Abrams won Cobb; a look at the vote

Much is unknown about the super-tight, super-energized Georgia races of Tuesday. But here’s what we do k now: Democrat Stacey Abrams won Cobb County.

She got about 30,000 more votes than Republi- can Brian Kemp in Cobb, and the county voted Democratic in every statewide race.

If you’re a more recent Cobb voter, that may not be a surprise, considering Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump in Cobb by 6,800 votes during the 2016 presidential race.

But if you’ve been using the Big Chicken in your direc- tions for years, this still may be surprising.

Cobb is classically red territory. Before Clinton, the last Democrat to win the county was Georgia’s Jimmy Carter in 1976. The county has made for fertile GOP grounds in terms of support and cash over the years. And Cobb is worth fighting for, with 13.78 percent of the state’s 10.3 mil- lion residents, according to Census data from July 2016.

Like much of metro Atlanta, Cobb’s population is growing and changing.

Here are the top 5 Cobb neighborhoods for Kemp:

■ Mars Hill 1 (Northwest Christian Church, 3737 Dallas Acworth Highway): 74.6 percent

■ Kemp 3 (Burnt Hickory Baptist Church, 5145 Due West Road NW in Powder Springs): 73.2 percent

■ Pine Mountain 02 (Burnt Hickory Church of Christ, 2330 Burnt Hickory Road NW in Marietta): 72.6 percent

■ Marietta 4A (Maple Avenue United Methodist Church, 63 Maple Ave. NW in Marietta): 72.2 percent

■ Ford 1 (Ford Elementary School, 345 Mars Hill Road in Acworth): 72 percent

Here are the top 5 Cobb neighborhoods for Abrams:

■ Bryant 2 (Trinity United Methodist Church, 821 South Gordon Road SW in Austell): 95.5 percent

■ Bryant 1 (Bryant Elemen- tary School, 6800 Factory Shoals Road in Mableton): 94.8 percent

■ Riverside 1 (Riverside Intermediate Elementary School, 285 South Gordon Road SW in Mableton): 92.9 percent

■ Pebblebrook 1 (Pebble- brook High School, 991 Old Alabama Road SW in Mable- ton): 84.3 percent

■ Ha r mony-Leland 1 (South Cobb Community Center, 620 Lions Club Drive in Mableton): 83.6 percent