{"id":219088,"date":"2025-03-17T22:30:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T02:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=219088"},"modified":"2025-03-17T22:30:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T02:30:32","slug":"who-is-running-in-the-april-29-cobb-county-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=219088","title":{"rendered":"Who is Running in The April 29 Cobb County Election?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Erick Allen won the Democratic runoff for the District 2 Cobb County Board of Commissioners seat last week, defeating Dr. Jaha Howard with nearly 57 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\uddf3\ufe0f <strong>What We Know:<\/strong> Allen captured 56.72 percent of votes cast in a contest marked by extremely low turnout. Only 3,452 voters participated out of 110,682 registered voters in the district. The Cobb County Election Board certified these results on March 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Allen now moves to the special election on April 29, where he will compete against Republican candidate Alicia Adams for the District 2 seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udd0d <strong>Why It Matters:<\/strong> This election will determine who represents thousands of Cobb County residents on the Board of Commissioners, influencing decisions on local spending, development, and community services that directly affect your neighborhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udcca <strong>By The Numbers:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Allen received 56.72 percent of votes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Only 3,452 people voted out of 110,682 registered voters<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 commission seats (Districts 2 and 4) will be decided on April 29<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udcc5 <strong>What&#8217;s Next:<\/strong> The special election on April 29 will determine winners for both District 2 and District 4 seats. In District 4, Democratic incumbent Monique Sheffield faces Republican Matthew Hardwick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f <strong>Take Action:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Register to vote by Monday, March 31 if you live in Districts 2 or 4<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Take advantage of advance voting from April 19 and April 21 through 25<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cast your ballot on election day, April 29<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=33]\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erick Allen won the Democratic runoff for the District 2 Cobb County Board of Commissioners seat last week, defeating Dr. Jaha Howard with nearly 57 percent of the vote. \ud83d\uddf3\ufe0f What We Know: Allen captured 56.72 percent of votes cast in a contest marked by extremely low turnout. Only 3,452 voters participated out of 110,682 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":30354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15957],"tags":[17477,17475,8514,17476,17479,17478],"class_list":["post-219088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-your-vote","tag-alicia-adams","tag-cobb-county-board-of-commissioners","tag-election","tag-erick-allen","tag-matthew-hardwick","tag-monique-sheffield","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}