Echols County, Georgia

2024 results by precinct

1 precincts · 1,438 votes cast

Trump · R+82

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−82.1%	127	1,307	1,438
2020	R	−75.6%	167	1,256	1,441
2016	R	−72.0%	156	1,007	1,182
2012	R	−67.3%	173	917	1,105
2008	R	−65.7%	201	981	1,187
2004	R	−53.1%	231	757	991
2000	R	−38.1%	272	614	898
1996	R	−3.6%	308	335	743
1992	R	−5.4%	312	361	911
1988	R	−26.4%	245	422	670
1984	R	−33.2%	227	453	680
1980	D	+32.7%	515	259	783
1976	D	+68.1%	585	111	696
1972	R	−71.2%	68	404	472
1968	D	+0.5%	56	53	642
1964	R	−36.9%	184	399	583
1960	D	+40.8%	257	108	365
1956	D	+59.5%	528	134	662
1952	D	+70.0%	532	94	626
1948	D	+48.2%	332	32	623
1944	D	+83.5%	466	42	508
1940	D	+92.0%	441	18	460
1936	D	+81.6%	300	30	331
1932	D	+97.6%	414	5	419
1928	D	+83.1%	314	29	343
1924	D	+95.2%	482	11	495
1920	—	No data	—	—	—
1916	D	+100.0%	173	0	173
1912	D	+97.3%	144	0	148
1908	D	+80.6%	140	15	155
1904	D	+86.0%	159	12	171
1900	D	+54.8%	130	38	168
1896	D	+53.7%	174	52	227
1892	D	+64.3%	270	54	336
1888	—	No data	—	—	—
1884	—	No data	—	—	—
1880	—	No data	—	—	—
1876	—	No data	—	—	—

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.

American

100.0%

African American

5.0%

Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.

American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 30.5 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

1.5%

85+

0.3%

1.6%

75–84

1.3%

3.0%

65–74

4.5%

5.6%

55–64

4.6%

3.3%

45–54

5.9%

5.8%

35–44

6.5%

6.4%

25–34

8.7%

5.1%

18–24

5.5%

10.4%

5–17

10.8%

2.6%

6.4%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$59,489

Echols County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Echols County$59,489

Georgia$77,353

United States$80,734

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

14.2%

Children face moderate poverty.

Children under 1818.0%

Working age (18–64)100.0%

Seniors (65+)18.0%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Language at home

Population aged 5 and older

0.0%

speak English only

Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.

Religious adherents

Adherents per capita by tradition

Baptist

9.1%

Pentecostal & Holiness

4.4%

Methodist

1.3%

Other Christian

1.1%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 84.1% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Echols County, a rural south Georgia county of fewer than 4,000 residents, recorded an R+82.1 presidential margin in 2024, placing it among the most one-sided counties in the entire country.

The unraveling was not abrupt. The Democratic margin in Echols County peaked at 100 points in 1916; it narrowed steadily over the late twentieth century. The 1984 election delivered the county to the Republican party for the first time in many years, by a margin of thirty-three points. By 2024, the margin had widened further.

The economic and demographic context is severe. Echols County's median household income of $59,489 is among the lowest of any county in the United States; 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Grant Parish and Pottawatomie County.

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For eighty-eight years, Echols County voted Democratic. Then it stopped.