Georgia voters are deciding who will fill the congressional seat left vacant by former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday. Greene’s public feud with President Donald Trump ended in her resignation from Congress on January 5.
The special election for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District is a crowded free-for-all, with 17 active candidates on the ballot — 12 Republicans, three Democrats, one Libertarian, and one independent. Because Georgia special elections don’t use party primaries, all candidates appear on a single ballot.
If no one clears 50% of the vote tonight, the top two vote-getters advance to an April 7 runoff.
Most experts expect a runoff to be virtually certain given the sheer number of candidates splitting the vote.
Trump has thrown his full weight behind Clay Fuller, a former district attorney in northwest Georgia’s Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit, who he endorsed on February 4. The president visited the district last month, stopping in Rome to tour a steel factory where Fuller greeted him onstage.
“I think they’re looking for someone to carry President Trump’s banner, support his agenda and fight for them on Capitol Hill,” Fuller told Georgia Public Broadcasting.
Former state Sen. Colton Moore is considered Fuller’s most serious Republican competition. Moore, an auctioneer and former Georgia state senator, has branded himself as one of the most conservative lawmakers in the state and won strong support from far-right grassroots activists.
On the Democratic side, retired Army Brig. Gen. Shawn Harris — who lost to Greene in the 2024 general election — is the clear frontrunner. Harris has raised more than $4 million, far outpacing the entire field. One Georgia-based political analyst predicted Harris would actually finish first in tonight’s voting, with Moore coming in second — a scenario that would knock Trump’s endorsed candidate out of the runoff entirely.
The district is rated Solid Republican by the Cook Political Report. Trump carried it by 37 points in 2024. A Democrat winning the seat outright is considered essentially impossible.
Polls close at 7 p.m. EST. Results are expected to begin coming in shortly after.