House District 58 voters will be headed back to the polls on Dec. 1 for a runoff election between community educator Simone Bell and attorney Asha Jackson.

In the five-person race to finish out the term of Robinn Shipp, Jackson got 26.6 percent of the votes and Bell 23.9 percent. The district includes portions of DeKalb and Fulton counties.

In municipal races, Howard Tygrett, an REI store manager, will be Clarkston’s new mayor and in Stone Mountain, Patricia “Pat” Wheeler will become mayor again.

Wheeler, a retired insurance agent, was Stone Mountain’s mayor from 1987 to 1997.

Two incumbents, Marcus Lloyd in Lithonia and Karen Feltz in Clarkston, lost their seats. Lloyd will be replaced on the Lithonia Council by Richard “Ric” Dodd, who won a seat after three tries.

Incumbents Al Franklin and Deborah Jackson retained their seats on the Lithonia Council with 27.5 percent and 25 percent of the votes respectively. Dodd got 23.2 percent of the votes in the five-person race.

In Clarkston, Dean Moore, Joan Swaney and Adam White will be joining the council with 28.6, 25,6 amd 24 percent of the votes.

Stone Mountain city council incumbents Susan Coletti and Steve Higgins held onto their seats, and they will be joined on the council by Nan Odum Nash.

Stone Mountain voters also approved a referendum to provide a new charter that allows the city to hire a city manager with 58.9 percent of their votes.

In Pine Lake, incumbents Kathie Denobriga and Melanie Hammet were re-elected. They will be joined on the council by Cindy Diamond.

On the Decatur Board of Education, incumbents Marc Wisniewski and Valarie Wilson retained their seats with 55.4 and 50.4 percent of the votes respectively. On the Decatur Commission, incumbent Fred Boykin retained his District 1A seat with 69 percent of the votes and Patti Garrett claimed the District 2A seat with 53.7 percent of the votes.

Voter turnout was low across the county. Only 23 percent of the 54,597 registered voters in the districts holding elections showed up at the polls.

For example, in Lithonia, where 1,077 are registered to vote, only 327 ballots were cast. In Clarkston, which has 3,383 voters, 432 people voted. In Stone Mountain, which has 3,985 voters, 620 cast ballots.

Pine Lake, which has 600 registered voters had the highest turnout with 460 people voting.

In House District 58, which has 17,649 registered voters, only 2,755 voted. In Decatur, which has 14,781 registered voters, 2,794 people voted.

For the Dec. 1 runoff election, the polls will be open in House District 58 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.