ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Democrats were celebrating significant nationwide electoral wins on Wednesday, including many key races across Georgia.

The party secured off-year election victories in Atlanta’s mayoral and city council races and for the first time in nearly two decades, secured two spots on Georgia’s Public Service Commission, the body tasked with guiding energy prices statewide.

The election itself served as a bellwether on Republican leadership at the federal level amid an ongoing, and already record-long, 36-day government shutdown that has seen federal workers go without pay and funding for food assistance programs run dry.

Charlie Bailey, chairman of the Democratic Party of Georgia, said Tuesday night’s results bode well heading into a 2026 election year that i

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