Atlanta--Athens-Clarke County--Sandy Springs, GA-AL · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
91.9%
94,363 votes · D+84.5
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 86.0%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
73.5%
454,522 votes · R+47.1
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 62.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
1,878,908votes
53.4% of the vote · D+7.7
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 1,814,573 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
1,608,339votes
45.7% of the vote · D+7.7
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 1,490,834 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
John W. Davis1924
+74.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+49.6 · U.S. R+25.2
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · +66.7 pts
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
+23.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+47.1 · U.S. R+23.2
Runner-up · Barry Goldwater, 1964 · +20.5 pts
U.S. House elections · 3 House
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U.S. House
On a multi-state Place, each row sums votes cast in the separate U.S. House races held inside the Place that year. It is a geographic vote total, not one contest or a seat tally.
Atlanta--Athens-Clarke County--Sandy Springs, GA-AL · how this place’s counties split between candidates 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 and there is no roll-up above it. Each cell counts how many of this place’s counties a candidate led — a count of records, not a vote total. Who led the place as a whole is not knowable from these returns, because county rows carry a leader and a lead but no per-candidate votes.
Presidential nominating contests in Atlanta--Athens-Clarke County--Sandy Springs, GA-AL, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Obama28Clinton14720,756 votes · 42 of 42 countiesprimary
○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.
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Atlanta--Athens-Clarke County--Sandy Springs, GA-AL
Year
Total registered
2016 (partial)
4,333,372
2018
4,597,535
2020
5,032,363
2022
5,155,092
2024
5,444,069
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+9,651 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +394,422 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Atlanta--Athens-Clarke County--Sandy Springs, GA-AL in Atlanta--Athens-Clarke County--Sandy Springs, GA-AL: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+11,794
2012
+22,261
2013
+12,927
2014
+32,904
2015
+43,399
2016
+44,316
2017
+40,306
2018
+32,457
2019
+37,336
2021
+24,124
2022
+49,752
2023
+27,726
2024
+5,469
2025
+9,651
Atlanta--Athens-Clarke County--Sandy Springs, GA-AL sits in the Deep South. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 84.5 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 47.1 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 2.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 7.7 points.
A population of 7,156,958, a 46% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $88,449 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC and Charlotte-Concord, NC-SC.
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How did Atlanta--Athens-Clarke County--Sandy Springs, GA-AL, Georgia vote in 2024?
In 2024, Atlanta--Athens-Clarke County--Sandy Springs, GA-AL, Georgia voted Democratic by 7.7 points (D+7.7), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 3,518,173 votes cast, 1,878,908 went Democratic and 1,608,339 went Republican.
When did Atlanta--Athens-Clarke County--Sandy Springs, GA-AL, Georgia last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Atlanta--Athens-Clarke County--Sandy Springs, GA-AL, Georgia voted Republican was 2012.
How many people live in Atlanta--Athens-Clarke County--Sandy Springs, GA-AL, Georgia?
Atlanta--Athens-Clarke County--Sandy Springs, GA-AL, Georgia has a population of 7,156,958 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Atlanta--Athens-Clarke County--Sandy Springs, GA-AL, Georgia?
Median household income in Atlanta--Athens-Clarke County--Sandy Springs, GA-AL, Georgia is $88,449 — above the national median of $80,734. The Georgia state median is $77,353.
What is the political history of Atlanta--Athens-Clarke County--Sandy Springs, GA-AL, Georgia?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Atlanta--Athens-Clarke County--Sandy Springs, GA-AL, Georgia from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 24 went Democratic and 9 went Republican.
