Cherokee Tribune – House District 22 goes to Cantrell

ith 22,633 active registered voters in Cherokee County eligible to vote in the House District 22 race, a total of 4,835 people made it to the polls in the county to cast their votes for a new state representative, a more than 21 percent voter turnout.

With three counties represented by District 22, including Cherokee, Forsyth and Fulton, a total of 6,253 ballots were counted as of press time in the state House election, with all votes in for Cherokee. One precinct in Fulton had not reported, but those results would not affect the outcome of the race.

Voters chose Cantrell, 52, of Woodstock, as their new representative for House District 22, over challenger Meagan Biello, 32, of Ball Ground, in the Tuesday election.

“It feels great, it’s such sense of relief,” Cantrell said after all the ballots were counted. “We worked hard.”

State Rep. Sam Moore (R-Macedonia) was defeated in the May Republican primary election, after taking the least amount of votes between the three candidates.

Cantrell said he plans to learn a lot over the next few months, before taking his seat in the House.

“Over the next few weeks and months I’ll be spending time with many of the state representatives and state senators, trying to learn the ropes, talk to them about legislative ideas I have and how realistic some of these things are that I would like to see happen. And how we can build a coalition of folks to get some things done that I think are important,” Cantrell said.

via Cherokee Tribune – House District 22 goes to Cantrell.