LIVE UPDATES: Vote totals from all precincts reported in Bibb County runoff election
Macon voters will select a new mayor, two county commissioners and a school board member in today’s runoff election. The Telegraph will provide live updates throughout the evening.
10:45 p.m.
Here are the results with all precincts reporting
Mayor
- Lester Miller: 22,804 votes (59.20%)
- Cliff Whitby: 15,716 (40.80%)
County Commissioner, District 5
- Seth Clark: 2,361 votes (57.70%)
- Carlton Kitchens: 1,731 (42.30%)
County Commissioner, District 7
- Bill Howell: 2,904 votes (62.12%)
- Bonnie Thompson: 1,771 (37.88%)
Board of Education, District 1
- Myrtice Champion Johnson: 3,198 votes (59.98%)
- Tera Edwards: 2,170 (40.42%)
9:50 p.m.
Here are the results from most of the absentee ballots, early voting and 21 of 31 precincts.
Mayor
- Lester Miller: 18,398 votes (58.42%)
- Cliff Whitby: 13,093 (41.58%)
County Commissioner, District 5
- Seth Clark: 2,045 votes (57.80%)
- Carlton Kitchens: 1,493 (42.20%)
County Commissioner, District 7
- Bill Howell: 2,011 votes (59.23%)
- Bonnie Thompson: 1,384 (40.77%)
Board of Education, District 1
- Myrtice Champion Johnson: 2,798 votes (62.09%)
- Tera Edwards: 1,708 (37.91%)
9:05 p.m.
Here are the results from most of the absentee ballots, early voting and nine of 31 precincts.
Mayor
- Lester Miller: 13,302 votes (55.27%)
- Cliff Whitby: 10,765 (44.73%)
County Commissioner, District 5
- Seth Clark: 1,290 (50.04%)
- Carlton Kitchens: 1,288 (49.96%)
County Commissioner, District 7
- Bill Howell: 1,967 votes (59.68%)
- Bonnie Thompson: 1,329 (40.32%)
Board of Education, District 1
- Myrtice Champion Johnson: 2,084 (62.55%)
- Tera Edwards: 1,248 (37.45%)
8:50 p.m.
Here are the results from most of the absentee ballots, early voting and four of 31 precincts.
Mayor
- Lester Miller: 12,453 votes (56.85%)
- Cliff Whitby: 9,453 (43.15%)
County Commissioner, District 5
- Carlton Kitchens: 1,285 votes (51.54%)
- Seth Clark: 1,208 (48.46%)
County Commissioner, District 7
- Bill Howell: 1,884 votes (61.93%)
- Bonnie Thompson: 1,158 (38.07%)
Board of Education, District 1
- Myrtice Champion Johnson: 2,085 (62.55%)
- Tera Edwards: 1,248 (37.45%)
8:10 p.m.
Results from most of the absentee ballots and all the early votes.
Mayor
- Lester Miller: 10,747 votes (55.49%)
- Cliff Whitby: 8,619 (44.51%)
County Commissioner, District 5
- Seth Clark: 1,088 votes (50.46%)
- Carlton Kitchens: 1,068 (49.54%)
County Commissioner, District 7
- Bill Howell: 1,198 (57.02%)
- Bonnie Thompson: 903 (42.98%)
Board of Education, District 1
- Myrtice Champion Johnson: 1,855 (63.10%)
- Tera Edwards: 1,085 (36.90%)
7:45 p.m.
Here are PARTIAL absentee ballot totals from the election board. They still have about 500 absentee ballots to count.
Mayor
- Lester Miller: 6,391 votes (63.82%)
- Cliff Whitby: 3,623 (36.18)
County Commissioner, District 5
- Seth Clark: 640 votes (56.19%)
- Carlton Kitchens: 499 (43.81%)
County Commissioner, District 7
- Bill Howell: 593 votes (58.08%)
- Bonnie Thompson: 428 (41.92%)
Board of Education, District 1
- Myrtice Champion Johnson: 1,043 votes (63.21%)
- Tera Edwards: 607 (36.79%)
7:35 p.m.
All Bibb County polls have now closed.
7 p.m.
Polls have closed (for the most part). We’ll share early vote totals as soon as we receive them, and we have a reporter at the Bibb County election board. We’re also monitoring both Lester Miller and Cliff Whitby’s watch parties.
6:30 p.m.
Polls close at 7 p.m., although two precincts will close at 7:30 p.m. after technical difficulties this morning. Election officials will provide early and absentee/mail-in vote totals shortly after the polls close. We won’t know final vote totals until well after polls close.
Mike Kaplan, chair of the Macon-Bibb County Board of Elections, said the polling locations at Appling Middle School and St. Francis Episcopal Church will remain open until 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
“We had troubles with our poll pads and were not able to get completely open by seven o’clock, and so we made the decision to extend the voting another 30 minutes,” Kaplan said. “We were open but had some technical difficulties in those two locations, and I felt it best to extend voting about 30 minutes because that’s about what we were delayed.”
Here are the candidates:
Macon-Bibb County Mayor: Lester Miller and Cliffard Whitby
Macon-Bibb County Commissioner District 5: Seth Clark and Carlton Kitchens
Macon-Bibb County Commissioner District 7: Bill Howell and Bonnie H. Thompson
Macon-Bibb County Board of Education District 1: Tera Edwards and Myrtice Champion Johnson
In national election news, Democrat presidential challenger Joe Biden announced Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) as his running mate, the first Black woman to appear on a major party’s presidential ticket.
The California senator was chosen after a months-long process that for the first time in history included only a field of women. The 55-year-old Harris was long considered by Democrats as the front-runner to be Biden’s No. 2 due to her ideological similarities to the former vice president, the diversity she brings to the ticket, and her experience running a national campaign.
This story was originally published August 11, 2020 at 6:30 PM.
