UPDATE: Nov. 4, 2021 – 12:30 p.m.

The Atlanta mayoral race has narrowed down its candidates to just two who will face off in a runoff election.  

According to Fox 5 Atlanta, City Council President Felicia Moore will go against City Council member Andre Dickins.  

Moore received 40% of the votes and Dickins, who was in a close race with former Mayor Kasim Reed, received 23% of the votes.  

The runoff election will take place on Nov. 30.  

This is a developing story that will be updated. 

UPDATE: Nov. 4, 2021 – 8:30 a.m.

Felicia Moore won 40.8% of the vote Tuesday in the nonpartisan Atlanta mayoral race. However, Moore fell short of the 50% mark needed to avoid a Nov. 30 runoff.

Moore’s opponent is still yet to be decided, but City Council member Andre Dickens has a slim lead-23% to 22.4%- over former Mayor Kasim Reed as of Thursday morning. 

Moore thanked her supporters Tuesday after the results were announced and is now asking for donations to prepare for her runoff campaign.

Thank you to everyone for all your support!! Please also pitch in $10 to help launch our runoff campaign 🙏🏿 – https://t.co/p8Yb3ZNCoi

— Felicia Moore (@mooreforatlanta) November 3, 2021

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UPDATE: Nov. 3, 2021 – 8:30 a.m.

Felicia Moore, the Atlanta City Council President, emerged as the leader in the city’s mayoral race in Georgia. Moore advances to the Nov. 30 runoff with close to 40% of the vote in the nonpartisan race.

Who will Moore face in the runoff is still up in the air, but City Council member Andre Dickens is the early favorite.

“I am confident that people have heard our message for change and agree with us that Atlanta deserves more,” Moore told supporters Tuesday night.

Curbing the uptick in crime in Atlanta was one of the main talking points for each candidate, and Moore assured her supporters it is of high priority.

“We all want to live in an Atlanta, I think we all do, where it’s safe to jog down the street, where it’s safe to pump your own gas, where it’s safe to even sleep in your own bed without bullets flying through the windows,” Moore said.

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The next mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, will be decided in the Nov. 2 election that includes 14 candidates vying to curb violence, enact affordable housing, and uphold the city as the “Black Mecca” in the U.S.  

While 14 candidates are on the ballot, six have risen to the top:   

• Former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed  
• Atlanta City Council President Felicia Moore  
• Atlanta City Councilmember Antonio Brown  
• Atlanta City Councilmember Andre Dickens  
• Attorney Sharon Gay  
• Businesswoman Rebecca King  

The race took a turn when incumbent mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced she would not seek reelection, opening up the wide-open race. Bottoms’ announcement also catapulted Reed as the frontrunner, but the candidate has a checkered past.  

Related: Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms not running for reelection 

Reed served two four-year terms beginning in 2010, but he left office due to a federal investigation into corruption at City Hall. Six members of Reed’s administration have been indicted. Some pleaded guilty and others await trial. 

Related: ATL Mayor’s Race: Reed raises $1M in first 20 days of campaign 

Reed was never charged, but he and his office were accused of using campaign funds to make personal purchases of jewelry, resort travel, lingerie, and furniture.  

Richard Rose, president of the Atlanta branch of the NAACP, spoke out against Reed.  

“The NAACP typically refrains from endorsing a political party or speaking out about a specific candidate. Today, I am breaking that tacit protocol,” Rose said in a written statement. “To do anything less would be an abdication of my mission to help move Atlanta forward, not backward.”  

“Atlanta can and must do better than elect Kasim Reed again,” Rose contended. “Thirteen other candidates are running, some with proven leadership ability and political experience, and none with a record of administrative corruption. Please educate yourself on their records. Let’s choose wisely.”  

A “rare repudiation” of a candidate by the Atlanta NAACP:
“Atlanta can and must do better than elect Kasim Reed again. Thirteen other candidates are running, some with proven leadership ability and political experience and none with a record of administrative corruption.” #gapol pic.twitter.com/EF4JAr6NLb

— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) October 21, 2021

According to a recent AJC poll, here are how the top six candidates are performing:  

• Undecided: 41.4%  
• Moore: 23.8%  
• Reed: 20.4%  
• Dickens: 6.2%  
• Gay: 4.3%  
• Brown: 2.4%  

In the poll, 44% of people surveyed said crime was their biggest concern.   

“I’m going to have a series of community conversations and I think the real conversations in the community are particularly where there have been frayed relationships between our police officers and the community,” said Moore, who plans to incentivize retired officers to patrol and build broken relationship with Atlanta residents. “We need to start having an open dialogue and then begin to work on how we can get things resolved.”