Sunday, December 20, 2009

Closing the book on 2009 election

After long last, here are the vote results from the December run-off.

Mayor-elect Ernestine Pittman won six of the districts, winning by some 300 votes: 2,013 to 1,749, according to Fulton County.   

Jefferson Park is EP10 and had the highest voter turnout with 32 percent.  (Boolah! Boolah! for JP voters.) The overall turn out was some 20 percent.


The new city council takes office on January 4th.

    
                                  Voter                % for          % for    
Voting District        Turnout %          Macon      Pittman
EP1                            30                        29           71
           
EP3                           16                         61           39
           
EP4                            29                       70             30
           
EP5                            13                       56            44
           
EP6                            22                       32             68
           
EP7                            19                         62           38
           
EP8                             7                          40           60
                                    9                         51            49

EP9                             27                        34           66
           
EP10                           32                        42           58
           
EP11                          30                        42             58
           
Total                          20