Republican Sam Olens, a former Cobb County Commission chairman, won the race for Georgia attorney general Tuesday night, avoiding a runoff. With 97 percent of precincts reporting, Olens had captured 52.8 percent of the vote. Democrat Ken Hodges had 43.7 percent and Libertarian Don Smart had 3.5 percent.
Hodges, Olens and Smart were vying to succeed Attorney General Thurbert E. Baker, a Democrat, who is leaving the office after launching an unsuccessful bid for governor this year. It was Georgia’s first election since 1942 in which there was not be an incumbent attorney general on the ballot.
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