Cumming council race decided after rare tie

It appears the tie has been broken in the Cumming City Council Post 1 race.

Unofficial results from Tuesday’s runoff vote showed construction supervisor Chad Crane beating incumbent and banker Chuck Welch by a 340-to-212 vote margin. Crane captured more than 61 percent of the vote in the rematch.

The candidates wound up in a rare tie in the off-year election Nov. 7. A Nov. 13 recount showed Crane and Welch each receiving 441 votes, a few days after a preliminary tally showed him beating Welch by three. Runoffs are rare in Cumming elections, but the city clerk said the municipal code provides for one in the event of a tie vote.

The runoff results have yet to be officially certified.