Georgia state senators celebrate the end of a voting session. A March 10 special election will fill the vacant District 53 seat representing all of Chattooga, Walker, Dade and Catoosa and a part of Floyd County . Four candidates will be on the ballot for the Georgia State Senate District 53 special election March 10. Qualifying for the race ended Monday , Feb. 2, at 1 p.m., and the candidates who qualified are three Republicans — Blake Elsberry of Walker County, Denise Pierce Burns of Catoosa County and Lanny Thomas of Chattooga County — and one Democrat, John Bentley Zibluk of Walker County. All candidates will appear together on the ballot; there will be no primary race. The winner must receive more than 50% of the vote, and a runoff, if necessary, will be April 7. District 53 represents a small northwestern portion of Floyd County and all of Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade and Walker counties. The special election is for the seat previously held by Colton Moore, a Republican from Dade County who resigned from his post in January to run for the U.S. House District 14 special election. Moore has joined the 20 other candidates vying for the seat that Marjorie Taylor Greene resigned from a
