Republican Ralph Norman won with 51.6%, less than three thousand votes ahead of Democrat Archie Parnell. It became the most expensive local election in the history of the United States as Democrats are looking to show that the moods are turning against Trump.
On Monday, Democrat Jon Ossoff spent the day making a last minute push.
Polls officially closed at 7 p.m. - with the exception of two locations which remained open for an extra 30 minutes after experiencing technical issues - in Georgia's highly-anticipated special election in the 6th Congressional District. In particular, some suburban women who felt frustrated by the results of the 2016 election chose to volunteer for him.
Republican Karen Handel emerged victorious in the runoff race for the U.S. House seat in Georgia's 6th Congressional District - beating back the "Resistance" movement and defending a seat in the wealthy Atlanta suburbs that Republicans have held for almost 40 years.
Republican candidate for Georgia's 6th District Congressional seat Karen Handel declares victory during an election-night watch party Tuesday, June 20, 2017, in Atlanta. At every turn, she sought to remind voters that Ossoff lived outside the district and that his values were "3,000 miles away".
This special election (the most expensive House race in US history) drew plenty of national focus because there was so much more at stake than a mere Congressional seat.
Yet the result in a historically conservative district still offers Republicans a warning that Trump, for better or worse, will dominate the looming campaign cycle.
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View the results of the race below.
Seen as an early proxy for whether Democrats can flip certain Republican-leaning districts in the President Donald Trump era, Tuesday's election drew national attention and record cash from around the country.
The outcome will not be pivotal to the balance of power in Washington, where Republicans control both chambers of Congress, but an Ossoff victory could have helped Democrats raise money and recruit candidates as they try to win back the House of Representatives in 2018. Party leaders profess encouragement from the trends, but the latest losses mean they will have to rally donors and volunteers after a tough stretch of special elections. She becomes Georgia's first female Republican member of the U.S. House. But the spirited and well-funded campaign failed to fend off Handel, an experienced 55-year-old Georgia politician who served as Georgia's Secretary of State between 2006 and 2009, in addition to running failed campaigns for governor and senator.
"I have to start, first of all, by saying thank you", Handel said to all of her supporters gathered at her elections' headquarters.
Trump barely won the district in November, giving Democrats an opening once Republican Tom Price resigned the seat to join the president's Cabinet as health secretary.
Trump won the highly-educated Georgia 6th District by only 1.5 points a year ago.
Trump's party also claimed victory in another congressional race Tuesday, in neighboring SC. He has said the address is close to Emory University, where his fiancee attends medical school.
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