NATIONAL ELECTION RETURNS : EDITION-TIME COMPILATIONS : State-by-State Election Reports of Key Races and Issues : Georgia
Democratic Rep. Wyche Fowler upset freshman Sen. Mack Mattingly, becoming the only Georgia Republican since Reconstruction to serve in the upper chamber.
With 92% of the precincts reporting, Fowler, 45, a five-term congressman from Atlanta, had 562,626 or 52% of the vote to Mattingly’s 523,626 or 48%.
Fowler defeated former Jimmy Carter chief of staff Hamilton Jordan in the August Democratic primary.
Gov. Joe Frank Harris became Georgia’s second two-term governor in modern times by swamping Republican Guy Davis with 71% of the vote.
Former civil rights leader John Lewis, a Democrat, easily defeated Republican journalist Portia Scott in Georgia’s 5th District to become the state’s second black congressman since Reconstruction. He assumes Fowler’s seat, which was once held by Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young.
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