MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Voter turnout soared 17.9 percent from August for Tuesday’s mayoral runoff election in Mobile.

48,821 people voted, up from 41,430 in the general election. Turnout on Tuesday was 30.9 percent of registered voters, up from 26.3 percent in August.

Former District Court Judge Spiro Cheriogotis defeated State Representative Baraba Drummond by 1,391 votes, 51.4 percent to 48.6 percent.

Both candidates managed to get out their voters in their biggest and most important precincts.

At Figures Park in Toulminville, turnout jumped 19.3 percent from August. Drummond secured 97 percent of the vote, topping Cheriogotis 1,425 to 49.

That margin, however, was more than countered at Cheriogotis’ home precinct, Dauphin Way Baptist Church, where most Springhill neighborhood reside

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