Just over 5,000

Peachtree City residents spoke up at the polls Tuesday, electing planning

activist Steve Brown as the city's next mayor and municipal attorney Murray

Weed over incumbent Carol Fritz.

The staggering

result of the runoff election, however, was the landslide in which Brown

and Weed won. Each candidate won all 12 precincts and the absentee balloting

also.

When all the

votes were tabulated, Weed's total was just 43 votes shy of Brown's. Gary

Rower, runner-up for mayor, garnered 1,946 votes in his bid for office,

while incumbent councilwoman Carol Fritz won the nod from 1,918 voters.

Both Brown

and Weed won by margins of more than 1,200 votes.

At a party

celebrating victory Tuesday night, Brown said he plans to fulfill his

first campaign promise almost immediately: to clean his election material

off the dining room table ... a promise made to his wife some time back.

As for Anne

Marie, she's used to her husband immersing himself in city business, and

she figures that having the assistance of city staff will actually allow

him to spend more time away from city issues.

Now that voters

have spoken at the polls, the focus will be on efforts to make the transition

between the outgoing elected officials Fritz and mayor Bob Lenox, who

didn't run due to term limits and the newly elected mayor and councilman.

Earlier this

month, incumbent Steve Rapson was elected to the council seat he currently

holds after his appointment by the sitting council back in March. He defeated

the only candidate opposing him in the election, former City Clerk Nancy

Faulkner.