Marcye Scott, the daughter of late U.S. Rep. David Scott, drew the most votes in Tuesday’s special election to complete his term, and will face former Gwinnett County School Board Chair Everton Blair in an Aug. 25 runoff.

Scott took 46% of the vote to Blair’s 37% in the race between five candidates. An outright victory would have required a majority.

The two Democrats are vying to fill the U.S. House District 13 seat for the rest of the year after Scott died in April at age 80.

The election to succeed Scott for a full two-year term will be held in November, when state Rep. Jasmine Clark, D-Lilburn, will go up against Republican Jonathan Chavez.

Clark won the Democratic primary in May with 56% of the vote, or more than 61,000 in her contest against five other Democrats. Chavez had no opponents in the Republican primary and collected more than 25,000 votes.

The turnout for Tuesday’s special election was far lower at 3.9%, with just over 21,000 casting a ballot.

Scott won handily in five of the six counties represented by the metro Atlanta congressional district. Blair took the vast majority of votes in Gwinnett County, the most populous among them.

Women outvoted men by nearly 70%, and Black voters outnumbered white voters by nearly three to one. More than 13,000 Black voters went to the polls compared with fewer than 5,000 white voters. Only 257 Hispanic voters cast a ballot.

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