The race for Atlanta mayor will come down to a runoff. City council members Keisha Lance Bottoms and Mary Norwood will meet in that election on Dec. 5.
Neither of them captured the simple majority needed to win outright. Bottoms took 27 percent of the vote. Norwood took 21 percent. And Cathy Woolard came in third with 17 percent.
For a look inside the results and at where Bottoms and Norwood go from here, Denis O’Hayer spoke with Oglethorpe University political scientist Kendra King Momon on “Morning Edition.”
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