Four candidates ran for two seats on the Georgia Public Service Commission in the general election on November 3, 2026. Incumbent Peter Hubbard (D) defeated Fitz Johnson (R) to win the general election in District 3. Shelia Edwards (D) defeated Josh Tolbert (R) to win in District 5. District 5 incumbent Tricia Pridemore (R) ran for the U.S. House rather than seeking re-election.

Because both Hubbard and Edwards won, Democrats won a 3-2 majority on the commission. The 2025 elections had replaced the commission's 5-0 Republican majority with a 3-2 Republican majority. If either Hubbard or Edwards had lost, Republicans would have maintained their majority.

Hubbard and Johnson ran in the District 3 election.

Hubbard defeated then-incumbent Johnson in a special election in 2025. He was a former energy analyst who ran unsuccessfully for the Georgia House of Representatives in 2022. His campaign website said he had "[p]ublished a data center cost analysis estimating that data center electricity discounts shift over a billion dollars in infrastructure costs onto residential customers."

Johnson was a U.S. Army veteran and businessman. Governor Brian Kemp (R) appointed him to the board in 2021, where he served until 2025. In a post on X.com, Johnson said, "Data centers should pay their fair share of the power bill, and because of the protections I put in place during my time as Public Service Commissioner in Georgia, they will."

Edwards and Tolbert ran in the District 5 election.

Edwards was a business owner who ran unsuccessfully for the Georgia House of Representatives in 2016 and 2018. She was the Democratic nominee to run against Johnson in 2022 before that election was canceled. Her campaign website said, "As massive data centers and AI facilities place increasing demands on our electric grid, they must pay the full cost of the infrastructure needed to serve them—not shift those costs onto residential customers and small businesses.

Tolbert was an engineer and business owner who ran unsuccessfully for the Georgia Senate in 2025. Tolbert completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey. In his survey response, Tolbert wrote, "I believe the complex, multibillion-dollar decisions before the Public Service Commission require strong technical expertise, rigorous oversight, and a relentless focus on affordability and reliability. I am running to bring an engineer’s perspective to the PSC by asking hard questions, digging into the details, and making decisions based on facts, engineering, and economics rather than politics or ideology."

The Georgia Public Service Commission is a five-member board responsible for regulating Georgia's public utilities. Although members represent districts, they are elected statewide to six-year terms. Scheduled elections in 2022 and 2024 were canceled because of a then-ongoing lawsuit challenging the statewide election of commissioners.