All incumbent legislators with East Cobb districts won re-election on Tuesday, including five Republicans and a Democrat.
The two open seats were won by Democrats, one in each chamber.
Current Atlanta school board member Jason Esteves defeated Republican Fred Glass to win State Senate District 6, which includes some of East Cobb and Buckhead (see map).
Esteves got 56 percent of the vote (results here) in a seat that was vacated by Jen Jordan, who lost her bid for Attorney General on Tuesday.
Glass won several East Cobb precincts, including Eastside 1 and 2, Mt. Bethel 3 and 4 and Sope Creek 1, 2 and 3.
Esteves said he is resigning his seat on the Atlanta school board on Dec. 31.
Since 1997, House District 43 has been represented by Republican Sharon Cooper, the House Health and Human Services Committee chairwoman.
But after narrowly defeating Democrat Luisa Wakeman in 2018 and 2020, Cooper was redrawn into District 45.
She easily won another term over Democrat Dustin McCormick (results here), getting nearly 59 percent of the vote in a district formerly held by Matt Dollar.
The new District 43 was won by Democrat Solomon Adesanya, a restaurant owner, over Republican Anna Tillman (results here). He got more than 56 percent of the vote in a district that includes areas around Wheeler High School and parts of the city of Marietta.
Democratic Rep. Mary Frances Williams was re-elected in District 37, as she defeated Republican Tess Redding with 57 percent of the vote (results here).
Esteves, Adesanya and Williams will be part of a Democratic majority of the Cobb legislative delegation.
But Republicans lost only a few seats statewide as they continue to control both houses of the legislature.
GOP Rep. Don Parsons in House District 44 (results here) and Republican Rep. John Carson in District 46 (results here) were easily re-elected on Tuesday.
So were Republican senators Kay Kirkpatrick and John Albers.
Kirkpatrick won a third full term in District 32, which now includes some of Woodstock and Cherokee. She got more than 61 percent of the vote (results here).
District 56 was redrawn to include much of the Johnson Ferry Road corridor in East Cobb. Albers, a Republican from Roswell, also won with more than 61 percent of the vote (results here).
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