Georgia will have special statewide elections along with city races in 2025

The five Republican members of the Georgia Public Service Commission meet Dec. 19, 2023, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy, File)

Georgia will have off-cycle statewide elections this year, along with regularly scheduled municipal elections.

Those statewide races come after a long legal challenge to the Georgia Public Service Commission’s (PSC) election structure, which led to no PSC elections in 2022 and 2024. The PSC is the small but powerful board that makes critical decisions about energy and electricity in Georgia.

There are a total of eight candidates running for seats currently held by Republicans Tim Echols and Fitz Johnson.