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COLUMBUS -- Republican Mike DeWine has fought back a challenge by Cincinnati lawyer David Pepper to win a second term as Ohio's attorney general.

DeWine defeated Pepper on Tuesday. As a former state lawmaker, Ohio lieutenant governor and U.S. senator, DeWine is among Ohio's most well-known politicians.

Pepper is a former city councilman and Hamilton County commissioner, and he ran an aggressive campaign against DeWine.

He criticized DeWine for a host of actions. Those included awarding lucrative state business to the inexperienced firm of a friend, personally interfering in an internal sexual harassment investigation and delaying release of store video after a high-profile Walmart shooting.

None of it stuck.

In a statement conceding the election, Pepper congratulated DeWine on the win.

Campaigns are about far more than any one candidate, so I want to thank our supporters and the hard-working volunteers who helped us along the way," Pepper said. "I m proud that we ve been able to lead a substantive statewide conversation on how to best keep Ohioans safe, beat back Ohio s growing heroin epidemic, and clean up government so it works for all Ohioans.

DeWine's campaign emphasized the former prosecutor's get-tough approach to corruption and fraud and progress in addressing a backlog of untested rape kits.

Also, Republican Jon Husted has won re-election as Ohio secretary of state by topping Democratic state Sen. Nina Turner in one of the year's most-spirited contests.

Husted is a former Ohio House speaker and Dayton-area state senator who won his bid for the election chief's job Tuesday.

Turner led a Democratic charge for the office that centered on allegations that Husted and Ohio's all-Republican power structure had taken administrative, legislative and legal steps intended to disenfranchise the party's voters.

Former President Bill Clinton and talk show host Jerry Springer were among those who helped the Cleveland lawmaker's campaign.

As the incumbent, Husted oversaw administration of the state election and did little campaigning. His campaign touted his directive setting uniform statewide voting hours and conducting Ohio's first comprehensive voter fraud investigation.

Republican Dave Yost has defeated Democrat John Patrick Carney to win a second term as Ohio's state auditor.

Yost had been seen as one of the year's most vulnerable incumbents, after winning by a narrow margin four years ago.

He elevated the office's profile during his four-year term through efforts to audit Republican Gov. John Kasich's privatized job-creation office, JobsOhio, and through a statewide investigation of potential attendance tampering at public schools across Ohio.

Carney, a state representative from Columbus, called Yost's enforcement efforts against publicly funded charter schools too weak.

At the same time, he touted his own legislative record as one of bipartisan cooperation and said he would bring that same spirit to the auditor's office.

Yost is a lawyer and a former county prosecutor and journalist.

Gov. Kasich and Treasurer Josh Mandel also won reelection tonight.