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In 1921, the Georgia General Assembly passed a law that would allow women to vote and hold public office. [77] White women voted statewide in 1922. [51] However, African-American and Native American women were still excluded from the vote in Georgia. [78]
[354] [355] Even after the Nineteenth Amendment became the law of the land, Georgia did not allow women to vote right away. [356] Because of voter registration rules, women could not vote in the 1920 presidential election. [357] The first time women voted statewide was in 1922. [358]
Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Georgia, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1788, Georgia has participated in every U.S. presidential election except the election of 1864, when it had seceded in the American Civil War. Winners of the state are in bold.
In 1917, Waycross, Georgia allowed women to vote in primary elections and in 1919 Atlanta granted the same. Georgia was the first state to reject the Nineteenth Amendment. Women in Georgia still had to wait to vote statewide after the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified on August 26, 1920.
Exit polls from the 2024 U.S. presidential election suggest a 10 percentage point gender gap in votes for Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump. While a majority of female U.S. voters ...
Take a closer look at how each county voted in this year’s presidential election, and how Georgia’s partisan margins are changing. Election day 2024 map: How all 159 Georgia counties voted ...
The focus turns to working at the state level. Wyoming renewed general women's suffrage, becoming the first state to allow women to vote. [6] [3] [8] 1890: A suffrage campaign loses in South Dakota. [6] 1893: After a campaign led by Carrie Chapman Catt, Colorado men vote for women's suffrage. [6]
In fact, 90% of Black women voted for the Democratic presidential nominee, securing his ultimate victory over Donald Trump, especially in key battleground states like Georgia and Pennsylvania.