Elections in Georgia (U.S. state)
Elections in Georgia |
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Elections in
In a ranking of U.S. states by electoral integrity by PEI electoral integrity project conducted in 2018,
In a 2020 study, Georgia was ranked as the second most difficult state for citizens to vote in.[5]
History
Year | Democratic | Republican |
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1950
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98.4% 230,771 | – |
1954
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99.9% 331,899 | – |
1958
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99.9% 168,414 | – |
1962
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99.9% 311,524 | – |
1966
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46.2% 450,626 | 46.5% 453,665 |
1970
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59.3% 620,419 | 40.6% 424,983 |
1974
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69.1% 646,777 | 30.9% 289,113 |
1978
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80.7% 534,572 | 19.3% 128,319 |
1982
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62.8% 734,090 | 37.2% 434,496 |
1986
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70.5% 828,465 | 29.5% 346,512 |
1990
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52.9% 766,662 | 44.5% 645,625 |
1994
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51.1% 788,926 | 48.9% 756,371 |
1998
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52.5% 941,076 | 44.1% 790,201 |
2002
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46.2% 937,153 | 51.4% 1,041,702 |
2006
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38.2% 811,049 | 57.9% 1,229,724 |
2010
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43.0% 1,107,011 | 53.0% 1,365,832 |
2014
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44.9% 1,144,794 | 52.7% 1,345,237 |
2018
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48.8% 1,923,685 | 50.2% 1,978,408 |
2022 | 45.9% 1,813,673 | 53.4% 2,111,572 |
Year | Republican / Whig | Democratic | Third party | |||
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No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | |
2020 | 2,461,854 | 49.24% | 2,473,633 | 49.47% | 64,473 | 1.29% |
2016 | 2,089,104 | 50.38% | 1,877,963 | 45.29% | 179,758 | 4.33% |
2012 | 2,078,688 | 53.19% | 1,773,827 | 45.39% | 55,854 | 1.43% |
2008 | 2,048,759 | 52.10% | 1,844,123 | 46.90% | 39,276 | 1.00% |
2004 | 1,914,254 | 57.93% | 1,366,149 | 41.34% | 24,078 | 0.73% |
2000 | 1,419,720 | 54.67% | 1,116,230 | 42.98% | 60,854 | 2.34% |
1996 | 1,080,843 | 47.01% | 1,053,849 | 45.84% | 164,379 | 7.15% |
1992 | 995,252 | 42.88% | 1,008,966 | 43.47% | 316,915 | 13.65% |
1988 | 1,081,331 | 59.75% | 714,792 | 39.50% | 13,549 | 0.75% |
1984 | 1,068,722 | 60.17% | 706,628 | 39.79% | 743 | 0.04% |
1980 | 654,168 | 40.95% | 890,733 | 55.76% | 52,566 | 3.29% |
1976 | 483,743 | 32.96% | 979,409 | 66.74% | 4,306 | 0.29% |
1972 | 881,496 | 75.04% | 289,529 | 24.65% | 3,747 | 0.32% |
1968 | 380,111 | 30.40% | 334,440 | 26.75% | 535,715 | 42.85% |
1964 | 616,584 | 54.12% | 522,557 | 45.87% | 195 | 0.02% |
1960 | 274,472 | 37.43% | 458,638 | 62.54% | 239 | 0.03% |
1956 | 216,652 | 32.65% | 441,094 | 66.48% | 5,734 | 0.86% |
1952 | 198,979 | 30.34% | 456,823 | 69.66% | 1 | 0.00% |
1948 | 76,691 | 18.31% | 254,646 | 60.81% | 87,427 | 20.88% |
1944 | 59,880 | 18.25% | 268,187 | 81.74% | 42 | 0.01% |
1940 | 46,360 | 14.83% | 265,194 | 84.85% | 997 | 0.32% |
1936 | 36,942 | 12.60% | 255,364 | 87.10% | 872 | 0.30% |
1932 | 19,863 | 7.77% | 234,118 | 91.60% | 1,609 | 0.63% |
1928 | 99,368 | 43.36% | 129,602 | 56.56% | 188 | 0.08% |
1924 | 30,300 | 18.19% | 123,200 | 73.96% | 13,077 | 7.85% |
1920 | 41,089 | 27.63% | 107,162 | 72.06% | 465 | 0.31% |
1916 | 11,294 | 7.03% | 127,754 | 79.51% | 21,633 | 13.46% |
1912 | 5,191 | 4.27% | 93,087 | 76.63% | 23,192 | 19.09% |
1908 | 41,355 | 31.21% | 72,350 | 54.60% | 18,799 | 14.19% |
1904 | 24,004 | 18.33% | 83,466 | 63.72% | 23,516 | 17.95% |
1900 | 34,260 | 28.22% | 81,180 | 66.86% | 5,970 | 4.92% |
1896 | 59,395 | 36.56% | 93,885 | 57.78% | 9,200 | 5.66% |
1892 | 48,408 | 21.70% | 129,446 | 58.01% | 45,272 | 20.29% |
1888 | 40,499 | 28.33% | 100,493 | 70.31% | 1,944 | 1.36% |
1884 | 48,603 | 33.84% | 94,667 | 65.92% | 340 | 0.24% |
1880 | 54,470 | 34.59% | 102,981 | 65.41% | 0 | 0.00% |
1876 | 50,533 | 27.97% | 130,157 | 72.03% | 0 | 0.00% |
1872 | 62,550 | 45.03% | 76,356 | 54.97% | 0 | 0.00% |
1868 | 57,109 | 35.73% | 102,707 | 64.27% | 0 | 0.00% |
1860 | 0 | 0.00% | 11,581 | 10.85% | 95,136 | 89.15% |
1856 | 0 | 0.00% | 56,581 | 57.14% | 42,439 | 42.86% |
1852 | 16,660 | 26.60% | 40,516 | 64.70% | 5,450 | 8.70% |
1848 | 47,532 | 51.49% | 44,785 | 48.51% | 0 | 0.00% |
1844 | 42,100 | 48.81% | 44,147 | 51.19% | 0 | 0.00% |
1840 | 40,339 | 55.78% | 31,983 | 44.22% | 0 | 0.00% |
1836 | 24,481 | 51.80% | 22,778 | 48.20% | 0 | 0.00% |
Following the end of
Elections to the
Historically, elections at all levels of government in the
Beginning in the 1950s, the credible enforcement of new laws inspired by the
Modern times and the shift to Republican dominance
Beginning with Barry Goldwater's presidential bid in 1964, the Republican Party began making inroads in Georgia. The state swung over dramatically to support Goldwater—the first time it had gone Republican in a presidential election in American history. In time, the Republican Party of Georgia would field competitive candidates and win races for seats in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives. Republicans also began making gains at the state level, mostly in the Atlanta suburbs. However, conservative Democrats continued to hold most offices at the local level well into the 1990s.
In presidential races, Georgia has given its electoral college votes to the Republican candidate all but five times since 1964: in
By 2007, conservative Republicans had become the dominant force in state elections, with Republicans holding the offices of governor and lieutenant governor and significant majorities in both houses of the state General Assembly.
As in many states, Democratic strongholds in Georgia include urban and minority-dominated areas. Democrats typically fare well in cities such as Atlanta (and its suburbs such as Gwinnett County), Macon, and Columbus, which have large minority populations, as well as Athens, home of the University of Georgia. The Republican Party dominates state elections through its hold on rural south Georgia, with a very notable exception in the southwestern part of the state; the Appalachian north; and many of Atlanta's further suburbs and exurbs. Former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Newt Gingrich, co-author of the Contract with America and architect of the 1994 "Republican Revolution," represented a district in Cobb County, a suburban Atlanta county which has since flipped to supporting Democratic candidates since 2016.[8]
A feature of Georgia elections is the requirement for 50%-plus-one majorities in general and primary elections, triggering runoff elections if no candidate receives a majority. From 1898 to 1962, the Democratic Party used a combination of the
However, the following ascendance of the Republican Party culminated in the 1992 defeat of incumbent
Current status
The current Governor of Georgia is
The Georgia General Assembly has been controlled by the Republicans since 2004. They have majorities over the Democrats in both the Senate and House of Representatives by margins of 33 to 23 and 101 to 78 respectively as of 2023. In congressional elections, until the 2021 runoffs, Georgia was represented in the U.S. Senate by David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, both Republicans, with Loeffler having been appointed by Governor Brian Kemp after Johnny Isakson announced his retirement in 2019. The state also sends 14 members to the U.S. House of Representatives, which in 2019 included 9 Republicans and 5 Democrats.
However, in 2018, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams received 49% of the vote, resulting in the closest gubernatorial election since 1966; a following runoff for Secretary of State was the first time that a statewide constitutional office was subjected to a runoff election.
In the early 2020s, despite a Republican
See also
- Political party strength in Georgia (U.S. state)
- United States presidential elections in Georgia
- 2010 United States Senate election in Georgia
- 2010 Georgia gubernatorial election
- 1998 Georgia gubernatorial election
- 2008 United States Senate election in Georgia
- 2008 United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia
- Government of Georgia (U.S. state)
- Politics of Georgia (U.S. state)
- Women's suffrage in Georgia (U.S. state)
- 2018 Georgia state elections
- 2020 Georgia state elections
Presidential elections
- 1964 Presidential election
- 1968 Presidential election
- 1980 Presidential election
- 1984 Presidential election
- 1988 Presidential election
- 1992 Presidential election
- 1996 Presidential election
- 2000 Presidential election
- 2004 Presidential election
- 2008 Presidential election
- 2012 Presidential election
- 2016 Presidential election
- 2020 Presidential election
Presidential primaries
- 2008 Democratic Primary
- 2008 Republican Primary
References
- ^ a b Wilson, Reid (4 June 2014). "Runoff elections a relic of the Democratic South". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 25 October 2014. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
- ^ Hood III, M.V. (19 July 2014). "Hood: Georgia is one of few states with primary runoff balloting". Athens Banner-Herald. Archived from the original on 21 October 2014. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
- ^ "Google Scholar".
- ^ "PEI-US-2018 — the Electoral Integrity Project EIP". Archived from the original on 2020-08-31. Retrieved 2020-09-11.
- S2CID 225139517.
- ^ Leip, David. "General Election Results – Georgia". United States Election Atlas. Archived from the original on July 9, 2018. Retrieved November 18, 2016.
- ^ Leip, David. "Presidential General Election Results Comparison – Georgia". US Election Atlas. Archived from the original on October 25, 2022. Retrieved October 24, 2022.
- ^ "Cobb turns blue, again". 7 November 2018. Archived from the original on 2020-02-05. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
- ^ "Civil Rights in America: Racial Voting Rights" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-12-02. Retrieved 2020-12-24.
- ^ "Runoff system a Southern relic". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. August 10, 2012. Archived from the original on November 5, 2020. Retrieved September 26, 2020.
- ^ "How Georgia became a swing state for the first time in decades". Washington Post. 8 Nov 2020. Archived from the original on 13 March 2021. Retrieved 7 Jan 2021.
- ^ "Raphael Warnock might really be too radical for Georgia". Washington Post. 2 Dec 2020. Archived from the original on 7 January 2021. Retrieved 7 Jan 2021.
- ^ "Last night in Georgia, Black Americans saved democracy". The Brookings Institution. 6 Jan 2021. Archived from the original on 6 January 2021. Retrieved 7 Jan 2021.
Both candidates ran on progressive agendas
- ^ Stuart, Tessa (January 6, 2021). "Warnock Makes History and Democrats Gain Senate Majority". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on May 12, 2021.
- ^ "Joe Biden confirmed as Georgia winner after recount". The Guardian. 20 Nov 2020. Archived from the original on 6 October 2021. Retrieved 7 Jan 2021.
- ^ "How Black voters lifted Georgia Democrats to Senate runoff victories". The Guardian. 7 Jan 2021. Archived from the original on 7 January 2021. Retrieved 7 Jan 2021.
- ^ Niesse, Mark. "1,000 people double-voted in Georgia primary, says secretary of state". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Archived from the original on 2020-09-11. Retrieved 2020-09-11.
Further reading
- "Georgia likely removed nearly 200k from voter rolls wrongfully, report says", Cnn.com, September 2, 2020
External links
- Elections at the Georgia Secretary of State official website
- Georgia at Ballotpedia
- "Georgia 2020 Purge List", SaveMyVote2020.org, Los Angeles, CA: Palast Investigative Fund,from the Georgia voter rolls
Check if you have been purged
- Government Documents Round Table of the American Library Association, "Georgia", Voting & Elections Toolkits
- "League of Women Voters of Georgia". 5 January 2018. (State affiliate of the U.S. League of Women Voters)
- National Institute on Money in Politics; Campaign Finance Institute, "Georgia 2019 & 2020 Elections", OpenSecrets. (Also: 1995 & 1996, 1997 & 1998, 1999 & 2000, 2001 & 2002, 2003 & 2004, 2005 & 2006, 2007 & 2008, 2009 & 2010, 2011 & 2012, 2013 & 2014, 2015 & 2016, 2017 & 2018).
- Digital Public Library of America. Assorted materials related to Georgia elections
- "State Elections Legislation Database", Ncsl.org, Washington, D.C.: National Conference of State Legislatures,
State legislation related to the administration of elections introduced in 2011 through this year, 2020