Former Albany district attorney Kenneth B. Hodges III easily won the Democratic primary for attorney general Tuesday, while the Republican race for AG is headed to a runoff.

Former Cobb County Commission chairman Samuel S. Olens and state Sen. Preston W. Smith of Rome will face each other in a runoff in three weeks. Olens won 39.9 percent of the GOP vote, with 98 percent of precincts reporting, followed by Smith at 30.6 percent, according to unofficial results. F. Maxwell Wood, former U.S. attorney for Georgia’s M idle District, won 29.5 percent.

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