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Scott Johnson (Georgia)
Scott Johnson (Republican Party) ran for election to the Georgia State Senate to represent District 37. Johnson lost in the Republican primary on May 24, 2022.
Johnson was also a district-level delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Georgia.[1] In the Georgia Republican primary election on March 1, 2016, Donald Trump won 42 delegates, Marco Rubio won 16, and Ted Cruz won 18. Ballotpedia was not able to identify which candidate Johnson was bound by state party rules to support at the national convention. If you have information on how Georgia’s Republican delegates were allocated, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.[2]
Elections
2022
See also: Georgia State Senate elections, 2022
General election
General election for Georgia State Senate District 37
Ed Setzler defeated Vanessa Parker in the general election for Georgia State Senate District 37 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Ed Setzler (R) | 58.8 | 51,953 |
| Vanessa Parker (D) | 41.2 | 36,341 | ||
| Total votes: 88,294 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Georgia State Senate District 37
Vanessa Parker defeated Titus Nichols in the Democratic primary for Georgia State Senate District 37 on May 24, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Vanessa Parker | 70.0 | 8,920 | |
 | Titus Nichols | 30.0 | 3,823 | |
| Total votes: 12,743 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Georgia State Senate District 37
Ed Setzler defeated David Delk and Scott Johnson in the Republican primary for Georgia State Senate District 37 on May 24, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ed Setzler | 54.1 | 16,504 |
| David Delk | 25.9 | 7,912 | ||
| Scott Johnson | 20.0 | 6,103 | ||
| Total votes: 30,519 | |||
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
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Delegate rules
Delegates from Georgia to the Republican National Convention were elected at district conventions and the state convention in June 2016. Delegates from Georgia were "bound" to the candidate to whom they were allocated through the first round of voting at the national convention unless their candidate withdrew from the race after the state primary election—in which case Georgia state law required those delegates to be "unpledged" at the national convention.
Georgia primary results
- See also: Presidential election in Georgia, 2016
| Georgia Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
 Donald Trump |
38.8% | 502,994 | 42 | |
| Marco Rubio | 24.4% | 316,836 | 16 | |
| Ted Cruz | 23.6% | 305,847 | 18 | |
| John Kasich | 5.6% | 72,508 | 0 | |
| Ben Carson | 6.2% | 80,723 | 0 | |
| Jeb Bush | 0.6% | 7,686 | 0 | |
| Chris Christie | 0.1% | 1,486 | 0 | |
| Carly Fiorina | 0.1% | 1,146 | 0 | |
| Lindsey Graham | 0% | 428 | 0 | |
| Mike Huckabee | 0.2% | 2,625 | 0 | |
| George Pataki | 0% | 236 | 0 | |
| Rand Paul | 0.2% | 2,910 | 0 | |
| Rick Santorum | 0% | 539 | 0 | |
| Totals | 1,295,964 | 76 | ||
| Source: Georgia Secretary of State and CNN | ||||
Delegate allocation
Georgia had 76 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 42 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's 14 congressional districts). District-level delegates were allocated proportionally; the highest vote-getter in a congressional district received two of that district's delegates, and the second highest vote-getter received the remaining delegate. If a candidate won more than 50 percent of the vote in a given district, he or she won all three of that district's delegates.[3][4]
Of the remaining 34 delegates, 31 served at large. At-large delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; a candidate had to win at least 20 percent of the statewide vote in order to be eligible to win any of Georgia's at-large delegates. If a candidate won more than 50 percent of the statewide vote, he or she received all of the state's at-large delegates. In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as bound delegates to the Republican National Convention.[3][4]
See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ AJC, "Ted Cruz backers lose bid to pack Georgia GOP delegate slate," June 4, 2016
- ↑ To build our list of the state and territorial delegations to the 2016 Republican National Convention, Ballotpedia relied primarily upon official lists provided by state and territorial Republican parties, email exchanges and phone interviews with state party officials, official lists provided by state governments, and, in some cases, unofficial lists compiled by local media outlets. When possible, we included what type of delegate the delegate is (at-large, district-level, or RNC) and which candidate they were bound by state and national party bylaws to support at the convention. For most delegations, Ballotpedia was able to track down all of this information. For delegations where we were not able to track down this information or were only able to track down partial lists, we included this note. If you have additional information on this state's delegation, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
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