The Prince George’s County Council will remain in Democratic hands, according to results posted at 10 p.m. Tuesday.
With 35 percent of District 3 polling places reporting, College Park Democrat Eric C. Olson polled 79 percent of the vote to win the seat vacated by Thomas Hendershot, who is retiring due to term limits.
Republican challenger Jim Wildoner, a 44-year-old financial services representative from New Carrollton, received 21 percent of the vote.
Olson, 46, won an eight-way primary in September. He has served on College Park’s City Council since 1997 and is the director of the College Park Sierra Club’s Healthy Communities Campaign.
In District 5, incumbent Democrat David C. Harrington won 94 percent of the vote to turn back Republican challenger Francis Marshall, who received 5 percent of the vote. Harrington, a former mayor of Bladensburg, has been on the council since 2002.
The council will have another new face besides Olson.
Democrat Ingrid Turner faced no opposition in District 4 to replace Councilman Douglas J.J. Peters, who was elected to the state Senate.
The other six council members, all Democrats, won re-election in uncontested races, as did County Executive Jack B. Johnson.
He staved off a primary challenge in September by Rushern Baker to secure a second four-year term.
Part of the Washington DC Examiner’s 2006 election coverage.
