New Delhi, March 11 -- Republican Clayton Fuller and Democrat Shawn Harris have advanced to a runoff in the special House election in Georgia's 14th Congressional District. The two leading candidates will face each other in the runoff on April 7 in the race to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene in the US House of Representatives.

Harris won the most votes in the special election on Tuesday (43,241), followed by Fuller (40,388).

In Georgia, a runoff election is held when no candidate receives a majority of the vote in a general or special election. According to the rules, a candidate must receive more than 50% of the total votes cast to win outright. If no candidate reaches this threshold, the top two vote-getters advance to a runoff electio...