We've been getting quite a few questions about the runoff election in Georgia, so we've asked Barbara Miller to explain it all for us:
The result of the Senate race in Georgia could determine whether the Democrats or the Republicans hold the balance of power in that chamber, the upper house.
Now bear with me here for some hopefully simple arithmetic.
Each state has two Senators, making 100, so you need to get to 51 to hold the majority.
After these midterms the Democrats have 48 Senators, the Republicans 49.
We are waiting on the results from three races, in Arizona, Nevada and Georgia.
If Arizona goes to the Democrats, as is currently looking likely on votes counted so far, and Nevada to the Republicans, again on current voting tally, then the Republicans have 50 and the Democrats 49.
That makes Georgia key. If the Republicans take it, they have 51 seats and the majority.
If the Democrats take it, it's split 50-50, but the Vice-President Kamala Harris gets to cast the deciding vote, and as you know she's a Democrat.
Georgia is one of only two states, the other is Louisiana, where if no candidate gets more than 50 per cent of the vote in the first round, the race goes to a run-off between the two strongest candidates.
That's what also happened in the 2020 elections.
This time we'll have a shorter wait.
Since then the time between the election and the run-off has been shortened from nine weeks to 28 days.
Now if the Republicans take Arizona and Nevada it's all over and Georgia is not important, same goes if the Democrats take those two states.
As I said there's some simple maths involved, but it looks likely that Georgia again will be key, and it's a fascinating contest there between Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker.
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