Persinger beats fellow Republican in Georgia House election

Landscape architect Holt Persinger beat fellow Winder resident Charlie Chase in a runoff on Tuesday in House District 119. to fill a vacant Georgia House seat in northeast Georgia. (Matthew Pearson/WABE)

A landscape architect has beaten a contractor in a special election among two Republicans to fill a vacant Georgia House seat in northeast Georgia.

Holt Persinger beat fellow Winder resident Charlie Chase in a runoff on Tuesday in House District 119, which includes most of Barrow County and a corner of Jackson County.

Persinger won about 60% of votes while Chase won about 40% according to final unofficial results from the Georgia Secretary of State’s office.