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Politics & Elections in Georgia

Election results, representatives and voting trends.

Democratic presidential vote share
48.5%
2024 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Governor
Brian Kemp (R)
National Governors Association
Democratic vote share, U.S. Senate elections
49.4%
2022 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab
U.S. House seats apportioned to Georgia
14
2020 · U.S. Census Bureau
Total votes cast for president
5,250,905
2024 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Statehouse
Republican trifecta

Election Results

Recent presidential votes.

Democratic presidential vote share
48.5%
2024 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Republican presidential vote share
50.7%
2024 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab
2024 winner
Republican
2024 margin
+2.2 pts
2020 margin
+0.2 pts (D)

Democratic presidential vote share

1976–2024
48.5%

MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).

Republican presidential vote share

1976–2024
50.7%

MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).

IndicatorGeorgiaU.S.
2024 Republican margin (pts)2024, official results2.21.5
  • •Georgia was decided by fewer than 12,000 votes in 2020, the closest result in the state's modern history.

Governors

State executive.

Governor
Brian Kemp (R)
National Governors Association
In office since
2019
National Governors Association
Governors listed
59
1776–present · National Governors Association
Term limit
2 terms
Governors of Georgia
GovernorPartyIn office
Brian KempRepublican2019–present
Sonny PerdueRepublican2003–2011
Roy E. BarnesDemocratic1999–2003
Zell MillerDemocratic1991–1999
Joe Frank HarrisDemocratic1983–1991
George Dekle BusbeeDemocratic1975–1983
Jimmy Earl CarterDemocratic1971–1975
Lester Garfield MaddoxDemocratic1967–1971
Carl Edward SandersDemocratic1963–1967
Samuel Ernest VandiverDemocratic1959–1963
Samuel Marvin GriffinDemocratic1955–1959
Melvin Ernest ThompsonDemocratic1947–1948
Ellis Gibbs ArnallDemocratic1943–1947
Eurith Dickinson RiversDemocratic1937–1941
Richard Brevard RussellDemocratic1931–1933
Lamartine Griffin HardmanDemocratic1927–1931
Clifford Mitchell WalkerDemocratic1923–1927
Thomas William HardwickDemocratic1921–1923
Hugh Manson DorseyDemocratic1917–1921
Nathaniel Edwin HarrisDemocratic1915–1917
Joseph Mackey BrownDemocratic1909–1911
Hoke SmithDemocratic1907–1909
Joseph Meriwether TerrellDemocratic1902–1907
Allen D. CandlerDemocratic1898–1902
William Yates AtkinsonDemocratic1894–1898
William Jonathan NorthenDemocratic1890–1894
John Brown GordonDemocratic1886–1890
Henry Dickerson McDanielDemocratic1883–1886
James BoyntonDemocratic1883–1883
Alexander Hamilton StephensDemocratic-Whig1882–1883
Alfred Holt ColquittDemocratic1877–1882
James Milton SmithDemocratic1872–1877
Benjamin F. ConleyRepublican1871–1872
Rufus Brown BullockRepublican1868–1871
Thomas Howard RugerMilitary1868–1868
Charles Jones JenkinsUnion Democratic1865–1868
James JohnsonDemocratic1865–1865
Joseph Emerson BrownDemocratic1857–1865
Herschel Vespasian JohnsonDemocratic1853–1857
Howell CobbUnion Democratic1851–1853
George Washington TownsDemocratic1847–1851
George Walker CrawfordWhig1843–1847
William SchleyUnion Democratic1835–1837
Wilson LumpkinUnion Democratic1831–1835
John ForsythDemocratic-Republican1827–1829
George Michael TroupDemocratic-Republican1823–1827
John ClarkDemocratic-Republican1819–1823
Matthew TalbotDemocratic-Republican1819–1819
William RabunDemocratic-Republican1817–1819
Peter EarlyDemocratic-Republican1813–1815
John MilledgeDemocratic-Republican1802–1806
Josiah TattnallDemocratic-Republican1801–1802
David EmanuelDemocratic-Republican1801–1801
James JacksonDemocratic-Republican1798–1801
Jared IrwinDemocratic-Republican1796–1798
Nathan BrownsonWhig1781–1782
Stephen HeardWhig1780–1781
Richard HowleyWhig1780–1780
Archibald BullochWhig1776–1777

Source: National Governors Association, current and former governors.

IndicatorGeorgiaU.S.
Years of Republican controlsince 2011220

Senators

U.S. Senate delegation.

Democratic vote share, U.S. Senate elections
49.4%
2022 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Republican vote share, U.S. Senate elections
48.5%
2022 · MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Senate seats
2
Composition
2 Democrats
Notable
Both seats flipped in the 2021 runoffs

Democratic vote share, U.S. Senate elections

1978–2022
49.4%

MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse). Regular-term races; special elections only when no regular race was held. Independents (e.g. caucusing with Democrats) are not counted as Democratic; years without a Democratic nominee are omitted.

Republican vote share, U.S. Senate elections

1978–2022
48.5%

MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).

IndicatorGeorgiaU.S.
U.S. Senate seats20252100

Representatives

U.S. House delegation.

U.S. House seats apportioned to Georgia
14
2020 · U.S. Census Bureau
House seats
14
Republicans
9
Democrats
5

U.S. House seats apportioned to Georgia

1910–2020
14▲ 17%

U.S. Census Bureau, decennial apportionment counts.

IndicatorGeorgiaU.S.
U.S. House seats202414435

Party Distribution

Partisan balance.

Statehouse
Republican trifecta
Metro Atlanta
Democratic
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