Cobb voters appear to reject cityhood efforts

Voters in East Cobb appeared poised to reject efforts to form a new city government, while two other Cobb County cityhood movements were trailing in early returns but remained too close to call late Tuesday.

Aside from one exception in the 1960s — a city of just 200 people that later dissolved — it has been over a century since Cobb County residents have formed a new municipality. And on Tuesday, when asked by cityhood supporters to create new governments to preserve their suburban way of life, many voters pushed to preserve something else: Their unincorporated slice of Cobb County.

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