A Good Night for Roswell Incumbents

The makeup of the Roswell City Council and Mayor's office appears to be unchanged. 

The three City Council incumbents up for re-election all faced opposition in Tuesday's balloting, while Mayor Jere Wood was unopposed for a fifth term.

Post 6 council member Nancy Diamond earned another term by receiving more than 55 percent of the vote. 

Post 4 incumbent Kent Igleheart looks to have narrowly won re-election in a tight race against former Roswell Planning Commission co-chairman Harvey Smith. 

With all 21 precincts reporting, Igleheart had 2,728 votes, or 52.47 percent, according to results posted on the City of Roswell website and tabulated by Fulton Registration and Elections. 

Smith had 2,467 votes, or 47.45 percent of the vote, reflecting a close battle all evening long. 

Jerry Orlans, seeking another term in Post 5, defeated Eric Schumacher by a slightly wider margin. 

Orlans, the longest-serving council member and first elected in 1992, received 2,850 votes, or 54.37 percent, to 2,385 votes for Schumacher, or 45.50 percent.

Diamond received 2,899 votes to 2,358 for East Roswell civic activist Kendra Myers Cox. 

Wood got 4,402 votes, and there were 391 write-in votes for mayor.

The results are unofficial and must be certified by Fulton County elections officials. 

The newly re-elected mayor and council members will begin their new terms in January.