Thomas County, Georgia

2024 results by precinct

20 precincts · 22,080 votes cast

Trump · R+24

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−24.1%	8,347	13,670	22,080
2020	R	−19.4%	8,708	12,954	21,853
2016	R	−21.6%	7,142	11,228	18,885
2012	R	−18.4%	7,653	11,156	18,992
2008	R	−15.8%	7,720	10,642	18,459
2004	R	−23.3%	5,997	9,659	15,733
2000	R	−18.5%	4,862	7,093	12,058
1996	R	−4.0%	5,183	5,649	11,518
1992	R	−5.5%	4,841	5,500	11,948
1988	R	−30.0%	3,530	6,572	10,145
1984	R	−22.8%	4,039	6,427	10,466
1980	D	+13.8%	5,695	4,294	10,161
1976	D	+30.6%	6,147	3,263	9,410
1972	R	−50.9%	2,171	6,668	8,839
1968	D	+3.3%	2,583	2,261	9,885
1964	R	−31.9%	3,257	6,306	9,563
1960	D	+17.1%	3,226	2,285	5,511
1956	D	+22.2%	3,522	2,240	5,762
1952	D	+27.2%	3,971	2,273	6,244
1948	D	+13.7%	1,429	925	3,667
1944	D	+51.6%	1,747	557	2,305
1940	D	+69.5%	2,072	371	2,448
1936	D	+82.7%	2,409	222	2,645
1932	D	+92.9%	2,607	90	2,710
1928	D	+20.7%	1,240	814	2,054
1924	D	+79.6%	1,280	115	1,463
1920	D	+74.1%	1,130	168	1,298
1916	D	+83.0%	1,298	42	1,513
1912	D	+77.7%	1,012	47	1,242
1908	D	+2.3%	765	723	1,803
1904	D	+30.5%	862	374	1,602
1900	D	+44.2%	1,146	432	1,615
1896	R	−1.4%	600	620	1,424
1892	D	+33.0%	1,294	566	2,208
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

28.1%

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.

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 39.8 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.6%

85+

1.1%

2.5%

75–84

3.5%

5.2%

65–74

6.1%

6.2%

55–64

7.3%

5.4%

45–54

6.2%

5.8%

35–44

6.8%

5.5%

25–34

6.1%

4.0%

18–24

4.1%

9.2%

5–17

8.5%

2.9%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$60,736

Thomas County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Thomas County$60,736

Georgia$77,353

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

17.9%

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

32.4%

Other Christian

13.1%

Methodist

9.6%

Pentecostal & Holiness

3.9%

Mainline Protestant

2.2%

Catholic & Orthodox

1.3%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 37.5% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Thomas County anchors the Florida border in Georgia's agricultural south, where a largely rural electorate has delivered Republican presidential margins above 20 points in each of the last four cycles.

The shift began with civil rights. 1984 marked the realignment in Thomas County, by a twenty-three points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at fifty-one points in 1972. The 2024 margin was twenty-four points.

The political shift has tracked, in Thomas County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 58% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $60,736, and a 18% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Ouachita Parish and Bulloch County.

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