White voters dominated Georgia’s election last month

New turnout numbers released Tuesday by the Secretary of State’s Office highlighted the continuing dominance by white voters, who cast nearly two-thirds of the ballots this fall despite their share of Georgia’s registered electorate having dipped to historic lows. The numbers, broken down by race and ethnicity, show no real surprises, but some overarching gems can be gleaned from the data:

28.6% — African-American voters saw their highest turnout ever in a midterm, but an increase of less than 1 percent from the last midterm in 2010 wasn’t the surge Democrats needed. It also likely highlights a gap over individual candidates or issues such as immigration. “A midterm election with an unpopular president probably made it harder,” said Kerwin Swint, chairman of the political science department at Kennesaw State University.