Macon-Bibb County releases voting results

Here’s how Maconites voted in Congressional and state house races.

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The Macon-Bibb County Election Board released vote totals around 9:45 p.m. NOTE: These votes have not been certified yet. Bibb County voters only represent a portion of total voters for each of these races. Two hundred absentee ballots remain to be counted.

Local early voting results

U.S. President

D – Kamala Harris: 41,775 votes (60.6%)

R – Donald Trump: 26,542 votes (38.5%)

L – Chase Oliver: 214 votes

G – Jill Stein: 132 votes

I – Claudia de la Cruz: 71 votes

I – Cornel West: 163 votes

U.S. House District 2

D – Sanford Bishop: 29,794 votes (70.69%)

R – Wayne Johnson: 12,356 votes (29.31%)

U.S. House District 8

R- Austin Scott: 14,708 votes (57.78%)

D – Darrius Butler: 10,745 votes (42.22%)

State House District 142

R – Calvin Dennis Palmer: 10,348 votes (39.56%)

D – Miriam Paris: 15,808 votes (60.44%)

State House District 143

R – Barbara Boyer: 4,706 votes (39.73%)

D – Anissa Jones: 7,140 votes (60.27%)

State House District 144

R – Dale Washburn: 3,285 votes (60.12%)

D – Anita Hyland: 2,179 votes (39.88%)

State House District 145

R – Noah Redding Harbuck: 7,609 votes (40.88%)

D – Tangie Herring: 11,003 votes (59.12%)

Author

Caleb Slinkard is the Executive Editor of the Georgia Trust for Local News and Managing Editor of the Macon Melody. He began his career in Texas as a reporter for his hometown newspaper, the Greenville Herald Banner, and two years later became the paper’s senior editor. Slinkard has run newspapers in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Georgia and taught journalism and practicum courses at the University of Oklahoma’s Gaylord College of Journalism and Mercer University. He was born in Bryan/College Station, Texas to Gary and Susan Slinkard. He has a twin brother, Joshua, and a younger brother, Nathan, as well as two nephews and a niece. He enjoys playing pickleball, chess, reading and hiking around Middle Georgia in his free time.

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