Metro Atlanta voters will head to the polls again in November to fill another vacancy in the Georgia Senate, after Democrat Jason Esteves resigned his seat this month.

Esteves, a former Atlanta school board member who was first elected to the Senate in 2022, resigned from the District 35 post on Sept. 10 to focus on his gubernatorial campaign.

He was re-elected without opposition in November, and voters in his Senate district in Cobb and Fulton counties will be invited back to the polls Nov. 18 to name a successor, the Georgia Secretary of State’s office said Wednesday.

A runoff, if necessary, will be held Dec. 16. Candidate qualifying will occur Sept. 29 to Oct. 1, with absentee voting starting Oct. 27.

Voters in Cherokee and Fulton counties went to the polls Tuesday to select a succe

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