The Cobb Board of Elections on Friday announced that Mary Frances Williams is the official Georgia House District 37 winner after a recount.
The recount was requested by her opponent, incumbent Republican State Rep. Sam Teasley, after he finished 137 votes behind Williams, a Democrat from Marietta.
She was initially certified as the winner on Monday. In the recount, she still had the same 11,928 votes she received in the general election, while Teasley lost a vote, totaling 11,754.
Teasley, a real estate agent, has represented the district that includes a portion of Northeast Cobb since 2010.
Williams, who was running for elected office for the first time, is the daughter of a former Marietta mayor and legislator and has been a lobbyist for children’s issues at the General Assembly.
She is one of three Democratic challengers to defeat Republican incumbents in East Cobb races on Nov. 6. Lucy McBath ousted U.S. Rep. Karen Handel in the 6th Congressional District election, while Charisse Davis beat Scott Sweeney for a seat on the Cobb Board of Education.
Also on Friday the Cobb elections board revised its overall county certified vote totals to include six more voters who cast provisional ballots.
Cobb Elections also has released a precinct-by-precinct breakdown of state and local races, as well as ballot issues, that were on the general election ballot.
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