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Profile of Georgia — presidential margin history, demographics, and national context.

Ambiguity notes

  • Interpreting "Georgia" as the U.S. state (state:2020:13); Atlas covers U.S. political geography only.
  • Defaulting to the full 2008-2024 presidential cycle range since the question does not narrow the time horizon.

Resolution strategy

  1. 01lookup_geographygeorgia
    Parameters
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Plus 1 comparison shape: national.

Data pulls

  • reaggregationgeorgia · 2024, 2020, 2016, 2012, 2008
  • demographicsgeorgia
  • historygeorgia · 2024, 2020, 2016, 2012, 2008
  • forecastgeorgia

Sections

  1. 01
    overview
  2. 02
    shape_map
  3. 03
    historical_trend
  4. 04
    demographic_lens
  5. 05
    comparison_table

Narrative angle

Headline emphasis. 2024 partisan margin and the cycle-by-cycle arc since 2008, including the 2020 flip and its 2024 reversal

Frame. Georgia's cycle-by-cycle arc from reliably Republican to competitive battleground, measured against the national baseline.

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  1. Plan drafted
  2. Shape resolved — georgia
  3. Section 2 · overview
  4. Section 3 · shape_map
  5. Section 4 · historical_trend
  6. Section 5 · demographic_lens
  7. Section 6 · comparison_table
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Georgia's cycle-by-cycle arc from reliably Republican to competitive battleground, measured against the national baseline.

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Georgia's cycle-by-cycle arc from reliably Republican to competitive battleground, measured against the national baseline.

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overview02
R+3.0
Lean Score
R+2.8
2020 margin
R+0.5
2024 turnout
64.0%

R+3.0 in 2024 for Georgia, widening from R+0.5 in 2020 when the state last flipped Democratic. 10.9M people, with a lean score of R+2.8 tracking just right of the national baseline. Turnout hit 64.0%, keeping Georgia in battleground range despite the 2.5-point rightward move since 2020.

high confidence
shape map03
Primary shape
GA
Comparison outlines
3 · GA
Center
32.47°N, 82.84°W
Zoom
z6
Extent
4.82° × 4.65°

Georgia, anchoring the eastern edge of the Deep South from the Atlanta metro down to the Florida line.

historical trend04

Shifted 2.6 pts right across 16 years.

DR20202008: R+5.72012: R+8.42016: R+5.92020: R+0.52024: R+3.020082024
R+5.7 in 2008, R+3.0 in 2024, shifted 2.6 points right; inflection at 2020.
2008R+5.72012R+8.42016R+5.92020R+0.52024R+3.0

Georgia moved 2.6 points left from 2008 to 2024, closing at R+3.0 after R+5.7 sixteen years earlier. The inflection was 2020, when margin compressed 5.3 points from R+5.9 to R+0.5; 2024 gave back 2.5 of those points, landing at R+3.0. Total votes climbed from 4,036,569 in 2008 to 5,362,298 in 2024.

demographic lens05
race composition
white 52.3%Black 30.8%Hispanic 10.4%Asian 4.4%

No comparison geography available.

population
10,916,071
voting-age population
8,382,998
non-Hispanic white (approx.)
41.9%
  • Spatial rollup via ST_Intersects against 7,611 block-group(s).
  • Spatial selection is inclusive-intersect (boundary BGs counted in full); no area-weighted partial inclusion in v1.
  • pct_non_hispanic_white is approximate: computed as (pop_white - pop_hispanic) / total_population. PL 94-171 race/ethnicity cross-tabs are not available at block-group resolution.
  • median_age not aggregable at block-group in v1; returned null.
  • ACS socioeconomic data (income, college, poverty, foreign-born) not available at block-group level in v1; aggregate county-level ACS is a Phase 2 enhancement.
  • No containing-geography race breakdown available; contrasting_dimension omitted.

Plurality white at 52.3%, voting-age population of 8.38M across 10.92M residents. Black share of 30.8% is the second-largest of any state. Non-Hispanic white share runs 41.9%, with Hispanic residents at 10.4% and Asian residents at 4.4%.

comparison table06
  • GA+2.6 pts
    2016
    R+5.9
    2020
    R+0.5
    2024
    R+3.0
  • Wilkinson-7.6 pts
    2016
    R+10.2
    2020
    R+12.4
    2024
    R+17.9
  • Georgia+2.9 pts
    2016
    R+5.1
    2020
    D+0.2
    2024
    R+2.2
  • GA-8+0.1 pts
    2016
    R+30.7
    2020
    R+27.6
    2024
    R+30.6

GA-8 sits furthest from its parents at R+30.6, roughly 28 points to the right of Georgia statewide's R+2.2. The district barely moved across cycles (trend magnitude 0.08) while the state shifted 2.9 points left from 2016 to 2024. Wilkinson County tracks closer to GA-8 at R+17.9 but has drifted 7.6 points right since 2016, against the statewide leftward arc.