Andre Dickens, who has spent the past eight years as a City Council member, won a runoff election Tuesday night and will become Atlanta’s next mayor in January.
Dickens beat Felicia Moore, the current City Council president, by 63.7 to 36.3 percent. However, in the Nov. 2 general election, Dickens was behind Moore by 17 percentage points. A runoff election was required because Moore didn’t win over 50 percent of the vote. Since then, Dickens has quickly gained momentum and won some big-name endorsements.
