Here’s an East Cobb elections update, with official tallies from the Cobb Board of Elections and Registration, which this week certified the results of the May 22 primaries. We’ve provided the official numbers below of East Cobb-area races, but here are a few other figures of note:
- A total of 84,284 Cobb voters cast ballots, a turnout of 17.8 percent of the 473,356 registered voters in the county;
- More Cobb voters voted for Republican candidates at the top of the statewide ticket (governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, etc.) than for Democrats, but only by a slight margin, around 42,000 to around 41,000 on average.
Cobb Commission District 3
- Caroline Holko (D): 5,767
- JoAnn Birrell (R, incumbent): 5,634
- Tom Cheek (R): 3,973
- James Smith (D): 1,393
Cobb School Board Post 4
- David Chastain (R, incumbent): 4,600
- Cynthia Parr (D): 3,469
Cobb School Board Post 6
- Scott Sweeney (R, incumbent): 4,844
- Charisse Davis (D): 4,562
State Senate District 32
- Kay Kirkpatrick (R, incumbent): 11,994
- Christine Triebsch (D): 8,502
State House District 37
- Sam Teasley (R, incumbent): 3,012
- Mary Frances Williams (D): 1,964
- Ragin Edwards (D): 514
- Bill Bolton (D): 327
State House District 43
- Sharon Cooper (R, incumbent): 3,034
- Luisa Wakeman (D): 2,641
State House District 44
- Don Parsons (R, incumbent): 2,953
- Chinita Allen (D): 2,373
- Homer Crothers (R): 760
State House District 45
- Matt Dollar (R, incumbent): 3,834
- Essence Johnson (D): 2,597
State House District 46
- John Carson (R, incumbent): 2,788
- Karín Sandiford (D): 1,881
U.S. House District 6
- Karen Handel (R, incumbent): 13,996
- Lucy McBath (D): 4,226
- Kevin Abel (D): 3,019
- Bobby Kaple (D): 2,762
- Steven K. Griffin (D): 740
These are Cobb voting totals only; there will be a Democratic runoff on July 24 between McBath and Abel. There will be Republican runoff the same day in the governor’s race between current Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle and current Secretary of State Brian Kemp.
The Cobb precinct-by-precinct voting totals can be found here. Several East Cobb precincts had higher than 20 percent turnout:
- Addison, 23.4 percent;
- Blackwell, 20 percent;
- Chattahoochee, 20 percent;
- Chestnut Ridge, 23 percent;
- Dickerson, 23 percent;
- Dodgen, 24 percent;
- Davis, 21 percent;
- Eastside 1, 25 percent
- Eastside 2, 26.8 percent;
- Elizabeth 2, 21 percent;
- Elizabeth 3, 23.5 percent;
- Elizabeth 5, 21 percent;
- Fullers Park, 21.87 percent;
- Garrison Mill, 23.64 percent;
- Gritters, 20.23 percent;
- Hightower, 22 percent;
- Lassiter, 20 percent;
- Mabry, 21.61 percent;
- Murdock, 23 percent;
- McCleskey, 24 percent;
- Marietta 6B, 23 percent;
- Mt. Bethel 1, 22.61 percent;
- Mt. Bethel 3, 21.95 percent;
- Mt. Bethel 4, 23.56 percent;
- Pope, 20 percent;
- Roswell 1, 22 percent;
- Sandy Plains, 20 percent;
- Shallowford Falls, 22.65 percent;
- Sope Creek 1, 28.29 percent;
- Sope Creek 3, 22.79 percent;
- Timber Ridge, 23.84 percent;
- Willeo, 23.21 percent.
