The 2025 election results made one thing clear: voters want lower energy bills and support clean energy as a solution. On Tuesday, voters nationwide overwhelmingly elected candidates who ran on lower bills and cleaner energy. The races for governor in New Jersey and Virginia, as well as Georgia’s Public Service Commission election, are three key examples. Here’s what you need to know about the winning candidates and how their policies will benefit you and your energy bills.

New Jersey Voters Elect Mikie Sherrill for Governor to Fix Soaring Energy Costs

New Jerseyans, like the rest of the country, are facing soaring energy costs, and the election results show they’ve had enough. Energy prices in New Jersey are up 17-20% this year alone. And with demand increasing, fossil fuel prices rising, and Trump shuttering clean energy infrastructure, prices are only getting worse.

Fed up with sky-high electricity bills and anxious for a governor with solutions, New Jersey voters elected former Representative Mikie Sherrill. Sherrill decisively defeated opponent Jack Ciattarelli, winning over 56% of the vote. LCV and New Jersey LCV connected with voters across the state and its political arm ran a $1.7 million ad campaign to help her win.

While Sherrill ran a campaign laser-focused on her affordability agenda, her opponent championed out-of-touch policies that would raise energy bills.

Ciattarelli planned to pull New Jersey out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which has saved New Jerseyans millions on their electric bills. He also wanted to remove electricity from the grid by banning offshore wind. An independent, nonpartisan study found that his plans would cost New Jerseyans $900 per year in new energy costs.

In contrast, Sherrill listened to voters’ concerns about their soaring energy costs and laid out a realistic plan to address them. During her campaign, she promised to:

The New Jersey election results make it clear: voters want affordable energy solutions, and they trust Sherrill to deliver them as governor.

Virginians Elect Abigail Spanberger as Governor to Address Out-of-Control Energy Bills

Across Virginia, prices for groceries, for housing, and especially for energy are on the rise. In Tuesday’s election, Virginians overwhelmingly chose former Representative Abigail Spanberger for governor because of her relentless focus on affordability throughout the campaign. Virginia LCV PAC invested over $1.6 million and knocked on over 210,000 doors across the state to talk to voters about energy prices to ensure they knew the stakes of this election.

To help Virginians struggling with high energy bills, Spanberger laid out her plan to:

In contrast, Spanberger’s opponent Winsome Earle-Sears focused her campaign on culture war issues. When pressed on energy prices, she laid out plans to gut clean energy programs and get rid of thousands of jobs in Virginia. Instead of helping Virginians struggling with high costs, these policies would make matters even worse. Spanberger comfortably defeated Earle-Sears, earning over 57% of the vote. 

Under Spanberger’s leadership, Virginia will see more clean energy generation, more accountability for utility companies and data centers, and lower energy costs for everyday Virginians.

Georgia Voters Elect Peter Hubbard and Dr. Alicia Johnson to the Georgia Public Service Commission to Bring Down Energy Costs

Georgians have seen their energy bills increase six times in the last two years, costing households an additional $600 each year on average. As prices rise on everything from groceries to housing, Georgians can’t afford these skyrocketing energy costs.

To address this crisis, voters elected Peter Hubbard and Dr. Alicia Johnson to Georgia’s Public Service Commission (PSC). The PSC reviews and approves utility companies’ rates and new energy project plans. These elections do not typically draw national attention or large turnout, but as energy costs soar, Hubbard and Johnson’s solutions drew nearly 22% of eligible Georgians to the polls.

Hubbard and Johnson won voters’ support with their plan to tackle rising energy costs by: 

LCV’s state affiliate Georgia Conservation Voters Action Fund reached out to voters in the community in support of Hubbard and Johnson. They invested over $2.2 million in organizing and communicating with voters.

For five years, the all-Republican Public Service Commission has rubber-stamped rate hikes that drove up Georgian’s bills. Hubbard and Johnson will work to make energy bills cheaper with clean energy – not to increase utility companies’ profits. 

The 2025 election results make it clear: voters are fed up with soaring energy bills. They want leaders who will deliver cost-cutting, clean energy solutions. Meanwhile, the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress are propping up their Big Oil & Gas donors and driving costs up even more. We must continue to send them the message: Stop increasing our costs!  Call your member of Congress and tell them to support clean energy and lower bills, not more corporate profits.