Voters in northwest Georgia will go to the polls on March 10 to choose a successor to U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, whose resignation from Congress followed five years marked by political turmoil, the Associated Press reported.

Gov. Brian Kemp set the election date Tuesday, according to AP. The special election is for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, a seat whose Republican lineage is expected to keep the winner in the GOP column.

The field to succeed Greene is already expanding. As many as 19 Republicans have said they will run or are considering it, including state Sen. Colton Moore of Trenton, District Attorney Clayton Fuller, and Paulding County businessman Brian Stover, AP reported. Reagan Box of Armuchee, who had been running a longshot campaign for the Republican nomination for Senate, switched into the 14th District race in December.

On the Democratic side, Shawn Harris, the Democratic nominee who lost to Greene in 2024, is seeking the seat, as is Democrat Clarence Blalock of Hiram. The AP report also listed independent Rob Ruszkowski of Rising Fawn as a candidate.

Candidates will compete on the all-party ballot on March 10. If no one wins a majority, the top two finishers will advance to a runoff four weeks later on April 7.

The district stretches from Atlanta’s northwest suburbs through all or part of 10 counties to the Tennessee state line. Cook Political Report has rated it as Georgia’s most Republican-leaning district, and voters in the district supported Greene’s hard-right campaign in 2020 when she parachuted into the seat after initially starting a campaign in a more closely contested district closer to Atlanta, AP reported.

AP also outlined Greene’s political path in recent years, saying she remained loyal to Donald Trump after Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden and promoted Trump’s falsehoods about a stolen election. When Trump ran again in 2024, AP reported that Greene toured the country with him, spoke at his rallies, and wore a red “Make America Great Again” hat.

The AP report said Greene’s relationship with Trump deteriorated last year after Republicans pushed back against her running for U.S. Senate or governor. AP reported that Greene criticized Trump’s foreign policy and his reluctance to release documents involving the Jeffrey Epstein case, and that Trump said he would support a primary challenge. AP said Greene announced about a week later that she would resign.

The AP report said replacing Greene with another Republican would bolster a narrow GOP minority after the death Monday night of Republican Doug LaMalfa, a seven-term U.S. representative from California following a medical emergency. AP reported that LaMalfa’s death and Greene’s resignation narrowed the House to 218 seats for Republicans and 213 for Democrats.

Candidates will qualify for three days next week, AP reported. It said that candidates who intend to serve out more than the remainder of Greene’s term must qualify again during March 2 through March 6, in the week before the special election.

AP said party primaries for the November general election are scheduled for May 19.