The runoff race came after none of the candidates in the Aug. 26 special election met the 50-percent-plus-one vote majority threshold.

Dickerson bested Debra Shigley after she pulled off a better-than-expected performance in the initial election in August.

Republican Jason Dickerson defeated a nationally backed Democratic challenger in a runoff special election Tuesday to represent a state Senate district in parts of Fulton and Cherokee counties.

A GOP business owner won a Georgia state Senate race Tuesday over a Democrat who drew national attention for a better-than-expected showing in a special election last month. Republican Jason Dickerson bested Democrat Debra Shigley in the runoff after no candidate in a seven-person field won a majority to take the seat outright in August.

Republican businessman Jason Dickerson beat Democrat Debra Shigley in the Tuesday runoff after no candidate in a seven-person field won a majority to take the seat outright in August. Dickerson, who had a big lead in unofficial results, declared victory on Tuesday night, and Shigley conceded.

Brad Raffensperger, the two-term Republican secretary of state, joins a primary that also includes the state’s lieutenant governor and attorney general.

On Aug. 14, 2023, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was the picture of solemnity as she and her team walked to a lectern to announce they had secured charges against then-former President Donald Trump and 18 of his allies for taking part in a sweeping criminal enterprise to overturn the results of Georgia’s 2020 election.

President calls Fulton County district attorney a ‘criminal’ and slams ‘weaponization’ despite his own felony convictions and threats to prosecute opponents