Cobb election results certified; state to follow after Tuesday deadline

District 37 Georgia House, Sam Teasley, Mary Frances Williams
Sam Teasley finished 173 votes behind Mary Frances Williams in the State House District 37 race.

On Monday, Cobb election results were certified from last Tuesday, with the possibility of a recount looming in a legislative seat that includes part of Northeast Cobb.

Tuesday 5 p.m. is the deadline for all county elections boards in the state to certify their results and report them to the Georgia Secretary of State’s office, which was closed Monday for the Veterans Day holiday.

Stacey Abrams
Stacey Abrams won Cobb but Brian Kemp took most East Cobb precincts.

Most counties, including Cobb, have finished. DeKalb and Gwinnett county elections boards are the subject of a lawsuit filed Monday by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.

Abrams, who won Cobb County, has not conceded to Republican Brian Kemp, who holds an unofficial lead of under 60,000 votes and who has declared victory. She is vying for a runoff.

A runoff could take place in State House District 37, where Republican incumbent Sam Teasley trailed Democratic challenger Mary Frances Williams by 137 votes. That seat includes part of Northeast Cobb, much of the city of Marietta and a portion of West Cobb.

That’s the closest race that was certified on Monday by the Cobb elections board. More Cobb results from the Georgia Secretary of State website.

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The re-elections of Cobb commissioner JoAnn Birrell and Cobb school board member David Chastain (Kell and Sprayberry) were certified, as was Charisse Davis’ win for another Cobb school board seat in East Cobb that had been held by Scott Sweeney (Walton and Wheeler).

David Chastain
David Chastain was re-elected to the Cobb Board of Education.

Other East Cobb legislative incumbents all won last Tuesday, but final results have to be certified in some of those races since they include more than one county.

The same goes for the 6th Congressional District race, which includes East Cobb, North Fulton and north and central DeKalb. Democrat Lucy McBath edged Republican incumbent Karen Handel by a little more than 3,000 votes.

Also certified by Cobb elections on Monday was the biggest landslide winner of them all: the so-called “Sunday brunch bill,” which would allow for Sunday alcohol sales as early as 11 a.m., instead of the 12:30 p.m. start currently permitted.

In unincorporated Cobb, voters approved the measure with a whopping 71 percent of the vote. The measure passed in Cobb cities by similar margins.

Georgia Governor

Brian Kemp (R) Stacey Abrams (D) Ted Metz (L)
Statewide 1,976,614 1,918,847 37,173
State % 50.26 48.79 0.95
Cobb only 138,850 168,764 4,194
Cobb % 44.50 54.09 1.34

6th District Congress

Lucy McBath (D) Karen Handel (R-I)
Districtwide 159,945 156,752
District % 50.50 49.50
Cobb only 40,807 51,297
Cobb % 44.26 55.63

Cobb Commission 3

JoAnn Birrell (R-I) Caroline Holko (D)
Total Votes 36,450 34,290
Vote % 51.46 48.41

Cobb school board 4

David Chastain (R-I) Cynthia Parr (D)
Total Votes 20,630 17,907
Vote % 53.50 46.43

Cobb school board 6

Charisse Davis (D) Scott Sweeney (R-I)
Total Votes 21,771 20,640
Vote % 51.29 48.63

State Senate 32

Includes most of East Cobb and portions of North Fulton.

Kay Kirkpatrick (R-I) Christine Triebsch (D)
Total Votes 52,870 39,288
Vote % 57.37 42.63
Cobb Votes 47,558 33,718
Cobb % 58.49 41.47

State House 37

Mary Frances Williams (D) Sam Teasley (R-I)
Total Votes 11,928 11,755
Vote % 50.34 49.61

State House 43

Sharon Cooper (R-I) Luisa Wakeman (D)
Total Votes 13,122 12,379
Vote % 51.52 48.41

State House 44

Don Parsons (R-I) Chinita Allen (D)
Total Votes 14,170 11,422
Vote % 55.33 44.60

State House 45

Includes parts of East Cobb and North Fulton.

Matt Dollar (R-I) Essence Johnson (D)
All Votes 17,003 11,681
Vote % 59.28 40.72
Cobb Votes 15,896 9,574
Cobb % 62.39 37.57

State House 46

Includes part of Northeast Cobb and Cherokee.

John Carson (R-I) Karin Sandiford (D)
All Votes 17,458 10,783
Vote % 61.82 38.18
Cobb Votes 11,679 7,707
Cobb % 60.22 39.74

Cobb ‘Brunch Bill’

To allow Sunday alcohol sales at 11 a.m. instead of 12:30 p.m.

Yes No
# Votes 217,806 85,879
Vote % 71.72 28.28

Cobb Elections Miscellany

  • No. of Registered Voters in Cobb: 486,697
  • No. of Votes Cast in General Election: 312,510
  • Turnout: 64.21 percent
  • Absentee mail-in votes: 25,453
  • Absentee electronic votes: 554
  • Advance votes in person: 111,696
  • Total advance votes: 137,691

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