As we noted Wednesday in a follow-up story on the defeated East Cobb Cityhood referendum, voters in 16 of the 17 precincts overwhelmingly rejected the creation of a city.
The final but official overall tally is 16,290 NO (73.4 percent) to 5,900 YES (26.6 percent), still to be certified by the Cobb Board of Elections and Registration (you can click through the results here).
A total of 22,190 Cityhood votes were cast in all: 13,043 Tuesday, with 7,686 during early voting and 1,461 absentee by mail votes.
In that lone YES precinct—Sope Creek 3, near the Atlanta Country Club and Chattahoochee Plantation where several Cityhood leaders live—that was a narrow YES, 643 to 600 votes, or 51.7 percent to 48.3 percent.
In all the others, NO votes won in a rout, ranging from 85 percent at the Murdock precinct to 65 percent at Mt. Bethel 3.
Cityhood referendums in Lost Mountain and Vinings also were defeated by narrower margins, with 58 percent and 55 percent, respectively, voting NO.
Sixteen of the 22 precincts in Lost Mountain (full results here) voted NO, with the six voting YES located in the most northwestern part of that proposed city, and none with more than 56 percent of the vote.
In Vinings (full results here), all five precincts voted NO, ranging from 51-59 percent.
A cityhood referendum will take place in Mableton in November.
We’ve compiled precinct-by-precinct breakdowns below for the East Cobb referendum. A couple of notes: the totals in the Pope and Sewell Mill 1 precincts are lower than the others because only a portion of those precincts are located in what was the proposed City of East Cobb.
| YES | NO | |
|---|---|---|
| Chestnut Ridge | 352 | 1,226 |
| Dickerson | 363 | 1,054 |
| Dodgen | 229 | 810 |
| Eastside 1 | 433 | 1,098 |
| Fullers Park | 143 | 496 |
| Hightower | 368 | 1,455 |
| Murdock | 161 | 955 |
| Mt. Bethel 1 | 599 | 1,463 |
| Mt. Bethel 3 | 512 | 953 |
| Mt. Bethel 4 | 468 | 983 |
| Pope | 105 | 402 |
| Roswell 1 | 326 | 1,624 |
| Roswell 2 | 466 | 1,292 |
| Sewell Mill 1 | 41 | 138 |
| Sope Creek 1 | 344 | 843 |
| Sope Creek 3 | 642 | 600 |
| Timber Ridge | 348 | 898 |
| TOTALS | 5,900 | 16,290 |
Related:
- East Cobb Cityhood group: ‘Our polling told a different story’
- East Cobb Cityhood referendum defeated in landslide
- As East Cobb Cityhood vote nears, recent votes have sputtered
- East Cobb News Cityhood information page
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At least now we know where the real East Cobb snobs live.
Never a more poorly organized community organizing event than this. East Cobb deserves better but these clowns were worse. Taxes will go up regardless. How and where they were used was ONE point- Controlling your own destiny. Then sidewalks, bike paths, community centered spaces and better zoning planning for what east cobb can become. No imagination. No organization. No cityhood. Now the councilwoman for district 2 can go on with businesss as usual. Thanks for blowing an opportunity out for positive change. Rookies
East Cobb, Lost Mountain, and Vinings all had a 30-40% voter turnout.
Cobb overall voter turnout was only 18%.
So the cityhood referendums got people out to vote — even in a Primary.
Here’s the voter turnout map:
https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/GA/Cobb/113701/web.285569/#/turnout
And while the vote may still have been NO, the fact the ECC folk played games with the legislation and snuck thru the change on the vote date from the Nov elections to the primary date (when normally many fewer people vote) ticked off the citizens to the point they said “OK, you wanna play that game?” Without that trick it would have been much closer, and even in the general election they may have had a chance. Too bad. We had a saying growing up, ‘Cheaties never prosper’. Seems to have held true here.