The 2024 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Georgia voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Georgia has 16 electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which it neither gained nor lost a seat.
Prior to the election, Georgia was considered to be a crucial swing state; rapid population growth in Georgia, particularly in Metro Atlanta, has led the state to become politically competitive in recent years.
Republican Donald Trump, representing neighboring Florida, flipped Georgia back into the Republican column, winning with a majority and a margin of 2.20% over Democrat Kamala Harris. Despite Trump's win, Harris made modest gains in the South Atlanta suburbs, further consolidating Democratic support in urban and suburban areas and signaling growing potential challenges for Republicans in future elections federally, though Republicans did see a rebound in the northern parts of the Atlanta Metro including Fulton County and Gwinnett County. Republicans also saw significant gains in the rest of the state. This was the closest margin of victory for a Republican in Georgia since 1996, with Georgia again voting to the left of the neighboring states of North Carolina and Florida, as well as Arizona and Nevada, signaling that Georgia's political future is uncertain despite its red tilt.
Georgia voted just 0.72% to the right of the nation, the closest Georgia has come to voting to the left of the nation since Jimmy Carter won his home state in 1980. Only the three Rust Belt states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin were closer in margin of victory than Georgia. Georgia and North Carolina were the only battleground states in 2024 in which Trump's performance did not shift to the right relative to his 2016 performance.
Even though Harris lost the state, Georgia was one of the few states to have many counties shift significantly leftward, mostly in the Atlanta Metro, and Harris won a slightly higher share of the state vote than she won nationally (48.3%). Harris made her largest gain compared to 2020 in Henry County, with the county swinging leftward by almost 9%.
This was the first time a Republican candidate would win a federal statewide race in Georgia since Trump's 5.09% victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016. 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.
The Georgia Democratic primary was held on March 12, 2024.
The Georgia Republican primary was held on March 12, 2024.
On July 29, 2024, the state added another way to cancel a voter's registration through an online portal, which has drawn criticism from groups like Fair Fight Action, who worried that it would be abused. By August 5, cybersecurity researcher Jason Parker discovered a vulnerability in Georgia's voter cancellation portal that allowed users to bypass the requirement for a driver's license number, enabling the submission of voter registration cancellations with minimal, publicly available information. The discovery drew attention to weaknesses in the system and the importance of continued efforts to secure election infrastructure.
In August 2024, the Georgia State Election Board enacted two new rules that could deputize local election officials more discretion on whether they certify the election, contrary to state and national precedent. The Democratic party has filed a lawsuit to stop the new rules from taking effect, which a judge agreed with on October 16, blocking the new rule.
Votes for Claudia De la Cruz and Cornel West were not counted even though they appeared on the ballot. After an administrative law judge disqualified Claudia De la Cruz and Cornel West from the ballot due to their electors not registering in their own name, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger overruled the judge on August 29, 2024. Republicans have been working to get West and De la Cruz on the ballot, while Democrats have been working to keep them off. If the ruling were upheld, it would be the first time since 1946 that more than four candidates would be on the ballot. On September 12, 2024, a judge disqualified both West and De la Cruz from running for president in Georgia. On September 25, the Georgia Supreme Court unanimously confirmed the ruling, keeping votes for De la Cruz and West from counting even though Raffensperger kept both on the ballot, saying there was not enough time to reprint the ballots.
In early 2023, Georgia's state legislature denied the Georgia Secretary of State's $25 million request to implement the 2022 security update for Dominion Voting Systems machines before the 2024 elections. However, QR codes will be eliminated by 2026 in favor of text the voter can read to ensure their ballot was marked correctly. Audits will be used to gauge how the machines are faring in 2024.
, the Georgia State Election Board recommended that specific people serve as election monitors in Fulton County despite having no authority to make this recommendation. Each county decides who monitors each election precinct.
As of the 28th of January 2026, the FBI is executing a search warrant at Fulton County elections office near Atlanta. An FBI spokesperson said agents were "executing a court authorized law enforcement action" at the county's main election office in Union City.
Kamala Harris vs. Donald Trump
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Kamala Harris vs. Donald Trump vs. Cornel West vs. Jill Stein vs. Chase Oliver
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Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump
Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump vs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vs. Cornel West vs. Jill Stein
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Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump vs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vs. Cornel West
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Gavin Newsom vs. Donald Trump
Two additional candidates, Party for Socialism and Liberation nominee Claudia De la Cruz and independent Cornel West, were disqualified by the Georgia Supreme Court after ballots were printed. Their names remained on the ballot, but votes for them did not count.
Source: Georgia Secretary of State
Trump won nine of 14 congressional districts.
Despite being located in the socially conservative Bible Belt and Deep South regions, Georgia has become competitive since the start of the 2020s. Having been a moderately red state in the late 2000s through the 2010s, Georgia is currently a purple to slightly red state, being a crucial battleground at the presidential and U.S. Senate levels while maintaining a Republican lean at the state level. The last Republican presidential candidate to win Georgia by a double-digit margin, and the only one to carry the state in consecutive elections, was George W. Bush. This leftward shift is mainly attributed to the rapid population growth that the progressive and diverse Atlanta metro, which holds the majority of the state's population, has experienced in the 21st century, including an influx of African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and progressive Whites. In 2020, Joe Biden very narrowly carried the state by 0.23%, making Georgia the closest state in that election and making Biden the first Democrat since Southerner Bill Clinton in 1992 to win the state's electoral votes. Before Biden's withdrawal from the presidential race, Trump led virtually every poll in Georgia, with the state being generally considered as leaning Republican; however, after Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee, polls pointed to a much tighter race, rendering Georgia a tossup once again.
This was the first presidential election since 1988 that Georgia voted to the left of Nevada. Georgia also voted over 10% to the left of Florida (which was Trump's home state), and 1% to the left of North Carolina.
In the Southern United States, racial polarization is stronger than educational polarization. Georgia voted less than 0.5% to the right of Pennsylvania, because the mathematics of educational polarization can benefit Democrats when combined with an inelastic base of Black voters (88-11% for Democrats). Georgia whites without college degrees are already extremely Republican (82-18% for Republicans), so Democrats just need to win enough college-educated Whites (57-43% for Republicans). Harris fell slightly short in 2024, but Raphael Warnock was able to win an outright majority in 2022 by winning voters with graduate degrees 60-38% and losing all other educational groups.
The leftward swings in many Georgia and North Carolina counties may have been related, as part of a leftward swing in the Piedmont Atlantic megaregion due to Hurricane Helene. However, every county in the neighboring states of Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, and South Carolina swung rightward from 2020.
Trump narrowly flipped three Georgia counties in the Black Belt: the swing counties of Baldwin and Washington (the latter of which is majority-Black), becoming the first presidential Republican to do so since George W. Bush in 2004, as well as Jefferson County (also majority-Black), which he became the first presidential Republican to win since George H. W. Bush in 1988. Trump is now the second Republican presidential candidate to prevail in Georgia more than once, following George W. Bush. However, despite Harris losing Georgia and the election, she managed to improve on Biden's margins in a few Atlanta suburban counties, including but not limited to Fayette, where her 3.1% defeat was the closest a presidential Democrat has come to winning the county since favorite son Jimmy Carter comfortably did so in 1976; Henry, where her 29.7% victory was the best performance for a Democrat at said electoral level since the same election; and Cherokee, where she became the first presidential Democrat to break more than 30% of the county vote since Carter in 1980. Georgia, Maine, Nevada, North Carolina, Utah, and Wisconsin were the only six states where Harris received more votes than Biden in 2020. Of those, she made her greatest raw vote gain compared to Biden in Georgia, winning 75,000 more votes.
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