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Horgan won majority of Fayette precinctsThu, 03/23/2006 - 4:46pm
By: John Munford
Robert Horgan received the most votes in 30 of Fayette County’s 36 voting precincts in Tuesday’s special election to fill a vacant seat on the Fayette County Board of Commissioners. By contrast, second-place challenger Emory Wilkerson won only three precincts and tied Horgan in a fourth precinct. Horgan was the only white candidate in the race, facing four black challengers in fellow Republicans Wilkerson and Malcolm Hughes and Democrats Wendy Felton and Charles Rousseau. Hughes and Rousseau won one precinct each. Overall, Horgan won 51.7 percent of votes countywide, followed by Wilkerson in second place with 29.05 percent. Neither of the three remaining candidates mustered support in double-digits percentage-wise. In five precincts, Horgan scored votes from at least two-thirds of voters: Brooks (south Fayette County, Fayetteville East (north east Fayetteville), Woolsey (just north of the Brooks precinct along the Flint River), Shakerag West (central Peachtree City), and Dogwood (in north central Fayette). In four other precincts, Horgan won more than 60 percent of the vote: Flint (east Fayette County), Hopeful (north central Fayette County), Rareover (Tyrone) and Starrsmill (south central Fayette County). Horgan’s highest margin of victory was in the Brooks precinct, where he got 74.27 percent of the vote. In Wilkerson’s three precinct wins, he failed to secure a majority of voters, which is not atypical given the field consisted of five candidates. Wilkerson won the Kedron precinct in west Peachtree City with 47.44 percent of the vote, the Aberdeen precinct in central Peachtree City with 48.74 percent of the vote and the Fielding Ridge precinct in north central Peachtree City with 44.27 of the vote. Horgan finished in second in all three of those precincts. Wilkerson and Horgan tied in the McIntosh precinct in northeast Peachtree City with 44.62 percent of the vote, where exactly 58 votes were recorded for both candidates. In the more diverse north Fayette area, Wilkerson finished third in both the Europe and Kenwood precincts. Hughes barely won the Europe precinct (on the northern tip of the county) with 25.31 percent as Rousseau scored 24.07 percent of votes compared to Wilkerson’s 22.82 percent. The Kenwood precinct, which is immediately west of the Europe precinct, is roughly a third of the size of the Europe precinct. Rousseau won Kenwood handily with 45.21 percent of votes, compared to Horgan’s 23.29 percent and Wilkerson’s 17.81 percent. Among Kenwood voters, Wilkerson finished third as Rousseau took 45.21 percent of the vote, followed by Horgan with 23.29 percent; Wilkerson scored just 17.81 percent of voters in that precinct. Only 8.37 percent of Fayette’s 62,692 voters cast ballots in the election. In a letter to The Citizen, Republican-party favorite Wilkerson thanked the voters who supported him, along with giving kudos to the party. Wilkerson also refused to look back at how his campaign was run. “I refuse to succumb to what we often refer to as ‘armchair quarterbacking’ or the more common notion of hindsight,” he said. Wilkerson has come under fire for comments attributed to him shortly after the election where he blamed his loss on a racial issue. Horgan did not respond to phone calls before press time. login to post comments
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