Cobb’s two Republican commissioners claimed decisive victories in their contested primary races on Tuesday, as did a Democratic Cobb school board member.
Another Cobb school board race, to determine a general election opponent for an East Cobb incumbent, was separated by fewer than 100 votes.
And there will be a runoff to determine a Republican nominee for the Congressional seat that includes East Cobb, as well as Republican Party candidates in November for governor and the U.S. Senate.
The links below include continuously updated totals by the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office, including precinct breakdowns. The figures are unofficial and must be certified by the Cobb Board of Elections and Registration.
District 3 Republican Commissioner JoAnn Birrell received more than 72 percent of the vote against challenger Chris Wasserman.
Birrell, seeking her fifth term, advances to the November general election against Kevin Redmon, who was unopposed in the Democratic primary. District 3 covers most of East Cobb.
Commissioner Keli Gambrill, a Republican from District 1 in West Cobb, also easily won her primary, as well as a third term on Tuesday. She trounced Cobb Development Authority member Clark Hungerford with 71 percent of the vote.
There was not a Democratic qualifier for that race in November.
Democratic Cobb Board of Education member Nichelle Davis handily defeated challenger Jennifer Susko to earn a second term in Post 6, which includes some of the Wheeler High School attendance zone.
Davis received 76 percent of the vote against Susko, a vocal critical of the Cobb County School District.
There wasn’t a Republican candidate who qualified for that seat, which is centered in the Cumberland-Smyrna-Vinings area.
In the Democratic primary for Cobb Board of Education Post 4, another school district critic, Micheal Garza, was holding a razor-thin lead over retired Cobb school teacher Susan McCartney.
That post includes the Kell, Lassiter and Sprayberry high school clusters.
Garza had 5,014 votes, or 50.38 percent of the vote, to 4,938 votes for McCartney, or 49.62 percent.
In November he will challenge Republican David Chastain, a three-term incumbent, with party control of the school board on the line. The GOP holds a 4-3 majority and Chastain is the only Republican on the ballot this year.
In the Post 2 school board seat in the Smyrna area, first-term Democrat Becky Sayler ran unopposed in the primary, and she has no Republican opposition in November.
John Cowan, a physician, got 34 percent of the vote and will be in a June 16 runoff for the Republican nomination for the 11th Congressional District seat that’s being vacated by retiring U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk.
Cowan’s opponent is Rick Adkerson, Loudermilk’s chief of staff.
In November, the winner will meet Chris Harden, who won the Democratic primary Tuesday with 73 percent of the vote.
There will be runoffs in a variety of statewide races, including Republican primaries for governor and the U.S. Senate.
Burt Jones and Rick Jackson will vie June 16 in the GOP gubernatorial runoff with the winner to meet former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who easily won the Democratic primary Tuesday.
U.S. Rep. Mike Collins and former football coach Derek Dooley are in a Republican runoff for the right to face Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff.
More statewide election results can be found at this link.
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