After gaining a total of 11 seats in the Georgia state House in 2018, this was supposed to be the year that demographic change and Democratic energy overturned the Republican majority in the lower chamber of the General Assembly.
It didn’t happen.
With seven seats still uncalled in the 180-member House, Republicans had won 100 as of Wednesday evening and the Democrats had won 73. The minority party might gain one or two seats once all remaining votes are tallied, but nothing like the 16 needed to overturn the 105-75 majority that Republicans held going into the election. Plus, the GOP successfully poured a giant sum into defeating Democratic minority leader Bob Trammell in his district southwest of Atlanta, eliminating the last white Democrat representing a rural district in the House and leaving Democrats to choose a new floor general next week.
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