Democrats fare well in Gwinnett voting

Gwinnett County went blue for its second consecutive major election.

After Democratic pres- idential candidate Hillary Clinton won the county by six points in 2016, Demo- crat Stacey Abrams won the county by a whopping 14.13 points in Georgia’s governor election. She took 56.46 per- cent of the second-most pop- ulous county’s votes.

Republican Brian Kemp, currently leading in the overall vote total, trailed at 42.33 percent, according to unof- ficial results.

Abrams received 176,234 votes in Gwinnett, lead- ing Kemp by 44,097. Kemp received 132,137 votes and Libertarian candidate Ted Metz received 3,795 votes, 1.22 percent of the total votes cast for governor.

Nearly 60 percent of Gwin- nett County’s voters turned out during early voting and Election Day, according to early results. Of 525,568 registered voters in the county, 313,049 cast a ballot.

Democrats fared well in Gwinnett on Tuesday, with two Democratic commission candidates defeating Republican incumbents. It has been more than 30 years since a Democrat has served on the county’s board of commissioners. Democrat Everton Blair was elected to county board of education, defeating incumbent Republican Chuck Studebaker.

Here are top five Gwinnett neighborhoods for Kemp:

■ Duncans C (Hamilton Mill United Methodist Church, 1450 Pine Rd., Dac- ula): 70.24 percent

■ Duncans B (Riverside Elementary School, 5445 Settles Bridge Rd., Suwanee): 68.4 percent

■ Duncans A (12 Stone Church Hamilton Mill, 3858 Braselton Highway, Buford): 67.73 percent

■ Suwanee H (Sugar Hill Community Center, 1166 Church St., Sugar Hill): 67.71 percent

■ Duncans D (Pinck- neyville Community Center, 4650 Peachtree Industrial Blvd., Norcross): 66.8 percent

Here are the top five Gwinnett neighborhoods for Abrams:

■ Martins E (Peachtree Corners Christian Church, 6060 Spalding Dr., Norcross): 91.92 percent

■ Pinckneyville Q (Zoar United Methodist Church, 3895 Zoar Church Rd., Snellville): 87.21 percent

■ Pinckneyville J (Mountain P ark First B aptist Church, 5485 Five Forks Trickum Rd., Stone Moun- tain): 86.22 percent

■ Pinckneyville N (Rhodes Jordan Community Center, 100 E. Crogan St., Lawrenceville): 84.87 percent

■ Martins D (Centerville Elementary School, 3115 Centerville Highway, Snellville): 84.1 percent