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1876–2024
Screven County, Georgia
Screven County·Georgia

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

A rural southeast Georgia county where presidential margins have widened each cycle since 2008

18762024·38 elections
Screven County, Georgia · Jud McCranie · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+25
in 2024
Archetype
Old Confederacy
since the recent cycles
Population
14,130
2024 ACS
Most similar
Georgetown County
SC · similarity 0.99
7 precincts · 6,920 votes cast
Trump · R+25
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−25.2%
2,5814,3256,920
2020R
−18.9%
2,6613,9166,628
2016R
−17.6%
2,3003,3055,715
2012R
−8.4%
2,7743,2876,111
2008R
−6.2%
3,0243,4236,481
2004R
−13.9%
2,5343,3605,928
2000R
−4.8%
2,2332,4614,719
1996D
+5.3%
2,0871,8624,219
1992D
+5.4%
1,9401,7054,366
1988R
−19.6%
1,4612,1783,659
1984R
−19.3%
1,7472,5834,330
1980D
+17.1%
2,1171,4903,664
1976D
+29.7%
2,1681,1763,344
1972R
−61.4%
5752,4022,977
1968D
+11.9%
1,4119164,157
1964R
−22.0%
1,4462,2603,706
1960D
+21.8%
1,4909572,447
1956D
+43.8%
1,3325211,853
1952D
+39.2%
1,5846922,276
1948D
+44.0%
8381721,513
1944D
+63.9%
8951971,092
1940D
+84.0%
1,1741001,279
1936D
+86.4%
933611,009
1932D
+82.9%
50846557
1928R
−40.4%
3007061,006
1924D
+46.6%
8212881,145
1920D
+42.2%
639260899
1916D
+77.6%
62536759
1912D
+70.7%
46021621
1908R
−6.4%
3554281,149
1904D
+60.7%
43025667
1900D
+11.1%
4883761,007
1896D
+3.6%
5855421,202
1892D
+19.1%
8523962,390
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
31.3%
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.
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
25.1%
Methodist
15.0%
Other Christian
9.4%
Pentecostal & Holiness
1.3%
Catholic & Orthodox
0.9%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 48.3% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Screven County sits along the Savannah River in Georgia's Coastal Plain, with an economy rooted in agriculture and timber. Its electorate has shifted steadily rightward over the past decade, mirroring broader trends in rural Georgia counties of similar size and demographic composition.

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

The political shift has tracked, in Screven County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 56% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $52,792, and a 17% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Georgetown County and Chambers County.