2024 United States presidential election in Georgia

The 2024 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Georgia voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Georgia has 16 electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which it neither gained nor lost a seat. Prior to the election, Georgia was considered to be a crucial swing state; rapid population growth in Georgia, particularly in Metro Atlanta, has led the state to become politically competitive in recent years. Republican Donald Trump, representing neighboring Florida, flipped Georgia back into the Republican column, winning with a majority and a margin of 2 % over Democrat Kamala Harris. Despite Trump's win, Harris made modest gains in the South Atlanta suburbs, further consolidating Democratic support in urban and suburban areas and signaling growing potential challenges for Republicans in future elections federally, though Republicans did see a rebound in the northern parts of the Atlanta Metro including Fulton County and Gwinnett County. Republicans also saw significant gains in the rest of the state. This was the closest margin of victory for a Republican in Georgia since 1996, with Georgia again voting to the left of the neighboring states of North Carolina and Florida, as well as Arizona and Nevada, signaling that Georgia's political future is uncertain despite its red tilt. Georgia voted just 0 % to the right of the nation, the closest Georgia has come to voting to the left of the nation since Jimmy Carter won his home state in 1980. Only the three Rust Belt states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin were closer in margin of victory than Georgia. Georgia and North Carolina were the only battleground states in 2024 in which Trump's performance did not shift to the right relative to his 2016 performance. Even though Harris lost the state, Georgia was one of the few states to have many counties shift significantly leftward, mostly in the Atlanta Metro, and Harris won a slightly higher share of the state vote than she won nationally (48 %). Harris made her largest gain compared to 2020 in Henry County, with the county swinging leftward by almost 9%. Trump received more than 2 million votes, setting a record for most votes cast for any candidate in the history of Georgia and became the second Republican ever to carry the state twice after George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004.