East Cobb voters stick with Trump but Biden wins precincts

East Cobb voters Trump Biden — *Joe Biden won most of the precincts (in green) and 56 percent of the presidential vote in Cobb County against Donald Trump. For more details, **click here**.*

After Georgia certified election results Friday that included a win for Joe Biden in the presidential race, Donald Trump’s campaign has asked for an official recount.

That comes after a hand recount across the state upheld a slender advantage for Biden, of less than 13,000 votes.

Those figures didn’t change much in Cobb County, which for the second presidential election in a row was won by a Democrat.

Joe Biden won 56 percent of the vote in Cobb and most of the precincts, as indicated in green in the Georgia Secretary of State’s map above.

Trump won most of the precincts in East Cobb, but Biden won 13 of those 48 precincts and outperformed Hillary Clinton in some areas as well as countywide.

Biden received 221,846 votes in Cobb to 165,459 for Trump. In 2016, Clinton got 160,121 votes to 152,912 for Trump to become the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter to win the county.

Cobb Democrats have gained more ground since then. They won all countywide races they contested this year, including Cobb Commission Chair, Sheriff, District Attorney and Superior Court Clerk.

In January, an all-female and a Democratic-majority Cobb Board of Commissioners will take office, headed by current commissioner Lisa Cupid, the first Democratic chair since 1984.

Like other metro Atlanta suburban areas, Cobb was coveted political territory for Democrats this year, as illustrated by The New York Times in a precinct shift analysis last week.

East Cobb Republican legislative incumbents were re-elected, but a few of those races were close, as was Cobb Board of Education Post 5, where GOP incumbent David Banks held on for a fourth term.

Last week Cobb Elections issued its “Statement of Votes Cast” report, which is a precinct-by-precinct breakdown of all the election results (you can read through it here). For reference here are the 2016 precinct results.

A table of the presidential vote in East Cobb precincts in 2020 includes an asterisk next to the precinct-winning total; the Bells Ferry 2 precinct ended in a tie (indicated in beige on the map).

	Trump	Biden	Turnout %
Addison	930	990*	80.52
Bells Ferry 2	1127 (tie)	1127 (tie)	74.45
Bells Ferry 3	768	871*	69.62
Blackwell	908	1113*	76.98
Chattahoochee	986	2860*	66.34
Chestnut Ridge	1446*	1215	86.08
Davis	857*	807	81.84
Dickerson	1209*	1149	85.54
Dodgen	921*	810	85.19
East Piedmont	782	1077*	72.33
Eastside 1	1325*	1200	85.33
Eastside 2	1698*	1601	83.48
Elizabeth 2	1022*	864	79.01
Elizabeth 3	1226*	1014	82.80
Elizabeth 4	715	1077*	69.35
Elizabeth 5	1103	1168*	80.48
Fullers Park	1436*	1374	83.40
Garrison Mill	1211*	1105	82.42
Gritters	1578*	1359	75.20
Hightower	1858*	1640	84.47
Kell	853*	690	79.36
Lassiter	1613*	1316	82.84
Mabry	833*	538	85.27
McCleskey	810*	609	84.04
Marietta 6A	374	1184*	59.69
Marietta 6B	970	1283*	79.90
Mt. Bethel 1	1760*	1626	84.56
Mt. Bethel 3	1299	1344*	82.00
Mt. Bethel 4	1305*	1094	82.79
Murdock	1722*	1598	84.11
Nicholson	969*	843	76.05
Pope	1349*	1173	82.33
Post Oak	1680*	1289	82.79
Powers Ferry	1213	1287*	73.698
Rocky Mount	1441*	1234	80.88
Roswell 1	2387*	2141	86.01
Roswell 2	1545*	1518	85.03
Sandy Plains	1117	1192*	81.25
Sewell Mill 1	1334	1481*	82.22
Sewell Mill 3	1249	1859*	67.20
Shallowford Falls	1487*	1294	84.62
Simpson	738*	756	81.85
Sope Creek 1	970*	835	85.76
Sope Creek 2	1632	1963*	78.28
Sope Creek 3	1213*	1089	80.91
Terrell Mill	1030	2477*	61.97
Timber Ridge	1025*	1016	85.42
Willeo	1270*	1079	85.19