24-Year-Old Unseats Longtime Georgia House Rep. in District 161

24-year-old unseats longtime Georgia House Rep. in District 161

Bill Hitchens represented District 161 in the Georgia House for 18 years but was unseated by a 24-year-old candidate Tuesday.

David Dillie vows to fight Georgia data centers after flipping House District 161

"My constituents are upset." Georgia representative-elect David Dillie says residents don't want a data center in his district, and he'll take that fight to Atlanta.

David Dillie wins House District 161 election amid anger over data center

Democrat David Dillie won Georgia's House District 161 seat, unseating the Republican incumbent amid anger over the planned $20 billion OpenAI data center in Effingham County. The Current is an inclusive nonprofit, non-partisan news organization providing in-depth watchdog journalism for Savannah and Coastal Georgia’s communities.