Tuesday’s municipal elections had citizens throughout Guilford
County taking to the polls at over 100 voting locations, naming
Robert (Robbie) V. Perkins as Greensboro’s new mayor.
Tuesday’s municipal elections had citizens throughout Guilford County taking to the polls at over 100 voting locations, naming Robert (Robbie) V. Perkins as Greensboro’s new mayor.
Perkins has moved up the political latter within the Greensboro City Council over the last few years and has successfully been elected as the city’s mayor, winning with more than 56 percent of the vote.
Eight other city council positions were declared as well. Yvonne J. Johnson is now among the three Greensboro’s Council-At-Large members.
City Council Member for District 1 is now T. Dianne Bellamy-Small.
The new city council Member for District 2-which is where A & T lies-is Jim Kee, the opponent of C. Bradley Hunt II, a current A & T student. Kee won with more than 75 percent of the votes.
District 3 incumbent is Zack Matheny and District 5 incumbent is Trudy Wade, all councilmen who were re-elected for a second term.
District 4, in contrast to the other districts, had the closest race. Mary Rakestraw, incumbent councilwoman, and Nancy Hoffmann were the two candidates.
Ultimately Hoffman won against her two-term opponent taking 51.7 percent of the vote.
Mayoral candidates for other cities within the Triad [Jamestown, Burlington, High Point, Lexington, etc.] were also on the ballot and elected.
The polls opened Tuesday morning at 6:30 am and closed at 7:30 pm.
In Guilford County there are about 205,000 registered voters, but only a little over 42,000 of them voted in the municipal elections. And 5,800 of these voters voted in early elections that began Nov. 3. In fact no precinct throughout the entire county had a voter turnout of more than 50 percent. A large number of these precincts had a voter turn out that ranged from 10 to 20 percent.
One of those precincts was on campus in Exhibit Hall in the union. This location only had a voter turnout of 4.76 percent.
Te’Ana Mason a first time voter and a junior psychology major believes that, “voting is essential and it matters in making a change.”
“I think students have a voice,” said Elicia Sashington a senior electrical engineering major. Although she is from Chicago, Ill. she insisted that, “voting has an effect on the citizens of Greensboro” which ultimately will effect out-of-state students who will reside in Greensboro while attending school.
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- Dashawn Fleming, Register Reporter
