East Cobb Election results: Cityhood referendum defeated in landslide

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East Cobb 2022 Primary Election Cityhood referendum results
A pro-Cityhood electric sign parked at the former Tokyo Valentino adult store at left; an anti-Cityhood sign in Indian Hills.

UPDATED 2 A.M. WEDNESDAY

With all 17 precincts reporting, the East Cobb Cityhood referendum has been defeated by a 73.4-26.6 percent margin.

The unofficial totals are 16,289 voting NO and 5,900 voting YES.

More details and reaction Wednesday.

UPDATED, 12 A.M. WEDNESDAY

The East Cobb Cityhood referendum is going down in a crushing defeat.

With 70 percent of precincts reporting, NO votes are 13,706, or 72 percent, to 5,218 YES votes, or 27 percent.

That’s been the most lopsided of the three Cobb cityhood referendums on Tuesday’s ballots.

Cityhood votes are trailing with 58 percent of the vote in Lost Mountain having voted NO, (59 percent of precincts reporting); and with 55 percent voting NO in Vinings, (60 percent of precincts reporting).

Real-Time Election Updates:

In the results thus far, all but one of the 17 precincts have voted overwhelmingly against Cityhood, with only Sope Creek 3 (with 52 percent of the vote) favoring incorporation.

Early voting totals were 5,841 votes NO, and 1,844 votes YES.

UPDATED, 11:30 P.M.

With 54 percent of the precincts reporting, NO votes are 8,659, and YES votes are 3,467 in the East Cobb Cityhood referendum. That’s 71.4 percent to 28.6 percent.

The Lost Mountain Cityhood referendum votes have NO leading YES 56-44 percent with 45 percent of precincts reporting, and the Vinings vote is trailing 55-44 with 20 percent of precincts reporting.

UPDATED, 10:30 P.M.

With 23 percent of precincts reporting, NO votes are 3,119, and YES votes are 1,016 in the East Cobb Cityhood referendum.

That’s 75-25 percent.

Only one of 17 precincts is close. In Sope Creek 3, NO votes are at 52 percent; in many others, the NO votes are at 80+ and even 90+ percent.

The results coming in from Cobb Elections in a number of races are painfully slow tonight, and we may not get final decisions until the morning.

UPDATED, 8:55 P.M.

In the East Cobb Cityhood referendum, NO votes are 497, YES votes are 128, roughly 79.5 percent to 20.5 percent, still early voting totals only.

UPDATED, 8:20 P.M.

The first results are trickling in, and “no” votes for the East Cobb Cityhood referendum lead “yes” votes 87-13 percent.

Those are just a few dozen early votes: 99 no, and 15 yes, with more to come before today’s in-person tallies come in.

Cobb Commissioner JoAnn Birrell leads Judy Sarden 75-25 percent in the Republican primary for District 3, also with only a few hundred early votes cast.

Birrell has 481 votes to 156 for Sarden.

In the Lost Mountain cityhood referendum, “no” votes have 851 votes, or 64 percent, to 472 yes votes, or 36 percent.

No results have been reported yet from the Vinings cityhood referendum.

State Sen. Kay Kirkpatrick and State Rep. Sharon Cooper, both Republican incumbents, were easily leading in their primaries.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has been declared the the winner of the Republican primary as he seeks re-election. Former Sen. David Perdue conceded after early results showed Kemp with 73 percent of the vote.

In November, Kemp faces a rematch of the bitter 2018 gubernatorial campaign against Democrat Stacey Abrams.

Former UGA football star Herschel Walker was projected the winner of the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, setting up a November general election against Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock.

ORIGINAL POST, 7 P.M.

The polls have closed in Georgia, and the counting has begun for the 2022 primary elections and the East Cobb Cityhood referendum.

Voters who were in line by 7 p.m. Tuesday will be able to vote.

East Cobb News will continuously update this post all evening with results.

(Here’s our set-up election day post.)

Three-term Cobb commissioner JoAnn Birrell is facing a challenge from first-time candidate Judy Sarden in the Republican primary in District 3, which includes most of East Cobb.

East Cobb legislative incumbents Sen. Kay Kirkpatrick (District 32) and Rep. Sharon Cooper (District 4) have GOP primary challengers in substantially redrawn seats.

There’s a nine-candidate field in the GOP primary for U.S. House District 6, and new representatives will be chosen in State Senate 6 and State House 43.

Two contested non-partisan primaries are taking place for seats on Cobb Superior Court, including one held by incumbent Chief Judge Robert Leonard. The other race includes candidates vying to succeed retiring Judge Robert Flournoy.

In statewide races, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock were facing primary challenges. In the former contest, former U.S. Sen. David Perdue was trailing Kemp among Republican voters. The primary winner will face Democrat Stacey Abrams in November.

In the latter race, the Republican field is led by former UGA football star Herschel Walker. Warnock, elected in 2020 to fill the term of Johnny Isakson, has nominal opposition:

There also are contested Democratic and Republican primaries for lieutenant governor, secretary of state and attorney general.

Typically early voting and absentee figures are tallied first, followed by same-day voting results and more recent absentee votes.

Earlier absentee ballots are expected to be counted rather quickly, as they have been processed to prepare for tabulation when the polls close.

While we await full results, we’ll post early voting and absentee figures as they are revealed.

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3 thoughts on “East Cobb Election results: Cityhood referendum defeated in landslide”

  1. Hmmm… Are you saying in the latest update that the “Yes” votes are at 80 and 90%? How can you tell that when the precincts are not finished counting? I smell something fishy….

    • I think that’s a mistake. It probably should have read the NO votes were at 80 and 90%. (of the precincts that had reported in at that time). I just looked through the results and found a few in the 80s, but nothing in the 90s.

    • I noticed that as well, but assumed it was a typo. She’s since fixed it. There are some precincts where the NOs are 80-90%

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