At this time, Georgia was a one-party state, and the Democratic nomination was tantamount to victory.

Talmadge was re-elected in the November general election without an opponent.

From 1917 until 1962, the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of Georgia used a voting system called the county unit system to determine victors in statewide primary elections.

[1] The system was ostensibly designed to function similarly to the Electoral College, but in practice the large ratio of unit votes for small, rural counties to unit votes for more populous urban areas provided outsized political influence to the smaller counties.

Each county's unit votes were awarded on a winner-take-all basis.