6%
	Democratic	Charles F. Jenkins	12,389	48.4%
Majority			839	3.2
Turnout			25,617
	Republican gain from Democratic		Swing	3.1

District 13

Rep. Katie Dempsey (R-Rome) sought re-election in Floyd County, and faced her 2006 challenger Bob Puckett (who lost by just 168 votes) again.^[6] Despite Puckett's strong and energetic campaign, Dempsey ultimately prevailed again, this time defeating Puckett by 289 votes.^[5]

Georgia State House election, 2008: Georgia State House District 13
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Katie M. Dempsey	7,527	51
	Democratic	Bob Puckett	7,238	49
Majority			289	2
Turnout			14,765
	Republican hold		Swing

District 15

Incumbent Rep. Jeff Lewis (R-White) was defeated for renomination by Paul R. Battles by a margin of 51.6% to 48.4%.^[7] Battles subsequently won the general election without opposition.

District 16

Rep. Rick Crawford (D-Cedartown) faced a challenge from Bob Culver (R). Crawford was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives by narrow margin in 2006 and thus Georgian Republicans targeted the freshman Representative for defeat. Despite Republican efforts to oust him, Crawford would win re-election, albeit by another close margin.^[5]

Georgia State House election, 2008: Georgia State House District 13
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Rick Crawford	8,461	50.5%
	Republican	Bob Culver	8,279	49.5%
Majority			182	1
Turnout			16,740
	Democratic hold		Swing

District 28

District 38

District 95

Democrat George Wilson of Stone Mountain lost to incumbent Rep. Robert Mumford (R-Conyers) in 2006 by about 500 votes. Wilson is running again, but Mumford is retiring. "Obama at the top would be a plus," Wilson said. "We got so close."^[6]

Erick Hunt would win the Republican primary without opposition but Wilson would lose the Democratic nod to Toney L. Collins ^[7] who would go on to defeat Hunt 61.8% to 38.2%^[5]

Georgia State House election, 2008: Georgia State House District 95
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Toney L. Collins	18,527	61.8
	Republican	Erick Hunt	11,442	38.2
Majority			7,085	23.6
Turnout			29,969
	Democratic gain from Republican		Swing	13.55

District 104

District 140

District 153

Judicial elections

In 2008, two seats on the Supreme Court of Georgia and three on the Georgia Court of Appeals were up for election. All judicial elections in Georgia are officially non-partisan.

Supreme Court of Georgia elections

Incumbent state Supreme Court Associate Justices Robert Benham and Harris Hines were re-elected without opposition.^[8]

Georgia Court of Appeals elections

Two judges, those being Gary Andrews and Charles B. Mikell, were re-elected without opposition and one, John H. Ruffin, Jr, retired.^[9]

Court of Appeals (Ruffin seat) election

Following Ruffin's retirement announcement, a field of candidates emerged to run for the seat. The seven candidates who would run in the election were Dekalb County prosecutor Mike Sheffield, state Senators (former and then-current respectively Perry McGuire (R) (the 2006 Republican Attorney General nominee) and Michael Meyer von Bremen (D) (who at the time was the Chairman of the Senate Special Judiciary committee), and attorneys Sara Doyle,^[10] Tamela Adkins, Christopher McFadden, and Bruce Edenfield. No candidate was able to win the race outright and so the top two vote getters, Doyle and Sheffield, would face each other in the run off. Doyle narrowly prevailed in the runoff to win election to the Court of Appeals.

Georgia Court of Appeals election, 2008^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Nonpartisan	Sara Doyle	619,903	22.5
	Nonpartisan	Mike Sheffield	573,807	20.9
	Nonpartisan	Tamela Adkins	527,229	19.2
	Nonpartisan	Christopher McFadden	341,198	12.4
	Nonpartisan	Bruce Edenfield	272,639	9.9
	Nonpartisan	Perry McGuire	219,137	8.0
	Nonpartisan	Michael Meyer von Bremen	196,225	7.1
Turnout			2,750,138	100

Georgia Court of Appeals election Runoff, 2008^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Nonpartisan	Sara Doyle	888,191	51.8	+29.3
	Nonpartisan	Mike Sheffield	827,825	48.2	+27.3
Turnout			1,716,016	100

Initiatives and referenda

Three proposed amendments to the Georgia State Constitution were placed on the ballot for Georgian voters to decide. The proposed amendments were:

Conservation Property tax reduction. The purpose of this amendment was to offer a conservation property tax reduction to property owners to encourage conservation of forests.
Allow Local schools districts to use tax dollars for community redevelopment projects.
Creating special infrastructure Development Districts.

The first two proposed amendments were passed while the third was rejected.^[12]

Encourage preservation of GA forests through conservation property tax reduction
Candidate		Votes	%	±
✓	Yes	2,454,513	68%
	No	1,154,662	32%

Local school districts to use tax funds for community redevelopment purposes
Candidate		Votes	%	±
✓	Yes	1,868,112	51.5%
	No	1,756,809	48.5%

Creation of special Infrastructure Development Districts for underserved areas
Candidate		Votes	%	±
✓	No	1,777,619	51.6%
	Yes	1,665,890	48.4%

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