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1876–2024
Greene County, Georgia
Greene County·Georgia

Greene County voted Democratic for a century. The shift began with civil rights.

A small Piedmont county where presidential margins have widened each cycle since 2012

18762024·38 elections
Greene County, Georgia · Calvin Beale · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+29
in 2024
Archetype
Old Confederacy
since the recent cycles
Population
20,109
2024 ACS
Most similar
Stonewall County
TX · similarity 0.98
5 precincts · 12,786 votes cast
Trump · R+29
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−28.9%
4,5148,21512,786
2020R
−26.5%
4,0887,06811,247
2016R
−25.7%
3,1995,4908,919
2012R
−22.5%
3,2015,0718,327
2008R
−15.1%
3,3394,5327,919
2004R
−18.8%
2,7744,0696,877
2000R
−16.2%
2,1372,9805,197
1996D
+10.3%
2,1151,7024,015
1992D
+23.5%
2,2591,3074,058
1988D
+11.8%
1,8181,4323,260
1984D
+10.9%
1,9921,5993,591
1980D
+45.1%
2,5719613,573
1976D
+59.1%
2,5346523,186
1972R
−29.3%
9191,6792,598
1968D
+28.0%
1,6356523,510
1964D
+42.3%
2,6981,0933,791
1960D
+71.6%
1,9793282,307
1956D
+57.6%
2,0125412,553
1952D
+70.8%
2,3233972,720
1948D
+70.5%
1,213921,590
1944D
+79.1%
1,2461441,394
1940D
+81.4%
1,4971481,658
1936D
+87.4%
1,348861,444
1932D
+89.1%
91852972
1928D
+43.8%
627245872
1924D
+61.6%
55877781
1920D
+58.6%
681178859
1916D
+70.6%
67653882
1912D
+75.2%
52510685
1908R
−1.5%
4124281,068
1904D
+27.5%
451201910
1900D
+23.3%
493303815
1896R
−21.6%
5759101,553
1892R
−4.6%
6847772,043
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%
Polish
0.6%
African American
23.8%
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.
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
18.2%
Catholic & Orthodox
18.1%
Methodist
15.1%
Other Christian
7.9%
Mainline Protestant
1.4%
Pentecostal & Holiness
1.3%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 38.0% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Greene County sits along Lake Oconee in Georgia's Piedmont, where a growing retiree and resort population has accompanied a steady rightward shift in federal elections over the past decade.

The shift began with civil rights. 2000 marked the realignment in Greene County, by a sixteen points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at twenty-nine points in 1972. The 2024 margin was twenty-nine points.

The political shift has tracked, in Greene County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 59% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $86,272, and a 10% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Stonewall County and Cottle County.