Columbia County has a new District 3 Commissioner.
According to the unofficial results on May 21, Michael Carraway won both the special election and regular election for the Columbia County Board of Commissioners District 3 seat. In the special election to finish out the term of Gary Richardson, Carraway received 2,692 votes (81.0%), while Rickey Merideth received 630 (18.9%). In the regular election, Carraway received 2,206 votes (85.8%), while Merideth received 365 votes (14.1%).
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“Thank you to everyone who volunteered, supported and voted for me! I promise to work for all of the county and am humbled to be your next county commissioner,” Carraway said in a Facebook post.
The Georgia House of Representatives District 131 race will be heading to a runoff between Rob Clifton with 1,887 votes (48.7%) and Paul Abbott with 728 votes (18.8%). David Christian Byrne received 247 votes, (6.3%), Benjamin Shawn Cairns received 333 votes (8.6%) and Russell Wilder received 674 votes (17.4%). The winner of the runoff will face Democratic challenger Heather Rose White, who received 1,265 votes (100%) in the November election.
In the Columbia County Board of Commissioners District 2 race, Trey Allen received 1,460 votes (68.3%) and Mark E. Petersen received 677 votes (31.6%).
The Columbia County Board of Education District 4 race saw Katie Allen receive 1,276 votes (52.9%) and incumbent Lee Ann Meyer received 1,133 (47.0%).
The rest of the results for Columbia County are as follows:
- U.S. House of Representatives District 12 (Rep.): Rick Allen(incumbent): 8,743 (100%)
- U.S. House of Representatives District 12 (Dem.): Daniel “DJ” Jackson: 1,274 (38.40%), Elizabeth “Liz” Johnson: 2,044 (61.60%)
- State Senate District 23 (Rep.): Max Burns (incumbent): 2,209 (100%)
- State Senate District 23 (Dem.): Shayna Boston: (1,194%)
- State Senate District 24 (Rep.): Lee Anderson (incumbent): 6,314 (100%)
- State House District 123 (Rep.): Rob Leverett (incumbent): 190 (100%)
- State House District 123 (Dem.): Hope S. Beard: 47 (100%)
- State House District 125 (Rep.): Gary Richardson (incumbent): 2,264 (100%)
- State House District 125 (Dem.): Kay Turner 1,057 (100%)
- State House District 127 (Rep.): Mark Newton (incumbent): 2,104 (100%)
- Judge of the Probate Court (Rep.): Alice Padgett (incumbent): 8,558 (100%)
- Clerk of Superior Court (Rep.): Cindy Mason (incumbent): 8,619 (100.0%)
- Sheriff (Rep.): Clay Whittle (incumbent): 8,766 (100.0%)
- Tax Commissioner (Rep.): Wayne Bridges (incumbent): 8,658 (100.0%)
- Coroner (Rep.): Terry Norman: 8,537 (100.0%)
- Coroner (Dem.): Helen L. Bratton: 3,098 (100.0%)
- County Board of Education Chairman (nonpartisan): David Dekle (incumbent): 11,361 (100%)
- County Board of Education District 1 (nonpartisan): Philip Kent, Jr.: 3,192 (100.0%)
- Chief Magistrate: Jason Troiano: 8,273 (100.0%)
- Judge – Superior Court Columbia Judicial Circuit (nonpartisan): Sheryl B. Jolly-Turner (incumbent): 11,495 (100%)
- Justice Supreme Court of Georgia (nonpartisan): Michael Boggs (incumbent): 11,321 (100%)
- Justice Supreme Court of Georgia(nonpartisan): John Ellington (incumbent): 11,316 (100%)
- Justice Supreme Court of Georgia(nonpartisan): Nels Peterson (incumbent): 11,276 (100%)
- Justice Supreme Court of Georgia(nonpartisan): John Barrow: 4,926 (38.85%), Andrew Pinson (incumbent): 7,753 (61.15%)
- Judge Court of Appeals of Georgia(nonpartisan): Stephen Dillard (incumbent): 11,326 (100%)
- Judge Court of Appeals of Georgia(nonpartisan): Ken Hodges (incumbent): 11,285 (100%)
- Judge Court of Appeals of Georgia(nonpartisan): Ben Land (incumbent): 11,249 (100%)
- Judge Court of Appeals of Georgia (nonpartisan): Amanda Mercier (incumbent): 11,297 (100%)
- Judge Court of Appeals of Georgia(nonpartisan): Jeff Davis: 7,785 (65.67%), Tabitha Ponder: 4,069 (34.33%)
- Judge Court of Appeals of Georgia (nonpartisan): Brian Rickman (incumbent): 11,220 (100%)
- Judge Court of Appeals of Georgia (nonpartisan): Jeffrey Watkins (incumbent): 11,242 (100%)
One of the questions on the ballot asked if citizens supported the consolidation of Columbia County. That question received 4,366 yes votes (49.7%) and 4,408 no votes (50.2%).
