The Atlanta mayor’s race won’t be the only thing on the Nov. 30 runoff ballot. A half-dozen council seats and the City Council president post will be determined through one-on-one contests. Atlanta also has runoff elections for School Board.
Elsewhere in metro Atlanta, there are a number of cities with runoff elections, including four cities with mayoral runoff elections.
Runoff elections are required in Georgia for races in which no candidate received more than 50% of the vote in the general election on Nov. 2.
To find out if your voting precinct has a runoff election and to see sample ballots, visit your county elections office website or the Georgia My Voter Page.
Why Georgia holds runoff elections: If you think it’s unusual to have a runoff election in November, it is. As many as 10 states require runoffs for primary elections, but Georgia is believed to be the only state that requires a runoff in any general election contest in which no candidate wins 50 percent of the vote. Georgia’s runoff law made national news in January, when runoff elections for both of Georgia’s U.S. Senate seats gave Democrats a majority in the Senate. Read more about Georgia laws on runoff elections and their history from the AJC’s Tamar Hallerman.
Here’s a list of which races are headed to a runoff on Tuesday, Nov. 30, and who’s on the ballot:
(i) indicates incumbent. These races are nonpartisan, so no political party is listed.
Atlanta Mayor: Andre Dickens, Felicia Moore
Atlanta City Council President: Natalyn Archibong, Doug Shipman
Atlanta Council Post 3 At-Large: Jacki Labat, Keisha Sean Waites
Atlanta Council District 1: Nathan Clubb, Jason Winston
Atlanta Council District 3: Byron Amos, Erika Estrada
Atlanta Council District 4: Jason Dozier, Cleta Winslow (i)
Atlanta Council District 5: Liliana Bakhtiari, Mandy Mahoney
Atlanta Council District 12: Antonio Lewis, Joyce Sheperd (i)
Atlanta School Board District 2: Aretta Baldon (i), Keisha Carey
Atlanta School Board District 7: Tamara Jones, Kanesha Venning
Other metro Atlanta cities with runoff elections
Duluth Council Post 4: Manfred Graeder, Brandon Odum
Fairburn Mayor: Mario Avery, Elizabeth Carr-Hurst (i)
Forest Park Mayor: Angelyne Butler (i), Thomas Smith
Marietta Council Ward 5: Reginald Copeland (i), Carlyle Kent
Milton Council District 1, Post 1: Jami Tucker, Andrea Verhoff
Peachtree City Mayor: Kim Learnard, Eric Imker
Peachtree City Council Post 4: Phil Crane, Frank Destadio
Roswell Council Post 5: Michael Dal Cerro, Will Morthland
South Fulton Mayor: William “Bill” Edwards (i), Khalid Kamau
South Fulton Council District 4: Naeema Gilyard (i), Jaceey Sebastian
Stonecrest Council District 1: Jimmy Clanton (i), Tara Graves
Suwanee Council Post 5: Pete Charpentier (i), David Martinez
Tucker Council District 2: Imani Barnes, Cara Schroeder
–Edited by Brian O’Shea, brian.oshea@ajc.com
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