| Election Name: | 1992 United States Senate election in Georgia |
| Country: | Georgia (U.S. state) |
| Flag Year: | 1956 |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1986 United States Senate election in Georgia |
| Previous Year: | 1986 |
| Next Election: | 1998 United States Senate election in Georgia |
| Next Year: | 1998 |
| Election Date: | November 3, 1992 (first round) November 24, 1992 (runoff) |
| 1Blank: | First round |
| 2Blank: | Runoff |
| Image1: | Paul Coverdell - R-GA.jpeg |
| Nominee1: | Paul Coverdell |
| Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
| 1Data1: | 1,073,282 47.67% |
| 2Data1: | 635,118 50.65% |
| Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| 1Data2: | 1,108,416 49.23% |
| 2Data2: | 618,774 49.35% |
| U.S. Senator | |
| Before Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| After Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
The 1992 United States Senate election in Georgia was held on November 3, 1992. In the general election, which occurred simultaneously with the presidential election, incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Wyche Fowler received more votes, but did not achieve a simple majority. Under Georgia law, this demanded a runoff. Paul Coverdell, the former Director of the Peace Corps, edged out Fowler in the November 24 runoff by a narrow margin, flipping the seat to the Republicans. It was the first Senate runoff election to be held in Georgia since runoffs were first mandated in 1964. This was the third consecutive election for this Senate seat where the incumbent was defeated.
The general primary was held July 21, 1992.[1] A run-off between the top two Republican contenders was held on August 11, in which Paul Coverdell defeated Bob Barr.
Results[2] for the first round showed that since Paul Coverdell did not win a majority of the vote, a runoff was held between him and Barr. Coverdell subsequently won the runoff.
As no candidate reached a majority on November 3, a runoff election was held on November 24, which Coverdell won.
The Georgia Legislature, then controlled by Democrats, changed the state's laws requiring a run-off election only if the winning candidate received less than 45% of the vote. In the 1996 Senate election, the winner, Democrat Max Cleland won with only 48.9% (1.4% ahead of Republican Guy Millner) thus avoiding a run-off. In 2005 after Republicans took control of the legislature, the run-off requirement was changed back to 50%.[3]
The result of this election would later repeat in reverse in the 2020-2021 regular Senate election in Georgia, with Republican David Perdue winning the first round but falling less than one percent below the 50% threshold required to avoid a runoff, and then being defeated in the runoff by Democrat Jon Ossoff with a similar one point margin.[4]