Two contrasting elections took place on the same Tuesday in the United States, offering a test of Republican and Democratic party strength in very different political territory. In Georgia, a special election was held to fill the congressional seat left vacant by the death of Democratic Representative David Scott, who died in April at the age of 80, while a separate runoff was under way in South Dakota, together making for an unusual split-screen contest watched closely by both parties.

The Georgia seat covers a heavily Democratic-leaning district in Atlanta's southern and eastern suburbs, including Stockbridge, Conyers and Snellville, with the general election ballot already decided and Tuesday's vote determining who would serve out the remainder of Scott's term. The available article text is incomplete, so further specific details of the South Dakota runoff and the eventual results were not provided.