1946 Georgia gubernatorial election
The 1946 Georgia gubernatorial election took place on November 5, 1946, in order to elect the Governor of Georgia.
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410 county unit votes 206 unit votes needed to win | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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County results Talmadge: 40-50% 50-60% 60-70% 70-80% 80-90% Carmichael: 30-40% 40-50% 50-60% 60-70% 70-80% Rivers: 30-40% 40-50% 50-60% 60-70% 80–90% >90% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Incumbent Democratic Governor Ellis Arnall was term-limited, and ineligible to run for a second term before spending four years out of office (thus in 1950).
As was common at the time, the Democratic candidate ran with only token opposition in the general election so therefore the Democratic primary was the real contest, and winning the primary was considered tantamount to election. The Republican Party was utterly unviable in Georgia at the time, and had not even nominated a candidate of its own.
The election was won by the Democratic nominee and former Governor Eugene Talmadge, who died weeks later in mid-December, before his scheduled inauguration in January 1947. Talmadge's death created the three governors controversy in Georgia.