Atlanta · 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
87.8%
109,167 votes · D+76.2
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 82.5%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
73.6%
478,624 votes · R+47.3
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 62.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
1,907,973votes
51.9% of the vote · D+4.7
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 1,839,971 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
1,736,659votes
47.2% of the vote · D+4.7
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 1,604,113 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
+66.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+41.2 · U.S. R+25.2
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · +59.6 pts
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
+24.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+47.3 · U.S. R+23.2
Runner-up · Barry Goldwater, 1964 · +19.6 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 · 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, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Obama30Clinton25741,933 votes · 55 of 55 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
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2012R+8.8
vs
Presidential vote · 2024D+4.7
Atlanta registers Republican but votes Democratic — a 13-point gap between how voters register and how they vote, the signature of ancestral registration that trails realignment.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Atlanta
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2008 (partial)
8,295
2,856
3,329
2,107
3
2012 (partial)
9,093
2,711
3,513
2,848
21
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+14,236 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +446,786 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Atlanta in Atlanta: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+11,450
2012
+21,955
2013
+14,071
2014
+34,415
2015
+46,481
2016
+47,990
2017
+44,558
2018
+37,541
2019
+42,127
2021
+30,879
2022
+56,433
2023
+34,002
2024
+10,648
2025
+14,236
The Atlanta media market spans rapidly diversifying suburbs that have shifted competitive in recent cycles, making it a focal point for statewide campaigns in Georgia. Gwinnett, Cobb, and DeKalb anchor a region where population growth consistently outpaces voter-registration updates.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 76.2 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 47.3 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 2.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 4.7 points.
A population of 7,422,654, a 47% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $87,711 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Richmond-Petersburg and Charlotte.
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In 2024, Atlanta, Georgia voted Democratic by 4.7 points (D+4.7), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 3,676,241 votes cast, 1,907,973 went Democratic and 1,736,659 went Republican.
When did Atlanta, Georgia last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Atlanta, Georgia voted Republican was 2012.
How many people live in Atlanta, Georgia?
Atlanta, Georgia has a population of 7,422,654 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Atlanta, Georgia?
Median household income in Atlanta, Georgia is $87,711 — above the national median of $80,734. The Georgia state median is $77,353.
What is the political history of Atlanta, Georgia?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Atlanta, Georgia from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 23 went Democratic and 10 went Republican.
