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DECEMBER 2020 ■ www.ReporterNewspapers.net Community | 11 BH BYTHE NUMBERS Local communities were Biden country in Nov. 3 election o Brookhaven This color-coded map shows how strongly precincts in local communities leaned toward either major- party presidential candidate. The darker the blue, the higher the vote for Democrat Joe Biden, and the dark the red, the higher the vote for Republican Donald Trump. MAGGIE LEE/MAGGIELEE.NET >75% BIDEN 50% - 75% BIDEN NO MAJORITY FOR TRUMP OR BIDEN 50% - 75% TRUMP >75% TRUMP BY JOHN RUCH AND MAGGIE LEE Local communities of Brookhaven, Buckhead, Dunwoody and Sandy Springs were Biden country in the presidential election, joining other metro Atlanta suburbs in flipping Georgia blue for the first time since 1992. Democrat Joe Biden earned about 61.1% of the total votes in those four communities, while Republican incumbent Donald Trump won only about 37.5%, according to official precinct-by-precinct results mapped and analyzed by the Reporter. (At press time, a recount requested by Trump was pending, but was not expected to significantly change the results following a previous review that combined aspects of an audit and a recount. That previous review did not alter any local results.) Biden handily won each of the communities as well, with the following approximate percentages: Brookhaven Buckhead Dunwoody Sandy Springs Biden 64.5% Biden 60.7% Biden 59% Biden 60.8% Trump 34% Trump 38.1% Trump 39.6% Trump 37-3% As the Reporter’s map shows, Trump lost every precinct in Brookhaven and polled no higher than the 50% range in Dunwoody. (Numbers for Brookhaven are approximate be cause precinct lines capture some voters outside of the southern city limits.) Sandy Springs had only two precincts that leaned Trump: one in the eastern panhandle above Dunwoody and another in southern High Point around Windsor Parkway. Buckhead won the distinction of both the bluest and the reddest voting precincts among local communities. Biden took 93.1% of the vote in 06Q, a precinct in the Armour and south ern Lindbergh neighborhoods. Trump’s best performance -- 58.2% - came in the Kingswood and Randall Mill neighborhoods in western Buckhead. Trump also prevailed in some precincts in North Buckhead and in neighborhoods along West Paces Ferry Road. Among those was Tuxedo Park, whose residents include Gov. Brian Kemp and U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler, the Republican who faces Democrat Rev. Raphael War- noclc in one of Georgia’s two nationally spotlighted runoff elections for U.S. Senate seats coming Jan. 5. In a handful of local precincts, neither Biden nor Trump won a majority of the votes, including some areas in northern Dunwoody, southern and western Sandy Springs, and Buckhead’s Paces neighborhood. Biden and Trump weren’t the only presidential candidates on the ballot. Libertarian Jo Jorgensen drew small numbers of votes in local precincts. The local Libertarian hotspot? Brookhaven’s Cross Keys High precinct, where Jorgensen won about 2.5% of the vote. For an interactive version of the precinct map, showing vote totals and percentages for each candidate, see ReporterNewspapers.net. ElectroBike Georgia Greater iAf/anta’s Electric Bike Destination '-icr "t Mexican Restaurant 2042 Johnson Ferry Rd NE i $5 off (at the corner of Ashford-Dunwoody Rd. in Brookhaven) Lunch or Dinner Minimum $20 purchase Hours: 11am to 10:30pm 1 Not valid with any other | offers. Not valid on Fridays, must present newspaper I ad to redeem. Expires | 12/31/20 ElectroBike Sales and Service Showroom: ElectroBike Georgia 2484 Briarcliff Road., NE #25 Atlanta, GA 30329 www.electrobikega.com Bike the Beltline: Atlanta Bicycle Barn 151 Sampson St., NE Atlanta, GA 30312 www.atlbikebarn.com Featuring the largest selection of e-bike models and accessories in the Southeast Coming soon: Mercedes-Benz e-bikes, offered exclusively in metro Atlanta by ElectroBike Georgia!
