Atlanta City Council Dist. 3 special election heads to runoff

ATLANTA (FOX 5 Atlanta) - It looks like the special election for Atlanta City Council District 3 will be headed towards a runoff.

None of the nine candidates pulled the 50 percent of the vote plus one required to secure an outright victory Tuesday.

It appears Bryon Amos, who led with a little more than 23 percent of the vote, and Antonio Brown, who gained a little more than 19 percent of the vote, will go into a runoff on April 16.

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Tuesday's special election was held to fill the seat opened up in November due to the death of Councilman Ivory Young, Jr.

Greg Clay narrowly missed the runoff falling a little more than a tenth of a percent behind Brown.

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