The cities of East Point, Roswell, Sandy Springs, and South Fulton were electing mayors on Tuesday night. The polls in all four cities closed at 7 p.m., and another election night would be in the books.
Along with the mayoral runoff elections, three seats on the Atlanta Public Schools Board of Education, two seats on the Atlanta City Council, and a seat on the Sandy Springs City Council were up for grabs.
There was also a special runoff for Georgia State House District 106.
Here’s how the elections turned out.
East Point’s new mayor will be Keisha Chapman, who had twice as many votes as her opponent, Joshua B. Butler IV, late into the night. Chapman received 64% of the 3,000 votes.
Roswell’s new mayor is Mary Robichaux, who had 1,500 more votes than her opponent, incumbent Mayor Kurt Wilson, by 9:30 p.m., hours after the polls closed.
The race between long-time Sandy Springs Mayor Rusty Paul and his opponent, Dontaye Carter, ended with Paul winning over 70 percent of the vote.
Carmalitha Gumbs was elected as the newest mayor of South Fulton on Tuesday night. One of the more high-profile mayoral seats up for grabs in metro Atlanta, Gumbs defeated Mark Baker with more than 60% of the 13,000 votes that were cast.
The Atlanta City Council seats in Districts 7 and 11 were won by Thomas Worthy and Wayne Martin, respectively. By 10 p.m., both Worthy and Martin had garnered more than 55% of the votes that were accounted for.
Two of the three races for seats on the Atlanta School Board remain close late into the night. Single-digit percentage points separated the District 8 At-Large race between Royce Mann and Kaycee Brock, before Brock pulled away with 53% of the vote. The District 6 between Patreece Hutcherson and Tolton R. Pace was also close, with Hutcherson winning by just 379 votes.
The race for District 2 went to Tony Mitchell, who garnered an overwhelming majority of the nearly 1,492 votes cast.
The special runoff election for Georgia State House District 106 resulted in Muhammad Akbar Ali being elected. Ali won 54% of the 1,741 votes that were cast.