On June 19, 2007, the U.S. state of Georgia held a special election to fill a vacancy in Georgia's 10th congressional district. A runoff was held on July 17 with Paul Broun defeating Jim Whitehead by less than 1%.^[1]

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2007 Georgia's 10th congressional district special election

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Nominee Paul Broun Jim Whitehead Party Republican Republican Popular vote 23,529 23,135 Percentage 50.4% 49.6%

County results Broun:      50–60%      60-70%      70-80%      80-90% Whitehead:      50–60%      60-70%      70-80%

U.S. Representative before election Charlie Norwood Republican Elected U.S. Representative Paul Broun Republican

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The vacancy was created by the death of incumbent Republican Charlie Norwood.^[2] Norwood won reelection in 2006 with 67% of the vote.

Since this is a nonpartisan special election, all candidates for the election were listed alphabetically, though their party affiliations are noted on the ballot.^[3] According to Georgia law, to win outright, a candidate needed a majority vote; since no candidate won more than 50% of the vote, the top two finishers competed in a runoff election on July 17, 2007.

The following candidates were on the June 19 ballot.^[3][4] They are listed here alphabetically: first by party, then by name.

No candidate received a majority in the June 19 election so a runoff between Republicans Jim Whitehead and Paul Broun was held on July 17. Democrat James Marlow, the third-place finisher, had the right to request a recount within 48 hours of the official certification of the election results on June 25, 2007, due to the very small difference in total votes for himself and Broun,^[5] but did not do so.^[6]

The official returns for the June 19 election and the July 17 run-off are:

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