Georgia held a special statewide election on November 4, 2025, to elect two Public Service Commissioners. This is a partisan office. The election was noteworthy for several reasons.

It was the first time Georgia has held an odd year statewide election to elect state officers since 1883. Normally all Georgia elections for statewide state office are in November of even years.

It was the first statewide election since 1986 in which the Libertarian Party was not on the ballot for statewide office.

The election results were an overwhelming victory for the two Democratic nominees. One polled 62.7% and the other polled 62.9%. This was the first time Democrats had won any state statewide office since 2006. See the results here.

The Public Service Commission regulates utilities. It has five members, so Republicans still have a 3-2 majority.

Georgia held this special election because the office was missing from the ballot in 2024. It was missing in that election because of a lawsuit arguing that electing commissioners statewide violated the federal Voting Rights Act. The plaintiffs won that case in U.S. District Court, but lost in the Eleventh Circuit. But the litigation postponed the 2024 election. And because the office was not on the ballot in 2024, the Libertarian Party fell off the statewide ballot. Normally Libertarians always polled enough votes for Public Service Commissioner to retain statewide qualified status. But because that office was missing in 2024, and because there was no U.S. Senate election in Georgia in 2024 either, the Libertarians couldn’t meet the vote test. Georgia Libertarians never get enough votes for president to meet the vote test, except that they did in 2016.

A final irony is that one of the winners in the 2025 election is African-American.