The final Election Day of the year in metro Atlanta was marked by a slew of incumbents being ousted across the area, plus Brookhaven residents picked a new mayor to succeed its term-limited one.
In the only citywide race in Atlanta on Tuesday, Alfred “Shivy” Brooks appeared to beat the incumbent Tamara Jones by nearly 30 points in the Atlanta School Board At-Large Seat 7 race. Brooks will be the first active teacher to serve on the board.
John Park outlasted Lauren Kiefer in the race to decide who will become Brookhaven’s new mayor. Park beat Kiefer by about 17 points and will succeed John Ernst, who was term-limited and therefore not eligible to run again.
Also in Brookhaven, there was a runoff to decide the District 1 seat on the city council. Linley Jones lost her re-election bid by just 5 points to Michael Diaz.
There were three East Point City Council seats up for grabs in the runoffs on Tuesday, including two incumbents fighting to retain their seats. They both lost, as Carrie Ziegler narrowly beat Josette Bailey in Ward B, and LaTonya Martin Rogers handily beat Stephanie C. Gordon in Ward D. In Ward C, Tremayne Mitchell narrowly beat Myron B. Cook.
Two more incumbents went down in city council races in South Fulton and Stonecrest. Keosha B. Bell beat incumbent Corey Reeves by 12 points for the District 5 seat in South Fulton. And Terry Fye bested incumbent Rob Turner by 50 points for the Post 2 seat in Stonecrest.
