Republican Clay Fuller defeated Democrat Shawn Harris in the runoff election to fill the former GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene‘s vacant House seat.
Fuller, endorsed by President Donald Trump, received about 57.5% of the vote, compared to Harris’s 42.5%, according to the Associated Press as of Tuesday evening. The win for Fuller brings the GOP margin in the House up to four, as Fuller will become the 218th Republican member.
The former district attorney will serve the remainder of the term in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District until it expires in January 2027.
Neither Fuller nor Harris initially reached the 50% threshold required in the first round of special election voting, bringing the two top finishers to Tuesday’s runoff. Harris, a retired Army brigadier general, previously ran against Greene in 2024.
Fuller’s 15-point margin over Harris is a double-digit difference from Greene’s. Green defeated Harris in 2024 by a 28.8-point margin, earning 64.4% of the vote compared to Harris’s 35.6%. In 2022, Greene defeated her Democratic opponent Marcus Flowers by a 31.8-point margin.
Republicans expected to take the seat, in a deep-red district, easily in the runoff, with Democrats looking for a close margin of under 10 points to call it a successful night.
“If it’s under 10 points, I think that that would show that momentum, enthusiasm, and, quite frankly, partisan vote-flipping is continuing to move in Democrats’ directions,” Democratic operative Jon Reinish told the Washington Examiner before election night.
The 15-point margin doesn’t make that mark, but it does cut Greene’s previous margin over Harris by nearly half.
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Greene announced her retirement from Congress in November after her falling out with Trump, who endorsed Fuller for the seat before Greene resigned.
With Fuller becoming the 218th GOP member of Congress, he brings the vacancies down to two in the House. There are 214 Democrats and one independent, Rep. Kevin Kiley (I-CA), who was a Republican until March.