Politics
Georgia's 13th Congressional District prepares for special runoff election
Democrats Everton Blair and Marcye Scott face off on Tuesday to temporarily fill the seat of the late U.S. Representative David Scott.
The short version
- A special runoff election is scheduled for Tuesday in Georgia’s 13th Congressional District to replace the late Democratic U.S. Representative David Scott, who died on April 22.
- The runoff features two Democrats, former Gwinnett County School Board Chair Everton Blair and Marcye Scott, daughter of the late congressman, with the winner filling the seat until January 3, 2027.
- Neither runoff candidate is running for the subsequent full term, and voter turnout is expected to be low, with only about 5,200 early ballots cast ahead of Tuesday.
Key facts
- The election will temporarily fill the vacancy left by the death of Representative David Scott on April 22.[Associated Press]
- The runoff candidates are Everton Blair, who won 38% of the vote in the five-candidate July 28 special election, and Marcye Scott, who won 46%.[Associated Press]
- Neither Blair nor Scott is running for the next full term starting on January 3, 2027.[Associated Press]
- State Representative Jasmine Clark won the Democratic primary for the full term and will face Republican Jonathan Chavez in November.[Associated Press]
- Out of approximately 585,000 registered voters in the heavily Democratic district, around 5,200 early and mail-in ballots had been cast as of Friday.[Associated Press]
What remains uncertain
- The final turnout for the runoff remains uncertain, though runoffs in Georgia typically draw fewer voters than the initial elections, which in this case drew 20,510 voters.[Associated Press]