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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.
This article is a list of United States presidential candidates. The first U.S. presidential election was held in 1788–1789, followed by the second in 1792. Presidential elections have been held every four years thereafter. Presidential candidates win the election by winning a majority of the electoral vote.
0–9. 1788–89 United States presidential election in Georgia; 1792 United States presidential election in Georgia; 1796 United States presidential election in Georgia
For more than 20 years, Georgia had been a reliably red state in presidential elections — until 2020, when Biden narrowly defeated Trump by just 11,779 votes, a margin of 0.24%, becoming the ...
Trump also received more than 2.66 million votes, setting a record for most votes cast for any candidate in the history of Georgia and became the second Republican ever to carry the state twice after George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004.
Georgia weighed in for this election as 4.2% more Republican than the nation-at-large. Georgia marked the strongest leftward shift in a state that Trump carried in 2016, as the state's PVI shifted 3 points more Democratic since then. Georgia's trend towards the Democrats can be partly explained by the growth of the Atlanta metropolitan area.
With just 26 days until the Nov. 5 election, Georgia continues to be a tight battleground state with polling numbers indicating just a 1% difference between Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican ...
The leftward shift in urban Georgia between 2012 and 2016 foreshadowed Georgia's transition from a Republican stronghold into a competitive (albeit slightly red-leaning) swing state. As of 2024, this is the last time the Democratic candidate won Burke County, a former majority-Black Black Belt county with a declining Black population.