ATLANTA — Georgia's "off year" elections in 2025 took on unusual visibility , with two hotly-contested statewide races for the Public Service Commission (PSC) that drew wider attention.

Georgia usually doesn’t have statewide elections in odd-numbered years, but these PSC elections were pushed back by a lawsuit that unsuccessfully challenged the statewide voting scheme as discriminatory to Black people. The commissioners are selected in races everyone in the state votes on, instead of solely by the district they represent (and where they must live).

No Georgia Public Service Commission elections had been held since 2022 because of the lawsuit.

That set the table for strong turnout, and the first statewide wins in Georgia for Democrats in 20 years.

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