Participation measured against the same-year citizen voting-age population. Audited cycles count total general-election participants — ballots or participating voters, not presidential candidate votes. Cycles before 2016 predate that series and are derived from the certified presidential returns instead; they are marked everywhere they appear and are excluded from the figures below.
2004–20248 cycles · 5 audited
2024 turnout
55.5%10,780 participants ÷ 19,416 CVAP
2020→2022 drop-off
+20.2 ptsPresidential-dependent
Drop-off vs state
+4.6 ptsPositive means a larger decline than the statewide pattern
Mechanical 2026
35.4%–43.2%Recent-cycle and two-cycle persistence scenarios; not a forecast
Participation by cycle
Presidential Midterm Derived, pre-2016
0%20%40%60%
52.9%
36.7%
20042008201220162018202020222024
Select a presidential cycle to show it on the map and results ledger above.
Cycle
Participants
CVAP
Turnout
Series
Quality
10,780
19,416 ± 1,419
55.5%
Audited
E/A
2022Mid
7,001
19,058 ± 1,653
36.7%
Audited
E/A
8,675
15,250 ± 1,409
56.9%
Audited
E/A
2018Mid
7,719
14,598 ± 1,028
52.9%
Audited
E/A
7,971
13,917 ± 1,073
57.3%
Audited
E/A
7,547
12,518
60.3%
Derived
—
5,284
11,032
47.9%
Derived
—
4,046
9,546 extrapolated
42.4%
Derived
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Sources and methods
Audited cycles (2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024) count total general-election participants against the same-year CVAP special tabulation, each cell carrying its own numerator and denominator quality grade. Derived cycles (2004, 2008, 2012) come from the certified presidential returns on this page over the ACS 5-year CVAP series, so they measure presidential votes cast rather than ballots — a floor on participation. Where a derived cycle predates the ACS its denominator is extrapolated rather than read, and says so on its own line below. They are shown for the longer arc and are excluded from the drop-off, excess-drop-off, and 2026 scenario figures above.
2024: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 323/229.
2022: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 322/184.
2020: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 321/4.
2018: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 320/139.
2016: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 319/133.
2012 (derived): Certified presidential returns · ACS 5-year CVAP (B05003); presidential votes cast — a floor on participation, not a ballot count.
2008 (derived): Certified presidential returns · ACS 5-year CVAP (B05003); presidential votes cast — a floor on participation, not a ballot count.
2004 (derived): Certified presidential returns · extrapolated CVAP denominator; presidential votes cast — a floor on participation, not a ballot count; 2004 predates the ACS, so the denominator is a linear back-extrapolation from the 2008 and 2012 CVAP values, not a read figure.
presidential history
Party record book
Union City, GA · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
2004–2024 · 6 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2012
91.3%
6,892 votes · D+84.1
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 91.0%
Republican
George W. Bush2004
15.1%
611 votes · D+69.1
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · 11.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
9,672votes
90.8% of the vote · D+82.1
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 7,834 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
921votes
8.6% of the vote · D+82.1
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 720 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
+83.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+82.1 · U.S. R+1.5
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · +81.6 pts
Republican
John McCain2008
−69.5pts R vs U.S.
Place D+76.8 · U.S. D+7.3
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · −71.6 pts
U.S. House elections · 2 House
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row shows U.S. House votes counted inside this Place. “Vote lead” is the local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
Union City · which candidate this place backed in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain. The figures below are Fulton County, Georgia, the county containing Union City — Union City’s own primary vote sits inside those totals and is not separately reported.
Presidential nominating contests in Union City, by party and cycle.
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
Union City sits along the I-85 corridor southwest of Atlanta, where rapid residential expansion has paired with a majority-Black population that delivers Democratic margins above 80% in most statewide contests.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 84.1 points in 2012. The 2024 margin was 82.1 points.
A population of 27,728, a 4% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $49,549 describe the city. The city's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of East Point and Fairburn.
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Political twins — cities
The cities whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
In 2024, Union City, Georgia voted Democratic by 82.1 points (D+82.1), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 10,657 votes cast, 9,672 went Democratic and 921 went Republican.
How many people live in Union City, Georgia?
Union City, Georgia has a population of 27,728 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Union City, Georgia?
Median household income in Union City, Georgia is $49,549 — below the national median of $80,734. The Georgia state median is $77,353.
What is the political history of Union City, Georgia?
Akashic tracks 6 presidential elections in Union City, Georgia from 2004 to 2024. Of those, 6 went Democratic and 0 went Republican.
